FORT WORTH (1080 KRLD)- A Tarrant County Deputy Medical Examiner is losing his job following an audit of more than 40 autopsies he conducted last year.
Doctor Mark Krouse has been a Deputy Medical Examiner for more than 40 years. But last year, his work was questioned because he failed to find a bullet in the body of a murder victim who was buried and then had to be exhumed to retrieve the slug as evidence.
For that, he was suspended from performing autopsies in murder cases.
Now, after a review of 40 of Krouse's 2020 autopsies, irregularities were found in two-thirds of them. With that, Krouse has been fired.
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With the dismissal of a long-time Tarrant County Deputy Medical Examiner, defense lawyers are waiting to see if any of Doctor Mark Krouse's mistakes might re-open some cases.
Defense attorneys say the mistakes could mean new trials.
Also, many families are upset to know their loved ones' autopsies were handled so carelessly.
For a long time, critics of Doctor Mark Krouse have had questions about his autopsies
Kristena Moreno tells NBC-5 her father died last year more than 30 years after he was left paralyzed for life in a work place shooting. Krouse ruled he died of complications from due to the wound and classified his death as a homicide. Only later was it revealed Krouse never even did an autopsy and thus never recovered the bullet that Moreno carried in his spine for three decades.
