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In Hollywood, a dead man is not who he appears to be and someone just walked away with a million dollar insurance profit. Now forensics must prove that the murder was part of the package. A

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officer kills his wife in a freak car accident, but investigators believe he. they may have been driven to homicide, a simple farmer is accused of murdering his brother and a town rallies to his defense, just like forensic science, they see death face to face every day of their lives, that comes from fragments of bone, drops of blood and splinters of tissue that can reconstruct the shattered circumstances that lead the deceased to their laboratories, everyone has a story to tell and each one is a page on the coroner's Facebook when someone dies, the coroners begin their work , medical examiners and

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ists know that each type of death leaves its subtle mark and They know murder when they see it early on the morning of April 16, 1988.

The 9-1-1 dispatcher in Glendale, California, received a call about a man in cardiac arrest. The call was placed by Dr. Richard Boggs, a respected neurologist, when paramedics arrived at his office. He explained that the man was one of his patients named Gene Hanson who had a history of heart problems The victim had credit cards in Hanson's name before calling 911 He said that he had done everything he could to revive his patient but nothing worked Gene Hansen He was pronounced dead at the scene at the county coroner's office, the body underwent a routine autopsy, the office seized 200 bodies each day and this was just another face in the crowd that saw no immediate cause of death. except a few marks on the heart.

The coroner referred to the diagnosis of the victim's personal doctor. Dr. Bob's cause of death was listed as heart failure due to a dangerous heart condition. The body was delivered into the hands of John Hawkins Henson. John Hawkins Henson's partner and his partner in his successful sportswear business. He flew to California. from Ohio to claim the remains, he cremated them in respect of Hansen's last request. Hawkins, as the sole beneficiary of his partner, then received the first million of Hansen's $1.5 million life insurance policy. Usually that would be the end of the story, but this story was just beginning.

Beginning five months after the death, an insurance agent was closing Hanson's file when he noticed something strange. The face in Hanson's autopsy photo did not look like the photo provided by the Department of Motor Vehicles. To verify, he requested that the fingerprint be on file at the DMV. compared to the one in the autopsy they were undoubtedly two different men and that raised two vital questions where was the

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hanson and who was the dead man the agent had uncovered something much more serious than insurance fraud, although they are Located next to the Another, the difference between Glendale, California and North Hollywood is like night and day, but this is where the Glendale

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went to solve the mystery of the dead man who wasn't Gene Hansen.

Police determined from fingerprints and missing persons reports that the man was actually an accountant named Alice Greene. She was last seen leaving a bar in North Hollywood on April 15. The next day she was pronounced dead with a fake name in dr. boggs

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john perkins of the glendale police tried to clarify what happened a photograph Ellis Green's body that was pictured in the doctor's office was taken to his elderly aunt and she was shown that photo. She identified that as Ellis Green, her nephew, we now knew that we had the

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body, the real name, but we still didn't know it.

Not having an exact or proximate cause of death, proving how Green died was only half the task ahead. Investigators also had to prove that the real Gene Hansen was still alive. Months had already passed. If Hanson was alive, he had a huge advantage. find a hiding place john hawkins his partner in this elaborate insurance scam was also missing along with a million dollars of insurance money michael john perkins the police zeroed in on the last person who saw the victim alive dr boggs hi police lo visited to find out about the man who died in his office boggs told them he had been a patient for years boggs knew him only as melvin eugene hansen or gene had no reason to suspect it was a fake name

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perkins examined them it was possible that dr boggs was telling the truth gene hanson's history showed that he had been repeatedly warned about his condition but refused to follow doctor's orders, but it was also possible that dr. boggs was involved in this elaborate insurance scam and the records themselves were manipulated. strips dated several months apart he wondered if they really demonstrated the life-threatening heart condition that supposedly killed Green he asked a cardiologist to analyze the electrocardiographs the heart specialist told him they indicated a common mild condition that was not fatal perkins was more suspicious than ever that dr.

Boggs had intentionally falsified the records, but he couldn't prove it, then he discovered that the answer was correct on the EKG strips, simple enough for even a layman to understand. One night, I was sitting at my desk and looked at these EKG strips. and I was going through them and looking at them and suddenly it became very obvious that one was completely clean, another had a red tint on half the length of the EKG strip and the other had a complete die off of the entire length of the strip of the electrocardiograph and suddenly you think: wait a minute, they are all connected, so I put them on the desk and put them on the end and, sure enough, the fractures coincided perfectly, the red marks that marked the end of the roll formed a continuous one.

