He also said that it was the most severe case of dehydration that he has ever seen. That makes me think he was not up to the task to determine anything. Since he did not want any independent observers there, there is a problem with his credibility..
I've never heard of a medical examiner refusing a request from another medical professional to observe an autopsy. Many in the profession commented on that, and none of those commenting had ever heard of it either. I wonder how much he was paid to sign his name to that autopsy report.
Dunno, he seemed competent enough to me. But there isn't a whole lot you can learn fifteen years later. Terri's bodily remains were of little interest save to confirm things that had long been known, e.g., she had never had a heart attack, was reasonably healthy, was not dying, would probably have lived many more years. Her organs below the neck were unaffected so she had not suffered a global anoxic insult in 1990 -- not news but an interesting datum indeed if Columbo is listening in. IOW, it wasn't cardiac arrest that damaged her brain, it was brain damage that put her in cardiac arrest. We're back to the choke hold on her carotid arteries.
When they carve up Michael some day, they'll find nothing but thick, foul-smelling fluid where his heart, his soul and his truth center were supposed to be.