Other Autopsy
Reports
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Rasmussen-Ruetten, Sherri:
(February 7, 1957 - February 24,
1986):
Sherri
Rae Rasmussen was just 29-year-old
when she was brutally murdered in
1986. She was bludgeoning and then
shot to death in her home just 3
months after getting married. She
worked as a nursing director at
Glendale
Adventist Medical Center
located in Glendale, California. Her
death went unsolved for nearly 24
years until DNA evidence from saliva
found in a bite mark on Sherri's
body pointed to the murderer as
being the ex-girlfriend of her new
husband. The ex-girlfriend,
Stephanie Lazarus, was a 26-year
veteran of the Los Angeles Police
Department. At the time of the
murder, police believed that her
death was related to a botched
burglary attempt with two things
being missing, her new car and .....
her marriage license - a presumably
odd thing to steal? Read the story
about the death of Sherri Rae
Rasmussen as a
48 Hour
Mystery - "One of Their Own."
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Rodas, Rodger:
(October 21, 1975 - November 30,
2013)
Rodas was the friend and partner of Paul
Walker. Rodas was the driver in the care crash that killed
him and Paul Walker. Rodas is a race car driver, and
co-owner of Always Evolving along with Walker, as well as
managing director wealth advisor for Merril Lynch Wealth.
He was also a philanthropist helping out with Walker's charity,
Reach Out Worldwide.
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Savio, Kathleen:
(June 13, 1963 - March 1, 2004)
Savio was the third wife of former Bollinger Police
Department sergeant, Drew Peterson. He is suspected of killing
his third and fourth wives. On March 1, 2004, Kathleen Savio was
found unresponsive in a waterless bathtub in their home.
He death was initially ruled accidental due to "drowning."
On October 29, 2007, his fourth wife, Stacy Ann Cales Peterson
was reported missing. Drew Peterson stated that Stacy had called
him saying she left him for another man. She remains missing.
After Stacy Peterson's disappearance, on November 16, 2007,
Kathleen Savio's body was exhumed and underwent forensic
examination by former New York City chief medical examiner,
Michael Baden. Baden concluded that Savio died of drowning
following a struggle. After the second autopsy, Will County
State's Attorney stated after examining the evidence that he
believed Savio's death was a "homicide" staged to look like an
accident. On February 21, 2008, Savio's death was
determined to be the result of a homicide. On May 7, 2009, Drew
Peterson was indicted for the killing of Kathleen Savio. He
currently resides in the Will County Adult Detention Center in
Joliet, Illinois.
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Schuler, Diane:
(1973 - July 26, 2009):
Diane
Schuler was a devoted wife and
mother of two beautiful children who
was involved in a two vehicle
collision on the Taconic State
Parkway near Briarcliff Manor, New
York, which killed eight people
including herself. According to
reports, Ms. Schuler was driving a
2003 minivan from a campground trip
and went the wrong way on the
Parkway traveling 1.7 miles in the
northbound lanes before colliding
with 2002 Chevrolet Tracker killing
three men who were inside.
Controversy remains on why Ms.
Schuler was traveling the wrong way
on the Parkway; however, he autopsy
report shows that she had a Blood
Alcohol Level of 0.19 and had THC,
the main psychoactive substance
found in marijuana, in her
bloodstream at the time of the
accident. Her death was the result
of multiple internal and external
injuries. There were many witnesses
including bystanders at the
campground, a McDonald's restaurant,
and a gas station who testified that
Ms. Schuler appeared well and and
did not appear intoxicated. However,
in the hours leading up to the
crash, there were reports by other
drivers on the Parkway that Ms.
Schuler's vehicle was driving
erratically, and tailgating and
honking it's horn at other vehicles.
Ms. Schuler was also seen on several
accounts bent over at the side
of the road appearing that she was
vomiting. Also, in the minutes
prior to the accident, there was a
call placed to Warren Hance, who is
Diane Schuler's brother, by one of
his daughters. Emma Hance stated,
“Daddy, there is something wrong
with Aunt Diane and she is having
trouble seeing and she is talking
funny, she is slurring."
At that time the vehicle was parked
on the side of the road just past
the Tappan Zee Bridge tollbooth. Mr.
