Banita Jacks -- Trial of mother accused of killing four children underway
Banita Jacks. Banita Jacks is being charged with murder. The decomposing bodies of her girls, ages 5 to 17, were found in her apartment.
In court today, a DC medical examiner said some of the bodies were so decomposed, it was difficult to tell if they were murdered.
From an article at the Washington Post:
A District medical examiner told a D.C. Superior Court judge Monday that Banita Jacks's oldest daughter's body was so badly decomposed that he was only about "50 percent" sure that she had been murdered.
In the fourth day of Jacks's trial, Assistant Medical Examiner A. Wayne Williams said that when he did an autopsy on Brittany Jacks's body shortly after it was found on Jan. 9, 2008, initially he could conclude only that the cause of death was "suspicion of foul play."
Williams said that during the autopsy, he found three puncture wounds to Brittany's abdomen, which were "highly likely" to have been stab wounds, but he was unclear whether the wounds were enough to kill her. "This was a very tough case, very complicated. It doesn't fit the textbook," he said.
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