Medical report suggests strangulation possible in Terri Schiavo case

From the Empire Journal:

While the Pinellas County medical examiner ruled out bulimia and a heart attack as causes of death in the case of Terri Schiavo, Florida’s disabled and vulnerable adult who died after the court ordered her feeding tube removed, he did not rule out suffocation.

The cause of death was listed as anoxic encephalopathy....

Pinellas County medical examiner Jon Thogmartin did not rule out the possibility of smothering or a choke hold which may have caused the loss of oxygen to Terri’s brain and experts have stated that a victim of a choke hold or smothering would not demonstrate visible injury or evidence to corroborate the “choking” incident.

The hospital admittance records from 1990 show evidence of trauma to Terri Schiavo’s neck. Her friends have testified during court proceedings that she was unhappy in her marriage to Schiavo and was allegedly contemplating a divorce from Michael Schiavo who was allegedly possessive and jealous.

Unfortunately there are way too many people that want to pretend Terri died a “dignified” death when she was slowly tortured to death by Michael Schiavo and George Greer. In Germany it was easier to pretend snow was falling rather than admit the reality that it was the ashes of thousands of viciously-murdered Jews being burned in nearby extermination camps.

...meanwhile...

The very prosecutor whose career would have been on the line had he ruled any other way, declared there was no criminal activity involved in Terri Schiavo's collapse. Had he found otherwise, State Attorney Bernie McCabe would have exposed his own incompetence in not investigating over a decade ago as he had been repeatedly asked to.

To round off the incompetence, Jeb Bush, who refused to save Terri's life, accepted the report as legitimate. I wonder if this will be a new policy in Florida -- having those suspected of incompetence be in charge of their own competency investigation. Maybe they could just start allowing criminals to investigate themselves, too.

Posted by Danny Carlton at July 8, 2005 08:10 AM