10-10-2011, 05:15 PM
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Caesar opens by discussing medical irrelevancies from the autopsy description of Jimi's heart. This is just page-filler that makes it seem like Caesar is approaching this from a sophisticated medical investigation perspective when actually he's just filling space to avoid addressing the incriminating medical proof.
Caesar dances around the "free fluid" found at the autopsy with a quick claim it was vomit and then gets out quickly. Not so fast Caesar. If you read what Dr Teare actually said closely he said there was vomited material found in the bronchi. The fact he distinguishes between this material and the 400ml of "free fluid" means the fluid was something other than vomit. Let's get right down to it, if Dr Bannister claims to have suctioned "bottles worth" of wine from Hendrix's lungs and stomach then it stands to reason the 400ml of fluid found in the left lung at the autopsy by Dr Teare was most likely wine. Caesar gets out of this area fast because he knows the deeper he looks in to it the more obvious it becomes. While claiming the autopsy found no evidence of wine, there you have it right there - along with evidence of Caesar trying to avoid it. This was most likely wine that continued to siphon from the stomach into the lung after Jimi was declared dead. Caesar claims this forensic discovery, along with the collapsed lung, was a product of inhalation of vomit. He never honestly admits that this would also perfectly conform to being drowned in wine. It's obvious the "free fluid" was vomit-free wine.
As for the stomach contents, here's where Caesar really gets hustling. The problem Caesar has here is that Dr Teare found undigested whole rice grains in Jimi's stomach. Since, as Caesar points-out in his own words, "it takes the stomach 2-4 hours to clear its contents" this is a strong forensic indicator of when Jimi died. In fact, Dr Crompton used it to determine Jimi died no later than 5:30am (which is correct). Caesar's gross stupidity here is not realizing he has defeated his own argument by its own internal logic. He claims the barbiturates slowed down the digestion process but then proceeds to explain that Jimi didn't ingest the barbiturates for 5 hours after eating the rice, and since he himself writes "it takes 2-4 hours for the stomach to clear its contents" he therefore has defeated his own excuse for the rice being there and established a 5 hour barbiturate-free period of digestion. Caesar is a fool who is obviously over his head in this kind of matter. His arguments are very effective proof of murder in and of themselves. He thinks his forced recital of medical generalities relieves him of credibly answering the operative forensic points.
Whether Jimi Hendrix had a fatal barbiturate blood level is secondary to whether he was deliberately overdosed in an act of murder. The blood level Caesar cites as proof Jimi would have died from an overdose does not preclude evidence of murder. This goes for the 3.9mg found in the liver as well. Jimi may very well have had a 4x lethal dose in his liver, however that in itself doesn't preclude murder. In fact it could be evidence that his murderers needed to assure he was unconscious when they did their deed.
Caesar now commits the ultimate irony by criticizing Dr Teare's errors and omissions in the autopsy report. He complains Dr Teare failed to list the content of the entire intestinal tract. In an epic act of outrageous, backwards hypocrisy Caesar chides Dr Teare for not stating the exact nature of the "free fluid" discovered in the left lung (Caesar gives himself away. Trust me, he is very happy Dr Teare didn't identify it as putrid wine).
Caesar then proceeds to employ dishonest obfuscation tactics by claiming Dr Teare incorrectly cited the normal Vesparax dose as being 1/2 tablet. He says it should have been listed as 1/2 to 1 tablet. This is minor hair-splitting and doesn't answer the fact that Vesparax were know to be double strength. Caesar continues by explaining the best organs in which to detect barbiturate levels. He claims Dr Teare should have taken muscle samples because they are the best indicator. This is informative, but doesn't really answer what we already know as far as forensic evidence for murder.
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Here Caesar gets into valid high science analysis of the correct tests Dr Teare should have made. He cites a "thin-layer chromatography" process that should have been done on Jimi's brain that would have narrowed-down a more precise time of barbiturate ingestion. In fact, it is these very high forensic calculations that were never done on Jimi. It is our case that there is enough additional existing forensic data to make those calculations. Caesar does something useful here because he points in the direction of the necessary forensic processes that need to be done (and still can). He fails to realize that since he has failed to defeat Dr Crompton's claim of the whole rice grains indicating a 5:30am time of death that therefore the very forensic science he speaks of proves that Jimi didn't die the way he claims.
Caesar once again brings up the alcohol data found at the autopsy. We've already discussed this, however he once again fails to realize Dr Teare's extrapolated estimate of 100mg blood alcohol upon time of ingestion is based on Monika's false timeline that allows an extra 6 hours that didn't exist. It is our case that once you gauge the real timeline that these estimates are all invalid and should be thrown-out. What Dr Teare's assumed timeline and estimates do is allow an alcohol level that would explain the understandable reaction with the barbiturate and therefore choking on vomit. However, once you input the real times involved, the 5mg/100ml blood alcohol level discovered at the autopsy automatically grossly conflicts with both the assumed pathology and wine flooding the lungs. Caesar addresses none of this because he operates under the assumption that it doesn't exist. What is obvious here is that the lungs and stomach full of wine Dr Bannister witnessed, in comparison to the minimal blood alcohol content, is automatic forensic evidence of murder. Both Caesar and the British authorities get around this by not officially recognizing Dr Bannister's wine in their observations.
