The Best Evidence
Incompetently, the coroner arrived at 8:20 p.m. on 26 December, 1996 to begin the examination and then failed to do so. At minimum, a body temperature should have been taken and some fluid samples taken. The reason for the incredible tarry in arriving to the scene was the result, apparently, of obsessive compulsive handling of the warrant requests by the DA’s office in Boulder. This was also a mistake. Coroners don’t decide the time of death, they determine the time of death. The fact that 8:20 p.m. was after-hours is too bad. An autopsy should have been performed immediately. The reason for this is that as time passes, the information you can collect from the Best Evidence you have diminishes.
The Best Evidence they had were the bodily remains of JBR.
So, let us have a look at what the coroner finally found. I’ll present the coroner’s report below, then provide editorial throughout:
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