Breaking: Explosion Reported at Boston Marathon's Finish Line

[Magda Hassan]

Jan, did you take a look at the autopsy photo. I'd love an explanation of the huge clean gash in his left side - right through his ribs and into the lungs. His body showed no evidence of a car driving over it...only the gash and many bullet holes.

Yes, many anomalies in the autopsy photo with the stated events. I have sent it to a pathologist who says that the injuries that you mention look likely to be caused by a knife or some sort of cutting instrument. But there is no evidence that any bomb blew up in his hands. All limbs were intact. This is also stated by the receiving doctor at the hospital where he was treated before he died. He had so many injuries any of which in themselves could have caused his death. The doctor also said that he went into cardiac arrest

"His legs and arms were intact - he wasn't blown into a million pieces" - but he lost a pulse and was in cardiac arrest, meaning his heart and circulation had stopped, so CPR, or cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, was started.

Schoenfeld said he couldn't discuss specific treatments in the case except to say what is usually done in such circumstances, including putting a needle in the chest to relieve pressure that can damage blood vessels, and cutting open the chest and using rib-spreaders to let doctors drain blood in the sac around the heart that can put pressure on the heart and keep it from beating.

"Once you've done all of those things ... if they don't respond there's really nothing you can do. You've exhausted the playbook,'' he said.


After 15 minutes of unsuccessful treatment, doctors pronounced him dead.

I don't see any sign in the autopsy photos of any opening of the chest. This would be very obvious as any one who has seen some one who has had open heart surgery.