Caesar completes his backwards attempt by confirming Jimi drank the white wine spoken of by Monika too long before it could be claimed to have caused a reaction with the barbiturates. He says Jimi drank the wine from between 11pm and 1am and that he took the sleeping pills 6 hours later at around 7:30am. He then goes on to say the only thing Jimi drank after getting back to the Samarkand was Coca Cola. Well, if we look at all the witnesses' claims there was an awful lot of fluid involved here. So whether that witnessed fluid could be claimed to be Coca Cola is highly doubtable. But Dr Bannister was fairly clear that Jimi had been drenched in red wine, including his hair. And don't forget Monika admitted to Sharon Lawrence that she "washed 'sick' off Jimi's face with wine".
Caesar's thorough analysis of Jimi's wine consumption is probably fairly accurate. So what I don't understand is why he refuses to realize he has very capably prepared the ground for us to show that there's no reasonable explanation for the wine Dr Bannister witnessed outside of murder. Caesar deals with this by fastidiously attempting to deny the wine witnessed by Dr Bannister, however the more he does that the more he establishes a donut hole around the wine he can't so easily explain away. In the end, all Caesar has done here is made it more apparent that the masses of wine Dr Bannister witnessed can't be resolved with the correctly-related forensic evidence.
On page 40 Caesar includes a helpful manufacturer's product information box for Vesparax. It lists all the product ingredients and their actions and behaviors. Also included is how the drug acts in situations of overdose and what its affects are. A list of treatments to save an overdose victim is described. Interesting is the indication that peak plasma levels are reached after 1-2 hours. My only comment on this is that the manufacturer claims the lethal dose threshold is reached at "9-10 tablets" - which makes me ask how Dr Teare could claim Jimi had 4 times the lethal dose in his liver when it is generally understood he could have taken no more than 9 pills?
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Here Caesar once again dances and equivocates over Dr Teare's estimate that Jimi took what he described as "nearly" a fatal dose. While trying to minimize Vesparax's strength by quibbling over the dose being 1/2 to 1 tablet, Caesar then maximizes its effect by claiming Jimi took well over a fatal dose. But if we go to the manufacturer's product information Caesar just provided we see they themselves list the lethal dose threshold as being "9-10 tablets", confirming Dr Teare's estimate.
From there Caesar discusses a lengthy product history for Vesparax. He describes how its powerful Secobarbital ingredient caused it to be classified as a narcotic in 1993. The next year in 1994 it was withdrawn from the market. The word was it was killing too many people. Caesar concludes it was a "very powerful" drug that constituted a serious public health risk.
Caesar commits yet another one of his Rube Goldberg investigation fumbles when examining the Vesparax. He claims many people were under the effects of drugs when they took them forgetting they took the original dose and then taking a second dose on top of it. He claims this explains many of the overdoses and indirectly suggests Jimi may have done the same. However he stupidly then goes and explains that the Vesparax came in blister packs of ten where you had to take each and every tablet out separately. Well, by Caesar's own description, this makes it very unlikely Jimi would have mistaken the count because he had the empty blisters right there in front of him. Once again, Caesar fatuously disproves his own suggestion without registering it.
Next, Caesar relates the anecdote of a black London ambulance driver who overheard the conversation of a person who worked with the ambulance attendants from that morning. That person said they heard the attendants admit they thought Jimi was just another "black drunk" whom they left laying on his back in the ambulance. The inference of this is that Jimi died from mistreatment and was allowed to choke to death in the ambulance. This is irrelevant, however, because we already know from the attendants' original statement that Jimi was already dead at the Samarkand.
In yet another example of ultimate irony Caesar goes on to describe the efforts of police superintendent Dennis Care to investigate the circumstances around Jimi's death in 1992-93 after Kathy Etchingham had raised her petition. This, of course, is allowing the foxes to investigate what happened in the henhouse, but, hey, why bother to point that out when you have a mutual interest in criminal deception? Unfortunately, Jimi's father, Al Hendrix, was too trusting and naive to see what a mistake it was to hire Scotland Yard to investigate themselves. Caesar has no qualms with this rogue conflict of interest, he simply annotates that Care refused to allow him to publish his findings without compensation. Nowhere will the reader ever know that Care concluded there was nothing wrong with the original investigation (surprise, surprise) and that no new evidence was found. Care, like Caesar, concluded Monika's notorious story to the Inquest was valid.