Hance called the cell phone back and
told his sister to stay on the side
of the road and not to travel any
further until he arrived. Moments
later, the car was spotted traveling
in the wrong direction in the
passing lane on the northbound side
of the Parkway, and then
subsequently collided with the other
vehicle. Killed in the crash
included Ms. Schuler, her daughter,
Erin; her nieces, Emma,
Alyson, and Kate Hance; and the
three gentlemen in the other
vehicle,
Michael Bastardi, his son
49-year-old Guy Bastardi, and their
friend, 74-year-old Dan Longo. Diane
Schuler's son, Bryan, survived the
accident; however, sustained severe
injuries. It was reported that Ms.
Schuler did consume alcohol on the
camping trip, but not on the day of
the accident. It was also reported
that she used marijuana. This
statement was confirmed by her
husband as he told investigators
that she did use marijuana
occasionally. Her sister-in-law
reported that she was a heavy
drinker and smoked marijuana
regularly. It was noted that Ms.
Schuler had a history of diabetes,
and also suffered from an abscess
shortly before the accident;
however,
the
autopsy itself did not report any
'medical reason' for the crash.
View the whole
story of the accident.
View the
Autopsy Report
View
the Police Report
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Sousa, Carlos:
(September 26, 1990 - December 25,
2007) Carlos
Sousa was an unfortunate young gentleman who was
taunted and was mauled by Tatina the Tiger, at the San Francisco
Zoo on Christmas Day in 2007. The following document contains
autopsy report and toxicology report of Mr. Sousa and the tiger,
in addition to the police report of the incident. The manner of
his death was listed as blunt force injuries of the head and
neck, many punctures and scratches
to his head, neck and chest, skull
and spinal fractures, and a cut to
his jugular vein.
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Todashev, Ibragim:
(September
22, 1985 – May 22, 2013)
Todashev was a Chechen American
and friend of the alleged Boston
Marathon bomber,
Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
On May 22, 2013, Todashev was
shot and killed in his Orlando,
Florida apartment after he
allegedly attacked an FBI agent
who was conducting an interview
investigating the April 15, 2013
Boston Marathon bombings and the
2011 Waltham triple homicides.
Allegedly, Todashev lunged at
the FBI agent with a weapon or
object knocking the agent down.
Todashev was then said to have
continued to lunge at the downed
agent who then fire two to three
shots hitting Todashev.
Supposedly, Todashev was able to
continue to lunge at the agent
who then fired three more shots
killing him. The official cause
of death is listed as multiple
gunshot wounds to the head and
torso.
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Traficant,
James:
(May 8, 1941 - September 27,
2014)
Traficant was a former
democratic Congressman of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from Ohio's 17th District from
January 3, 1985 – July 24, 2002.
He was expelled from the House
after he was convicted of taking
bribes, filing false tax
returns, racketeering and
forcing his aides to perform
chores at his farm and
houseboat. Traficant died on
September 27, 2014 from
complications suffered during a
tractor accident four days
prior. Traficant's manner of
death is an accident and
official cause of death is
listed as positional and
compressive asphyxia due to a
tractor rollover.
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West, Donda:
(July 12, 1949
- November 10, 2007)
Dr. Donda C
Williams-West was the mother of
rapper, singer, and record producer,
Kanye West. She died tragically from
complications resulting from plastic
surgery that she had undergone. The
procedures involved both
abdominoplasty, otherwise known as a
"liposuction," and breast reduction.
Her own physician, Dr. Andre
Aboolian had advised West against
having this type of surgery for fear
that he health condition at the time
would put her at risk for a heart
attack. She was referred to another
physician for the surgery. The
autopsy report lists several
contributing factors as the cause of
death including coronary artery
disease, aspiration of emesis
causing pneumonia, bandaging of her
torso resulting in constriction,
abnormal hemoglobin variant (not
sickle cell), and the use of pain
medication. She is
buried in Arlington Memory
Gardens in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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Whitaker,
Skyla:
(April 5, 1997
- June 8, 2008) Skyla was a young
girl who was tragically murdered
along with her friend, Taylor Dawn
Paschal-Placker. She and Taylor was
gunned down by a unknown
assailant/assailants as they walked
along a rural dirt road in Oklahoma
heading to Taylor's house.
Skyla's body was found alongside the
body of her friend in a ditch. She
was shot multiple times in the upper
extremities, chest, abdomen and
head.
On
December 9, 2011, 25-year-old
Oklahoma man, Kevin Sweat, of
Henryetta, Oklahoma, was charged
with the murders of Whitaker and her
friend, Taylor Paschal-Placker.
