Forensics regarding strangulation in the 1930s-40s

Factual Questions
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Suppose a person is strangled to death with a scarf or other piece of cloth and then the body was placed in another location in an attempt to make it appear the victim died from some other cause. Even in the 1930s and '40s wouldn’t the coroner notice the guy was strangled? I’m under the impression that it’s not too difficult to see signs of this in the neck but I’m not sure.

What if the man’s neck was broken on purpose and placed in such a way to make it appear he fell? Wouldn’t it still be obvious what really happened?

A cookie to whoever guesses what movie inspired this question.

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Dr. Bernard Spilsbury (the well-known British pathologist) was lecturing on fractures of the hyoid through strangulation as early as 1917.

You should read “40 Years of Murder” by Dr. Keith Simpson, who more or less relpaced Spilsbury as Britain’s pre-eminent pathologist in the 1940s. Very interesting book.