Oh yeah, it's very creepy! The coroner seems solid though. You should check out some of the other cases that were total hack jobs. I mean we all know that there is corruption- but this seems so blatant- and went unchecked for so long- its hard to believe some of the things are just now getting corrected.
I feel the need to chime in since you keep saying how "solid" Rudd seems since I live in Lake County. He is not well-liked by many people who work with him, and that is coming from a very good source (read on). One of those people is my dad, who has to work with Rudd at times in a related field and does not like him AT ALL. He feels he is a very self-serving and self-promoting person. Just putting that out there that the power struggle taking place here is not all to be blamed on the task force necessarily. Not saying he does not do his job though.
I do agree with you several cases have been botched in this county, but the state's attorney at the time, Michael Waller, was to blame for some of those after prosecuting cases with false confessions.