Expert Weighs in on Missouri Man’s Two Conflicting Autopsies

Doressia McKee launched her personal investigation to determine why she acquired two fully totally different toxicology studies in connection to her son’s dying. She didn’t simply query the police however she sought secondary professional opinions that she believes could validate her concept that the studies have been fabricated.

The Root beforehand reported that 38-year-old Freddie McKee was discovered useless on the entrance porch of his father’s home in Columbia, Missouri. McKee claims the police botched the investigation into his dying, writing Freddie off as a drug addict with no different probe into the mysterious circumstances surrounding his dying. Essentially the most baffling a part of the state of affairs, she says is the truth that she acquired not one however two totally different toxicology studies concerning her son’s dying.

One report got here again flawless whereas the opposite one got here again displaying a deadly quantity of eutylone. McKee denies her son ever had a drug addition.

Professional Weighs In

Forensic toxicologist and trial lawyer Okorie Okorocha explains that autopsy toxicology studies, particularly the chemical ranges discovered, don’t essentially point out an individual’s impairment, the focus of medication of their bloodstream, or if an overdose was the reason for dying.

Relating to a case like McKee’s, notes Okorocha, who just isn’t concerned with the case, “In autopsy, all the things modifications and also you get random ranges and numbers. Individuals with low concentrations of medication autopsy get very excessive concentrations afterwards and vice versa. It’s so drastic that typically medicine seem autopsy that weren’t there when the particular person was alive so the degrees don’t show something.”

Okorocha additionally mentioned many occasions the reason for dying is set by a “discovering of exclusion.” Subsequently, concluding a dying as an overdose is probably not as a consequence of discovering one thing particular however reasonably the ruling out of every other trigger.

Comparability to George Floyd

For reference, Okorocha cited George Floyd’s case, the place many insisted the Minneapolis man died of fentanyl use. Daniel S. Isenschmid, the NMS Labs forensic toxicologist who signed off on McKee’s second toxicology report, testified at Derek Chauvin’s trial that Floyd’s degree of substance in his blood was 50 % decrease than that discovered within the blood of people that died of an overdose. In conclusion, it wasn’t the medicine that killed him.

All inquiries to Isenschmid have been redirected by NMS Labs to the medical expert, Dr. Carl Stacy, who has not responded to a number of inquiries from The Root.

Courtesy of Doressia McKee

No Extra Blood?

For second opinions on the findings, McKee mentioned she reached out to varied specialists corresponding to Dr. Satish Chundru and an lawyer. Nevertheless, she was instructed there have been no samples of McKee’s blood left within the lab to check. The Root acquired the identical response when inquiring with Southwest Missouri Forensics.

Although, when requested in regards to the samples, Boone/Callaway County Medical Examiner’s Workplace dying investigator Stacey Huck mentioned it was typical that forensic labs maintain an additional blood pattern as much as two years following the preliminary testing.

A Probe Falls Flat

McKee took issues into her personal fingers by submitting a grievance in opposition to the Boone County Medical Examiner’s Workplace and Dr. Stacy on allegations of racial discrimination within the dealing with of her son’s case. The Root inquired in regards to the outcomes of the probe into Dr. Stacy carried out by Mizzou’s Workplace of Institutional Fairness and this was their response:

“Ms. McKee’s grievance to the college’s Workplace of Institutional Fairness was investigated by outdoors counsel. Following their investigation, no violation of college fairness insurance policies was discovered – My understanding is that it’s an “outdoors counsel” agency, however I don’t have any extra particulars past that,” mentioned Christian Basi.

McKee says one other supply from the fairness workplace requested her if she had an lawyer after informing her the college retained a felony protection lawyer for themselves. Based on electronic mail correspondences obtained by McKee, it seems Dr. Stacy doesn’t work for the college workplace anymore.

Hitting A Wall

McKee says she’s not getting solutions from the medical professionals who examined her son after his dying. Although, she nonetheless believes the overdose was a cop out reason for dying and one thing sinister occurred to her son.

“This is the reason I can’t let this go. I’ll by no means have a peaceable evening. I’ve already cried sufficient the place I can’t even cry anymore.”

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