 FACT: When Bud White rushes into the morgue to find Dick Stenslands  body, one of the sheets he turns up uncovers an older man with grey  hair who appears to have almost had the skin scraped off of him (or  maybe burned off). In a later scene where Exley is speaking to the  coroner about the identification of another corpse, an event  depicted as occurring days later, the coroner is doing an autopsy on  what is clearly the same body. Its obvious that the production crew  simply recycled the body, but in reality, it would have been a  grievous error for a coroner to wait so long to do an autopsy.