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The Maryland’s Attorney General’s Office said Friday it believes there should be a review of “in custody” death reports produced by the state’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner during the tenure of Dr. David Fowler, nine days after Fowler testified that an ex-Minneapolis police officer was not responsible for the death of George Floyd in police custody. The announcement came less than 24 hours after the attorney general’s office received a letter from the former medical examiner of Washington, D.C., Roger A. Mitchell, signed by 431 doctors from around the country, saying Fowler’s testimony and conclusions were so far...

Dr. Andrew Baker, the Hennepin County medical examiner, took the stand at the murder trial of former Officer Derek Chauvin for pressing his knee on or close to Floyd’s neck. Baker concluded last year that Floyd died from cardiopulmonary arrest — that is, his heart stopped. The chief county medical examiner who ruled George Floyd’s death a homicide testified Friday that Floyd’s heart gave out due to heart disease, hypertension, drugs, and stress. He also said that the stress was caused by the way the police held him down. When Baker was asked how police “subdual, restraint and neck compression”...

The Chief Medical Examiner for D.C. on Wednesday gave his determination on the causes of death involving those who died in the Capitol riot on January 6th.Dr. Francisco Diaz, the Chief Medical Examiner, listed the causes of death as following:• Ashli Babbitt, 35, died from a gunshot wound to her left shoulder, her death has been ruled a ‘homicide’• Roseanne Boyland, 34, died of acute amphetamine intoxication, her death has been ruled ‘accidental’• Kevin Greeson, 55, died of hypertensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, his death has been ruled ‘natural’• Benjamin Phillips, 50, died of hypertensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, his death has...

What Happened to Officer Brian Sicknick?No one should discount the idea that Democrats and the news media would intentionally promote a totally fabricated story to destroy Donald Trump and vilify his supporters.The claim is so pervasive as not to be questioned: Five people died as a result of the January 6 “insurrection” at the Capitol building, killed by blood-thirsty Trump voters at the president’s behest, out for revenge over a stolen election.Even though only one death—the shooting of Ashli Babbitt by a still-unidentified police officer—is provable by video evidence, the other fatalities nonetheless are accepted as an article of faith...

Medical Examiner Rules Jeffrey Epstein Death Was Suicide by Hanging © Jane Rosenberg 23:21 16.08.2019(updated 23:41 16.08.2019) The New York Medical Examiner's Office released its official autopsy report on financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, finding that he died from suicide by hanging. On Thursday, the Washington Post reported, citing unnamed sources, that Epstein's autopsy had found "multiple breaks in his neck bones," noting that while that kind of damage can be obtained by self-hanging, "they are more common in victims of homicide by strangulation." However, Friday's official report concluded the bones were broken by Epstein kneeling...

NEW YORK -- Federal officials have been told to expect that a medical examiner's findings on Jeffrey Epstein's death will be released Friday. That's according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke to The Associated Press. The person could not discuss the matter publicly and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.

The New York City medical examiner's office said Sunday that it had completed an autopsy of the financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein but that it needed more information before determining the cause of death.

Cherish Perrywinkle sustained severe injuries from being raped and strangled, including a "totally destroyed anatomy," a medical examiner testified. A medical examiner who conducted the autopsy on an 8-year-old Florida girl who was abducted, raped and murdered in 2013, grew emotional at the alleged killer's trial Tuesday and had to interrupt her testimony for a break, the Daily Mail reported. Dr. Valerie Rao, the Jacksonville chief medical examiner, testified that Cherish Perrywinkle sustained severe injuries from being raped and strangled, including a "totally destroyed anatomy." Viewing photographs of the girl's battered body in court on Tuesday, Rao became teary and...

The doctor who performed Trayvon Martin's autopsy says he has changed his opinion in recent weeks on two matters related to the teen's death. Dr. Shiping Bao on Friday said he had changed his opinion about how long Martin was alive after being shot and the effect of marijuana detected in Martin's body at the time of his death. The associate medical examiner said last November that he believed Martin was alive one to three minutes. But he testified Friday it was one to 10 minutes. He also said Friday that marijuana could have affected Martin physically or mentally, even...

CHICAGO (FOX 32 News) -For the first time, the Cook County medical examiner's office has posted photos of unclaimed bodies on their website in an effort to help identify them. The program is generating some controversy because of the graphic images, but for the sake of people missing loved ones, this is a decision where the medical examiner believes the ends justify the means.

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.

