BODY EXHUMED IN HOSPITAL PROBE; AUTOPSIES EXPECTED TO TAKE MONTHS IN EUTHANASIA INVESTIGATION.Byline: Lee Condon Daily News Staff Writer The Glendale Police Department on Friday exhumed Exhumed may refer to:
``We disinterred the first body this morning. The autopsy is going on,'' said Sgt. Rick Young of the Glendale Police Department. Young declined to identify the cemetery where the body was exhumed. On Wednesday police secured a court order to exhume ex·hume tr.v. ex·humed, ex·hum·ing, ex·humes 1. To remove from a grave; disinter. 2. To bring to light, especially after a period of obscurity. the bodies of people identified at potential victims of Efren Saldivar Efren Saldivar (born 30 September 1969) is an American serial killer who murdered patients while working as a respiratory therapist. Early life Born in Brownsville, Texas, he graduated from the College of Medical and Dental Careers in North Hollywood, California in 1988. , a former Glendale Adventist Medical Center Glendale Adventist Medical Center is located in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale, California. It was founded in 1905. Glendale Adventist Medical Center is a sister institution of Loma Linda University Medical Center and is a part of the Seventh-day Adventist hospital system. respiratory therapist who confessed last year to administering drugs to kill 50 or so terminally ill Terminally Ill When a person is not expected to live more than 12 months. Notes: Any gifts given out by the afflicted person at this time may be considered as a dispersion of the estate rather than a gift. patients at the hospital. Saldivar soon recanted his confession, saying he made the story up. To date no charges have been filed against him. But local police have since undertaken an intense investigation to separate fact from fiction. They are exhuming the bodies to test for traces of two different muscle-paralyzing drugs that Saldivar told police he used to hasten the deaths of patients. Young said the plan is to exhume about one body per week. In most cases the bodies will be returned to graves in the same day they are removed. The exhumations will take place at cemeteries throughout Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, , although the majority are within Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County. Families were notified of the exhumations on Tuesday by police. Young said none of the family members asked to be present at the exhumations. In keeping with the tight secrecy that has marked the investigation, Young declined to identify the body exhumed Friday. With just one body being exhumed a week, it will be months before this stage of the investigation is complete. Young said that regardless of whether traces of the drugs are found in the body exhumed Friday, police will likely not ask for charges to be filed until after autopsies have been performed on all of the bodies. ``We anticipate it will be six to nine months before we have any results,'' Young said. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Efren Saldivar Suspected in hospital deaths |
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