and based on the fact that the people telling him this had a dog in the outcome, it should have been discounted and he (Perper/Tiger) should have looked deeper and elsewhere.
Right. He's got some gall expecting people to believe his conclusion of "accident" when it is based on "facts" provided him by Stern and Co. He talks about the stuff they told him as tho they are the gospel truth. It's incredible!! "WE know this, we know that. She had a 105 degree temp. blah blah blah." He wasn't there. He has no way of knowing those things. All he can know for sure is what he found when he opened her up and what the investigators told him that they found at the scene (which he never visited). Beyond that, he should have discounted (or thrown out) anything that Stern told him. Especially since it took him nearly a month to do this autopsy and by that time everyone else in the world was suspicious of Stern by then. Except him.