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It was considered an odd case. constance was the first noe baby the doctor performed an autopsy on. the doctor said she found no apparent cause of death. but instead of ruling it crib death, or sids, she said the cause was undetermined. no cause of death is apparent in the conduct of the autopsy. it was just nothing. which, of course, is quite unusual. the first person i called was molly depena. she is a very famous, used to be a very famous pediatric pathologist. she had done a number of the original autopsies when she lived in philadelphia in the 50s and 60s and she d also been the first person to ever let out there had been suspicions about the noes way back when. she recalled the medical examiner at the time. dr. joseph spellman, who is dead, that he believed the noes had been responsible for their children s deaths. the doctor says the diagnosis of crib death just wasn t possible in several children from the same family. ....
Constance s death piqued the interest of police in the medical examiner s office. after five babies born to the same young parents died under mysterious circumstances, they started asking questions. the police looked into this. they didn t look into it for very long and they didn t decide there was anything to do about it. but the problem with prosecuting any kind of sids cases is that there are certain ways people kill children that don t leave a sign. if you suffocate a very young child with a pillow, unless you do it so hard you cause bruising, the child will not have any sign of being killed. so they were just learning that, too. but the cause of death was appropriate. they were concerned. but they didn t know what to do. it was considered an odd case. constance was the first noe baby the doctor performed an autopsy on. the doctor said she found no apparent cause of death. ....
Baby dr. molly dupina performed an autopsy on. the doctor said she found no apparent cause of death. but instead of ruling it crib death, or sids, she said the cause was undetermined. no cause of death is apparent in the conduct of the autopsy. it was just nothing. which, of course, is quite unusual. the first person i called was molly depena. she is a very famous, used to be a very famous pediatric pathologist. she had done a number of the original autopsies when she lived in philadelphia in the 50s and 60s, and she d also been the first person to ever let out that there had been suspicions about the noes way back when. she recalled the medical examiner at the time. dr. joseph spellman, who is dead. that he believed that the noes had been responsible for their children s deaths. dr. depena said the diagnosis of crib death just wasn t possible in several children from the same family. you don t get two and three cases in a family. ....