Dr. Thomas Rudd
Appearances
48 Hours
A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
You see a scab similar to what forms on your skin, except it's in the brain.
48 Hours
A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
Correct. By definition, if you have a membrane, you have an old injury.
48 Hours
A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
The added fluid of the recent injury pushes that brain down and shuts down the breathing system. That is the cause of the child's death. It was the old injury. The old injury was massive.
48 Hours
A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
What should have been done was that whole section should have been cut out to look under the microscope to see if, in fact, it is a skull fracture. And they didn't.
48 Hours
A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
I was dumbfounded. There's definitely no skull fracture here. I've shown this to various pathologists and a radiologist. They've all called me and say, there is no skull fracture in this child at all.
48 Hours
A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
It wasn't there on the x-ray, so I don't think that he could have actually seen it.