Caesar opens by discussing medical irrelevancies from the autopsy description of Jimi's heart. This is just page-filler that makes it seem like Caesar is approaching this from a sophisticated medical investigation perspective when actually he's just filling space to avoid addressing the incriminating medical proof.
Caesar dances around the "free fluid" found at the autopsy with a quick claim it was vomit and then gets out quickly. Not so fast Caesar. If you read what Dr Teare actually said closely he said there was vomited material found in the bronchi. The fact he distinguishes between this material and the 400ml of "free fluid" means the fluid was something other than vomit. Let's get right down to it, if Dr Bannister claims to have suctioned "bottles worth" of wine from Hendrix's lungs and stomach then it stands to reason the 400ml of fluid found in the left lung at the autopsy by Dr Teare was most likely wine. Caesar gets out of this area fast because he knows the deeper he looks in to it the more obvious it becomes. While claiming the autopsy found no evidence of wine, there you have it right there - along with evidence of Caesar trying to avoid it. This was most likely wine that continued to siphon from the stomach into the lung after Jimi was declared dead. Caesar claims this forensic discovery, along with the collapsed lung, was a product of inhalation of vomit. He never honestly admits that this would also perfectly conform to being drowned in wine. It's obvious the "free fluid" was vomit-free wine.
As for the stomach contents, here's where Caesar really gets hustling. The problem Caesar has here is that Dr Teare found undigested whole rice grains in Jimi's stomach. Since, as Caesar points-out in his own words, "it takes the stomach 2-4 hours to clear its contents" this is a strong forensic indicator of when Jimi died. In fact, Dr Crompton used it to determine Jimi died no later than 5:30am (which is correct). Caesar's gross stupidity here is not realizing he has defeated his own argument by its own internal logic. He claims the barbiturates slowed down the digestion process but then proceeds to explain that Jimi didn't ingest the barbiturates for 5 hours after eating the rice, and since he himself writes "it takes 2-4 hours for the stomach to clear its contents" he therefore has defeated his own excuse for the rice being there and established a 5 hour barbiturate-free period of digestion. Caesar is a fool who is obviously over his head in this kind of matter. His arguments are very effective proof of murder in and of themselves. He thinks his forced recital of medical generalities relieves him of credibly answering the operative forensic points.
Whether Jimi Hendrix had a fatal barbiturate blood level is secondary to whether he was deliberately overdosed in an act of murder. The blood level Caesar cites as proof Jimi would have died from an overdose does not preclude evidence of murder. This goes for the 3.9mg found in the liver as well. Jimi may very well have had a 4x lethal dose in his liver, however that in itself doesn't preclude murder. In fact it could be evidence that his murderers needed to assure he was unconscious when they did their deed.
Caesar now commits the ultimate irony by criticizing Dr Teare's errors and omissions in the autopsy report. He complains Dr Teare failed to list the content of the entire intestinal tract. In an epic act of outrageous, backwards hypocrisy Caesar chides Dr Teare for not stating the exact nature of the "free fluid" discovered in the left lung (Caesar gives himself away. Trust me, he is very happy Dr Teare didn't identify it as putrid wine).
Caesar then proceeds to employ dishonest obfuscation tactics by claiming Dr Teare incorrectly cited the normal Vesparax dose as being 1/2 tablet. He says it should have been listed as 1/2 to 1 tablet. This is minor hair-splitting and doesn't answer the fact that Vesparax were know to be double strength. Caesar continues by explaining the best organs in which to detect barbiturate levels. He claims Dr Teare should have taken muscle samples because they are the best indicator. This is informative, but doesn't really answer what we already know as far as forensic evidence for murder.
Page 40:
Here Caesar gets into valid high science analysis of the correct tests Dr Teare should have made. He cites a "thin-layer chromatography" process that should have been done on Jimi's brain that would have narrowed-down a more precise time of barbiturate ingestion. In fact, it is these very high forensic calculations that were never done on Jimi. It is our case that there is enough additional existing forensic data to make those calculations. Caesar does something useful here because he points in the direction of the necessary forensic processes that need to be done (and still can). He fails to realize that since he has failed to defeat Dr Crompton's claim of the whole rice grains indicating a 5:30am time of death that therefore the very forensic science he speaks of proves that Jimi didn't die the way he claims.
Caesar once again brings up the alcohol data found at the autopsy. We've already discussed this, however he once again fails to realize Dr Teare's extrapolated estimate of 100mg blood alcohol upon time of ingestion is based on Monika's false timeline that allows an extra 6 hours that didn't exist. It is our case that once you gauge the real timeline that these estimates are all invalid and should be thrown-out. What Dr Teare's assumed timeline and estimates do is allow an alcohol level that would explain the understandable reaction with the barbiturate and therefore choking on vomit. However, once you input the real times involved, the 5mg/100ml blood alcohol level discovered at the autopsy automatically grossly conflicts with both the assumed pathology and wine flooding the lungs. Caesar addresses none of this because he operates under the assumption that it doesn't exist. What is obvious here is that the lungs and stomach full of wine Dr Bannister witnessed, in comparison to the minimal blood alcohol content, is automatic forensic evidence of murder. Both Caesar and the British authorities get around this by not officially recognizing Dr Bannister's wine in their observations.
