Arkansas gothic: a spooky tale from Clinton's past; questionable death of one of his mother's nursing patients in 1981
"Among the hospital staff, word circulated that something had gone wrong. The doctors involved noted that this wasn't the first time this nurse, Virginia Dwire, had slipped up. Their reports and comments, as well as the hospital records, were turned over to Dr. Fahmy Malak, the state medical examiner, who under Arkansas law had sole authority for determining the official cause of death in any case where it was suspicious or undetermined. But when Malak's report was issued a few days later, there was no mention of a problem in the operating room, or of trouble with the breathing tube, or of the doctors' concerns about Dwire. Instead Malak ruled Deer's death a "homicide," resulting in six months in jail for her assailant, Billy Ray Washington.
Dwire, meanwhile, was concerned. She got hold of the patient's autopsy report because, she said, she "wanted to satisfy my own curiosity about the cause of her death." To do so Dwire must have had considerable clout, since the state crime lab normally only released such reports to prosecutors in homicide cases, and the prosecutors in this case do not remember releasing the report to her. But Dwire, who today goes by Virginia Dwire Kelly, was a prominent figure in Hot Springs. She was the mother of a rising young politician named Bill Clinton."
The Life and Times of Judge Henry Woods
How could she have known? The Dixie Mafia 101 course was not taught. Bill Clinton could feel her pain, when he picked up the phone and....
Arkansas Forensic Medical Examiner Report:
Cause of Death: [x]Suicide [ ]Suicide [ ]Suicide [ ]Suicide [ ]Suicide [ ]Suicide
Signed: Malak
cc: Clinton
cc: Elders