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by Jerky » Wed May 22, 2013 11:33 pm
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Chicago Tribune
Chief State Medical Examiner Carver Retires
Chief state medical examiner H. Wayne Carver announced his retirement Thursday. (Brad Horrigan, Hartford Courant / December 15, 2012)
By DAVE ALTIMARI, daltimar@courant.com The Hartford Courant
May 23, 2013
Long-time chief state medical examiner H. Wayne Carver announced Thursday that he is retiring and will be replaced by the deputy medical examiner in New York City.
Carver, who always joked he was aptly named for the job, has been the chief state medical examiner since March 1989 and has worked at the office since July 1, 1982. He took over as chief following the controversial exit of Catherine Galvin, who left after it was revealed she took her pet dog into rooms where autopsies were being conducted.
The new medical examiner will be James Gill, a graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. Gill worked at the medical examiner's office in Farmington both as an undergraduate and as part of his residency.
Carver officially retired as of May 1 but is still working on a 120-day contract to help with the transition and complete his cases. His salary was $303,433, state records show.
Carver said Thursday he is hoping to stay on in a part-time capacity once Gill takes over, but that decision will be up to the new chief medical examiner. Carver said he "still has hundreds of cases" that he needs to finish, including some that could up in trials.
Carver, 61, has been involved in some of the most highly publicized criminal cases in state history including the Richard Crafts "wood chipper murder," serial killer Michael Ross, the Cheshire home invasion murders and, most recently, the massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown that claimed 26 people, including 20 first graders.
Carver had already put in for retirement before the Dec. 14 Newtown shooting. He has been suffering from health issues the past year and had only returned to work days before the massacre. Carver said the Newtown crime scene was by far the worst of his career.
One of Carver's most famous experiments was putting a dead frozen pig through a wood chipper to determine what the bone fragments would look like. The test was shown to the jury in the Crafts case. Crafts was convicted of killing his wife, Helle Crafts. Police found only shards of her teeth near the site where a witness had seen Richard Crafts operating a wood chipper.
In recent years, Carver clashed with budget officials for Gov. Dannel P. Malloy over funding for his office. He has been critical of the fact that he wasn't able to replace an associate medical examiner, leaving the office short staffed.
"It is time,'' Carver said Thursday. "The last thing you want to do is hang on to being chief."
Gill, a forensic pathologist, is one of five deputy medical examiners in New York City, where he has worked for more than 15 years. He assumes his new duties in mid July.
"Dr. Gill has impressive training and credentials, including service in one of the busiest medical examiners offices in the country," says Todd Fernow, chairman of the Commission on Medicolegal Investigations, which appoints the chief medical examiner. "The Commission feels quite fortunate to have someone of Dr. Gill's vision and abilities assuming the directorship of the office."
Copyright © 2013, The Hartford Courant
by barracuda » Sun Jun 02, 2013 12:14 pm
Sandy Hook families plead to keep crime photos private
Read more: http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/San ... z2V4qZTr00
HARTFORD -- In a last-ditch attempt to persuade lawmakers to keep gruesome crime scene photos and recordings out of the public domain, family members of the 26 murdered students and staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School came to the Capitol on Friday.
They met with House and Senate leaders and rank-and-file members, then held a news conference to oppose release of crime-scene photos because it would further the agendas of fringe bloggers and anti-gun activists such as filmmaker Michael Moore.
Jennifer Hensel, whose first-grade daughter Avielle was murdered, said she still has a duty to protect Avielle.
"Even if I could set aside the personal harm, I cannot stand the thought of seeing a graphic depiction of my child's death promoted to serve anyone's political purposes," she said. "I do not want my child to be collateral damage in a political death match."
But the privacy bill being negotiated behind the scenes by state prosecutors, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Senate Minority Leader John McKinney has stalled in the waning days of the General Assembly session.
McKinney, R-Fairfield, whose district includes Newtown, said he will continue to push for what the families want, including protection for Newtown Town Clerk Debbie A. Aurelia, who refuses to release death certificates for the 20 first-graders and six adults killed by Adam Lanza on Dec. 14.
"I'm optimistic that we'll do the right thing," McKinney told reporters in his Capitol office at the end of the families' news conference.
"We're still discussing it," said Speaker of the House J. Brendan Sharkey, D-Hamden.
Dean Pinto, of Newtown, whose son Jack was killed in the massacre, said the proposed legislation would clarify current law, which keeps autopsy reports private. He said while traditional news media would likely not publish or broadcast them after the investigation, others on the Internet and with political agendas would.
"I'm fully supportive of an open and transparent government, but I can't understand how distributing graphic photos of murdered teachers and children serves any purpose other than causing our families more pain," said Pinto, one of 20 Sandy Hook family members who visited the Capitol. "Instead, if these are released for the public, the only person who will learn is the next Adam Lanza."
He said that in addition to the photos taken of the dead at the scene, the families want to keep private the 911 recordings that came from the school as Lanza began shooting. He supported part of the bill that would release transcriptions of the calls, but not the recordings.
