01-12-2013, 06:16 PM
Martin Hay Wrote:What an utterly ridiculous remark from Albert Doyle. All of the forensic evidence points towards a simple suicide. There is ZERO evidence of murder.
Did you even read what the forensic experts had to say?
I read it thoroughly. I believe Wecht examined photos of the death scene to come to his conclusion. Those photos were taken by Navy internal affairs, right? As Peter pointed out, in this case that is the equivalent of taking evidence that came back out of the Alice In Wonderland rabbit hole straight and without question. The end results of a professional 'suicide' would look no different than that of a real one. I think it was Janney's book that had a quote from a CIA insider saying "Anyone can commit a murder. It takes a real expert to commit a suicide". Since your forensic evidence is weak at best, the vastly overwhelming circumstantial evidence of Dan Marvin's account and Dennis David's witnessing has the most bearing.
A proper detective would look for clues like David's mention of seeing a 16mm film in Pitzer's office. This tells you something about the equipment being used. I don't know what the Bethesda configuration for equipment was, but the 16mm film tells you what camera was used for that shooting. I'm guessing this would make a hand-held 16mm camera at the covert pre-autopsy more likely and therefore tell you why Pitzer wasn't registered at the 8pm autopsy. It was because he had felt he had done his duty and filmed the 6:30 autopsy thinking it was finished. There's many possibilities from there. He could have also filmed the 8pm autopsy remotely. Maybe the remote filming equipment was 16mm? It is highly possible the first person to realize the Lifton alteration theory was Pitzer himself and he was in a position to prove it. Ironically Pitzer himself was probably a strong proponent of "proof".
In any case, as I pointed out, to take Mr Hay's position is to call David and Marvin liars. If you pay attention to Hay's arguments he carefully stays away from that and never quite owns up to it. Mr David's story tells you Pitzer filmed the covert autopsy because that was the only place where the front right entry wound was visible. And Mr Marvin's story tells you how and why Pitzer ended up the way he did.
I would bet if we re-approached Dr Wecht and presented him the full evidence he would say it was possible Pitzer was "suicided".