Caesar completes his backwards attempt by confirming Jimi drank the white wine spoken of by Monika too long before it could be claimed to have caused a reaction with the barbiturates. He says Jimi drank the wine from between 11pm and 1am and that he took the sleeping pills 6 hours later at around 7:30am. He then goes on to say the only thing Jimi drank after getting back to the Samarkand was Coca Cola. Well, if we look at all the witnesses' claims there was an awful lot of fluid involved here. So whether that witnessed fluid could be claimed to be Coca Cola is highly doubtable. But Dr Bannister was fairly clear that Jimi had been drenched in red wine, including his hair. And don't forget Monika admitted to Sharon Lawrence that she "washed 'sick' off Jimi's face with wine".
Caesar's thorough analysis of Jimi's wine consumption is probably fairly accurate. So what I don't understand is why he refuses to realize he has very capably prepared the ground for us to show that there's no reasonable explanation for the wine Dr Bannister witnessed outside of murder. Caesar deals with this by fastidiously attempting to deny the wine witnessed by Dr Bannister, however the more he does that the more he establishes a donut hole around the wine he can't so easily explain away. In the end, all Caesar has done here is made it more apparent that the masses of wine Dr Bannister witnessed can't be resolved with the correctly-related forensic evidence.
On page 40 Caesar includes a helpful manufacturer's product information box for Vesparax. It lists all the product ingredients and their actions and behaviors. Also included is how the drug acts in situations of overdose and what its affects are. A list of treatments to save an overdose victim is described. Interesting is the indication that peak plasma levels are reached after 1-2 hours. My only comment on this is that the manufacturer claims the lethal dose threshold is reached at "9-10 tablets" - which makes me ask how Dr Teare could claim Jimi had 4 times the lethal dose in his liver when it is generally understood he could have taken no more than 9 pills?
Page 41:
Here Caesar once again dances and equivocates over Dr Teare's estimate that Jimi took what he described as "nearly" a fatal dose. While trying to minimize Vesparax's strength by quibbling over the dose being 1/2 to 1 tablet, Caesar then maximizes its effect by claiming Jimi took well over a fatal dose. But if we go to the manufacturer's product information Caesar just provided we see they themselves list the lethal dose threshold as being "9-10 tablets", confirming Dr Teare's estimate.
From there Caesar discusses a lengthy product history for Vesparax. He describes how its powerful Secobarbital ingredient caused it to be classified as a narcotic in 1993. The next year in 1994 it was withdrawn from the market. The word was it was killing too many people. Caesar concludes it was a "very powerful" drug that constituted a serious public health risk.
Caesar commits yet another one of his Rube Goldberg investigation fumbles when examining the Vesparax. He claims many people were under the effects of drugs when they took them forgetting they took the original dose and then taking a second dose on top of it. He claims this explains many of the overdoses and indirectly suggests Jimi may have done the same. However he stupidly then goes and explains that the Vesparax came in blister packs of ten where you had to take each and every tablet out separately. Well, by Caesar's own description, this makes it very unlikely Jimi would have mistaken the count because he had the empty blisters right there in front of him. Once again, Caesar fatuously disproves his own suggestion without registering it.
Next, Caesar relates the anecdote of a black London ambulance driver who overheard the conversation of a person who worked with the ambulance attendants from that morning. That person said they heard the attendants admit they thought Jimi was just another "black drunk" whom they left laying on his back in the ambulance. The inference of this is that Jimi died from mistreatment and was allowed to choke to death in the ambulance. This is irrelevant, however, because we already know from the attendants' original statement that Jimi was already dead at the Samarkand.
In yet another example of ultimate irony Caesar goes on to describe the efforts of police superintendent Dennis Care to investigate the circumstances around Jimi's death in 1992-93 after Kathy Etchingham had raised her petition. This, of course, is allowing the foxes to investigate what happened in the henhouse, but, hey, why bother to point that out when you have a mutual interest in criminal deception? Unfortunately, Jimi's father, Al Hendrix, was too trusting and naive to see what a mistake it was to hire Scotland Yard to investigate themselves. Caesar has no qualms with this rogue conflict of interest, he simply annotates that Care refused to allow him to publish his findings without compensation. Nowhere will the reader ever know that Care concluded there was nothing wrong with the original investigation (surprise, surprise) and that no new evidence was found. Care, like Caesar, concluded Monika's notorious story to the Inquest was valid.