Autopsy questions

From Tricia's post - May 24, 2004

Came across this in my search.

From Tricia's post May 24, 2004, 5:30 pm, Mon May 24 17:30:08 CDT 2004

http://www.forumsforjustice.org/forums/showpost.php?p=60213&postcount=2

 

I wish this could happen, Little. There would need to be a strong demand from someone of great importance. Who?

 

The DA could demand one.....wait a minute. I just realized how that just fit into the category of "file that one right between fat chance and not gonna happen".

Little

 

Scoozy me, I don't even know if D.A. Mary Lacy whatever the hell her name is still the D.A. or someone else has taken over lately (?). I just can't stand the woman. Fill me in please, Little. I have been busy with more important business. Te he! :takeabow:

 

"But when asked earlier, Ramsey attorney Hal Haddon called the possibility of exhuming the girl's body "monstrous" and said it wouldn't be necessary if authorities had done their jobs. "

Is it just ME, or is there any other posters out there, that do not see what is so "monstrous" about exhuming the body of their child, if it meant that maybe, just maybe...something was missed that could help find her killer??

 

"That is my child", "she had just been laid to rest"....blah, blah, blah...blah, blah, blah....yada, yada, yada....and if John really and truly wanted to find the killer of his child...he would have been more than happy to have her body exhumed and a second autopsy performed. Sure it would have been hard...but, come on...there is a "KILLER ON THE LOOSE"..."Keep your babies close". If he hadn't of been involved, he would have jumped at the chance. My cousin was murdered, and my aunt and uncle signed papers to have her body exhumed for a second autopsy. It was hard for them...but, they did it...in the name of JUSTICE.

 

Right, Ames.

I find John's response particularly interesting in light of his often professed Christianity. Most practicing Christians would tell you that, upon death, our bodies are an empty shell left behind. The soul goes on to live with Jesus forever.

And yes, I have buried a child so I do know what that is like. But, I'm also a Christian and if I thought it might help find my daughter's murderer, I'd be more than willing to exhume the shell left behind.

 

Exactly! The body is only an empty shell. Yes, I find John's reponse interesting too, considering that he claims to be a Christian. When one of my cousins died of leukemia ten years ago, a friend of hers polished her (my cousin) fingernails, so that they would look nice at the receiving of friends and family at the funeral home. I just kept saying..."HOW could you have done that? I just don't think that I could have done that!" And she said.."Well, you see....she is only an empty shell. She is not here with us anymore, she is in heaven with Jesus now". There is a reason that John did not want JB's body exhumed...and its not because she was his child, and that SHE had been laid to rest. What he really meant to say was..."Well, you know...Patsy and I WOULD allow for an exhumation, BUT...you see...we were involved in her murder...and there was some evidence that was missed the first time, and now IT has been laid to rest".

Pearlsim, I am sorry about the loss of your precious child!! My heart goes out to you.

 

If it meant finding more clues to help finding the truth, no one should object, except if they have anything to hide like the Ramseys.

 

Right...and IMO that is why they were so anxious to have her body released for burial. They didn't waste any time, getting her into the ground...and I am quite sure that they let out a huge, gigantic...enormous...sign of relief. "WHEW...glad THAT is over with!"

 

She won't leave office until after this November's election. Then she's done for good. Wonder if she'll have anything to say?

Better question: will the next one NOT be a hand-picked successor. As anyone who has read PMPT and ST's book knows, it's essentially a one-party socialist dictatorship in Boulder. Mary Lacy was the handpicked successor to Alex Hunter (who has finally lost faith in her, if his "turn it back over to the police" statement is any indication). Time to get some REAL democracy in there!

 

Let me know when Hell freezes over, won't you?

 

I am not so sure there would be any point to exhumation now, at almost 11 years after burial. While adult embalmed bodies take about 10 years to be reduced to skeletal remains, a child may take much less, maybe about 5 years. There may not be soft tissue left. Of course, this is variable and subject to many factors affecting it, from climate and soil conditions to cause of death. I'd feel it's worth a try, but you'll never get that exhumation order with the DA in power now.
But the Rs didn't really mean they didn't want to exhume because their daughter was "at rest". What they really meant was that they wanted any evidence on the body that may point to them to remain at rest!
As distasteful as an exhumation is, had it been done relatively soon after burial, there would certainly have been more information to gather. For one thing, the "stun-gun" question could have been investigated and possibly settled one way or they other.

 

Yeah, I guess that one's a little unrealistic.

 

Hello Stranger

I read recently that December 31st is her last day! I would LOVE to have one of those countdown tickers here (HINT, HINT) to mark off the days!

 

My Moaby again......

The Supremeness Surrounds Me! I feel so much like a kid at Christmas now that I'd be scared if Patsy was around.

 

Oh be still my heart! That is SO exciting!

I wish there was a way the countdown clock could be pinned to the top of this page where it would greet me every time I opened it. What a day brightener to watch Boulder DA Mary Lacy - biased, best friend of the Ramseys and case idiot - go down the time drain.

 

That's me on the right doing the Happy Dance!!! We really need this clock stickied or something before it gets lost in this thread!

 

Let's hope there'll be a "regime change" in the Boulder DA's office and not more of the same. Has Lacy been grooming someone to take her place? Another "friend to all criminals" maybe? Let's hope not.

 

I think Trip DeMuth's a shoe-in. They want to keep the old guard in place until all of us die, doncha' know. That way, it's not likely some lawyer with a conscience will get in office and decide to blow their little hot tubby group's secrets by actually going after the truth in this case. If all the "suspects" are dead and we're all dead or too old to remember, then like the Black Dahlia case, nobody will ever be able to expose the truth: files and evidence lost and destroyed; no reason to spend another dime investigating the case when the perp, no matter whom, is long gone.