The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation issued the following statement.
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation (MBI) is assisting the Smith County Sheriff’s Department in the death investigation of Rasheem Carter. Mr. Carter was reported missing by his family on October 2nd, 2022. On November 2nd, 2022, skeletal remains were found on a property in Smith County. Those remains were taken to the Mississippi State Crime Lab for examination where they were determined to be those of Mr. Carter.
At the request of the Smith County Sheriff’s Department, MBI joined the investigation on November 4th, 2022. MBI has assisted local law enforcement in conducting interviews, investigating the area where the remains were found and investigating tips to help determine the last known whereabouts of Mr. Carter. A forensic anthropology examination was completed by the Mississippi State Medical Examiners Officer on February 2nd, 2023. Based solely upon the condition of the remains, there was no means by which a cause of death could be reasonably determined by the medical examiner’s office. However, MBI and the Smith County Sheriff’s Department are actively continuing their investigation into the death of Mr. Carter. Anyone who may have any information is asked to submit a tip to mbitips@dps.ms.gov or scan the QR code below. The Mississippi Department of Public Safety and Mississippi Bureau of Investigation can offer no further comment or details pertaining to the death and disappearance of Mr. Carter due to it being a pending investigation by the Smith County Sheriff’s Department.
4 comments:
Unless there is reasonable suspicion of foul play in the matter, I can see this setting a precedent for things to come that will tie this agency up drastically.
It already takes the state a year in some cases to conduct and conclude an autopsy.
Are we now going to hire another two hundred junior-columbos to trapse around the state in trench coats at the behest of law enforcement in 82 counties?
Legislators should prepare now for budget requests to more than quadruple. The cost for buffets and lodging alone will be staggering.
The Nobel Prize in Medicine was given in 2022 to a man who examined fossils, thousands of years old, extracted DNA and discovered previously unknown species.
This poor guy, deceased just a few months, reportedly has no usable tissue left. He also had his spine removed, which is unheard of (to me) as an approach to murder someone.
Whoever does autopsies for Mississippi apparently has some catching up to do.
11:31 - Pay attention. His DNA (bones) led to positive identification of the body and his species is known. What's unknown is the manner and cause of death. You Nobel guy couldn't determine that.
Body pieces were moved by scavenging animals, I doubt very seriously removing his spine was the actual cause of death. I hear some of the vertebrae were no longer articulated, which is common for a body left in the woods.
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