The glory years under Spelman were cut short when the medical examiner died of cancer in 1971, at 52.
They used to do autopsies with kitchen knives. This was the team that revolutionized the old coroner’s office, which Dapena had been horrified to discover had neither scalpels nor microscopes. McGillen is among the last living members of the crack investigative staff from the glory years in the city morgue under brilliant medical examiner Dr. The man with the pointy nose and tinted glasses is Joe McGillen, the OME investigator who spent more time than anyone trying to crack the Noe case in the ‘60s and has been waiting through 14 years of retirement for someone to ask about it again. The two aging pathologists - he still does autopsies, while she takes only expert-witness jobs - are joined in the conference room by a colleague they haven’t seen in decades. She went on to assist or observe on all the others through number ten - which she believes is the most babies ever lost by one mother. One of the first child autopsies Molly Dapena ever did for the city was that of Constance Noe, baby number five, in 1958. Now retired, she recently moved back to the area to be closer to her children. Dapena, whom everyone refers to as “Molly,” developed her expertise in pediatric pathology as a consultant to the Philadelphia medical examiner before relocating to Florida.
Marie Valdes-Dapena, the 77-year-old grandmother of sudden infant death research.
Several weeks later, Fillinger sits in a conference room with Dr.
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