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Atlanta Murders Reopened |
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Post Mordem Bleeding |
| Date Posted: |
06/04/2005 |
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A few weeks ago, Court-TV re-aired a one hour documentary, done in 2000, on the Atlanta Missing and Murdered Children's Cases. It was a chilling presentation of new, exculpatory evidence. Especially the part of the documentary dealing with the murder of Clifford Jones, in which there was a suspect, other than Wayne Williams, never arrested for the boy's murder. Also chilling, the interview with the FBI's chief fiber guy, Harold Deadman. He admitting to screwing up in linking fibers from the trunk of a car to three murder victims who's deaths were blamed on Williams. Not one Atlanta station or the newspaper has mentioned any of this. |
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Just thought you might find this interesting:
Amount of Postmortem Bleeding: An Experimental Autopsy Study.
American Journal of Forensic Medicine & Pathology. 25(1):20-22, March 2004.
Nikolic, Slobodan MD; Atanasijevic, Tatjana MD; Micic, Jelena MD; Djokic, Vesna MD; Babic, Dragan MD
Abstract:
An experimental autopsy study was performed on 64 cases (55 male, 9 female; average age 51.5 +/- 16.2 years) of sudden natural (38 cases) and asphyxic deaths (26 cases). The study objective was the amount of postmortem bleeding from postmortem cutting of the thoracic aorta, related to the time since death. The amount of postmortem bleeding ranged from 100 to 1300 cm3, 440.6 +/- 268.1 cm3 on average. The time since death up to the autopsy time ranged from 4 to 72 hours, 19.4 +/- 12.9 in average. A statistically significant correlation between the amount of postmortem bleeding and postmortem time interval was stated: Pearson correlation test value r = -0.461 (P = 0.000): the shorter the time interval, the larger the amount of bleeding. The formula of linear regression was estimated according to this correlation: amount of postmortem bleeding (cm3) = -9.571 x time since death (h) + 626.659. This proves that the amount of postmortem bleeding (eg, from aortic blunt rupture) could be about 620 cm3.
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