You're listening to live courtroom coverage of the trial of Karen Reed from the Hidden Killers podcast and True Crime Today. Now, back to the courtroom. Excuse me. May you see any?

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All right, so Mr. Brennan, if you can briefly tell me what it is you want to introduce through this witness.

To remind the court on direct examination, the defense promoted Dr. Lappasota's credentials, including specifying

her successes with the station nightclub fire and her running of her office.

We have an audit from 2005, State Department of Rhode Island, Department of Health.

In that audit, it paints a very different picture than was presented on direct examination.

In that audit, they investigated the chief medical examiner, and they compiled the history of statistics for the medical examiner, which was Dr. La Pesada.

There were no reports, incomplete reports and unsigned reports of over 1,500 individuals

between June 30th, 2000 to June 30th, 2005.

So in that five-year period, there was an extraordinary number of individuals that weren't

properly attended to, showing negligence, if not malfeasance.

It was recommended that the standards, policies, and practices of Dr. Lopacida's office

would need to change

because of the extraordinary backlog of cases

regarding autopsies.

In addition, it was noted that the incomplete reports

confirmed that there was significant concerns

with the historical management practices

of the medical agreement's office.

Shortly after, Dr.. Lapaada resigned in addition it was promoted that in the station nightclub fire dr. Lapaada had a heroic effort and in her

testimony she also noted that there was a failure or implied there was a failure because the medical examiner or somebody did not go to the scene to look at the turf in front of 34 Fairview Road.

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