Police getting medical records of missing girlBy the CNN Wire Staff
October 19, 2010 8:08 a.m. EDT
Hickory, North Carolina (CNN) -- North Carolina authorities have been in contact with Zahra Baker's biological mother in Australia and have asked for the medical records of the missing 10-year-old girl.
"We're in the process of getting medical information from Australia, and we're in the process of getting medical records here," said Clyde Deal, the deputy police chief of Hickory on Monday.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/10/19/north.carolina.missing.girl/index.html?hpt=T2
I really don't trust anything that CNN reports. This could very well be two separate statements just lumped into one sentence. We know LE have been in contact with the biological mother and we know they have been in contact with the grandmother. But CNN is likely just reporting it now. They are also reporting that LE have requested medical records for Zahra. I just don't think the two statements really go together. That is typical of CNN reporting.
I don't think they can get Zahra's medical records from her biological mother, maybe not even her grandmother. They will likely get them from her doctor(s), with the proper paperwork.
Why do they want them? Maybe they are speculating, as we have, that she died from neglect regarding the lung cancer that was in remission. A poster here posted some interesting information regarding that. Of course we can't be sure if that info is correct but it appears that her prognosis was pretty dire at first according to this poster...
[ame="http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showpost.php?p=5683113&postcount=548"]Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community - View Single Post - NC NC - Zahra Claire Baker, 10, Hickory, 9 Oct 2010 #6[/ame]
Zahra should have been getting medical care in the US, six month checks at least, and LE is also requesting any medical records that she may have had in NC. If there aren't any, and she was ill with a "stomach virus" for the days preceding her disappearance according to AB, then she could have died from a return of the cancer and medical neglect on the part of her parent's. Although the account of the furniture store employee had her looking fine two weeks prior to her disappearance so who knows.
They seem to be discounting a lot of initial blood evidence so they might believe that this was not a bloody crime. Of course there are lots of ways for someone to be murdered without a bloody crime scene but they have to keep all options open IMO.
The hits that the cadaver dogs appeared to get from the vehicles could be from cadaverine transfer on clothing that someone who was in contact with a deceased body was wearing. The warrant did not specify what location in the cars they were hitting on. Could have been the seats.
I wonder if they've had the dogs check the clothing in the home.
MOO
