Not that the Sheriff Rollins of Harnett County was claiming emphatically that the bruises on David Wilson's crotch were caused by anything other than Michelle Bullard defending herself against David Wilson when he held his press conference to respond to questions regarding the Medical Examiner's Autopsy of Wilson's remains, but he did suggest at least one possible scenario that was rejected by noted forensic pathologist Michael Baden on Fox News Wednesday night. Sheriff Rollins suggested that Wilson received the large, recently formed, bruises on his groin area in a wreck caused immediately after Wilson shot himself when post-mortem the truck Wilson was slumped over in sped backwards in reverse crashing through a wire fence and post before stopping against a tree in a cow pasture at the corner of McArthur and Cameron Road.

Baden said that it was his interpretation of the autopsy that the bruises were caused by a struggle with someone prior to Wilson's death.

I spoke with a pathologist myself and was told that large bruises such as the bruises seen in the autopsy report could not have been caused after Wilson had died, particularly after the large .44 caliber bullet basically ripped David Wilson's heart in pieces (the exact term used in the report is "all chambers of the heart were pulpified"). Wilson would have died immediately thus his blood pressure would have been nonexistent. No blood pressure means no way for the blood to reach the area shown in the bruises. While it is possible for some small bruises to appear post-mortem, several of the bruises seen in the autopsy are as large as 3 inches in size, and there was a notation of nine such bruises in the report.

I guess the questions in most of those following this case are like those of Michelle Bullard's mother Karen Riojas when she asks why law enforcement won't come out and say that Wilson did it when it is so obvious that he did abduct MIchelle. After all the three eyewitnesses and victims themselves to the home invasion have not only identified Wilson as the man that came into the house that night, but they identified the gun used to rob them as the same weapon used by Wilson to shoot himself. And in the autopsy report itself it states that law enforcement say that Wilson's description matched as did his clothing to the man that broke into house and kidnapped Michelle.

Something all good law enforcement officers are taught is that it is just as important to prove things wrong as it is to proving things right. All leads, everyone of them must be looked into and that takes an enormous amount of time and energy. Every possible angle must be investigated thoroughly. But since 75 days or so have passed, more than likely authorities suspect that Wilson did not act alone, he had help, either during the robbery and abduction or immediately after it. To identify Wilson as the actor in this crime would perhaps tip the hand of the authorities investigating this case. Perhaps law enforcement has a reason other than a fear of incriminating the wrong man (usually not a bother since a jury figures those things out but Wilson can not defend himself in a trial), perhaps the investigation ties another to the crime, someone Wilson could have trusted.

A month or so back I was given insight by a psychological profiler that has successfully worked with the FBI on at least one high profile case. I asked him if David Wilson would have committed suicide when cornered by police and he said no, unless he was protecting someone else.

Perhaps David Wilson was not alone, perhaps that person is still holding Michelle hostage. As strange as this case has been it wouldn't surprise me if that were to be the truth. But then that would be a Hollywood ending and those are, unfortunately, usually witnessed only in the movies. Real life is much less hopeful.

 

Listen to the Greta van Susteren show with guest Dr. Michael Baden and Michelle's mother, Karen Riojas by clicking here