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First we open the skull – so. Behold, the naked human brain. Dracula: Dead and Loving It 1995 starring Leslie Neilsen & Peter MacNicol & Steven Weber & Amy Yasbeck & Lysette Anthony & Harvey Korman & Mark Blankfield & Megan Cavanagh & Clive Revill & Mel Brooks et al, director Mel Brooks, van Helsing’s autopsy
In Henri Paul none of that was present – his liver’s reported to be normal size, normal consistency, no evidence of fatty change ... There’s no mention in Henri Paul’s autopsy that there was any smell of alcohol in the stomach ... One would expect there would be heavy smell from the stomach in the course of the autopsy, and this was not recorded ... There is no evidence that Henri Paul was drunk or under the influence of alcohol. Dr David Posey, Forensic pathologist
The bottom line is we really do not have an explanation for where this carbon monoxide level came from. Dr David Posey, forensic pathologist
Either the samples were contaminated from the stomach contents or there is the possibility the samples were accidentally switched. We’ll never know if this was Henri Paul’s blood. Dr David Posey
I see autopsy as the most exhaustive, and final, medical exam that a doctor can provide for a patient. I don’t see autopsy as something horrendous and macabre. Yes, it’s not pleasant, I can tell you. I don’t like it. It’s just that I know how to do it fast, effectively, cleanly and to get the most out of it. Dr Miguel Reyes-Mugica
1987: a hearse is escorted by police helicopter from Los Angeles toward the desert town of Palm Springs. Inside is the body of a man who w as once the highest grossing entertainer in America. The body has been seized by the authorities: against the wishes of his family they are going to conduct an autopsy. What they find will finally destroy his public image and expose the carefully constructed lie that has sustained his career; it is the body of Liberace. Reputations s7e2: Liberace: Too Much of a Good Thing is Wonderful, BBC 2000
Incredibly, female prisoners were forced to scrape the skulls clean with glass shards before the specimens were sent off for examination. In 1906 a total of 778 autopsies were performed on prisoners for so-called racial-biological research. Dr Eugen Fischer arrived in north-west Africa just after the death camps opened. Obsessed with the voguish new science of race he saw the camps as an ideal research opportunity ... In 1913 Fischer published his findings: Negro blood, he concluded, was fundamentally inferior to white blood. Niall Ferguson, Civilisation: Is the West History? 2011
There was no autopsy on the body of Mary Jo Kapechne. Inside Story: Chappaquiddick, BBC 1994
Backed by al-Fayed they got four of Europe’s top pathologists to examine the post-mortem report. They dissected the autopsy. And listed twenty-eight critical errors that made the autopsy unreliable. They included: the autopsy was not timed; no precise description of how Henri Paul’s body was identified; no explanation for 20.7% carbon monoxide; the final conclusions of the four pathologists was damning: ‘The results on carbon monoxide in the blood are inexplicable, as inexplicable as the attitude of Dr Pepin and Professor Lecomte who continue to present arguments that have no rigour and no scientific value to justify their results. The hypothesis that there was a mix-up in the samples needs to be seriously considered’. Diana: The Night She Died, Channel 5 2003
In Henri Paul none of that was present – his liver’s reported to be normal size, normal consistency, no evidence of fatty change ... There’s no mention in Henri Paul’s autopsy that there was any smell of alcohol in the stomach ... One would expect there would be heavy smell from the stomach in the course of the autopsy, and this was not recorded ... There is no evidence that Henri Paul was drunk or under the influence of alcohol. Dr David Posey, forensic pathologist
The bottom line is we really do not have an explanation for where this carbon monoxide level came from. Dr David Posey
Either the samples were contaminated from the stomach contents or there is the possibility the samples were accidentally switched. We’ll never know if this was Henri Paul’s blood. Dr David Posey
The scandal at Alder Hey Children’s hospital centres on the retention of hearts and organs from hundreds of children.
The organs were stripped without permission from babies who died at the hospital between 1988-1996.
Hospital staff also kept and stored 400 foetuses collected from hospital around the north west of England.
The findings of an inquiry into the affair have been described by Health Secretary Alan Milburn as ‘grotesque’ and helplines have been set up to deal with calls from distressed parents. BBC online article 29th January 2001, ‘Organ Scandal Background’
2.26 p.m. on June 25th 2009: Michael Jackson, controversial megastar, entertainer and pop icon is pronounced dead in Los Angeles. Jackson is just fifty years old. His sudden and unexplained death sparked a police investigation that questions every detail of his passing. Autopsy: The Last Hours Of … s1e1: Michael Jackson, Channel 5 2014
His corpse was pored over by a team of medical experts. ibid.
Jackson spent large amounts of money on a skin-bleaching drug called Benoquin. ibid.
Jackson would become addicted to plastic surgery. ibid.
‘Jackson's hair is not his own.’ ibid.
He became hooked on painkillers ... and even morphine. ibid.
Demerol isn’t what killed Michael Jackson. ibid.
In her lifetime she sold more than two hundred million records, propelling her from a gospel choir to global stardom. But at 3:36 p.m. on February 11th 2012 Whitney Houston was found unconscious in a bath in a Hollywood hotel. Autopsy: The Last Hours Of … s1e2: Whitney Houston
February 11th 2012 Whitney Houston was found unconscious in a bath in a Hollywood hotel. ibid.
The voice that catapulted her to stardom has been in trouble for years. The influence of hard-living R&B star Bobby Brown during the 15-year marriage was catastrophic. ibid.
Whitney Houston had a chronic problem with cocaine. ibid.
Eight different prescription drugs from five different doctors. ibid.
She was under the influence of a number of drugs that can cause drowsiness when she died. ibid.
At 2.49 p.m. February 8th 2007 Anna Nicole Smith – Playboy cover girl, fashion model, and tabloid target – is pronounced dead in Florida. A small-town girl, she modelled her rise to fame on Marilyn Monroe. Autopsy: The Last Hours Of … s1e3: Anna Nicole Smith
In 1994 the paparazzi turned against her – they exposed a near fatal overdose. ibid.
She married 89-year-old oil billionaire J Howard Marshall. She was labelled the ultimate gold digger. ibid.
Since arriving in Florida, Anna is burning up with a high fever. ibid.
Anna’s twin implants were a step too far. ibid.
Benzodiazepines – by the time of her death she was taking them in massive quantities. ibid.
The sedative chloral-hydrate ... Anna was an expert self-injector. ibid.