Posted on 10/31/2009 4:55:17 PM PDT by Saije
A British nuclear expert who fell from the 17th floor of a United Nations building did not commit suicide and may have been hurled to his death, says a doctor who carried out a second post-mortem examination.
Timothy Hampton, 47, a scientist involved in monitoring nuclear activity, was found dead last week at the bottom of a stairwell in Vienna.
An initial autopsy concluded that there were ‘no suspicious circumstances’. But it is understood that Mr Hampton’s widow Olena Gryshcuk and her family were deeply unhappy with that verdict.
Now a doctor who undertook a second post-mortem examination on behalf of the family believes she has found evidence that Mr Hampton did not die by his own hands.
Professor Kathrin Yen, of the Ludwig Institute in Graz, Austria, which specialises in traumatology research, said she had more tests to complete on Mr Hampton, who had a three-year-old son with Ms Gryshcuk.
But she said one possible theory was that Mr Hampton was carried to the 17th floor from his workplace on the sixth floor and thrown to his death.
Professor Yen used new forensic techniques to detect internal bruising caused by strangulation which would not be visible to the eye.
She said: ‘In my opinion, it does not look like suicide. My example is that somebody took him up to the top floor and took him down.
‘At the moment I don’t have the police reports. We did a CT scan. From the external exam, I saw injuries on the neck but these were not due to strangulation.’
It is expected to take three weeks for blood test results to come back. Austrian police said they believe Mr Hampton committed suicide.
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Wasn’t a woman thrown from a UN window a few months ago? I forget the details, but maybe someone remembers.
I should have googled before posting. This was Feb 2008, 19th floor, in Austria.
Very weird. They claimed suicide. Maybe it was.
I’d suggest that the new coroner stay away from high places. His opinion is probably going to be most unwelcome to some folks.
Professor Kathrin Yen is a “her”.
Right out of Ludlum.
More green!!! It's more enviromentally improved vs the HRC MO!!
No more enviromentally messy airplane crashes. Super small carbon foot print!!!
One call, one body, no questions asked!!! (Like my media would question me!! LOL)
Thanks for the correction.
ping
Related thread: initial report
Mystery over British nuclear expert’s death plunge at UN HQ
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367586/posts
They threw an athletic trainer from the dorm roof of Pan American Games in Cali (1971)
The word was that he was helping Cuban athletes defect. The body was taken to a Canadian medical clinic in nearby dorm and doctors there examined the body before releasing it to Cubans said he had been beaten and dead before the fall. The Cubans lost a bunch of athletes that year although they had them well guarded.
It is refered to in those parts...as a Defenestration, as I recall.
anyone have idea on motive for this?
I never had any doubt of this being a murder. If one were going to commit suicide, there are much more pleasant ways to go than falling down 17 flights of stairs.
Shades of Dr. Gearld Bull
I’m so surprised. NOT!
First Defenestration of Prague
Second Defenestration of Prague
Further defenestrations
Roman Catholic Imperial officials claimed that the three men survived due to the mercy of angels assisting the righteousness of the Catholic cause. Protestant pamphleteers asserted that their survival had more to do with the horse excrement in which they landed than the benevolent acts of the angels.
"Tragedy is when I get a hangnail, comedy is when you fall into an open manhole and die." - Mel Brooks
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