I received an email from lisa Slagter 1 <autopsyexperts@gmail.com> The (very long) subject line of the email was “Regarding comprehensive Autopsy Mrs. Kathleen Gagne to obtain CAUSE OF DEATH $3200.00”. The text of the email read: Dear David, Upon three conversations with three top Pathologist, it was verified by all three that just doing a […]
I called the (800) 343-2135 number Dr. Allen Cusack gave me for MediLegal, the independent pathologists he suggested I contact to perform an autopsy on my mother’s body if the Volusia County Medical Examiner refuses to do so. A woman answered the phone by saying, “Autopsy Experts of America. How may I help you?” 1 […]
I called 1 Dr. Allen Cusack of Cusack Mortuary because I hadn’t heard from him yet 2 and it was nearing five o’clock. Dr. Cusack answered the phone and said, “Man, you called at just the right time!” He told me that he had just finished talking to MediLegal Autopsy Service, a nationwide chain of […]
I called 1 Cusack Mortuary, where my mom’s body is being refrigerated. Linda Jackson answered the phone and asked me to hold for Allen 2. Here are my notes from the call: Allen Cusack said I should call the medical examiner’s office; said ME’s office must do an autopsy if I request it 3 he […]
I called 1 Detective Whittier of the Deland Police Department to let him know about my conversation with Bob Burch at the office of the Volusia County Medical Examiner. Here are my notes from the call: she’s @ the one in Deland 2 he told me to make sure I get toxicology reports he said […]
I called * the Volusia County Medical Examiner using the number I was given by the nurse at Fish Memorial Hospital. 1 (Their automated message — press one for this, press two for that — is insufferably long, and includes a letter-by-letter enunciation of their web address: http://volusia.org/medicalexaminer/ which takes a long, long time.) A […]
I called Investigator Brown from the Florida Department of Children and Families. 1 He had previously told me that I would never hear from him again regarding his investigation, but I thought it might make sense to provide him with the additional information that my mother is now dead. I called the number on my […]
I called Detective Whittier a few minutes after noon. 1 He correctly assumed that I was in Florida now. He told me he had called the medical examiner’s office this morning, but he had been unable to talk to a doctor. He said that he left a message for the chief medical examiner for Volusia […]
My phone rang and I answered it on the second ring. I said, “Hello? Hello?” but there was nobody there, so I hung up. I called the number that displayed on called ID and got the voice mail box of Detective Whittier at the Deland Police Department. While I was leaving him a message, my […]
A nurse named Meghan Weir called me from Fish Memorial Hospital. 1 She told me that it was normal procedure when there was a death for them to call the Deland Police Department, and that “they” had been there, “to see if there was a stabbing or a shooting.” She told me that Detective Whittier […]