When did my search for truth, meaning, and interest in the science begin? Was it in my studies at colleges and universities or during my adolescent and youth. I always had a curiosity for things I didn’t know. So, I’d say my interest in the sciences and investigating started before attending first grade in elementary school. Staring out the window watching birds, animals, even airplanes flying in the sky.
Interest in technology, computer sciences in high school working at the National Science Foundation reading civil defense and other plans for nuclear attacks and recovery from that and other events. Graduating from high school, registering as a pre-med student as my major. Sitting in on my first autopsy at 19-years old at the old Washington, D.C. General Hospital. Working in the pathology department at a local hospital in Maryland, understanding all the chemical and other tests performed on human specimens and taking that data and inputting into computer systems. Understanding the process & procedures of human specimen collection, retention, and monitoring.
Meeting and talking with the Chief Pathologist, Chief of Chemistry, vendors of testing equipment, and understanding standards and standard organizations (national and international). Confirming my trust in the sciences, in human sciences
In 2025, I can say there is one forensic pathologist that I have trust in that will remain nameless.
Investigating (Click on preceding underlined link for AI and other searches)
That interest and trust in the sciences led to other interest in the humanities and more readings in philosophies and literature for the truth.
In reading all the Arthur Canon Doyle Sherlock Holmes series novels, and even all the PBS (Public Broadcasting Systems) television series.
Walter Mosely brought even more interest in the search for the truth and investigation with his Easy Rawlins series closer to home of a Black private investigator living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
More to a lifelong interest in trust in the sciences and seeking the truth by investigating.
1800-1900’s Maryland Foster Care and 2025 Mississippi Hangings
Forensic pathology and investigating plays an important role in sorting thru facts and causes of death.
Archaeologist study the human past and make summations on even causes of death from human remains. Forensic Pathologist and Archaeologist are linked in their investigative abilities to determine causes of death until a new method of determination of causes is evaluated and confirmed.
In the cases of the 1800-1900’s Secret Cemetery in Maryland (see photo and link below), and other ‘secret’ cemetery’s with First Nation\Native American foster care and youth facilities the truth must be told and the facts published. Is this a call for the sciences, for forensic sciences to step-up and provide the truth? YES
In the cases of the 2025 Mississippi hangings. Historically hanging brings visions of the Wild West in America, criminal executions, and within the Black and other communities of color ‘lynching’. Hanging or Lynchings are not a one, two, three immediate process but involves being suspended and choking to death if the neck is not immediately broken.
There are questions in each of the cases that must be answered.
- 1800-1900’s. A Secret Cemetery in Maryland. https://www.facebook.com/reel/788404004060464
- 2025 Mississippi Hanging. Trey Reed. On campus at Delta State University
- 2025 Mississippi Hanging. Cory Zukatis. Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Forensic Pathology is the science needed to answer the questions that many of our members, members of the community, and the family in each case are awaiting.
Respectful examination of the deceased, analysis of fluid and blood samples. In 2025 those samples should be available.
Review of any and all camera footage, even examination of camera imaging AI of satellite imaging recorded (Mississippi GIS, https://www.gis.ms.gov/).Our search for the truth, the cause never ends.
Our search for the truth, the cause never ends.
Sincerely
CDS
