January 29, 1996
Web posted at: 9:30 a.m EST
PONTIAC, Michigan (CNN) -- The body of a woman was left in a Volkswagen van registered to Dr. Jack Kevorkian outside the Oakland County medical examiner's office Monday, an investigator with the office said.
An investigator with the office said he found the unidentified woman's body, dressed in a robe, in the vehicle in a parking lot at 5:40 a.m. EST. The body had been there five to 10 minutes at most. The site has been used by Kevorkian in the past.
"I found it. Then, we received a phone call from an unknown male saying, 'You'd better check the parking lot.' But, we already had," said the investigator, who refused to give his name.
"We know very little," said Sgt. M. James Sutton of the county sheriff's office. "It has all the aspects of the way (Kevorkian attorney Geoffrey) Fieger and Kevorkian operate."
Sutton said the van looks like the Volkswagen van that Kevorkian has used in the past. The retired pathologist has been present during the deaths of at least 26 people since 1990, while pushing his cause of doctor-assisted suicide.
Last year, Kevorkian, who is known as "Dr. Death," attended the deaths of two people whose bodies were found in vans outside the medical examiner's office.
Sheriff's officials had had no contact with Kevorkian or his attorneys as of Monday morning, Sutton said. Investigators were combing the van at 7:30 a.m.
Kevorkian's attorneys said little this morning. All Fieger would say was, "Well, I don't own a van."
Kevorkian attended the death of Nicholas John Loving on May 12. Loving suffered from Lou Gehrig's disease and died at the age of 27. His body was found in a van in the driveway to the medical examiner's office.
On November 8, Patricia Cashman took her life with Kevorkian present. Cashman had been suffering from metastatic breast cancer for three years. Her body also was left in a car outside the office.
Kevorkian faces trial February 12 on assisted-suicide charges in two 1993 deaths.
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