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Convinced that alvin latham s taped confession had been coerced. but why did the coroner rule tinky s death a homicide? in looking at the autopsy findings, barbee discovered the coroner did not know the depth of the so-called knife wounds. the coroner never measured them, never dissected them, never checked them for the angle. from the photographs, dr. cyril wecht, an independent forensic pathologist, didn t believe these were stab wounds at all. expect all or at least some of the wounds to have had some significant depth of penetration. we do not have that in this case. hence, i do not believe that these were stab wounds. but if they weren t stab wounds, what were they? when you think of a propeller and a portion of it striking some part of the body, then it is easy to understand how you can get these kinds of injuries. ....
dr. wecht thinks this is also what caused tinky s fractured skull, that his body was accidentally run over by a passing ship while floating in the gulf. i believe that it is most plausible to infer that those areas of apparent trauma to the body of mr. leiker were sustained postmortem when his body was floating for about five days in the gulf. interestingly, the tugboat captain who picked up tinky s body agreed. he says, i ve been a boat captain a long time and this is not the first body i ve seen. and he says, that man was run over by a boat. and the tugboat captain told peter barbee something else, something which hadn t been made public. he said he had one boot on and one boot off. well, the lights went off on that one because that was alvin s basic story was that on the boat, at the end of it, tinky had gone down with the ....
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All that type of thing. but when the local coroner performed a routine autopsy, the findings contradicted alvin s story. he had trauma to his head. his left arm was partially amputated. the coroner also found five stab wounds on the arms that would be considered defensive wounds, as if the victim was fending off a knife attack. someone that s trying to defend themselves would raise their arms in front of their face. and in that way, they would catch the stab wounds at about the forearm. and that s where they were on raymond leiker. and the coroner found evidence of blunt-force trauma to the head. tinky leiker s death was ruled a homicide. someone killed raymond leiker. alvin latham was the only one on the boat that we know of. his own self said he was the only one. when the coast guard interviewed alvin just after his rescue, he said nothing about tinky being stabbed or struck in the head. ....