Temperature to control blood flow

I want to say I asked this question before, but for the life of me, I can't find the thread.

My victim, among other injuries, has many lacerations ... some shallow, some very deep.

I want my vic to slowly bleed out ... prolonging his demise. Ya, I know, I'm awful *snickers*

Since some of those cuts (both shallow and deep) happen in and around arteries ... can turning down the room's temperature truly slow down the rate of blood coming out - thus prolonging things?

If so - how cold would a room need to be to accomplish this? The room is the back storeroom of a sporting good store in a large city. There's the typical rows of steel shelving for inventory, plus palettes of inventory. I guess the room to be about 700-800 square feet in size.

The crime starts at around 10:30pm and ends around midnight - the murderer really took his time to work the victim over good before doing all the cutting that will lead to the vic bleeding out.

Throwing on the a/c at the beginning, so that by the time he gets to the cutting, the storeroom is nice and cold ... that should do the trick.

Ok, so ... how cold? 55F ... 35F ?

Also - how would the cold affect how bruising would show on the body hours later when the M.E. is doing the on-site examination? The storeroom will still have the a/c on since the murderer isn't going to take the time to turn the a/c off when he leaves. Or should he? Hmmmm.

Any advice, suggestions, facts would be greatly appreciated. Overall, this bit of information is not crucial to the overall story, but it's at the beginning of the book and I just want to get the facts as realistic and factual as possible.

C.H. and Areteus,

Thanks so much for your responses. I wasn't expecting any this day.

So, basically I need to slightly rethink how he slowly dies. No problem. I don't have to have him die specifically that way in order for the story to work.

I don't carbon monoxcide would be viable since it's after hours at a sporting goods store. I, off-hand, can't see where that would come into play.

For now, I guess I will just have his lacerations not nick major arteries (places where he'll bleed out quickly). Since he is being beaten with a metal rod --

OH! Just thought of how he ultimately died! Was staring me straight in the face ... duh!

However, your responses do help immensely. Very much appreciated!

Thanks so much!

George,

You and I were typing at the same time.

You have brought up great points.
As you can see from my reply that I will be scraping the bleeding out slowly idea.

Glad I asked about this. Some of my misconceptions have been corrected. It's always good to learn something new! =)

Mike,

Thank you for the link. Gross, but very helpful.