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Former state medical examiner Wayne Carver dies at 67
By Robert Marchant
Updated 6:15 pm EST, Friday, December 27, 2019
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Connecticut Chief Medical Examiner H. Wayne Carver II, M.D
MIDDLETOWN — Dr. H. Wayne Carver II, the former chief medical examiner who analyzed forensic evidence in some of the state’s most high-profile criminal cases, has died at the age of 67.
During his career, Carver provided evidence that resulted in a conviction in the so-called “wood chipper murder” and described to jurors how Martha Moxley, a 15-year-old Greenwich High School student, died after she was struck with a golf club and then stabbed through the neck with the broken shaft.
Carver also assisted in the investigation of the shooting rampage that killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown in 2012. He performed the autopsy on the gunman as well as his victims.
Carver died at Middlesex Hospital in Middletown on Thursday, the Hartford Courant is reporting. He was a resident of Old Saybrook.
He began working in the medical examiner’s office in 1982 and took over the leadership position in 1989. When Carver retired in 2013, he was cited for his professionalism.
“Dr. Carver demonstrated time and time again that the OCME serves the needs of all of the citizens of Connecticut, and that those who deal with the office are entitled to be treated with equanimity, compassion and respect,” said Todd Fernow, chairman of the oversight board for the medical examiner’s office.
Among his most notable cases was the wood chipper murder, in which Richard Crafts was accused of killing his wife, Helle, in Newtown in 1986 and then disposing of her body using heavy equipment. Forensic scientist Henry Lee showed jurors fragments of bone, and Carver ran an experiment that put a dead frozen pig through a wood chipper to demonstrate how the bone fragments would appear. The forensic work helped convince the jury that Crafts had murdered his wife even though her body was never found, and he was sentenced to 50 years in prison.
Carver was also a naturalist who logged the habits of ospreys nesting in the marshes of Old Saybrook for a database.
As he told a local news site in Old Saybrook, he had a fascination with the natural world from an early age.
“I used to take my sports toys and link them together to make a lab,” said Wayne. “I was a brilliant goof-off in school, but I aced my tests. At high school, I had a great series of science teachers … I hung around with a bunch of science geeks.”
He was also a serious musician.
Carver graduated from Brown University and gained his medical degree there.
As an educator, Carver instructed medical students around the state, and he also worked with law students and police cadets.
Dr. James R. Gill succeeded Carver as the state’s chief medical examiner in 2013.