A Forensic Pathologist: From JFK to Caylee

The Cayce Anthony trial.

Yes, it's a modern day version of a circus. The OJ trial of the 21st century. Millions follow it and media whores such as Nancy Grace exploit it.

It's a diversion from all number of other crimes happening right under our noses.


My wife served on a murder trial jury one time so it's an interest to her and gets tube time and internet live feeds here at the house.  I haven't been following the trial that much until today when the defense called up high profile big money forensic pathologist Dr. Werner Spitz, an Israeli Henry Kissinger lookalike and similar in speech to that war criminal.

Spitz has quite a history.

He has served on committees investigating the deaths of President John F. Kennedy, Jr., Martin Luther King, Jr., and Mary Jo Kopechne, who drowned after the car driven by Senator Edward Kennedy plunged off the Chappaquiddick Bridge. He has also served as an expert witness in numerous high-profile cases including the California Night Stalker, the Preppy Murder Trial in New York, and the wrongful death suit against O.J. Simpson.  

He was also involved in the Jon Benet Ramsey case and as a witness in the Phil Spector murder trial where he allegedly 'flipped out' when asked how much money he was being paid by Spector.

Spitz was adamant on the stand today that the original Caylee autopsy was 'shoddy' in not examining the inside of the skull. The second autopsy he performed did so.

To me his statements today were not exactly in line with what he said as an appointee by Nelson Rockefeller to the Warren Commission.

Spitz: “I do not believe that an examination of the President’s brain would contribute significantly to a clarification of the circumstances [of the murder];” and, “Microscopic examination of skin slides from the bullet wounds would not, in my opinion, have added pertinent data.

Werner Spitz, MD, devoted considerable attention to explaining why Connally’s dramatic reaction to the first shot, though occurring later in the Zapruder film than JFK’s, posed no obstacle to the Single Bullet Theory.

The HSCA endorsed Rockefeller consultant Werner Spitz's finding that the wound in JFK's back was lower than its purported exit in the anterior neck. This presented a problem -- how could a bullet fired from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository travel upward through Kennedy's neck? The theorized solution to this "upward bullet" problem was that Kennedy was leaning forward when struck, as the HSCA diagrams above illustrate (see HSCA vol. 7, p. 100).

The cropped portion of Zapruder film frame 228 reproduced below, however, shows that Kennedy was upright immediately after being struck. Neither the Zapruder film nor still images of JFK in Dealey Plaza disclose him leaning forward at any moment in the relevant time period.  {more}   {also more on this}

It's obvious to me that Spitz was paid to help cover up the JFK assassination and despite his experience and expertise in forensics, it's apparent he loves the limelight and the money of his 'have autopsy will travel'' show. I have no comment on Cayce Anthony's guilt or innocence but regarding Spitz my opinion is that he is a criminal that aided in hiding the truth of the murder of JFK. The repercussions of this cover up continue to this very day and will for long into the future, well past after the memory of little Caylee has vanished.


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