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02 Aug 2009
02 Aug 2009
02 Aug 2009
06 August 2009 22:47
A Jackson family source tell E! News that, despite a recent spate of reports claiming that Katherine Jackson is so convinced of foul play in her son's death that she wants the King of Pop's body to go under the scalpel yet again, "there is neither a plan nor a need for another autopsy."
The source said that all tissues and samples needed, which includes his brain, were already removed and that Jackson's body is currently embalmed and more or less "a shell" of little or no forensic value.
Los Angeles Deputy Medical Examiner Dr. Paul Gliniecki says that another autopsy "would be totally pointless," particularly because of the detail that likely went into the first (the results of which are still pending).
"Especially in a high-profile case like this [the first autopsy] was probably done very well," he tells E! News.
"We can still run tests but the toxicology results are compromised because they replace blood with embalming fluids. It changes the chemistry. During an autopsy, everything is sliced and diced... everything mixes together. Even a second autopsy is compromised."
e! news / mjr