Kendrick Johnson murdered? New autopsy reveals signs of foul play and missing organs
- 11 years ago
The case of Kendrick Johnson, the Valdosta, Georgia high-schooler whose body was found upturned inside a rolled-up gym mat earlier this year has taken a macabre and disturbing turn. After months of campaigning, his parents, unconvinced his death was an accident, won the right to have his body exhumed. A second autopsy has revealed missing organs and signs of foul play.
A Lowndes High School student found Johnson's body upside down in the roll on January 11. The investigation concluded Johnson had probably fallen in while reaching for a sneaker, as some students stored gym shoes in the rolls. There, he became trapped, and suffocated.
After successfully petitioning the state to exhume their son's body, Johnson's parents hired a private coroner at their own expense. A subsequent second autopsy on June 15 revealed wads of crumpled newspaper stuffed inside the body's cavities. All the organs from the waist up were missing.
Dr Bill Anderson, the private pathologist enlisted by the Jacobson's, also found evidence of blunt force trauma consistent with intentional injury on the right side of Johnson's neck and jaw. He concluded this caused the 17-year-old's death.
Although found not to be Johnson's, flecks of blood found on the gym's wall remain unidentified. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which conducted the first autopsy, said Johnson's organs were replaced before the body was released to the Harrington Funeral Home in Valdosta.
In a letter to the family's attorney, funeral home owner Antonio Harrington said his company never received the teen's organs. The organs "were destroyed through natural process" due to the position of Kendrick Johnson's body at his time of death, he wrote, adding that the organs were then "discarded by the prosector before the body was sent back to Valdosta." A prosector dissects the body for pathological examination.
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A Lowndes High School student found Johnson's body upside down in the roll on January 11. The investigation concluded Johnson had probably fallen in while reaching for a sneaker, as some students stored gym shoes in the rolls. There, he became trapped, and suffocated.
After successfully petitioning the state to exhume their son's body, Johnson's parents hired a private coroner at their own expense. A subsequent second autopsy on June 15 revealed wads of crumpled newspaper stuffed inside the body's cavities. All the organs from the waist up were missing.
Dr Bill Anderson, the private pathologist enlisted by the Jacobson's, also found evidence of blunt force trauma consistent with intentional injury on the right side of Johnson's neck and jaw. He concluded this caused the 17-year-old's death.
Although found not to be Johnson's, flecks of blood found on the gym's wall remain unidentified. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which conducted the first autopsy, said Johnson's organs were replaced before the body was released to the Harrington Funeral Home in Valdosta.
In a letter to the family's attorney, funeral home owner Antonio Harrington said his company never received the teen's organs. The organs "were destroyed through natural process" due to the position of Kendrick Johnson's body at his time of death, he wrote, adding that the organs were then "discarded by the prosector before the body was sent back to Valdosta." A prosector dissects the body for pathological examination.
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