Likewise, she explains it's possible to be strangled and not fracture your hyoid bone. So, it is only a piece of the puzzle. Still, it's a starting point for forensic anthropologists.

The hyoid bone is U-shaped and sits at the front of the neck between the lower jaw and the voice box. "The primary function of the hyoid bone is to serve as an anchoring structure for the tongue.

Epstein’s Broken Hyoid Bone Doesn’t Tell Us Much It’s still much, much more likely that he died by suicide than that he was murdered. By Jeremy Samuel Faust. Aug 15, 2019 3:44 PM.

Only one bone is not connected to another bone. The hip bone’s connected to the thigh bone … but not all bones in the human skeleton are connected to each other. The one exception is the hyoid ...