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My anger over unreported deaths at San Antonio's Bexar County Hospital made headlines and foreshadowed the shocking case of killer nurse Genene Jones.
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Trayvon Martin's fatal wound was small and clean, but the single bullet did massive damage. The teen's skin bore the telltale stippling that told us the gun was fired from “intermediate range.”
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Using an enlarged image of George Zimmerman's face, I described his injuries to the jury deciding if he murdered the teenager Trayvon Martin.
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Infant Paul Woods's suspicious death unmasked serial baby killer Martha Woods, who'd murdered her own natural and adopted children, as well as nieces and nephews, over a twenty-year period.
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An X-ray of suspected terror bomber William Payne's skull revealed a mercury battery blasted into his brain.
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Unique dental traits helped identify the corpse in Lee Harvey Oswald's grave as the assassin himself, not a Soviet agent.
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Accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's booking photo on November 23, 1963, two days before his death.
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Former pediatric nurse and accused baby killer Genene Jones arrives at a Texas court in 1984.
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Illegal immigrant Martin Frias was arrested for shooting his live-in girlfriend Ernestine Perea in the back in Wheatland, Wyoming, in 1984.

The torn button and zipper on shooting victim Ernestine Perea's jeans suggested a struggle, maybe even a rape attempt.
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Actress Lana Clarkson was shot in the mouth and died in this chair at music producer Phil Spector's mansion. (Her head had rested on her blood-spattered right shoulder, but was turned to the left later by investigators.)
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Legendary record producer Phil Spector was arrested for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson in February 2003.