I am NOT disputing the embalmer's story. I am simply saying that one embalmer's story is like a Canadian truck convoy of only one truck.

BTW, one of the jobs that put me through college involved living above a funeral home and helping embalmers with the grunt work of moving the bodies, especially at night. I watched dozens of embalmings while keeping the embalmer company, usually in the very wee hours of the morning.

From that admittedly limited perspective, everything about the embalmer's story checks out. So do the photographs. And, as the embalmer said, those odd, fibrous clots are incredibly outside the norm. If the embalmer's story about how those clots came to be on the embalming table is true, then there are two very important questions here: "Why are other embalmers no speaking out?" And "Why are people like Steve and Dr. Ruby not following up?"

I do not pretend to have the answer to either question. I do very firmly state, however, that, absent answers to those questions, we have no choice but to question everything and everyone involved.