Roughly 900 corpses lay before the Guyanese state pathologist Dr. Leslie Mootoo, one of the first on the scene at Jonestown. Arrayed in strangely uniform rows on the ground, the bodies were rapidly decomposing, thanks to tropical heat, a rainstorm and swarms of animals and insects. Some were so lost to putrefaction that the U.S. military clean-up crew used snow shovels to pick them up, and wore facemasks to block the stench.
“Mootoo was called to a scene for which there was absolutely no precedent. They were completely overwhelmed with the crime scene they found.
“Mootoo was called to a scene for which there was absolutely no precedent. They were completely overwhelmed with the crime scene they found.
- 11/16/2018
- by Erika Mailman
- Rollingstone.com
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