Mysterious death of 17-year-old Mike Mansholt, catacombs Dingli Cliffs, Malta - 26 July, 2016

[worldwatcher]

Never heard of this bizarre and mysterious death, haunting story..

" 17-year-old Mike was found dead at the foot of Dingli Cliffs on 26 July, four days after he was reported missing. While it was originally claimed that the teenager had fallen to his death while riding his bike, the cause of death was never established. His father claims that a doctor had told him - unofficially - that his son's injuries were not compatible with a fall. In fact, there were no broken bones.

Furthermore, the damage on his bicycle was not compatible with that of a fall from that height.

The teenager's backpack, phone, wallet and Go-Pro camera were never found.

When a second autopsy was performed after the body was flown back to Germany, officials found that most of Mike Mansholt's organs were missing, and the body had not been embalmed, meaning that the autopsy would be very limited. The parents were told by a Maltese medico-legal expert that the organs had been eaten by rodents, but German doctors found no evidence of animal bites.... ""

Mike Mansholt death: Allegations of murder ‘found no reasonable basis’ - AG - The Malta Independent

There is a TL here:
Mike Mansholt - tajemnicza śmierć na Malcie

And his last picture on CCTV from the hotel, he was staying :

 

[TwoBlueJays]

I also saw this article and was intrigued. What happened to his organs? A prior autopsy? But no Y incision?

 

[Rikissa]

I also saw this article and was intrigued. What happened to his organs? A prior autopsy? But no Y incision?

As there was a second autopsy done in Germany, there had to been an autopsy done in Malta. When doing an autopsy the pathologist removes organs from the body cavity and weights them, and if needed take samples for further testing, before putting the organs back into the cavity, before closing the incision.
In this case, apparently the organs removed during the autopsy in Malta wasn't put back into the body, and this line in the article in post #1 "meaning that the autopsy would be very limited" refers to the autopsy done in Germany. His body was found four days after being reported missing, so the explanation (by the Maltese expert) that the inner organs had been eaten by ridents, but lacking bite marks (autopsy in Germany) doesn't work. My guess is that the organs 'disappeared' after the autopsy in Malta, either been thrown away/burned as waste, or by mistake put into another body, and noone there want to take the blame for the loss of the organs. The only reason why this was noticed in this case, was that there were a second autopsy done in Germany, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's the first alternative, and there are probably many more bodies lacking their organs after an autopsy.

(I worked as a medical secretary at the Pathology department at a hospital, and typed the results of several hundreds of autopsies, and I also attended one, so I'd say that the autopsy done in Malta seems to have been a very sloppily done job).