for a long time? If he had lived.
I find this extremely interesting.
"The gun in his hand and the note by his side led the officers to suspect suicide. His body was taken to a Sugar Land funeral home without an examination. Harris County, Texas justice of the peace James Richard ruled Baxter's death a suicide without ordering an autopsy, in spite of the fact that Mr. Baxter was a central figure in the Enron investigation. After receiving pressure from lawmakers and the press, the judge ordered an autopsy. Before 7:00 am on January 26, the press announced that Cliff Baxter's death was officially ruled a suicide.
Meet Dr. Joye M. Carter, author of the book "My Strength Comes from Within". She is also the Houston County Medical Examiner that performed the autopsy so quickly after Cliff Baxter's death.
Dr. Carter has been in the news many times before. She was fined and almost lost her license in 2001 for allowing an unlicensed pathologist to perform autopsies. In 1998 her office was accused of tampering with evidence in the murder of a 12-year old girl. That same year she admitted that bodies were sometimes stacked on top of each other at her morgue. She's been sued (and lost) twice by whistle blowers who were fired for trying to expose corruption in the Harris County Medical Examiner's office.
Before she was Houston's medical examiner she used to be the medical examiner in Washington DC, and by the time she left to take the job in Houston, the DC morgue was so filthy and backlogged with corpses and lab tests that it was hampering police investigations. Lately she's been in the news for other reasons.
Dr. Carter examined the Yates children after their tragic drowning. From the Houston Chronicle:"
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http://www.hereinreality.com/autopsy.htmlThis is Tom DeLay's home town. Think he has a little juice....with folks there? Also Enron gave Tom DeLay a lot of money so he could do his redistricting project.