What ever happened to MS anyway? I haven't seen or heard of him since Terri's murder. Did he get cremated, too?
Mark Fuhrman Probing Schiavo Case
Friday, May 6, 2005
Famed detective Mark Fuhrman, whose independent investigation into the Martha Moxley murder led to the conviction of Kennedy-cousin Michael Skakel, is probing the Terri Schiavo forced starvation case.
"He spent a month on the ground in Tampa," revealed Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity Friday night. "He's talked to many of the principals involved investigating the case and he's coming out with a book."
Hannity said he personally contacted Fuhrman in March to suggest he probe a myriad of unresolved questions about Ms. Schiavo's condition, including a 1991 bone scan report showing that Schiavo suffered fractures sometime prior to being found unconscious in her home in Feb. 1990.
Schiavo's family has repeatedly said they suspect Terri's condition was the result of a violent fight she had with her husband Michael. Police never probed the case for evidence of assault because by the time the bone scan became public in 2002, the statute of limitations had run.
Det. Fuhrman's investigation would be the first to review the case for evidence of a possible crime.
"All I can say," the talk host told his "Hannity & Colmes" audience, "is that this is not over. Stay tuned."
Fuhrman's book "Murder in Greenwich" was widely credited with blowing the lid off the Moxley-Skakel case.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/5/6/230418.shtml
MICHAEL SCHIAVO DEFYING COURT ORDERS
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/11586349.htm
The parents and siblings of Terri Schiavo said Michael Schiavo is keeping them in the dark about where her remains will be laid to rest.
Associated Press
Terri Schiavo's parents and siblings said Friday that they still have not been told where the brain-damaged woman's remains will be laid to rest.
Appearing on Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes on Friday night, Bob and Mary Schindler, their son Bobby and daughter Suzanne Vitadamo said Terri Schiavo's husband is keeping her remains from them.
''They were supposed to tell us, and we still have not heard from . . . Michael Schiavo where Terri's been laid,'' Bobby Schindler said. ``Our family expected this. Michael has disobeyed court orders throughout the ordeal and continues to do so today.''
The Schindlers have held four memorial services for their daughter.
LEGALLY OBLIGATED
Michael Schiavo is under court order to notify the Schindlers of his plans for a memorial service. He had his wife cremated, and said her ashes would be buried at a family plot in Pennsylvania.
George Felos, Michael Schiavo's attorney, did not return a call Friday night.
Terri Schiavo, 41, died March 31 in a Pinellas Park hospice, 13 days after her feeding tube was removed by court order. She suffered brain damage in 1990 after a chemical imbalance caused her heart to stop.
She left no written instructions in the event she became disabled, and her husband said he never would have wanted to be kept alive in what court-appointed doctors called a persistent vegetative state with no hope of recovery.
The Schindlers, however, doubted she had any such end-of-life wishes. They maintained she would benefit from rehabilitation, despite most doctors saying her condition was irreversible.
Federal and state courts repeatedly rejected attempts by Florida lawmakers, Gov. Jeb Bush, Congress and President Bush to intervene on behalf of her parents.
`DISAPPOINTED'
Bob Schindler, Terri's father, said he was angry that lawmakers did not do more to help his daughter.
''I'm disappointed in Governor Bush,'' he said. ``My goodness, the system is just atrocious.''
During a seven-year legal battle, the Schindlers sought independent investigation of their daughter's condition and what caused it. Abuse complaints to state social workers were ruled unfounded.
About 40 judges in six courts were involved in the case at one point or another. Six times, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene.
As Schiavo faded, Congress rushed through a bill to allow the federal courts to take up the case, and President Bush signed it March 21. But the federal courts refused to step in.
Her autopsy results are pending.