Word: helpern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lipstick on the Pillow. In 1947 a woman in a midtown hotel room appeared to have died in her sleep about 24 hours earlier. Dr. Milton Helpern, deputy chief examiner, noted small hemorrhages on the eyeballs, suggesting suffocation. But she was lying face up. Then he saw that a smear on the pillow matched the lipstick she was wearing. That clinched his suspicion. Detectives tracked down her estranged husband, and he confessed having strangled his wife. If the body had been moved, Dr. Helpern would have missed the telltale clue...
...response to these objections, Judge Harold M. Wescott may tell the jury tomorrow to toss out the testimony of Miller and Helpern. This would leave Ford's keystone statement virtually unchallenged
...State's rebuttal came soon after, with the reappearance of Drs. Milton Helpern and Ralph Miller, who were also Helpern and Ralph Miller, who were also present at the autopsy that Ford conducted...
Helporn claimed that less than 200 cc's of air could cause death. Ford had based this figure on experiments with dogs and rabbits, and Helpern said, "I don't believe results from dogs can be transferred to human beings. Dogs are unusually resistant to injections...
...defense did not try very strongly to refute Miller's and Helpern's statements. Instead it continually rose to object that these statement were being presented as now evidence, and not as rebuttal...