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The clip starts, and there's this newscaster, and they're like, "A doctor takes a dead Marine's brain home with
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him and then allows his kids to hold it and take pictures with it." What? [laughter]
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And then the anchor pops in, he's like, "Yeah, a decision that led to this doctor being reprimanded. But it didn't
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keep Maricopa County from hiring that very same doctor to work on some of the most high-profile criminal cases."
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Okay, sorry. I'm like letting the shock like enter wash over my body. >> That's Dr. Shelley.
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Okay. >> [laughter] >> Okay. And this is before he did Laura's autopsy. >> Yeah, before Maricopa County hired him.
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Wendy Halloran did a full investigation into Dr. Shelley's past, which revealed that in December 2011, when he was a
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military medical examiner in Portsmouth, Virginia, [music] he was performing an autopsy on a Marine
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Corps sergeant who was found dead in his home. Afterward, he was meant to take the
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brain, considered evidence, Right. >> to a naval hospital in Virginia for further examination. But as I just told
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you, that's not what he did. Instead, he took it to his house, took it out of the
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stock jar, and handed it to his young kids to feel while his wife took pictures. I'm sorry. I'm like literally
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>> [laughter] >> speechless. I have like zero words, but all the questions. >> And Dr. Shelley, he did bring the brain
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to the hospital the next day, but Medical Board found out about his like little detour from an anonymous caller,
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and then they launched this like whole investigation. >> Yeah, I feel like those pictures have to
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live on like the wife's Facebook somewhere. >> to imagine someone saw the pictures, and
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that's what prompted the call. I don't know. Trust me, we scoured the internet for these pictures. If they're anywhere
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out there, zero luck. Now, the Virginia Medical Board ended up reprimanding Dr. Shelley. They slapped him with a $2,500
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fine.