A blackout line through two of the three strips allowed Perkins to put them in sequential order, but when he did, the dates that were written stuck on the back of the strip were out of order and months apart, these were strips. of electrocardiographs manufactured while Perkins was making his discovery. the case was moving on a different front you want to check this area the police were tracking ellis green's credit card purchases the dead man's cards were still active and in use investigators were not sure who was using them But they hoped that was the case. The real Gene Hansen tracked the card to a bungalow in Key West Florida.

The rental agent confirmed that the tenant was a man named Ellis Greene. He had moved out weeks earlier and the apartment had not been rented since

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. Looking for clues that could reveal the identity of the former occupant on a glass in a cabinet, they found a fingerprint that matched that of Gene Hanson. They now had proof that he was alive in January 1989, nine months after his reported death. Gene Henson, traveling under another assumed name, was detained in At the Dallas-Fort Worth airport, upon returning from Mexico, he had been acting so eccentrically that customs agents stopped him and searched his suitcases.

They found 14,000 in cash that he did not declare, thus breaking the law. They also found the IDs of 13 people. Among them was Ellis Greens, the man killed in Dr. Boggs here was proof that he had switched identities with the victim and pocketed some of his own death benefits he was arrested with Gene Hanson captured and the incriminating EKG strips the police had enough to arrest Boggs Plus, they knew they had him for conspiracy to commit insurance fraud. In fact, they discovered evidence that he and Hansen had made some fraudulent claims in the past. The two, along with John Hawkins, staged car accidents to get insurance money.

Dr. Boggs was the doctor who approved their medical claims, but there was enough evidence to prove that Boggs actually murdered Ellis Green as part of the conspiracy without a body, they didn't seem to have much substance, Bodz claimed that they originally hoped to steal a body of the moor, but that proved impossible, then, by horrible coincidence, the conspirators said they stumbled upon Ellis Green's body shortly after her death. Despite how improbable the story sounded, Boggs challenged the prosecution to prove that was lying, glendale police sergeant john perkins had to somehow pull off an elaborate insurance scam on a homicide case gene hanson the man who faked his own death and richard boggs the compliant doctor were already in custody perkins was eager to put all the pieces together and finish it but there was still no sign of john hawkins the beneficiary who absconded with the million dollar insurance payment and yet investigators lacked evidence to prove what they strongly suspected: that dr. boggs murdered ellis green to pass him off as gene hanson.

We really needed someone who could examine all the evidence we found. If the autopsy report was some of the tissues, there were stomach contents that were collected at the time of the autopsy and examined from an independent view to look at crime scene photos and give us some indication that this person did not die. . of natural causes and that was when we hired dr. michael bodden michael baden is the executive director of the new york state police forensic sciences unit he is also an expert on the nuances that death leaves on the body he has served on the congressional committees that investigated the deaths of john f kennedy and martin luther king jr in the ellis green case baden had slides of her heart, lung and liver tissue as well as photographs of the victim that were taken shortly after death from this evidence baden was able to determine two facts with confidence one Green did not have a fatal heart condition and two his skin, which showed no other markings, was blue at the time of death, suggesting a lack of oxygen.

From these two facts, Baden came to a single conclusion. Green was asphyxiated, except for the telltale blue color in the absence of a struggle asphyxiation leaves no marks his diagnosis comes from eliminating all other possible causes of death it is a diagnosis of exclusion a gunshot wound we do not need a diagnosis of exclusion because we found a hole on the body a stab wound or a blow from a baseball bat all the marks on the body that we can see in the autopsy, but if you put something over the nose and mouth causing a person to die because they can't breathe and then you take it off that object in the hand or a pillow in the In the autopsy there is no specific finding that says he was asphyxiated.

The evidence was enough to convince the jury that the three men had planned the crime together and that Dr. Boggs, the medicine man, was Dr. Boggs, a murderer. These three individuals were no strangers to crime. They had gotten together probably four years before this particular murder and had devised different ways to commit insurance fraud and the plan they developed was that someone had to die; that person, they agreed, was Gene Hansen and the only way they could make it happen. What was wrong was with a doctor and that doctor was Dr. Boggs. Police believe Boggs picked up Ellis Green at a bar.

The last place they saw him bought him some drinks to make him more obedient. The victim's blood alcohol content was well above the legal level. limits in case the victim was still sober enough to defend himself boggs may have incapacitated him with a stun gun and then the victim was asphyxiated without resistance perkins believes that the forensic pathologist's determination of murder made this case winnable the testimony from dr. bodden in this The particular case that I think was the last inning, you're down two, and the bases are loaded and Dr. Boden came in and basically hit a home run for us in 1990.

