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BREAKING: Factoid of the hour - Jon R. Thogmartin, M.D taught a course on "Strangulation and Other Compressions"

Jon R. Thogmartin, M.D. District Chief Medical Examiner, Pinellas County, FL

* According to the Medical Examiner’s Office, “The mission of the Medical Examiner’s
office is to fulfill the needs outlined in F.S. 406, to be of service to families of the deceased,
and local government agencies. In short, our mission is to determine the cause
and manner of death under certain circumstances.
This mission requires the utmost objectivity irrespective of personal beliefs or emotional attachment to the circumstances of any particular case.”
* Started the job in 2000.
* “His major fields of interest are wound ballistics, firearms, infant deaths,
child abuse, asphyxia, and forensic toxicology. ”

* “Thogmartin has also done his share of teaching. In Texas, beginning in 1984,
he was a teaching assistant at Southern Methodist in the Department of Chemistry,
and at the University of Health Science Center at San Antonio in the Departments of
Cellular and Structural Biology and Pathology. More recently, in Miami, at the
Dade County Medical Examiner Office and IACP Seminar,
he taught a course on Strangulation and Other Compressions.

Support Staff:
Noel Palma, M.D., Deputy Chief Medical Examiner
Susan Ignacio, M.D., Associate Medical Examiner
Chris Wilson, M.D., Associate Medical Examiner
Daniel Schultz, M.D., Associate Medical Examiner
William A. Pellan, Director of Investigations
Reta Newman, M.A., Director of PCFL

[bluebeak]

The autopsy done already?! They don't want to find squat (including the coward governor). It's a quick hand washing.!

[YOUGOTIT]

Looks as though it was a conspiracy all along.

[Orlando]

This case needs to be investigated by the FBI & U.S.Atty General long ago. Get this out of Pinellas County. Jeb Bush why do you let this happen ?

[Shisan]

OK friends, did I miss the point? Why are we jumping on Thogmartin even before the report is out? He seems to have excellent creds for a Forensic Pathologist.
And also, what do y'all expect from an autopsy report? This isn't Star Trek.

[exDemMom]

Part of the autopsy was to do a full panel of radiographs on the body. These should confirm the results of the bone scan. Furthermore, the autopsy was to include toxicology testing. I think, also, weights of various organs are measured, although in Terri's case, having been through the horrible ordeal she had to suffer, the organs are all likely to be underweight.

The findings of this autopsy will depend a lot on Dr. Thogmartin's honesty. I hope that he is honest and considers his professional integrity very important.