A medical mystery: How can gunshot wounds cause death decades later?
Cases of death from a decades-old injury draw headlines but medical examiners say they aren't all that rare, though they can be hard to investigate.
Last month, the Palm Beach County medical examiner made a fairly routine finding. In studying the death of Pahokee, Fla., resident John Henry Barrett, who died in May at the age of 77, it determined that his cause of death was homicide. There’s just one catch — Barrett died of sepsis, and was shot nearly 60 years ago.
To the average person, it’s an unusual-sounding case, but Dr. Reinhard Motte,
