Hi Splan

I missed all this first time round but just wanted to say thanks for all of your efforts. Unfortunately I think that the Autopsy photos Dr H saw did not show the lividity pattern very clearly either.

In the interview with Dr H, its on the UD podcast site. Colin says right at the start , 1:07 in, that there are a couple of caveats, that these are only black and white photos and that they are 'fairly low resolution'.

At 3 mins 15 in, Colin asks "The autopsy report for Hae Min Lee says that her body had fixed frontal lividity. Is that consistent with what you saw in the autopsy photos? Dr Hlavaty replies: "Well the five black and white photos that I viewed of the body taken at the morgue: because they were black and white and because of the changes of decomposition and dirt that were at least on the body in some of the photographs, HONESTLY, I CAN NOT TELL THE LIVIDITY PATTERN BASED ON THOSE PHOTOS ALONE. However, the report and the Medical Examiner's testimony were very clear that this was anterior or frontal lividity. So, knowing that, and looking at the photos, there is no variation in the shading of grey of the left half of the body to the right half so the photographs would therefore be consistent with fixed full frontal or anterior lividity." 4:08

So Dr H doesnt really see anything much from the Autopsy photos given to her by Colin. Her conclusions about lividity are really drawn from the ME report and testimony as she can't really see it in the photos. Her conclusion also goes a touch further than the ME's, from frontal fixed lividity to fixed FULL frontal lividity.

Presumably there must be high quality and colour Autopsy photos somewhere but I'm not sure anybody has obtained them yet. I've asked SS about this a number of times recently but no reply so far. Have you anymore info about this since you posted the above?