Frederick T. Zugibe, M.S., M.D., Ph.D., FCAP,  FACC,  FAAFS      HOMECONTACT FORENSIC PATHOLOGY & MEDICINE Biography Publications News Public Health Psychotropic  Drugs Study   CRUCIFIXION and SHROUD STUDIES Crucifixion & Shroud Involvement Barbet Revisited Man of the Shroud was Washed Texas Lecture Paris  Lecture Turin 2000 Lecture MISCELLANEOUS: The Code for Human Life                                                          THE CODE FOR HUMAN LIFE  [Reprinted from the Catholic Answer 9: 40-45,1996]     A fertilized human egg at the moment of Conception, is the opinion of the creator that a human life at that instant, must begin.... F. Zugibe    ...

The audience at Century 16 came to see Timothy Treadwell, the "Grizzly Man" subject who dared danger by getting so close to brown bears he could pet them. But a half-hour in, the fall blockbuster cuts to a new character, no less dramatic. Cue Dr. Franc Fallico, the unexpected scene-stealer. Off screen, Fallico is a clean-pressed man who does the state's dirty work. He's Alaska's chief medical examiner, which means he spends his days performing autopsies on people killed in suspected homicides, accidents or by sudden illness. In fall 2003, Fallico performed the autopsies of Treadwell and girlfriend Amie Huguenard...

SEATTLE -- More grieving families stepped forward on Friday with accusations that the King County Medical Examiner's Office sold brains for profit without getting consent. Thursday night, KIRO Team 7 Investigators first exposed how King County shipped about 180 brains to a private research facility out of state. In return, it got more than $1 million. Investigative Reporter Chris Halsne has discovered information about missing consent forms and at least one brain that should never have been harvested. For privacy reasons, we'll call this case 98-1218. That's the label King County slapped on the file of a dead man before...

Just announced on FoxNews that Dr.Jon Thogmartin, District Chief Medical Examiner for Pinellas County, Florida will hold a press conference at 3:30 PM EST to discuss and answer questions regarding the autopsy that he will perform on Terri Schindler Schiavo.

February 10, 2004 Memphis, TN - A Shelby County Grand Jury late Tuesday indicted Shelby County Medical Examiner Dr. O.C. Smith. The charges stem from an investigation into a June 2002 incident in which Dr. Smith was found outside his office early one morning with a bomb strapped to his chest. The indictment charges Dr. Smith with "Possession of a non-registered destructive device" and with two counts of making "false statements" to Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms investigators. Shelby County District Attorney General Bill Gibbons says the indictment will have no bearing on the validity of Dr. Smith's...

A federal grand jury Tuesday returned a three-count indictment against Shelby County Medical Examiner Dr. O. C. Smith, charging him with falsely reporting that he was attacked by an unknown person in 2002 outside the Regional Forensic Center. Smith was found bound in barbed wire with a bomb attached to his chest outside the Medical Center building. The indictment alleged Smith, 51, illegally and knowingly possessed a bomb which was not federally registered to him. Counts two and three allege Smith knowingly and willfully made false, fraudulent and fictitious material statements to special agents of the bureau of Alcohol,...

The 2003 Florida Statutes Title XLVI CRIMES Chapter 872 OFFENSES CONCERNING DEAD BODIES AND GRAVES 872.03 Cremating human bodies; limitation.-- (1) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to cremate any dead human body prior to the expiration of 48 hours after the death of such human body. (2) Anyone convicted for the violation of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083. History.--ss. 1, 2, ch. 21780, 1943; s. 1135, ch. 71-136. Title XXIX PUBLIC HEALTH Chapter 406 MEDICAL EXAMINERS; DISPOSITION OF DEAD...

Reprinted from NewsMax.com Sunday Oct. 19, 2003; 1:55 a.m. EDTTerri To be Cremated on Husband's Orders Terri Schiavo will be cremated immediately after her death on orders from her husband Michael, her brother and sister revealed late Saturday, precluding any possibility that an autopsy that could determine whether her brain damage was caused by a heart attack or physical abuse. Terri's siblings Suzanne Carr and Robert Schindler, Jr., told Fox News Channel's "The Big Story with Rita Cosby" that they'd like the authorities to examine the circumstances of the events that caused of their sister's brain damage, based on medical...

Ex-medical examiner unable to testify Joan Wood has resurfaced, but says stress prevents her from appearing in court about several murder cases. By WILLIAM R. LEVESQUE, Times Staff Writer © St. Petersburg Times published August 23, 2002 GAINESVILLE -- Dr. Joan Wood virtually disappeared after she was forced into retirement as Pinellas-Pasco medical examiner in late 2000. She dodged subpoenas to testify in murder cases about autopsies. She didn't answer her phone or knocks on her front door. To this day, defense attorneys can't locate her. Defense attorney Michael Schwartzberg of St. Petersburg said he has never had so much...