Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people converged on a cemetery in the town of Embu, some 25 miles south of the Brazilian industrial center of Sao Paulo. They had come to see the exhumation of what Brazilian authorities believed were the remains of Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death," the notorious Nazi death-camp doctor who had escaped from justice at the end of World...
...Nazi physician who sent some 400,000 victims to their deaths at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland and used thousands of others as guinea pigs for his gruesome genetics research. After the exhumation, Brazilian police seemed convinced that they had at last tracked down the mad doctor who carried a $3.4 million bounty on his head. "There is a 90% chance it is Mengele," said Sao Paulo Federal Police Superintendent Romeu Tuma. "On the basis of documents and photographs, I'm 100% convinced that it is Mengele. But I'd prefer to await the results of the medical...
...Rolf. Also found was a book entitled Evolution of the Organism that included 15 pages of notes in what is believed to be Mengele's handwriting. At the police station, the Bosserts gave two depositions in which they told the story of how they had befriended the death-camp doctor...
...before they went to the police with their suspicions. He also obtained testimony from Sunny's personal physician, Dr. Janis Gailitis, that the latter believed that his patient's 1979 coma was due not to an insulin injection but to her choking on her own vomit, a theory the doctor said the prosecutors told him to keep to himself in 1982. Finally, Puccio prevented Mrs. Von Bulow's personal banker, G. Morris Gurley, from testifying about the millions Von Bulow stood to inherit, thereby undermining the state's claim that greed motivated Von Bulow...
...Cortivo, chief toxicologist in the Suffolk County, N.Y., medical examiner's office, said the insulin on the needle that the state contends Von Bulow used to inject his wife was not left over from an injection, since a needle is always wiped clean by the skin upon removal. The doctor went on to speculate that Sunny's hospitalization three weeks before she fell into her second, irreversible coma was the result of a suicide attempt in which she had probably taken a "massive overdose" of about 65 aspirin tablets...