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There must be. I remember seeing her talked about on the Los Angeles local news and in the L.A. Times just after she died. —
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Alas I'm not in L.A. anymore.
This search brings up lots of stories from the L.A. Times, though only the abstracts are freely available. Still, the abstracts contain lots of key tidbits, like this:
The source said the death certificate listed pneumonia and arteriosclerotic heart disease as the cause of death, but also said Mrs. Kent died at a "residence." The death certificate was rejected because there was no physician present at the woman's death and because officials questioned whether the Alcor lab is a "residence." —L.A. Times,Jan. 15, 1988
This article from Dec. 26, 1987, "Removal of Woman's Head for Freezing Probed" might be the earliest. Including the actual reasons for the investigation might make the article more neutral and factual. —
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BTW, some of the press coverage might itself be salient enough to mention in the article. At the time, I remember coming across something in the press that sounded an awful lot like "she lived for (some number of days) after her head was cut off"—or some similarly wild claim. I haven't found anything like that in any of the articles that I've found so far, though. I did just come across
this: Mothermelters: The Inside Story of Cryonics and the Dora Kent Homicide. I haven't read it, but it certainly promises to be negative, although the Amazon reviews suggest that it's not credible. The sales copy, however, mentions "the decapitation and subsequent homicide of Dora Kent." —
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There must be. I remember seeing her talked about on the Los Angeles local news and in the L.A. Times just after she died. —
Ben Kovitz (
talk)
14:05, 8 June 2015 (UTC)reply
Alas I'm not in L.A. anymore.
This search brings up lots of stories from the L.A. Times, though only the abstracts are freely available. Still, the abstracts contain lots of key tidbits, like this:
The source said the death certificate listed pneumonia and arteriosclerotic heart disease as the cause of death, but also said Mrs. Kent died at a "residence." The death certificate was rejected because there was no physician present at the woman's death and because officials questioned whether the Alcor lab is a "residence." —L.A. Times,Jan. 15, 1988
This article from Dec. 26, 1987, "Removal of Woman's Head for Freezing Probed" might be the earliest. Including the actual reasons for the investigation might make the article more neutral and factual. —
Ben Kovitz (
talk)
08:01, 9 June 2015 (UTC)reply
BTW, some of the press coverage might itself be salient enough to mention in the article. At the time, I remember coming across something in the press that sounded an awful lot like "she lived for (some number of days) after her head was cut off"—or some similarly wild claim. I haven't found anything like that in any of the articles that I've found so far, though. I did just come across
this: Mothermelters: The Inside Story of Cryonics and the Dora Kent Homicide. I haven't read it, but it certainly promises to be negative, although the Amazon reviews suggest that it's not credible. The sales copy, however, mentions "the decapitation and subsequent homicide of Dora Kent." —
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17:50, 10 June 2015 (UTC)reply
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