FAMED forensic pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht — who accused the Warren Commission of concocting a cover-up by concluding President John F. Kennedy’s assassin Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone — went to his grave carrying the secrets of America’s most infamous mysteries!
Known for his work on the high-profile deaths of Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Ted Kennedy aide Mary Jo Kopechne, child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey and others, Wecht passed away on May 13 at age 93.
After performing 21,000 autopsies, consulting on roughly 42,000 postmortem exams and participating in thousands of media interviews, Wecht and his family symbolically decided to keep HIS final cause of death a mystery! Noted attorney Alan Dershowitz, who calls the former Allegheny County, Pa., coroner the “Sherlock Holmes of forensic science,” credits Wecht for changing the face of crime scene investigations!
“He was an incredible man, an incredible scientist, and he basically helped to develop an entire area of law enforcement, and I teach his methods at Harvard Law School,” says Dershowitz, who learned about Wecht’s demise from The National ENQUIRER.
“He had virtues few people have today — courage, honesty, boldness. And he didn’t care what other people thought of him. If he thought something was right, he was going to say it — and he was almost always right.”
This story is from the June 03, 2024 edition of National Enquirer.
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