Autopsy

Baltimore County police today were awaiting the results of an autopsy they say will tell them how the co-owner of a Timonium print shop was slain yesterday and perhaps what kind of weapon was used.Police said no arrest has been made in the death of Lewellen Maesenior, 35, of the 2700 block of Strathmore Ave. in northwest Baltimore. Her body was found about 9 a.m. in a rear room next to several printing machines at the Print Shop, a firm she and her husband, Michael, ran in the 2000 block of York Road.

Wade Morris Lucas Jr., 24, the Woodlawn man who kidnapped his estranged wife and led authorities on a massive manhunt and high-speed chase, died of a self-inflicted wound, according to preliminary results of an autopsy."

Final autopsy results on Mervo student Derrick White reveal the cause of his death -- drowning -- but raise even more questions about how he died.Baltimore police had reported that Derrick apparently hit his head on the lip of the pool at Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School while he was trying to lift himself out and that he then slipped under the water, where he remained until pulled out by an instructor with the aid of two other students.But...

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. -- A deputy medical examiner said yesterday that preliminary indications are that the death of investigative journalist Joseph D. Casolaro was a suicide.However, an autopsy conducted on the body of the free-lance writer, who relatives said came to Martinsburg to meet with a source about a story on a possible conspiracy between the federal government and the scandal-ridden Bank of Commerce and Credit International, may have been hampered by an unauthorized embalming by a local funeral home.

An autopsy showed that a Dundalk woman, whose body was found in her apartment Friday, had been strangled and suffered blunt force trauma to the upper body, Baltimore County police said yesterday. The death of Gomti Rasik Patel, 44, whose body was found by a family member at the victim's apartment in the 3100 block of Wallford Drive, was ruled a homicide, police said. Cpl. Vickie Warehime, a county police spokeswoman, said police do not have a suspect or know of a motive for Patel's death.

An autopsy was set for today to determine the cause of death of a West Baltimore baby found dead yesterday in her crib.A city homicide detective said Grace Raney, 2 1/2 months, of the 600 block of Baker St., was pronounced dead shortly after 5 p.m. by the crew of a Fire Department ambulance after her mother, Tammy Wallace, called to report her child was unconscious and cold.Western District police also responded to the call and began an investigation.Police said the baby had been dead for two to three hours.

WASHINGTON - In the wake of the Terri Schiavo autopsy, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a Tennessee Republican, has come under renewed fire for his past questioning of her doctors' dire assessment of her medical condition, based on his own review of a videotape. Frist, a surgeon, denied yesterday that he had contradicted doctors who said the disabled Florida woman was in a "persistent vegetative state" before her feeding tube was withdrawn in March. She died in April. "I never made the diagnosis, " Frist said.

MERLIN, Ore. -- An autopsy performed yesterday morning determined that James Kim died of exposure and hypothermia and had no serious physical injuries. The time of death could not be determined, according to Lt. Gregg Hastings of the Oregon State Police. However, one of the SWAT team members on the scene told the San Jose Mercury News that it appeared from the condition of the body that Kim had not been dead long - perhaps hours, no more than a day. Deputy Grant Forman, of Jackson County's SWAT team, who rappelled from a helicopter to help recover the body Wednesday afternoon, said it looked as if Kim fell on slippery, mossy rocks in the 20-foot-wide creek where his body was found.

State police are awaiting an autopsy report to determine what caused the death of a 2-month-old girl who was found Thursday face down, not breathing in a crib at the Westminster home of a licensed day care provider.Attempts to revive the child failed and Sarah E. Linton was pronounced dead at Carroll County General Hospital at 6: 07 p.m., a hospital spokesman said.The private day care provider in the 1700 block of Guadelupe Drive told police the baby was placed in a crib for an afternoon nap, as usual, and found about 5 p.m.Investigators from the Child Abuse Sexual Assault (CASA)

An autopsy is scheduled today for a 39-year-old burglary suspect who died in Baltimore's Eastern District lock-up yesterday morning.Gregory Lee Booker, whose last known address was in the 2600 block of E. Madison St., died in police custody after apparently suffering drug-withdrawal symptoms that neither he nor a cellmate reported to anyone, a city police spokeswoman said.Mr. Booker is the third man to die in city police custody since the beginning of last month. The death of Jesse Chapman, 30, of West Baltimore on July 2 and of George T. Hite, 31, of Southwest Baltimore on Aug. 9 after each was arrested near his home led to protests about alleged mistreatment by police.