family. the best way to help the decedent at this point is to remain objective. on this day her job is clear-cut. we want to determine the cause of death. in a case of a gunshot wound case, we re going to recover the bullet or bullets. the posterior aspect whatever she finds will be turned over to investigators. my role is to do a complete examination, to gather all of the physical evidence that i can, to document that physical evidence to the best of my ability and by doing so, that allows the victim to tell me the story and then i should tell the story to those people who have the right to know. dr. corey finds that the victim s wounds provide clues. clues that will help investigators determine a key detail how close the gun was to the victim. we can, by looking at the skin surface, get an estimate as to how far away the muzzle was
remorse, there s umbrage and outrage on the part of dr. murray against the decedent without any, any indication of the slightest involvement in this case. to hear dr. murray say it, dr. murray was just a bystander who sort of came upon a scene and was put in this situation because of everybody else s actions other than himself whether it be members of the family, whether it be members of aeg, whether it be mr. jackson or anybody else. those are factors which cause me tremendous concern. because the essence of probation is a recognition that someone may have done something wrong,
medical examiner s office responds to every year, only about 500 end up in the morgue for further study. irene stafirski does not need an autopsy. she will be released directly to a funeral home. i m going to call her doctor and have her sign the death certificate so now we ve actually contacted the funeral home and will have them pick up the body for funeral arrangements. death comes as a shock for those who aren t used to it. the emotional grief can be unbearable. for investigator patty roland, even though death plays a daily role in her life, it doesn t mean she s immune to feeling for families. leo s case i m going to remember for a while. you know, i mean, that s a big part of our job is we re there for the family. you re there for the decedent
a lot of violence. one of the things he has said about this in the press is that well, if it gets someone s attention about exactly what s happening in the streets and i m a public servant, the public should know. what about that point? i can clearly understand the spirit by which he says that. look, i ve seen the same thing this detective has seen and it s not a pretty picture and the prosecutor that s on with me, he knows exactly what we re talking about and it is frustrating, jenna, it can be very frustrating, but we have to try to be more sensitive not so much for what the public might see but the decedent himself or herself and the family. we have to be sensitive to that and maintain that dignity of the decedent. jenna: is there nr are there any legal problems with the privacy of the victims? well, i don t think there s a legal problem with the privacy of the victims, i don t think the pictures are any different than you d have seen from the fourth amendment and i think it w
i haven t done a cart wheel in ages. there is one time in lake tahoe. what constitutes enough dna to convict usually? it has to show that the dna of the victim is on the perpetrator or the perpetrator s dna is on the victim. that wasn t found. the dna they found was on a knife that was in a different apartment in a different building that was with her boyfriend that her dna could be on that. her dna was on the knife involved in the murder? well, the medical examiner testified that knife did not cause the injuries to the decedent. so it wasn t well done from a scientific point of view. let me ask you this, how long if i touch something in a room, how long is my dna there and left undisturbed? it could be there for hundreds of years. really? they can get dna from post-it stamps and paper a