David Bridges
Renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht — regarded for his operate on substantial-profile situations such as JonBenét Ramsey and JFK‘s assassination — has died.
The Administrative Workplace of Pennsylvania Courts announced the former Allegheny County healthcare examiner’s death Monday … expressing in a statement he introduced “comfort and justice for a lot of grieving and victimized households about the globe” by his function.
Wecht performed about 21,000 autopsies and close to 42,000 postmortem exams in the course of his extended-standing job.
Famously, he was a vocal critic of the Warren Commission report … which concluded Lee Harvey Oswald alone was liable for President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
Clearly, Wecht was the go-to gentleman in forensic pathology ’cause he also consulted on scenarios these sorts of as the Manson relatives murders — as efficiently as the situations of Anna Nicole Smith, Kurt Cobain, Elvis Presley, O.J Simpson, and far far more.
Wecht started his acclaimed profession straight away immediately after acquiring a law diploma from the College of Maryland and a clinical diploma from the University of Pittsburgh — the latter the location he held a college scenario.
He also began the Pittsburgh Institute of Lawful Medicine and the Cyril H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science … AND taught at Duquesne for 60 quite a few years.
Wecht is survived by his spouse Sigrid, four children, and 11 grandkids.
He was 93. RIP.
Ivy Caldwell