Richard Boggs was convicted of first degree murder and fraud. Sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, it took three years and a worldwide manhunt before police caught John Hawkins on the island of Sardinia in 1995. Both he and Melvin Eugene Hansen were convicted of fraud, grand larceny and conspiracy. to commit murder. hansen was sentenced to life in prison without parole hawkins received 25 years to life in prison the medical examiner's work undermined the murderous conspiracy of gene hansen and his henchmen but whether a crime is ingenious or devilishly simple, the forensic methods needed to solve it are equally complex on the rainy night of November 27, 1992 Shortly after 9:30 p.m. m., a passing motorist reported what appeared to be an accident on Hawaii Volcano Highway.

Police arrived and found a van going the wrong way, apparently after making a turn, the responding officer recognized the owner of the gang as Ken Matheson, apolice force sergeant. ken was very shaken his wife yvonne fared much worse ken had cared for her in the back of the van until help arrived she had lost a lot of blood by strange coincidence yvonne matheson was a nurse who helped deliver the first child of the officer who attended weeks before The paramedics transferred her to the ambulance to quickly take her to the Hilo hospital. The hospital where she worked became the place where she died when Ken Matheson's fellow officers heard about the incident on police radio and went to see him at the hospital.

Matheson told one of his colleagues that his wife's death was a terrible accident she was driving the van when they started fighting things escalated and they became angry beyond reason yvonne jumped out the open window of the moving van he said who slid to drive the vehicle and then backed up to look for his wife that's when he hit her yvonne and ken matheson had divorced once but then decided to give their marriage a second chance it seemed to be working this time more or less the moments usual difficult times, then this tragedy destroyed everything according to thread The police, any accident that results in death is considered negligent homicide, for this misdemeanor.

Matheson could expect a maximum fine of $1,000 and at least a year in jail; he would be fined $100 or sentenced to 100 hours of community service. Don't worry, in any case, he could keep his badge. He did not protest the charges, since any sudden death would require a full investigation. It was a formality. Yvonne Matheson's death was unfortunate and tragic, but the police. He had no reason to doubt Ken's story while the investigation was underway. Matheson stayed. He was on active duty with the police force, but after inspecting the accident scene, Hawaii County police noticed some minor inconsistencies between the evidence on the road and Matheson's story.

At first it seemed like they weren't worth mentioning. Every year, tourists flock to Hawaii to escape the worries of daily life. The sun, the waves and the fiery primeval beauty of the volcanoes exert their cleansing influence on the inhabitants of Hawaii. Life in paradise continues like anywhere else. Crimes are allowed. Accidents happen and investigators must determine which is which. In Hilo, traffic investigators inspected the area where Sgt. Ken Mathison's wife was killed. They found relatively little blood on the road compared to what was found in the truck. Although it was a little peculiar, they attributed it to the rain and to the fact that ken matheson had rushed his dying wife out of the van after he hit her at the police depot the van had its own story to tell it was a routine procedure for a vehicle involved in a fatal accident to undergo a mechanical inspection which negates any future defense claims for defective equipment, the police also had to be They made sure the van was safe to drive before they could deliver it to Matheson due to the nature of this accident, the undercarriage was thoroughly inspected.

Hawaii County police traffic investigator Martin Pelazar was surprised by the relative lack of damage he found there, however, when he finished the inspection. The exterior, the interior of the truck, caught his attention. I looked inside from the outside and could see blood stains. Blood stains on the driver's side window. Blood stains on the plastic cover of the panel area in front of the steering wheel. Blood stains above. There was a large concentration of blood and hair on that bolt. There was no reason for there to be blood on the driver's side of the vehicle. Elazar needed a closer look, but to search inside the truck a warrant was needed.

He asked Deputy Attorney General Kurt. Spong to apply for a court order arrived just in time. Three months had passed since the incident, according to the main evidence, it almost slipped through their fingers. You do a mechanical inspection and once all the mechanical inspections and search warrants are completed, you return the truck to the owner and in this case, the truck was authorized to be returned to the owner, luckily Matheson had not picked it up yet, the truck was safe, the release authorization was cancelled, a search warrant was issued for the inside of the gang, now sponge had to face the depressing situation. possibility that Sergeant Matheson's story could be a lie and, although they still had the truck, another piece of vital evidence was lost forever, we decided that this case was possibly more than just negligent homicide and so we decided that we should probably do have a forensic pathologist do it. an autopsy in this case however at that time we discovered that the body had been cremated yvonne matheson's body had been autopsied three days after her death on the island of hawaii the coroner is also the chief of police a pathologist from a nearby hospital is being held as a consultant, the pathologist was told the death was accidental, but a pathologist specializes in natural causes of death, such as diseases, he was still able to say that the victim's injuries did not match Ken Matheson's account.