"None of us here want to hear gunshots and the screams of our loved ones as they perished, and frankly, I'm not sure how you can make an argument how hearing that in any way advances public policy," Pinto said.
Gilles Rousseau, whose daughter Lauren was a teacher killed by Lanza, said he has to protect her and the dead children from future harm, and stop future copycat crimes.
He said that family members have been under intense pressure from people around the country who call the killings a hoax by anti-gun advocates.
"For the life of me, I don't understand why, but the basic reason seems to be that by denying this massacre, you can ignore gun violence," Rousseau said, fighting back tears while detailing how the murder deniers have focused on Lauren. "She has become the tool of many crazy people out there."
Forty relatives of those killed sent a letter to Malloy and lawmakers on Friday asking that the photos and graphic information remain under wraps.
But the issue of the town clerk's refusal -- despite state law requiring the release of the death certificates, along with suppression of 911 recordings typically released under state Freedom of Information law -- are making it difficult for many lawmakers to accept the bill.
Another part of the bill would redact the names of young witnesses interviewed by investigators. Much of the information would stay private until later in the summer, when the investigation is closed and a final report issued.
Colleen Murphy, executive director of the state Freedom of Information Commission, said that the Legislature should beware of the potential precedent.
"I've said that whatever you do, be careful," she said in a phone interview. "There hasn't been a public hearing process and if you do something, make it narrow and do not drive a hole through the Freedom of Information Act."
by barracuda » Wed Jun 05, 2013 2:50 pm
HARTFORD -- In a dramatic conclusion to days of negotiations and controversy over access to public records in the aftermath of the Newtown school massacre, lawmakers early this morning approved legislation to make all murder-scene video and photos private and to embargo the Dec.14 radio recordings of police describing the dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
As families of the Newtown victims looked on in the hushed Senate chamber, Senate President Pro Tempore Donald E. Williams Jr. and Senate Minority Leader John McKinney said the bill, brokered among lawmakers and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's staff, is their best effort to balance the public's right to know with the desire to protect the families from the release of graphic depictions of the 20 dead children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
The recording embargo does not include the 9-1-1 recordings of the Dec. 14 murders, nor does it allow the Newtown town clerk to withhold death certificates as she has since the slaughter and which would have been allowed in an early draft of the bill.
The identities of minor child witnesses will be redacted from the final report of the crime, as well. The embargo on the police recordings will end on May 7 of next year.
Read more: http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Leg ... z2VN1S9b2l
by elfismiles » Tue Sep 24, 2013 5:22 pm
State of Connecticut Refuses to Release Adam Lanza’s Medical Records
Assistant Attorney General: Identifying antidepressants Lanza was taking could “cause a lot of people to stop taking their medications”
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
September 24, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruMLt_PpU28
The State of Connecticut is refusing to release Sandy Hook gunman Adam Lanza’s medical records over fears that divulging the identity of the antidepressants he was taking would, “cause a lot of people to stop taking their medications,” according to Assistant Attorney General Patrick B. Kwanashie.
The comments were made during a recent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) hearing regarding the release of Lanza’s toxicology report.
The parents organization AbleChild.org is attempting to secure the release of the information after Connecticut Medical Examiner H. Wayne Carver, M.D. denied the request.
“What plagues this investigation is that some are simply fixated on having it remain secret in spite of the urgency of transparency that is clearly needed to protect the public,” said Patricia Weathers, co-founder of AbleChild “It is alarming that here we are very close to a year later and the public still remains in the dark, records are still sealed, and the State is now saying that it is opposing a release of the records because those records “can cause a lot of people to stop taking their medications.”
AbleChild has filed an appeal with the State’s Freedom of Information Commission (FOIC) for the release of the records and is willing to take the matter to the Supreme Court if necessary.
“If there is nothing to hide then disclose, especially if this information has the potential for reevaluating the use of certain psychiatric drugs that evidence shows are contributing to the rapidly growing acts of violence in this country in recent years,” added Weathers. Our organization thinks that both the Medical Examiner’s office and State’s actions are unacceptable and reprehensible because in actuality they place the public at risk.”
Despite the fact that the search warrant pertaining to Lanza’s residence made reference to “prescriptions,” no information has been released on the identity of the medication Lanza was taking. It is known that Lanza suffered from Asperger syndrome, which is commonly treated with Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), psychotropic drugs that have been linked with violent outbursts.
Louise Tambascio, a family friend of the shooter and his mother, also told 60 Minutes, “I know he was on medication and everything….I knew he was on medication, but that’s all I know.”
Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children and six adult staff members during the rampage last December in Newtown, which was the second deadliest mass shooting by a single person in American history.
As we have repeatedly documented, psychiatric drugs have been a common theme in hundreds of murders and mass shootings over the last three decades.
The most recent example, Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis, was taking the anti-depressant drug Trazodone, which has been linked to numerous murders and a mass shooting at a beauty parlor in 2011.
Despite it being reported that prescription drugs were found in the apartment of ‘Batman’ shooter James Holmes days after the Aurora massacre, it took nine months to find out exactly what those drugs were. Like Columbine killer Eric Harris, Holmes had been taking Zoloft, another SSRI drug linked with violent outbursts.
