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Defense, discovered that an employee in the coroner s office had drawn blood from virginia ridley s neck for a toxicology test, which was a complete break from standard procedure. this is highly irregular and is something that procedurally is an error. when the autopsy was conducted the next day, dr. goldberg believes the needle marks had developed into bruises, which are known as artifact. a term for any changes in the body caused by postmortem evaluation. i think it would be absolutely essential that any coroner have some autopsy experience, even if they don t conduct the autopsy themselves, they should know the appropriate procedures. it was clear to me that this coroner was way out of line with appropriate procedure. ....
Instead, he called a hospital in chattanooga, tennessee, some 30 miles away. they told him to dial 911 for local assistance, which he finally did, leaving this message. 911, what is your emergency? 134 inman street. what s the problem? i think my wife passed out. 134 inman street? yeah. is she breathing? i don t think so. it s behind the steel plant. i m calling from a pay phone booth. you don t have a phone at your house? there s no phone, huh-uh. there s no phone there? investigators were struck by the lack of concern in alvin s voice. it was unlike most emergency calls they receive. the initial examination of virginia s body was done by the local coroner, bonita hullander. in virginia s eyes, the coroner found petechial hemorrhages ....
in georgia, the coroner is an elected official, and this was the first suspicious death anita hullander investigated after her election. alvin s attorney believes that the coroner s inexperience and her own personal suspicions about alvin ridley affected her judgment. when that body went to the state crime lab and she accompanied it, she reported when they arrived, this woman has been locked in a basement for 30 years. the state pathologist that conducted the autopsy, i think that was an improper suggestion based on no fact that made it easy for him to conclude homicide by asphyxiation. alvin ridley took the stand in his own defense. he said he drove by the local ....