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Whitman,
Charles:
(June 24, 1941
- August 1, 1966)
Charles
Whitman was a student at the
University of Texas at Austin who
went on a rampage and began a
killing spree from The Main Building
on campus. The Main Building also
known as "The Tower" is at the
center of the University of Texas
campus and spans 28 floors. On
August 1, 1996, Whitman killed 13
individuals and wounded 32 others
during the campus rampage. He
was perched in the 27th floor
observation deck which allowed him clear view of the
surrounding region. The campus
rampage was stopped when Austin
police officers, Houston McCoy and
Ramiro Martinez, shot and killed
Whitman on the observation deck.
In addition to
the campus victims, Whitman murdered
his mother and wife the evening
before the campus events. In a
suicide letter left before the
shootings, Whitman wished that an
autopsy be performed on his body.
the autopsy revealed fatal gunshot
wounds to the head, neck, and chest,
in addition to a brain tumor located
just above the brain stem. Charles
Whitman is buried in Section
16 of the Hillcrest Memorial Park in
West Palm Beach, Florida.
(More information can be found at
Wikipedia)
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Wuennenberg,
Austin:
(Death: July 5, 2009)
Austin
Wuennenberg was a Cast member of
Walt Disney World in Orlando,
Florida and operator of the Purple
Monrail the evening of July 5, 2009
when he was killed. According to the
NTSB, at about 2 a.m. on July 5th, a
Walt Disney World monorail train,
designated the Pink train, backed
into another monorail train,
designated the Purple train, near
the Ticket and Transportation Center
monorail station. The operator of
the Purple train was fatally
injured; the six passengers on that
train were treated at the scene. The
operator of the Pink train, who was
transported to the hospital, treated
and released, was the only one
aboard that train at the time of the
collision. Prior to the accident,
the Pink train had been instructed
to detrain all passengers at the TTC
station and then to operate without
passengers past the station and a
switch to a point where the train
could be backed through the track
switch from the Epcot loop over to
the Magic Kingdom loop. The operator
of the Pink train moved the train
past the track switch and stopped.
The Pink train was then instructed
to back through the track switch,
towards the Magic Kingdom loop. At
about the same time, the Purple
train, which was inbound to the TTC
station, was instructed to stop at
the station to detrain passengers.
For undetermined reasons that are
currently under investigation, the
switch had not changed position
needed to allow the Pink train to be
routed to the Magic Kingdom loop,
which resulted in the Pink train
backing down the same track it had
just come from, putting it on a
collision course with the Purple
train. The Pink train passed through
the TTC station and struck the
Purple train while it was outside
the station. There are indications
that the operator of the Purple
train had brought the train to a
stop and had attempted to put the
train in reverse prior to the
collision. To this point in the
investigation, no anomalies or
malfunctions have been found with
the automatic train stop system or
with any mechanical components of
the switch or with either of the
trains.
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Zahau,
Rebeccau:
(March 15, 1979
- July 13, 2011)
Zahau was the girlfriend of
Medicis Pharmaceuticals chairman and chief executive, Jonah
Shacknai. Zahau, who was found bounded and hanging from a
balcony of the 27-room historic, waterfront mansion located in
suburban Coronado, California. The mansion is owned by Shacknai.
The official cause of death was listed as "suicide by hanging."
Also, read the autopsy report, of
Max Shacknai, who is Jonah Shacknai's son. Max had died a
week before the hanging death of Rebecca Zahau where Max had
fallen from a staircase at the same mansion in Coronado.
Ironically, Rebecca Zahau was the boy's baby sitter at the time
of his fall. Max's death was listed as an accident due to
"anoxic/ischemic encephalopathy resulting from cervical spinal
cord contusion resulting from blunt force trauma to the head and
neck." Also, view the
toxicology reports for both Rebecca Zahau and Max Shacknai.
The Zahau family filed the lawsuit
after the sheriff’s homicide
investigators and the Medical
Examiner’s Office ruled the bizarre,
July 13, 2011 death a suicide. The
family asked well-known forsenic
pathologist, Cyril Wecht, to perform
a second autopsy. Wecht concluded
“In my opinion, Rebecca Zahau’s
death was a homicide,” he said in
San Diego Superior Court. “She was
manually strangled and it was set up
to look like a suicidal hanging.” On
April 4, 2018, a jury awarded
Zahau's family $ 5 million in
damages, determining Adam Shacknai,
her husband's brother, was liable
for her death.
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