But how can a PhD have so much medical knowledge to be able to perform an autopsy?Meyer DID mention the hymenal erosion, reddish hyperemia, bruising, watery red fluid, blood in the vaginal vestibule and forchette. What he did NOT do was state what he though the reasons were for them.
As I mentioned, not every coroner is also a medical doctor. Coroner is a politically appointed office. Although his title was DR. Meyer, he may have been a PhD and NOT an MD.
Dr. Meyer wrote the hymen was represented by a rim of tissue, but is that the same as 'erosion' of the hymen? The hymen being represented by only a rim of mucosal tissue not entirely circumferential is in itself no abnormal finding. And if it was only a rim of mucosal tissue, the hymenal orifice would be probably automatically be wider.
But a very suspicious finding imo is the circumferential reddish hyperemia.
For it can't be explained away by irritation from 'bubble bath' or chronic inflammation because JonBenet's underwear was always wet with urine. Maybe the circumferential reddish hyperimia led the coroner to believe that JonBenet had been digitally penetrated?
[From the autopsy report]:
On the anterior aspect of the perineum, along the edges of
closure of the labia majora, is a small amount of dried blood. A
similar small amount of dried and semifluid blood is present on
the skin of the fourchette and in the vestibule. Inside the
vestibule of the vagina and along the distal vaginal wall is
reddish hyperemia. This hyperemia is circumferential and perhaps
more noticeable on the right side and posteriorly. The hyperemia
also appears to extend just inside the vaginal orifice. A 1 cm
red-purple area of abrasion is located on the right posterolateral
area of the 1x1 cm hymenal orifice. The hymen itself is represented
by a rim of mucosal tissue extending clockwise between the 2 and
10:00 positions. The area of abrasion is present at approximately
the 7:00 position and appears to involve the hymen and distal right
lateral vaginal wall and possibly the area anterior to the hymen.
On the right labia majora is a very faint area of violet
discoloration measuring approximately one inch by three-eighths of
an inch. Incision into the underlying subcutaneous tissue discloses
no hemorrhage. A minimal amount of semiliquid thin watery red fluid
is present in the vaginal vault. No recent or remote anal or other
perineal trauma is identified.