Ground Hogs day

sitting here working on a painting and being the couch potato, American for lazy, I am didn't bother to turn off the television. Apparently some crime show was on detailing an actual murder in Texas. Now normally this wouldn't be a topic for this site but for the bizarre role a defibrillator played.

Now it seems this prominent man in a Texas town was discovered dead. During his autopsy they discovered he had a defibrillator implanted and being creative decided to see if there was any information on the device that might help in solving the murder.

They got a technical expert to interrogate the device and found some very interesting information. One thing law enforcement couldn't understand was why so many brutal methods were used to murder the man when any one of them should have been fatal. What they discovered was the exact time and date of death. In fact, and this is the bizarre part, it recorded all 8 times of death. They discovered that every time the victim died his defibrillator fired and resuscitated him and his killer kept killing him over and over again.

Can you imagine being murdered 8 times only to come back and do it all over again and again and again and again ...etc ? I don't know about you, but I'm having my defibrillator shut off, once will be enough for me. Oh, no the butler didn't do it, we're not in the UK yah know.

 

2 Comments

Good strategy

by IAN MC - 2018-03-15 09:14:11

Patch,   We think you are very shrewd switching off your defibrillator . Just think of the financial mess your widow would be left with if she had to pay for 8 funerals

Ian and his butler      UK

Defibrillator for the Prosecution

by pacemaker writer - 2018-03-16 12:14:32

I don't remember all of the details but when I worked for St. Jude Medical, there was a real case in Australia in which a man was murdered and the defibrillator was used as evidence for proof of the exact time of death. It wasn't as dramatic as being killed over and over, but the suspect was convicted once the defibrillator provided the time of death. I saw the printout from the device and it fired to rescue the man, but he was dead. 

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