Posted on 01/10/2013 7:34:04 PM PST by neverdem
HARTFORD -- While doctors and scientists conduct a battery of toxicological tests and genetic analysis to help determine what turned Adam Lanza into a psychopathic killing machine Dec. 14, the state's chief medical examiner doubts the reports will offer any answers. Already, he said, an examination of what remained of Lanza's brain showed nothing unusual.
"It's a fishing expedition," said H. Wayne Carver II, whose autopsy of Lanza is one of nearly 1,000 he has conducted during his 30-plus years of experience. "I don't think we'll find answers. But that doesn't mean you don't look."
Lanza murdered 20 students and six educators during what appears to be a video-game inspired killing spree at Sandy Hook Elementary School. He ended the terror by putting a gun to his head.
Carver said the examination of Lanza's brain showed "no tumor...no gross deformity."
But the medical examiner didn't expect to find a gross deformity.
"That would be associated with very severe disabilities," Carver explained. He said people who suffer from such deformities usually require a "custodial" setting.
Additionally, an often-published photo of Lanza gives the impression he had a large head and might have suffered from a genetic mutation called Fragile X syndrome.
Fragile X is "the most common cause of inherited intellectual disability and the most common known genetic cause of autism or autism spectrum disorders," according to the National Fragile X Foundation.
The mutation involves the FMR1 gene not producing enough protein for the brain to grow properly. This causes mental retardation, usually in boys, and the individual is left with deformities such as a large forehead or a big face.
"We measured his head and it fell in the normal range," Carver said.
The toxicology exam, which could take several weeks, involves testing a person's urine, saliva or blood for up to 30 different drugs at a time.
Carver said tests are done to determine if the person has taken any type of drug that might "affect behavior."
He said these would include psychiatric medications used to treat anxiety, seizures and other issues. The toxicology exam also looks for pain medication, vitamins and natural supplements, along with illegally obtained drugs and alcohol.
"We don't test for marijuana," he added. In this particular toxicology test, Carver said he'd be looking for the "presence or absence" of particular drugs.
He said the result could provide "potentially valuable information" in creating a full picture of Lanza.
As for claims Lanza suffered from Asperger's syndrome, an autism-related disorder, Carver said that requires a "functional" test and in this case, the patient was deceased.
Additionally, Carver was asked if he thought any biochemical issues like an excess or deficiency of dopamine, serotonin or other neurotransmitters might have played a role in Lanza's behavior.
"Don't over read on that," he warned.
"Inborne errors of (issues like) metabolism are not subtle," he said. "Most are fatal."
And then there’s that “burial at sea” of OBL - yeah, right, I believe that one, too.
I believe the Navy Seals, NOT the Marxist.
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2012/02/13/deblog-why-do-toxicology-tests-take-so-long/
Having bad results sooner doesn’t do anyone any good, and that’s why law enforcement will often give a four to eight week timeline.
Just cut the crap, I’ll getter done when I get a round toit. I’m a government employee and I’ll set the priorities around here. Besides, if his brain was drenched in chemicals or deformed and dysfunctional like Slow Joe’s, the results will not be released until after the new gun control laws are enacted.
Did the people of the USA muse over why Hitler was evil? Evil is f-ing evil. It must be destroyed whenever possible.
In a case like this will the state release his school records and medical records???
“Did the people of the USA muse over why Hitler was evil?”
They mused over why the German people performed evil for him. They even did research to try and find the difference between the Germans and the Americans.
The results were unsettling.
So the media says we have pistols and shotguns, but no AR15. Even if the "long gun" was some weird variant of a .223, it was in the trunk while the shooting was going on.
All this manufactured crisis over a gun that may not have even been at the scene. Couldn't the cops tell 100 spent pistol rounds from .223 rounds?
There will be no legal "discovery" because there will be no trial. We won't see the bag of spent ammo, or the guns that were retrieved, or even the contents of the car's trunk, cause everyone is dead. I had hopes when the idiot lawyer said he would sue the school for not protecting the kids, but he dropped that. This will end up just as mysterious as the guns that Koresh supposedly converted to full auto at Waco. Only one person has ever been allowed to view the guns since the massacre.
Now you want to see his medical records and school records. Have we seen Obama's records? hold your breath.
For me, I don't think Obama could make a federal case out of banning shotguns, so they settled on the Bushmaster his mother owned.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju_NllT1iDo
No they will not find any answers because they don’t want to KNOW the answer. The answer is EVIL. You know like Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Bundy, Gacy, and on and on........
Several weeks? When I have blood drawn by Quest Diagnostics, I get the results back in a week, sometimes a little less. Why should this take “several weeks?” Enough time to blame the tool used/availability of the tool, rather than the person?
and we see what happens to Navy Seals under this Statist regime.
The Newtown shooter was fully taken over by the Enemy and his legions of demons.
Many of them will end up calling it quits in droves.
.....Whose name is refused to be spoken, but this shooting has his fingerprints on it.
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