professional standards. if i had to object, it would be that it appeared that the possibility that foul play was really not taken into account. so that extra measure perhaps was not done in this case. the doctor who performed the autopsy was not a forensic pathologist, but he did something virtually unheard of at the time. for reasons not entirely clear, he kept a vial of donna s blood in refrigerated storage. and two years after her death, it was sent to the forensic lab for testing. a sample was placed in a gas chromatograph mass spectrometer. which broke the blood down into its chemical components. traces of a common antidepressant known as elavil were clearly present in donna s blood. in someone who had never
several years later, dan left journalism and became a police officer. the first cold case he was assigned was laura salmon s murder. i didn t become a law enforcement officer to work on this case. but it was always on my mind. so i was quite happy that i got to assist bill sharp on this case. one of the first things dan goodwin and bill sharp did was to send all of the evidence to the forensic lab for testing. obviously through the advancement in science, through dna testing, maybe we could find the donor of the biological material and match that with our killer. while dna testing was under way, sharp and goodwin pursued a new lead which supposedly came from a local high school student, now almost 16 years after laura s murder.
if i had to object, it would be that it appeared that the possibility that foul play was really not taken into account. so that extra measure perhaps was not done in this case. the doctor who performed the autopsy was not a forensic pathologist, but he did something virtually unheard of at the time. for reasons not entirely clear, he kept a vial of donna s blood in refrigerated storage. and two years after her death, it was sent to the forensic lab for testing. a sample was placed in a gas chromatograph mass spectrometer. which broke the blood down into its chemical components. traces of a common antidepressant known as elavil were clearly present in donna s blood. in someone who had never taken the drug before, i believe
professional standards. if i had to object, it would be that it appeared that the possibility that foul play was really not taken into account. so that extra measure perhaps was not done in this case. the doctor who performed the autopsy was not a forensic pathologist, but he did something virtually unheard of at the time. for reasons not entirely clear, he kept a vial of donna s blood in refrigerated storage, and two years after her death, it was sent to the forensic lab for testing. a sample was placed in a gas chromatograph mass spectrometer. which broke the blood down into its chemical components. traces of a common antidepressant known as elavil were clearly present in donna s blood. in someone who had never taken the drug before, i believe
if i had to object, it would be that it appeared that the possibility that foul play was really not taken into account. so that extra measure perhaps was not done in this case. the doctor who performed the autopsy was not a forensic pathologist, but he did something virtually unheard of at the time. for reasons not entirely clear, he kept a vial of donna s blood in refrigerated storage, and two years after her death, it was sent to the forensic lab for testing. a sample was placed in a gas chromatograph mass spectrometer. which broke the blood down into its chemical components. traces of a common antidepressant known as elavil were clearly present in donna s blood. in someone who had never taken the drug before, i believe even one pill could cause them