Autopsy still pending in Ohio Street 'suspicious' death

BANGOR, Maine — A man found dead under suspicious circumstances in his Ohio Street apartment earlier this week was identified by police Wednesday as Richard Jeskey, 53, but the investigation into his death is not complete.

“I don’t have anything to release at this point,” a representative from the state medical examiner’s office said Wednesday afternoon. “We have not been given the OK to give out anything” about Jeskey’s cause of death.

A person police are not identifying called 911 at around 8:35 a.m. Monday to request an ambulance at 682 Ohio St., the location of Ledgewood 1 apartment complex, but when rescue crews arrived they found Jeskey’s body.

Because of the nature of the death, the medical examiner was called, Lt. Tim Reid, who heads the Bangor Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division, said Monday.

Bangor police and the medical examiner’s office are working with the Maine Attorney General’s Office on the case, Detective Sgt. Paul Kenison said Wednesday.

“We’re waiting for them to give us the OK to release anything,” he said.

Jeskey’s autopsy was conducted Tuesday at the medical examiner’s office in Augusta. His death is the second suspicious death reported in Bangor in just over a week. The first death , also that of a man, was reported on Fourth Street last Thursday, and the name of the deceased and cause of death are being withheld, Reid said.

Kenison said Wednesday that he still could not release any details about the death of the unnamed man, including his age and where he is from, because police are waiting for the OK from the Attorney General’s Office.

Sgt. Paul Edwards stressed Wednesday that Jeskey’s death is not related to the death on Fourth Street.

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Update: Caylee Marie Anthony murder *Casey Anthony murder trial ...

Today was an interesting day in court, to say the least. The defense has been threatened with contempt of court. One of their witnesses, William Rodriguez (co-founder of the Body Farm in TN, where my bones will eventually lay) was going to testify to opinions that were not part of a report, although he gave that opinion to Jose Baez months ago. This is in direct conflict to orders given by Judge Perry that all opinions were to be shared with opposing counsel. Judge Perry stated that he believed Jose Baez intentionally did this, and he may hold him in contemp, but would decide on that at a later time. Dr. Rodriguez will return to the stand on Monday, after the prosecution has been able to question him. Dr. Werner Spitz, who has been a world renowned forensic pathologist, testified. It appeared to me that he believed his job was to completely disagree with the Medical Examiner’s autopsy and also with photos taken of Caylee’s skull. He outright accused the Medical Examiner’s office of staging photos and said her autopsy was shoddy. However, he contradicted himself several times and would not really answer questions given to him. He was all over the place. In my opinion, he was a horrible witness. He actually said that the sediment in the skull was brain powder and he did not need it tested “because he just knew”. He also did the same about the hair around the skull. He may have been one of the leaders in his field at one time, but in recent years, he has become ineffective. In the Phil Spector case, he flipped out on the stand after a question he did not like. Fortunately for him and the defense he did not do that this time, but I think he was close to doing so. It appeared to me that he just wanted to show what an expert he was and that the Medical Examiner was not as good as he was. However, he proved the opposite. Unfortunately for the defense, I think he did more harm than good for their case. But, maybe they could not get anyone else to agree with their theories.

Dr. Spitz said Florida Medical Examiner staged photos & duct tape was put on decomposed skull. Dr. Spitz is senile, said autopsy was shoddy

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