03-08-2018, 05:45 PM
TomK, you make a very good point. I would add that seven months' delay in an investigation of this type can be crippling. Supporting forensic evidence will be much more difficult to analyze or obtain, and witnesses will be harder to locate and have faded memories if they are located. It's not just the pathologist who dropped the ball, though. Someone in the police department should have been asking why it was taking so long and insisting on expedience instead of making excuses after the ball was dropped.