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From Autopsy 3: Voices From The Grave |
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The Cheater
A St. Louis entertainer who'd once recorded a hit record, Walter Scott was reported missing by his wife shortly after Christmas, 1983. Within a day of his disappearance, the car of Jim Williams -- a neighbor whose own wife had died in a "car accident" two months earlier -- was seen by neighbors parked at Scott's house. The police spent three years investigating the case, but found nothing. In 1987, the county appointed its first Medical Examiner, Dr. Mary Case, who decided that the body of Sharon Williams should be exhumed. After Dr. Case determined that Sharon's death was a homicide, Jim Williams' son gave police a clue to the Walter Scott case: his father had inexplicably constructed a flower box over a cistern just after Scott's disappearance. Police soon found Scott's body floating in the cistern; he'd been shot in the chest. Jim Williams never confessed, but he was found guilty of murder. Scott's wife Joanne was sentenced to five years for hindering the investigation. She was only guilty, she said, "of loving a kind and gentle man."
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Pictured left is a chest x-ray of Walter Scott showing a gunshot wound to the chest.
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The x-ray (right) shows the area of impact where a high velocity bullet entered the chest, creating a "snowstorm" appearance of tiny bone fragments scattered throughout the tissue.
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