New information discloses why a long-time Tarrant County chief deputy medical examiner was ordered to stop performing autopsies on murder victims.
Doctor Marc Krouse has been a deputy medical examiner for more than 40 years. But he was suspended from doing autopsies in homicide cases because he failed to find a bullet in a shooting victim in September.
The victim Alfredo Olivares was buried with the bullet still in him. In December, his body was exhumed to retrieve possible evidence including the missed bullet.
Because of irregularities found in other cases, Krouse is now permitted to perform autopsies only in non-homicide cases.