The SSRI Stories website has documented countless examples of school shootings, suicides, violent outbursts and murders linked to psychiatric drugs.
However, in the aftermath of such incidents, the mainstream media almost always fails to pursue any connection to antidepressants and instead obsesses about gun control, despite the fact that gun homicides have dropped by 49% since 1993.
http://www.infowars.com/state-of-connec ... l-records/
by elfismiles » Mon Oct 07, 2013 6:13 pm
by elfismiles » Wed Oct 16, 2013 9:30 am
Workers demolishing Sandy Hook Elementary School required to sign confidentiality agreements
Published October 15, 2013 / Associated Press
Contractors demolishing Sandy Hook Elementary School are being required to sign confidentiality agreements forbidding public discussion of the site, photographs or disclosure of any information about the building where 26 people were fatally shot last December.
Selectman Will Rodgers said officials want to protect the Newtown school where the 20 children and six educators were killed, The News-Times reported.
"It's a very sensitive topic," he said Monday. "We want it to be handled in a respectful way."
Project manager Consigli Construction has barricaded the property and intends to screen the perimeter to prevent onlookers from taking photographs. Full-time security guards will ensure the site is not disturbed.
Families of the victims and school staff visited the site, but public access is barred.
The precautions exceed those at other construction sites, town officials said.
Jim Juliano, a member of the Public Building and Site Commission, said he initially considered whether the heightened precautions might be excessive. But he believes extra vigilance is needed to shield Sandy Hook families and the community from exploitation.
Rodgers said the goal is to ensure the project is managed properly without interference from onlookers or the infliction of more pain on the community.
"Obviously, workers need access to the site, but inasmuch as we have put restrictions on our citizens, we don't really want those who are there somehow releasing information or recounting impressions of the site, given we are trying to move on, so to speak," Rodgers said.
Demolition is set to begin next week and be finished before the Dec. 14 anniversary of the shootings. A new school is expected to open by December 2016. Town voters last month accepted a state grant of $49.3 million to demolish the school and build a new one.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/10/15/wo ... d-to-sign/
by conniption » Tue Nov 19, 2013 2:12 am
The Courant
Still Keeping Public In The Dark About Sandy Hook
Investigator continuing the war against the public's right to know
Demolition work was near completion last Wednesday at the former Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. The site has been closed to the public and the press since the massacre Dec. 14, 2012. (Reuters / November 13, 2013)
Editorial The Hartford Courant
November 18, 2013
The lead investigator continues to cheat the public when it comes to releasing information about shootings that took the lives of 20 children and six women at the Sandy Hook Elementary School last December.
A report on the criminal investigation should have been completed and released to the public long ago. Delay only heightens suspicions that something might have been amiss in the response to the shootings by public safety and criminal justice officials.
Even Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has been complaining, and rightly so, about the foot-dragging of the lead investigator, Danbury State's Attorney Stephen J. Sedensky III.
According to Courant sources, Mr. Sedensky next week will release only a summary of the long-awaited state police report on the horrific shootings. The date for release of the full report, said to run thousands of pages, has apparently not yet been determined.
The investigative summary will be released almost a year after the first-graders and educators were shot to death at their Newtown school. There's no good reason why it has taken this long for the prosecutors and police to prepare the report.
Further, the summary, according to sources, will be heavily redacted — censored, with much detail blacked out.
This grudging, minor concession to the requirements of open government — the people's right to know — is consistent with Mr. Sedensky's and the police's behavior all along.
Mr. Sedensky first said the report would be ready in June, then September, missing that deadline too.
During the past 11 months, state police officials have told audiences at police conventions some of the details of the crime and the background of the shooter, Adam Lanza, that they wouldn't share with the people of Connecticut.
Nor will police authorities and the prosecutors honor requests for 911 calls made from Sandy Hook school, information that is generally made public in this state.
At the behest of prosecutors, a law was negotiated in secret and passed by the legislature at the end of this year's session that puts the clamps on the release of much information covering not just Sandy Hook but all homicides.
Now the investigators tender only a censored summary of their investigative work.
Prosecutors and police have worked cooperatively and sensitively with the families of the Sandy Hook victims.
But they're leaving the public in the dark.
by Iamwhomiam » Tue Nov 26, 2013 11:52 am
by conniption » Tue Nov 26, 2013 5:26 pm
by Col Quisp » Tue Nov 26, 2013 10:34 pm
Authorities have released a report about the investigation into the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
Included in the report were photos of the home 20-year-old shooter Adam Lanza shared with his mother in Newtown. Lanza shot and killed himself the day of the Dec. 14 massacre. He killed 20 children, six staff members, and his mother that day.
The photos are chilling. One shows the gun Lanza used to kill his mother laying on her bedroom floor next to a book titled "Train Your Brain To Get Happy" and another shows Lanza's bare bedroom with windows covered in black trash bags. Other disturbing items were found in Lanza's home.
by Elvis » Wed Nov 27, 2013 2:05 am
- Materials regarding the topic of pedophilia and advocating for rights for pedophiles (not child pornography)
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