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Deputy Attoreys General authors of a disciplinary inquiry into the investigation of José's death Moreira and Elisabete Silva.

3.4.1. Accidental death or homicide?

On November 5, 2013, Professor Doctor Duarte Nuno was heard in the Commission Vieira, President of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences and the Professor Rosa Henriques de Gouveia on the causes of death of José Moreira and Elisabete Silva,

In the form of an introductory note, Duarte Nuno Vicira stated thc following:

«The Institute was in faci requested by this Commission to reassess the studies histological tests performed about 30 years ago following autopsies that were carried out in 1983 to to victims who, in principle, would have died as a result of poisoning by carbon monoxide. It took us some time to answer, because we had 10 find the starting blocks of the samples that had been taken at that time and that, fortunately, they were shelved. although the law'even allows the Institute, two years after have done the studies, may destroy the samples if the courts do not give indications for

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that these samples are preserved. Fortunately, we kept this estate and therefore after a few months of searching the archives it was possible to detect the original blocks.

These blocks were processed again, were studied again by Professor Rosa Gouveia, who is one of our anatomopathologists who works at the headquarters and delegation from the center of the National Institute of Forensic Medicine, and new preparations were made. Were studied and, therefore, the repori was issued, which they will have received with the possible conclusions, than it is possible to extract from these new analyzes ".

Affirming that it is not up to forensic medicine or autopsies to make a differential diagnosis between homicide, suicide and accident, Duarte Nuno Vieira revealed, however, the existence of some relevant indications arising from the autopsy result

Regarding the cause of death, the inhalation of carbon monoxide was confirmed as having been the fundamental vector for the death of José Moreira and Elisabete Silva:

«The death was certainly due to carbon monoxide poisoning because autopsies well done, complete and have unmistakable signs of poisoning by carbon, namely a very characteristic aspect, which almost allows making the diagnosis. which is the carmine color of the corpses and this results in fact from the huge amount of carboxyhemoglobin that is present in the blood and gives this very typical color 10 the bodies of the people who die intoxicated by this substance “.

However, there were elements that generated some perplexity to the technicians of the Institute of Medicine Legal when re-analyzing tissues: