You mean that you wouldn't be surprised if they just went in, got the bullet and then called it a day. We do know that the body went to the morgue. (Officer Lee testified that he followed the body back to the morgue.) I would be shocked if the Coroner was incompetent. I'm expecting to hear evidence about angle of entry etc when he testifies and the answer to the one big question- why hadn't they concluded their investigation.
Once DM was arrested for TB's murder and they started to investigate LB and WM-
BBM "However, after charges were laid in Bosma’s murder, the office of the Ontario chief coroner said the investigation into Wayne Millard’s death
was “still ongoing.”
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(It’s) open and has not yet concluded,” Cheryl Mahyr, the coroner’s issues manager, said in May."
No answers for lengthy delay in Dellen Millard probes | The Star
No, what I'm saying is that I will be shocked out of my mind if no autopsy was performed in this case. I won't necessarily be *as* shocked if there are more inadequacies in this case that come to light during the trial.
Because members here are of varying opinions as to whether an autopsy was ever even performed on WM, I was trying to find info to enlighten me as to autopsy is the coroner's prerogative even in a sudden death occurring outside of hospital which is thought to be caused by suicide. I haven't been able to find anything which conclusively states clearly in layman's wording that an autopsy must be performed on all suicides, or on all sudden unexpected deaths occurring outside of hospital.
I was also trying to find evidence via MSM to confirm whether an autopsy was in fact performed on WM, but I was unable to find any mention of autopsy in this case. Normally in cases I follow, I will see something like, 'autopsy is scheduled for x-date', or 'an autopsy was performed on x-date which ruled that the death was a suicide', etc. In this particular case, I am unable to find mention of autopsy at all - which in turn, had me going there for awhile.
I have since reassured myself that an autopsy HAD to have been done, there are no two-ways about it, and I look very much forward to hearing the findings and why it was so quickly determined to be suicide.
Although the article quoted above says the investigation was still ongoing, there are other MSM mentions that the case may have been closed and then later reopened - meaning perhaps that at the time MSM asked the coroner's office about the case (which seems to be half a year later, after DM had been charged with TB's murder), it had already been reopened by then and was therefore at that time, still ongoing.
I don't want to call the coroner incompetent, *however*.... what should we call it and who was incompetent in this case? From the below quotes, it seems that due to the coroner's ruling that this death was a suicide, and only a mere day or two after the body was discovered, the police closed their investigation. If that means the incompetence-shoe fits, then so be it. Not everyone in a given line of work is of equal competence. Previously in this thread, members, including myself, have been amazed that more investigative work was not done by the police, however if by December 1st the coroner had ruled it a suicide, is it up to police to correct that expert's determination, or are they left with no option but to close the case? Or is it a joint effort, where, IF police had provided more details to the coroner, then the coroner may have looked at something differently, or more thoroughly?
"By Dec. 1, 2012, the coroner had concluded the death was a suicide, and police closed their investigation."
Dellen Millard facing 3rd murder trial — this time for his own father's death | CBC News
"In less than two days, on Dec. 1, he had concluded that the death was a suicide, and that, at least until police re-opened the case in the spring of 2013, was that."
Christie Blatchford: Millard murder ruled a suicide inside two days
"She could not say whether the case was reopened because of recent events or had never been closed."
Suspect in Tim Bosma’s death was always ‘a little different’ and did ‘odd stuff’ at private school, classmate says
