Tag: forensic pathologist
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New JonBenet Ramsey book: Former sheriff claims Boulder police ignoring crucial DNA evidence
JonBenet Ramsey might have collected some of the most critical evidence in her own death. In a new book, a former El Paso County sheriff accuses the Boulder Police of ignoring DNA results saying original investigators should have used an early lab report to exonerate the six-year-old’s parents as suspects early on. The six year-old…
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Colorado coroner’s love of scary movies, childhood prepared him for career
On his way to the morgue, Dr. Leon Kelly changes his shoes. He switches out his regular walking shoes for a pair of skull-decorated Crocs. They’re old and spattered with all the stuff you might associate with the kind of work he does. “They’re covered with 15 years of blood, bodily fluids, brains and probably…
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Forensic pathologist: Elijah McClain died from ketamine injection, but manner of death undetermined
An amended autopsy report released Friday for Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died in 2019 after an encounter with Aurora police, confirms a forensic pathologist’s opinion that McClain died from “complications of ketamine administration following forcible restraint.” But the new report did not change his original determination that the manner of death —…