I got all of these autopsy photos in an e-mail from a hotmail account that did not respond to my repeated requests for more information. They were titled "autopsy photos" and then the photos were labeled "bees in lungs, snakes in stomach, voodoo dolls in stomach."

You can look at the other two entries to see what information I could find out about the photos. While doing research I uncovered a crime story which may have relevance toward this set of photos. It's presented below.

The idea that voodoo dolls could somehow end up inside a person is a little (pardon the pun) hard to swallow. That is, until you hear of the story that came out of the Tampa Florida area.

In November of 1997 Bradenton Fla. police found a severed left hand floating in the Manatee River. They fingerprinted it but because of the degraded quality of the prints, sent the information to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement laboratory in Tampa for analysis. The lab verified that the hand came from Willie Suttle, 70, a garbage collector from Palmetto who had died in June of 1997.

Suttle's body was exhumed and indeed was missing his left hand. A medical examination also revealed that 12 voodoo dolls and several handwritten notes had been placed into the corpse's chest cavity.

It was at this time that police arrested Paula Green-Albriton the owner of Green's Funeral Home which had been employed to embalm Mr. Suttle. Mrs. Albriton confessed that she placed the items in the corpse and had asked her son Jimmie Lee Clark to cut off the appendage in a "helping hand" ceremony. She said the deed was done as a voodoo ritual and was "white magic"

The claim of "white magic" may have been doubted when it was learned that the handwritten notes placed in the body was curses against Mrs. Green-Albritton's competition. Written on one note was the name of the director of an opposing funeral home. The voodoo dolls also had pins shoved into the left side of their chests, as if to pierce the heart.

Rafael Martinez a voodoo expert from the Miami Medical Examiner's office testified at the trial, saying that the placement of the dolls "were some type of black or malevolent magic based on the voodoo religion."

Paula Green-Albriton and her son were both convicted of abusing a dead human body which is a second degree felony. Both are expected to serve one year in jail for the crime.

sources

Associated Press, March 6th, 1999

Reuters news agency, June 29th 1998