The pathologist noted injuries to the victim's head and arms. and hands that were not consistent with having been run over or fallen out of the vehicle, but the interpretation of these injuries was outside the scope of the consultant pathologist's training; It was actually a job for a forensic pathologist who specializes in deaths from unnatural causes, he's still baffled. Based on his findings, the pathologist was sure to photograph every aspect of the victim and take tissue samples. Now that the victim had been cremated, all that was left was a tragic accident. The case was now getting ugly.

Sponge knew there were enough reasons. to open a homicide investigation, but without a body there may not be enough evidence to solve it the photos of the original pathologist and the evidence of the ban would have to be enough. He prepared himself for the inevitable public outcry somehow it's a no-win situation if you investigate and discover that the police officer is innocent and you announce that everyone says well, that's hidden because it's a police officer and if you investigate the case and discover that The police officer is guilty and you accuse them, everyone says that you are only accusing him because you are giving in to public pressure and in reality he is innocent, six months after the investigation began, widespread criticism forced Sergeant Ken Mathison's superiors to put him on trial. on administrative duties while remaining a suspect.

Press coverage brought to light an In an intriguing incident, a witness who read about the case in the newspapers told investigators that on the night of the accident he stopped to help shortly after 9 p.m. when he stopped a man, possibly Ken Mathison, who got out of the back of the truck and shined a flashlight in his eyes he told the Samaritan that no one was hurt the police had already been called so he fired him investigators now suspect that maybe the passerby interrupted the crime in progress they just had to prove it martin one of the interesting things about the deputy prosecutor in hawaii General Kurt Spohn was faced with the unfortunate task of investigating Sergeant Ken Matheson for murder to discover more about the blood spatter in the driver's area of ​​Matheson's truck.

A couple of days later he told a colleague to track down the best blood spatter expert in the country. He told me it was someone named Dr. Henry Lee, who was the head of the forensic laboratory for the state of Connecticut. Henry Lee, who is now commissioner of the state's department of public safety, uses the laws of physics to defend the laws of justice that his experience reads. clues written in blood are not afraid to get their hands dirty in the process like any substance blood is affected by gravity and momentum each type of bloodshed leaves characteristic clues stabbing will create a dripping pattern relatively low speed of the weapon does not propel Blood is too far from the source, on the other hand, an accelerating bullet creates a bloody mist and a blunt wound produces large splashes that can spread very far.

By examining the small tails behind each drop of blood, the position of the victim and the amount of blood can be determined. Force used to create the injury from this and the size of the wound can determine the type of weapon used and deduce the circumstances of a person's death. Lee is perhaps most famous for his work on the O.J Simpson trial. He also helped identify victims in mass graves in Bosnia, as soon as Lee received the photographs taken from the Matheson case, he spilled them and became suspicious, he felt that he was definitely looking at a crime scene after I received the photograph, I did the detailed examination, my initial reaction, something is wrong with this.

In the event that some distant license plate was placed inside the van from the photographs of the driver's side window, Lee could see that blood on the front of the van was splattered at medium speed, suggesting a blunt trauma. It appeared the victim was hit several times. The blood stains. on the window also contradicted Matheson's claim that his wife jumped out of it at the time of the incident this window was up approximately 200 medium speed blood spiders were noticed only in this area lee needed to see the van first hand to trace the trajectory of the splash Threads were connected to each droplet to determine their common point of origin.

It turned out to be the driver's seat area at about the height where a person's head would be. These findings showed that the damage was inflicted before she abandoned the vehicle. Autopsy photos showed that the victim's head had suffered enough damage to kill her once dr. Lee determined that a fight had occurred in the van. Investigators knew that Ken Matheson was lying. His motive for killing his wife was probably money. If she died in an accident, he would be paid $595,000. If she died in a car accident, he would be paid $595,000. They would pay him 675 thousand dollars according to the evidence.

