1. Burgess plans to review autopsy findings in hopes of getting a better idea of what happened to James. 2. Caesar and Gretchen say they may ask an outside consultant to review the autopsy findings. 3. Charles Hirsch, the chief medical examiner, classified the death of Baez as a homicide, based on autopsy findings. 4. Forensic pathologists and child-abuse experts I contacted confirmed that there is no distinctive autopsy finding or new test that could distinguish SIDS from homicide by suffocation. 5. He called for additional dental records to compare with autopsy findings. 6. He said he asked Gordeyeva Monday and again Tuesday, when he informed her of the autopsy findings, about possible chest pain. 7. He said the family was conducting its own investigation and had hired Dr. Michael Baden, a former New York City Medical Examiner, to review the autopsy findings. 8. In anticipation of that, the court last week unsealed the gruesome autopsy findings on the bodies of the two murder victims. 9. In other cases, autopsy findings can assuage the guilt family members and friends may harbor. 10. In the absence of autopsy findings, the death certificate becomes the official declaration of why a person died. |