The Final Autopsy
Hell and Gone
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4.3 • 7.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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In 2007, a third autopsy is performed on Janie, which comes to yet another conclusion that doesn't make sense to the Ward family. Catherine talks with a pathologist and a neurosurgeon about the results.
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| 0:00.0 | He's found a tape in Ron Ward's boxes from 2007. |
| 0:07.0 | In it, he's reading a letter that his lawyer, Jerry Sallings, had received from the special prosecutor, Tim Williamson. |
| 0:14.0 | If you, your clients, do not wish to say to a Tim, to obtain additional forensic evidence, to the use in this criminal investigation, I suggest you value your request for an exact date. |
| 0:29.0 | The letter informs him that the state intends to do another exhumation and autopsy on Janie. |
| 0:35.0 | Great efforts have been taken to schedule this examination and autopsy. My expert cannot be present again for several weeks. |
| 0:46.0 | And Dr. Beneo, our wood, ever family medical expert, is present and only observed. |
| 0:56.0 | Now come on now. |
| 0:57.0 | Ron is frustrated. He doesn't understand why Tim Williamson doesn't trust Dr. Beneo's conclusion that Janie was hit in the face with a blind object that her death was a homicide. |
| 1:09.0 | Dr. Beneo's not just some kind of backyard horn dog, you know, he's an incredible pathologist. |
| 1:17.0 | Well, I honor if he wants to question a renowned pathologist that came back here. I have no speculation. |
| 1:27.0 | The ward family had painstakingly had Janie's body exhumed and autopsyt a second time. |
| 1:33.0 | Why did Tim Williamson need to do this again? |
| 1:36.0 | We have got to bow an injection. Otherwise, we'd be saying we didn't believe Dr. Beneo. We go along with the state. We didn't believe Dr. Beneo. |
| 1:48.0 | We don't want our daughters' remains removed and happened with again. No, but we know it's we can't prevent it. |
| 1:55.0 | But we can't insert. Hey, hey, look, we don't agree with this. We agree with Dr. Beneo's findings. |
| 2:04.0 | And all of the investigation that we've done is just on. Now, what's your excuse for not agreeing with Dr. Beneo? |
| 2:12.0 | Three years and over $10,000 later, Tim Williamson said he did not find any conclusive evidence that Janie's death was a homicide. |
| 2:22.0 | In the end, he can't determine anything. |
| 2:26.0 | So in August of 2007, they exhumed Janie's body one more time for a final autopsy. |
| 2:34.0 | I'm Catherine Townsend, and this is Helen Gone. |
| 2:56.0 | Janie's third autopsy is a spectacle. With Mike Masterson's columns, Arkansas's attention is on the case. Everyone is waiting to see what will happen. |
| 3:22.0 | This time, Tim Williamson finds an out-of-state pathologist to perform the autopsy. He wants someone whose credentials are impeccable, someone who is not controversial, someone who can help him convince the Ward family and the rest of the state that he is being completely impartial. |
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