2001 Articles

New morgue will serve Metro, State
July 11, 2001
The Metro medical examiner's office is counting down to Saturday's move from the tan cube of a building that's been home since the mid-1980s to an airy, brand-new facility it will share with the state medical examiner's office in east Nashville.

Examiner says ‘rule of 3’ suggests woman smothered 3 babies
January 3, 2001
None of the three infant deaths, standing alone, would justify homicide charges against Vernica Shabree Ward, Tennessee’s chief medical examiner testified yesterday. But the fact that Ward was the last person caring for three children under the age of 18 months whose deaths cannot otherwise be explained makes it likely that she killed them, Dr. Bruce Levy said in Davidson County Criminal Court.

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