Ken Matheson was arrested on his day off. The police reconstructed the murder while Yvonne was driving. Ken Matheson hit her with a blunt object which she probably stopped. The vehicle or he took control of her and stopped him, he continued beating her to the brink of death. The marks on his hand suggested that he had tried to defend himself in the dark. Matheson probably didn't realize he was leaving blood splatters that would be his undoing. Once he was sure his wife wouldn't survive, he pulled her out of the truck and ran her over, carrying her back to the truck and waiting for someone. stop and ask for help.

We had, you know, a hunch and a lot of suspicion, we didn't have any hard evidence, so Dr. Lee's blood spatter analysis is what gave us our first really hard evidence in 1995. Ken Matheson was sentenced to life in prison. life for kidnapping and murder. He is sometimes not eligible for parole for 25 years. The coroner's findings can only tell part of the story when that happens. Forensic

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ists like Dr. Lee give a voice to victims who would otherwise be silenced forever. The victim died. He can't testify. The physical evidence speaks for Matheson's simple but gruesome crime. He was undone by some forensics. details that he simply didn't have, but can the same forensic science that proves murder be used to prove that no murder was committed?

Experts in New York state hoped so. The town of Munsville, in central New York, is one of those quiet and quaint ones. places that go unnoticed in the landscape as motorists speed by in June 1990 became an unlikely battlefield for a very unlikely soldier the trouble began on a run-down farm on the outskirts of town delbert ward 59 woke up at dawn to milking his cows tried to wake up his cows earlier brother william but he didn't move william hadn't been feeling well lately delbert thought it was better to let him sleep delbert would take care of the housework without him today the four brothers in the neighborhood were calm and simple They had spent their entire lives living on the dairy farm, it was their universe, everything they had and everything they knew, lonely and childish, the brothers even shared their bed, probably as they had done since childhood, William, the eldest, too.

He is the smartest and strongest, he ran the show, Delbert was his right. helper, the other brothers roscoe and lyman occasionally helped, but that day June 6, delbert was alone even after finishing his chores, he could not wake up brother william, somethingIt was bad, the men didn't know what to do. Because the neighborhood brothers didn't have a phone, Delbert and Roscoe walked to a neighbor's house to ask for help. Their fourth brother, Lyman, took care of William until he arrived 20 minutes after Delbert made the call to the state police. and the madison county coroner showed up at the farm.

William's body was examined, there were no signs of foul play, it appeared that William, 64, died peacefully in his sleep. His body was transported to the medical examiner's office while police interviewed his surviving brothers. In the following days, the brothers tried to continue their work. be difficult without brother bill delbert bill delbert's life would be much more difficult and his problems were just beginning at williams autopsy the assistant medical examiner took tissue samples and made careful notes no indicators of natural illness were noted in the report however something unusual demanded attention identify hemorrhages of precise size in william eyes mouth and trachea these small spots called petechial hemorrhages can have several causes it is often the first indication of death by asphyxiation the assistant medical examiner could not rule out death by unnatural means in the death certificate the cause of death was listed as Pending further study, the district attorney was contacted and told the case was nuisance and this is where communication apparently began to break down, the message was passed to the state police and suspicions about petechial hemorrhages became confusing along the way, now it became the possibility of homicide.

With certainty Delbert was taken to the station to be questioned he was interviewed for four hours according to lawyer Ralph Cognetti in Albany New York Delbert was confused by all the attention he just wanted to return to the farm so he was soon willing to say anything he wanted. signed the confession tell them what they want to hear and they will let you go home and that is in fact what they told him, they certainly didn't let him go home after confessing but if you get a chance to read the confession it really sounds like a dissertation from Harvard and you know for a fact that that didn't come from Delbert's lips.

However, the confession along with the autopsy results were enough to arrest Delbert. A grand jury later returned an indictment against him for second-degree murder. For the people of Munsville, with a population of 400, it was absurd to think that Delbert would have killed or could have killed his brother. They believed the state had made a mistake when his bail was set at ten thousand dollars. The entire town contributed and raised the money in a matter of hours the kindness of the neighbors and the plight of delbert ward earned him an article in the new york times the wave of support for delbert began to grow a friend of the wards brought ralph cognetti to the case based on his conversation with delbert cognetti was convinced of his client's innocence a review of the evidence suggested that the murder charge was based more on delbert's confession than on physical evidence from the medical examiner's office while cognetti was preparing his defense he received a fateful call the man identified himself as cyril wecht the name It meant nothing to Cognati, as I heard, it was a gentleman who explained that he was a forensic pathologist from Pittsburgh and he read the article, he read the story about the children and he was willing to review it. any evidence we had at no cost to us in other words, what you are telling me is that dr.

