Questions raised about Terri's collapse as far back as October 2003

And in addition to this article in WorldNetDaily, consider this, and this. That last article, from JewsforLife.org, summarizes all the damning evidence against Michael Schiavo--including a bone scan showing multiple fractures in various stages of healing, all consistent with a woman getting beaten up again and again. And why does Michael Schiavo intend to have her cremated?

With regard to that last: In some jurisdictions (but evidently not in Pinellas County, FL), any body which is to be cremated must have some sign-off from the county coroner or medical examiner. I trained in a major teaching hospital, and while serving on its autopsy service, I must have done a dozen or so autopsies on bodies that were to be cremated. The regional Medical Examiner didn't have time to do those cases himself--he had his hands full with cases with clear evidence of homicide. But at least someone would do a full autopsy in any such case. I never found any evidence of foul play in any of those "Medical Examiner autopsies" I performed, but that was not for lack of searching.

Let me tell you what would have happened if a woman like Terri Schindler-Schiavo had died, with that cremation plan on record, and I had been "first up" that night. I would have begun with a review of the chart, since a complete post-mortem examination is, by definition, a comprehensive pathological consultation--that is to say, one where you review the whole chart and not just your own department's prior history with that patient. I would have read those bone scans, and said, "Whoaa! How did this happen?" And then I would have put in a request to see those bone scans--and in a major teaching hospital, I would have gotten no argument. And by the time I was through reviewing that case, the Medical Examiner might have sent for the body himself--or if he was really pressed for time, he would have coached me and the Attending-of-the-day for Autopsies--and that worthy might have punted the case to someone on our faculty whom we all knew had an interest in cases in which the courts might have an interest. In fact, I am positively shocked that Terri Schindler-Schiavo has not already been designated as a case that will positively come to autopsy after this is over, just because her case has been in and out of court for fifteen years!

One way or another, if the husband had in fact been guilty of attempted murder, or of assaulting his wife earlier in his life, we'd have found out about it, and he would have been arrested and faced a preliminary hearing or an indictment at least. Which is why The Empire Journal is calling for a special grand jury to examine what evidence we already have against Michael Schiavo.

Mike Connors! Jack Klugman! Call your agents!