The truth was, that they 'applied CPR' because they 'knew' that she had been shot and was presumed dead, very recently, and that the flow of fresh looking blood from the corners of her mouth, her nostril, and the 'two bullet wounds' on her throat, together with the state of her complexion, and total lack of rigor mortis, that they might, 'just might' have been able to snatch her back, from the jaws of death...