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Hi crazykatz :) No, I'm not holding my breath, but it is a real step forward that the coroner's ruling was called into question, and it was reported in the Croatian media at all. Was sooo different when I was there!

I could tell you what the coroner in Sisak did to the body of a young Serb mother who was married to a Croat, and murdered by a rogue Croat with mental problems. He shot her through the window as she sat on the sofa with her 18-month-old child in the home of her Croat father-in-law one evening in Glina in late Sept. 1995. The father-in-law hid under his bed in fear all night while the baby cried and clung to the body of his dead mother for ALL THOSE HOURS until the next morning.

I went with the girl's father to pick up her body for burial at the Sisak morgue after the coroner was done with her. You wouldn't believe what they did to her body. I won't tell it because it would give folks nightmares. I wish to high Heaven I could have gone in alone and identified her body to keep her poor father from seeing that. How can a loving father ever recover from such a thing?

Yes, I know the marks of a proper autopsy, which are not pretty, but this was no normal autopsy!

Anyway, after it eventually developed that the murderer was a nut-job the Croats wanted to lock up anyway, the coroner changed his report. Go figure.

Meanwhile, the body of this beautiful young mother was so mutilated. (And that wasn't all -- her tomb was broken into by uniformed Croatian soldiers and police about three weeks after she was buried and more indignities. My heart grieved so for that poor family!)