This radical discovery would provide important details that would clear the Konitz Jewish community of the charge that Ernst Winter had been killed to use his blood as an ingredient in their Passover matzah. Later that year, in October, Dr. Puppe, a professor of forensic medicine in Berlin, would review and evaluate the original autopsy report. A careful examination of the lungs and face, as well as the absence of blood on the skin surrounding the area of ​​the throat incision, would testify against the idea that Winter died from a fatal cut to the throat. Therefore, Puppe concluded that fatal hemorrhage did not lead to Winter's death, but rather suffocation was the likely cause (Smith 2002, 188). When the police found new clues to Winter's death, "semen stains: on the vest (just below the left pocket), on the jacket and on the outside of the trousers near the zipper", the location of the stains confirmed that Winter had been killed , “as reported by a forensic report, attempting to have intercourse with his clothes on” (Smith 2002, 188). These test articles then made the countless witness stories simply a tale of defamation intended to dehumanize and prey on Konitz's hopes.