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Autopsy of Poisoned Lottery Winner Yields No Clues to How the Toxin Entered His Body
By mary.paleologos at March 3, 2013 | 9:55 pm | 0 Comment
The post-exhumation autopsy of cyanide poisoning victim Urooj Khan could not confirm how the toxin entered his body, according to Cook County Medical Examiner Dr. Stephen Cina. “Cyanide has a short half-life and may be lost over the postmortem period unless tissues are adequately preserved,” Dr. Cina said. “In this case, due to advanced putrefaction of the more...
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