Werner Spitz, forensic expert in murders in Baltimore and elsewhere, dies

Dr. Werner Spitz, a pathologist whose accounts of the traumatic last moments in some of the most sensational American deaths of the past 60 years figured in cases involving President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., O.J. Simpson, JonBenét Ramsey, Mary Jo Kopechne and many others, died April 14 in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. He was 97. He died in hospice care after a brief illness, his son Dr. Daniel Spitz said. Werner Spitz’s career of more than 60 years traced to the early days...