Medical Examiner Reveals What Killed Kacee Terry in Insulin Murder Trial

Описание: Kacee Terry wasn't diabetic. So how did exogenous insulin end up in her system?

During Day 2 of the Meggan Sundwall trial, the State called the doctor who performed Kacee Terry's autopsy. Dr. Ben Murie is an assistant medical examiner with over 2,000 autopsies behind him, board certified in three specialties. The prosecution needed him to tell the jury what killed Kacee and to explain the science that separates insulin your body makes from insulin someone injects. He did both. The autopsy also confirmed something the jury needed to hear: Kacee Terry did not have cancer. None. Despite years of claims about terminal illness, the medical examiner found no evidence of it anywhere.

But watch what happens on cross-examination. Defense attorney Scott Williams spends several minutes building up this witness's credentials, his independence, his experience. Then he walks Dr. Murie to the final page of his report. The manner of death finding. And the State's own medical examiner tells the jury he could not call this a homicide. The prosecution tries to recover on redirect by pointing out what the ME was never given to review. Whether that changes anything is for you to decide.

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0:05 to 4:56 - Dr. Murie gets sworn in and walks the jury through his training. Medical school in Pennsylvania, residency in Hershey, forensic pathology fellowship in New Mexico, over 2,000 autopsies between Las Vegas and Utah. This is the foundation the prosecution needs before he says a word about Kacee.

4:56 to 7:28 - The difference between cause of death and manner of death. Listen carefully here because this distinction becomes the most important thing in the room by the end of this testimony.

7:28 to 11:10 - Murie describes what he reviews before writing a report: medical records, death investigator notes, law enforcement records, toxicology. The jury is learning how a medical examiner builds a conclusion.

15:17 to 21:21 - The autopsy findings. External bruising, an enlarged heart, a single kidney, and no cancer. Zero evidence of the disease Kacee reportedly told everyone she had.

23:48 to 27:37 - The insulin science. C-peptide is the key. When your body makes insulin, it comes attached to a molecule called C-peptide. Injected insulin does not. This is how you tell the difference, and it is the forensic backbone of this entire case.

30:44 to 33:23 - The cause of death. Combined effects of oxycodone, alprazolam, promethazine, and probable exogenous insulin. Murie confirms the insulin alone could have been sufficient. The word "probable" matters.

43:09 to 58:16 - Scott Williams takes cross-examination. He methodically builds the ME's credentials and independence, then walks him to the manner of death conclusion. Undetermined. Not homicide. The State's own expert.

58:16 to 1:03:50 - The prosecution fights back on redirect. The ME never reviewed the 500-page police report, the FBI analyses, or the text messages. Did the full picture ever reach the doctor who signed the report?

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