Nationally known medical expert Dr. Michael
Baden was called by the
defense to testify Friday in Palm Beach that 89-year-old Elly Lorey died of a
combination of natural causes - including Alzheimer's, heart and kidney
disease - and that her death was not a homicide. In testimony related to whether Lorey was starved, the former New York City chief medical examiner and star of the HBO
series 'Autopsy', said yellow spots in autopsy photos of the emaciated
woman's belly showed that some fat remained on her body.
"I don't think there's any evidence from a
medical examiner point of view that anything's here that would indicate
somebody caused her death" said Baden. Prosecutors are arguing that Lorey's daughter Kerstin Fenn and
Kerstin's husband Toby caused her death by withholding food and medical
care. Excerpted from PalmBeachPost.com.
