I guess that we are not going to see a “CSI Kansas City” anytime soon. Police and medical examiners have had to change their finding of natural death of Anthony Crockett when the funeral home noted that he had three bullet holes in his head.
It turns about that detectives never visited the home to inspect the body and simply took a paramedics view that he appeared to die naturally after prescription containers for high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes in the home.
This is the second time in 17 months that a Kansas City funeral home returned a homicide victim’s body that was previously ruled as a natural caused death. Previously, a woman, Lorraine Grayson, 77, was beaten and sexually assaulted in her home, but listed as a natural death. A neighbor has now been charged.
The assumption that that the police will now start a homicide investigation for Mr. Crockett, though there remains a possible finding of lead poisoning.
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In the case of Mrs. Grayson, her throat had been slashed.
I think that sums it up without elaboration.
I think their investigators must have trained at Kentucky’s Creation Museum.
All TV police shows are laudatory propaganda that have little basis in reality. The problem it causes in a legal sense is that many in the public and on juries have been convinced by this propaganda that police and prosecutors always get it right. The strange dichotomy in this, that I’ve never in my own mind resolved, is why are anti-government types usually the greatest supporters of this infallibility mythology.
Three bullet holes in the head. No doubt the worst case of suicide the Kansas City Police have ever seen
No rcambell,
It was the suicide with three bullets to the back that was the worst. Sometimes I wonder about your thought patterns:)
MikeS:
because we are taught from a young age to respect authority.
Sh…… I got quit coming to this site I might actually learn a thing or 2.
I have got to say that I never thought about it until you put it like that (I am having a hard time writing this because I am laughing at myself).
I think I just figured out why the right is more detrimental to liberty than the left is.
Mike S.,
I think part of the answer to your question is male dominance. Authoritarianism is mostly, but not always (see nuns) linked to male dominance. It is “manly” to torture, go outside the law etc. Because our culture tends to worship all things macho, I think this causes worship of law enforcement, even when they are clearly in the wrong.
Someone mentioned the idiot in the flight suit (GWB) the other day. There’s an example!
I would like to point out that no one has taken a red pill as their icon yet.
I just sayin’.
Bron, looking your direction . . . and isn’t the kind of epiphany that makes you laugh just the best?
Buddha:
in your honor!
again
Mr. Furious: Seems there was a little controversy there regarding your father’s death.
The Bowler: Yes, the police said he fell down an elevator shaft. Onto some bullets.
The Blue Raja: You know, I’ve alwas suspected a bit of foul play there.
The Bowler: As have I.
Bron & Jill
Authority and male dominance are definitely parts of the puzzle. I learned a long time ago that someone shouting word to the effect of “Follow me Boys!” could get a lot of people following. Perhaps this is a genetic trait that allowed us to be herd animals, or perhaps it’s a reflection of the predominant paternal hierarchy system. In either event they will plague us humans until we learn to rid ourselves of them.
Bron,
I just wanted to let you know I did catch the transitory icon change, but I was not in a position to reply. Quite the complement and thank you, sir, but in all truth it is your very continued presence posting here that honors us all.
I just want to say, you folks need to show some respect and dignity here. A man, who happened to be a classmate and friend, has been murdered. Quibbling over political differences should be left to other places.
Jeff,
I’m sorry for your loss, but you’re way off base with this. No one has disrespected your friend and the only quibbling seems to be on your part. Criticizing crime lab methodology is not the equivalent of framing it as a political policy argument. If there had been posting about “right wing gun nuts” or “liberals who want to take your guns”, yeah, you’d have a really good complaint about disrespect and I’d be willing to throw some smack down on that myself. See this thread for examples of the kind of reaction that kind of irresponsible and hateful posts result in – http://jonathanturley.org/2009/02/22/eleven-year-old-boy-allegely-shots-pregnant-girlfriend-of-father-and-goes-to-school/ .
If he were my friend, I’d be more appalled that the lab missed facts so basic that the mortuary had to, in essence, solve the crime for them. That’s incompetent investigation. That’s not what the police and the crime lab are paid for nor is it proper fulfillment of their duties. I don’t know about you, but were he my friend, that would piss me off more than people talking about said investigatory incompetence that – had the funeral home not been ethical or paying attention – may have led to your friend’s murder NEVER being properly investigated.
I should also point out this is a legal blog. Quibbling over political differences is par for the course, but the regular posters do have a sense of proportion and leave politics out when they are not the central issue as a general rule.
Again, sorry for your loss. Peace.
Jeff:
I would think the greatest respect one could show would be to correct an injustice which involved your classmate’s death. The commentators here showed no disrespect to the victim, but directed it to the inept government agents charged with investigating this death. I think your thunder is misplaced.