Cyril Wecht extends far beyond the walls of the coroner's office in Pittsburgh, where he works as chief forensic pathologist for Allegheny County. He has assisted investigators in the murder of Robert Kennedy and is consulted on the death of Elvis Presley in addition to degrees in medicine. Wept also has a law degree. He had read about the Delbert Ward case in the New York Times and it piqued his interest. He requested William Ward's case file afterwards. I reviewed the case file which included the autopsy report. My initial impression was that there was no adequate basis for any forensic pathologist to conclude that this was a death due to asphyxiation.

There were simply no adequate results for such a diagnosis using the assistant medical examiner's examination. original notes wecht formulated a more mundane diagnosis william ward died of heart disease, the number one killer of men his age in the united states, the ward brothers had in fact told authorities that william had been in poor health for years, but He refused to see a doctor because his symptoms were consistent with cardiovascular disease which supported West's theory, but the prosecution believed that William's illness may have provided a motive for his murder. Did Delbert Ward kill his brother? William, New York State said he did it on his theory.

Delbert suffocated his brother to free him from due to his failing health, they said it could have been a mercy killing, but it was murder, anyway, the prosecution pointed out Delbert's strange behavior on the day of William's death, when Delbert was not He was able to wake up his brother at dawn like he normally did. anyway to the prosecutor's office about their tasks that lack of concern suggested guilt for ralph cognetti said more about the realities of life on a farm was a point that the prosecutor jumped on how could a person who was so concerned about the well-being of his brother go and grind cows what came out in the trial and what I'm sure the jurors knew because we had one or two dairy farmers on the jury was that if you don't milk a cow when it needs to be milked and that cow goes away to get seriously ill , Cogniti and Cyril Wet were left with the idea that William died of natural causes, but they had to prove it.

The victim had already been buried. All wet had to work with the autopsy records, those same records and tissue samples that the state claimed. It didn't show anything unusual other than the petechial hemorrhages so it wasn't how wet he read them he was sure he had everything he needed to prove Ward's innocence according to the fine tissue samples collected at William Ward's autopsy along with the data from the medical examiner, William's heart was enlarged and his coronary artery suffered a 20 percent blockage. His right lung was heavily scarred and weighed twice as much as the left. His liver and spleen also enlarged without a drastic change in his habits.

Death from heart disease seemed inevitable but Wecht had to undermine the prosecution's claim that he was murdered in order to be relieved of his suffering, although he only had photographs and tissue samples of William Ward to work with. He drew on his vast experience in other cases in which he had examined the bodies directly. He noted the petechiae and the telltale red hemorrhages found in the victim's eyes. and the mouth to the state these were clear signs of strangulation, they overshadowed all other symptoms, while it is true that petechial hemorrhages can indicate asphyxiation, they are not enough to prove it beyond a doubt, unless a person is in some way incapacitated before being asphyxiated, the body will probably show it. signs of struggle william wards no no lesions around the mouth on the mouth and tongue gums no lesions on or around the neck no evidence of increased blood fluidity no evidence of increased blue color of the blood there is no aspiration of gastric contents It will occur while a person is struggling so we had none of that for the defense there was no evidence of murder William simply died in his sleep due to heart disease the murder charge was the result of an unfortunate series of communication errors that had gotten out of control or you can take the incident seen by one person and then pass it on to a second, a third and then when you get to the sixth, the tenth or the fifteenth, you will find that that story has very little relationship with the original creation and with the The original version entered the case as a stranger.

Wet was immune to preconceptions that Delbert Ward was a murderer. Looking at the case with a new perspective, she obtained Delbert's freedom on April 5, 1991. Delbert Ward was acquitted of all charges. He grew like a bomb. It almost started small and then at the end of the trial it became what it is today, truly a legend, certainly in that part of the state, Cyril Wept believes that the situation Delbert Ward found himself in was not unusual , has seen many cases that were contaminated. by the erroneous assumptions of a medical examiner, the quick conclusion of an investigator or a simple misunderstanding unfortunately these errors tend to compound we work closely and constantly with homicide

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with the police and district attorneys we listen to their versions consciously subconsciously those versions begin to take hold and the mind then begins to function and you construct your own impressions, ultimately your own opinions and conclusions that best fit us, no matter how mysterious or suspicious the death may seem, the truth can resurrect in the laboratory all the days the forensic skills of the medical examiner A foreigner and a crime scene expert demonstrate that the most important witness to a death is the deceased.