I received a phone call 1 from Dr. Marie Hermann, the chief medical examiner of Volusia County. I quickly — quickly — gave her a summary of the events of the last week and told her that I couldn’t understand why Bob Burch would be so adamant that her office would not perform an autopsy. […]
A friend of mine managed to uncover what is apparently the personal cell phone of Dr. Marie Hermann, the chief medical examiner for Volusia County and the person Bob Burch told me would ultimately be responsible for deciding if an autopsy would be performed on my mother’s body. I called the number and she answered, […]
I called Detective Whittier of the Deland Police Department and left him a message to let him know that I had talked to Bob Burch at the office of the Medical Examiner for Volusia County and I wanted to update him. I also, obviously, wanted to know if he had heard anything from the ME’s […]
Two days after my mother died, I had a very long phone call with a nurse paralegal named Charlene Sorensen from the law firm of Warner & Warner. She told me that I needed to get in touch with Dr. Peele regarding the autopsy. She said the smartest thing to do would be to send […]
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 […]
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 […]
I called Woodland Terrace and Ida Alvis answered on the first ring. She said, “Woodland Terrace. Ida speaking.” I said, “Ida, it’s David. Did the hospital call you?” Ida said, “Yeah, and I am shocked to hear that —” “All right. Thanks,” I interrupted. As I hung up I could hear her say, “You’re welcome.”