Dr. Michael Baden said Vivian Torrente died of trauma to the throat, not asphyxiation.
Dr. Michael M. Baden is a Board-certified, forensic pathologist who is a co-Director of the New York State Police Medicolegal Investigation Unit. From 1961 to 1986, Dr. Baden worked in the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in New York City and was the Chief Medical Examiner from 1978 to 1979. He was also the Deputy Chief Medical Examiner for Suffolk County from 1981 to 1983. He has held professorial appointments at Albert Einstein Medical School, Albany Medical College, New York Law School and John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
He was the chairman of the Forensic Pathology Panel of the U.S. Congress Select Committee on Assassinations that investigated the deaths of president John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. Baden has been involved as an expert in forensic pathology in many cases of international interest including:
The examination of the remains of Tsar Nicholas of Russia and his family
The Claus Von Bulow murder trial
Marlon Brando's son's murder trial
Dr. Baden has been involved as an expert witness for the defense in the O.J. Simpson trial
The re-autopsy of Medgar Evers, Civil Rights leader
The death of Billy Martin (New York Yankees)
The deaths of Mary Beth Tinning's nine children
The re-examination of the Lindberg Kidnapping and murder
Autopsies of the victims of TWA Flight 800
During his career, Dr. Baden has been published in numerous national and international medical journals. He also published a factual account of several of his cases in the book Unnatural Death, Confessions of a Medical Examiner and was the subject for 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000 HBO specials that highlighted several of his interesting cases demonstrating the value of forensic sciences allied with solid police investigative techniques in homicide investigation.
The unidentified male DNA under Edmond Safra's fingernails was not that of Ted Maher.
How did Edmond's blood spatter Vivian's bra, panties, and barette/nursing cap?
Why did Lily cremate Edmond and bury him--not in Israel as he wanted--in Switzerland?
The son and daughter of Vivian Torrente are suing Lily and Sonia and the curious firm of theirs, "Spotless & Brite",
--plus lots and lots of John and Jane Does.
Lily paid Sonia $100,000 and Vivian's husband Ireneo $2,000,000--
But Ireneo burned his lawyers and they're suing him;
--and the son and daughter are suing Lily and Sonia.
Monaco threw a tarp over Dr. Michael Baden and hustled him offstage before he could really screw things up.
He'll be back.
On behalf of Ted Maher...
-BTTT-
Thanks for your post....prayer bump for Ted Maher (and his family).