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(Though I can't say for certain if that law was in effect back in '69.) I noticed while researching vital records on that there was no records of him being born or dying." He then signs it and he has the responsibility of filing it with the Department of Health BEFORE burial. He then sends it to the funeral director who has the responsibility of confirming that the person who he has the responsibility of processing the remains for burial, cremation or entombment is in fact the person the medical examiner identified and the cause of death stated (homicide) in this case. In the state of California when a person dies as a result of homicide the medical examiner fills out the cause of death section on the death certificate and signs it. It is required that the death be registered with the department of health vital statistics in the state it died in. "When a fetus is born lifeless at 20 weeks or more gestation period, it is governed under the same laws of any death.

Why was no death certificate issued for Paul Richard Polanski, as was required by law? Did it appear that the baby was in a normal state of embryo - rather, fetus state at that time? However, there was no injury to abdominal area nor the unborn baby. The examination revealed that decedent was 8 months in pregnancy stage and the male fetus was found. And did you find any significant condition about this woman with respect to pregnancy?Ī. What happened to the missing sections of the Coroner's statements to the Grand Jury? Is there something in there they don't want us to see regarding Sharon's pregnancy or the disposition of the fetus? If the fetus was removed AS PART OF the autopsy, shouldn't that have been noted on the paperwork? Why is there is no mention of her pregnancy in the autopsy report? So I was there as Tom Noguchi did Sharon’s autopsy, then her baby’s. But when you have a homicide, you always go to your autopsies. It was like a dungeon-an awful place to be, like Frankenstein’s lab. County coroner’s office was in the basement of the old Hall of Justice. McGANN The next day, which was Sunday, we started the autopsies.

Interestingly, at least one source claims the fetus was autopsied: It would have been no mystery as what killed him (asphyxiation due to the mother's death). Why did the coroner(Thomas Noguchi) ' separate child from mother?' All of the stab wounds to Sharon's body were in her neck and upper chest, with none to the belly, and thus could not have wounded the baby. The funeral home- Cunningham and O'Connor-made no statement on the subject.īut that wasn't the only oddity about the least known TLB victim. Roman Polanski insisted that the baby be placed in a separate coffin. Maybe because the baby wasn't in the coffin?Īnother account had the baby being put in it's own casket: Why didn't he even note the presence of his first and only grandchild, who he is now viewing for the first and last time, in the coffin? I find that odd. My jaw tightened over Noguchi's pointless decision to separate child from mother." PJ: "Now my eyes scrutinized, searching for more signs of violence, settling on her noticeably smaller belly. Yet LtCol Tate(aka PJ), the only non-funeral home person who viewed Sharon in the casket, himself doesn't mention the baby in his only known statement on the subject:

Then he closed the lid and said good-bye. He had had them open the casket so he could have one last look at Sharon, who lay peacefully in her favourite Pucini dress Roman had picked out, and his grandson who was swaddled and tucked under his mother’s arm.

Like this account:Ĭolonel Paul Tate spent the night before the funeral, beside his daughter’s casket. We all know this because everybody says so. Of course we all know that Sharon's unborn baby-named Paul Richard Polanski-was removed during the autopsy and subsequently buried with Sharon in her casket.