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Give That Undertaker a Badge
FOXNews.com ^
| Thursday, February 26, 2009
| Associated Press
Posted on 02/26/2009 8:03:55 PM PST by metmom
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Police and medical examiners who thought a man died of natural causes changed their minds after funeral-home workers found bullet holes in his head.
The Kansas City Star reported Thursday that three bullet wounds — two of them in Anthony Crockett's head — were noticed after the man's body was embalmed Friday. The funeral home returned the 49-year-old Kansas City man's body to the Jackson County medical examiner's office, and police counted the death as a homicide.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: alteredtitle; banglist; donutwatch; duplicate; forensics; homicide; medicalexaminer; undertaker
I can see the LEOs in Kansas City are really on the ball.
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posted on
02/26/2009 8:03:55 PM PST
by
metmom
To: metmom
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posted on
02/26/2009 8:05:29 PM PST
by
Venturer
To: metmom
medical examiner should lose his job
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posted on
02/26/2009 8:06:02 PM PST
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: metmom
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posted on
02/26/2009 8:06:15 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(On 9/11 Israel mourned with us while the Palestinians danced in the streets. Who should we support?)
To: Admin Moderator
The original title for this thread was:
“Kansas City Police Change Cause of Death From Natural to Homicide After Funeral Home Finds Bullet Holes in Man’s Head”
but was over 100 characters in length and the Post feature didn’t like it so I used the other title that FOXNews used.
The current title is what FOXNews had on its main page. I wasn’t sure how to change it so I used this other one instead.
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posted on
02/26/2009 8:06:57 PM PST
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: metmom
Police noted blood on Crockett's face, but victims can bleed from natural causes or a fall. They did not collect forensic evidence, and by the time the mistake was realized and investigators secured Crockett's house as a crime scene, relatives already had cleaned it. Morons. They see blood and presume it's from a fall? Or did they think that he just oozed blood?
They should have looked for the source of the blood to make sure.
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posted on
02/26/2009 8:10:45 PM PST
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: metmom
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posted on
02/26/2009 8:13:30 PM PST
by
tubebender
(99% of Lawyers give the rest a bad name...)
To: metmom
"Always get a second opinion! He's..."
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posted on
02/26/2009 8:17:08 PM PST
by
jiggyboy
(Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: tubebender
*oops* is not a keyword that I would have thought to look for.....
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posted on
02/26/2009 8:20:55 PM PST
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: tubebender
*oops* is not a keyword that I would have thought to look for.....
If people aren’t going to use decent keywords, nobody should complain if the article is posted twice because it doesn’t come up in a keyword search.
This article had plenty of good words to use for keywords.
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posted on
02/26/2009 8:29:43 PM PST
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: nuconvert
medical examiner should lose his job Exactly. Shouldn't even be allowed back in the building without an escort to clean out his/her desk. This is gross incompetence and/or negligence. Every defense atty that had a client convicted based on ME evidence since that ME came to work is going to be looking to re-open cases and get their perp off based on the fact that the ME's work cannot be trusted. You know what, some of them may even be right.
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posted on
02/26/2009 8:34:44 PM PST
by
CodeMasterPhilzar
(I'll keep my money, my guns, and my freedom. You can keep the "change.")
To: metmom
It was the second time in 17 months that a Kansas City funeral home returned a homicide victim's body mistakenly ruled a natural death by the medical examiner's office. The other case was in September 2007 and involved Lorraine Grayson, 77, who had been beaten and sexually assaulted in her home. Police later found out that Grayson's purse was missing and her 46-year-old neighbor was charged with her death. Wow, this isn't really like that TV series at all.
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posted on
02/26/2009 8:48:33 PM PST
by
ansel12
( Am I the only freeper that has been held in an American internment center 1971?)
To: ansel12
Just efficient goevernment employees who can’t ever be fired.
This is what our healthcare system will soon be like.
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posted on
02/26/2009 9:01:06 PM PST
by
Tex Pete
(Obama for Change: from our pockets, our piggy banks, and our couch cushions!)
To: ansel12
Wow, this isn't really like that TV series at all. It all fell apart after Horatio left NYPD Blue and Grissom left vegas to do Sara in the jungle. It's very complicated...
Mark
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posted on
02/26/2009 9:05:56 PM PST
by
MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
To: metmom
“Worst case of suicide I ever seen.”
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posted on
02/26/2009 9:10:53 PM PST
by
Fido969
("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
To: metmom
The coroner didn’t used to work in Arkansas, did he?
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posted on
02/26/2009 9:18:54 PM PST
by
uglybiker
(AAAAAAH!!! I'm covered in BEES!)
To: metmom
Put a few bullets in someones head and, naturally, they die.
Sounds accurate to me.
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posted on
02/27/2009 4:22:12 AM PST
by
Jotmo
(Has 0bama fixed my soul yet?)
To: metmom
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02/27/2009 4:23:33 PM PST
by
tubebender
(99% of Lawyers give the rest a bad name...)
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