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Multiple forensic pathologists cast doubt on DC Medical Examiner’s conclusion Mikhail Lesin died in a drunken fall, suggesting the fracture of his hyoid bone points to homicide. rferl.org/a/of-suspiciou… 
Props to @Mike_Eckel whose dogged pursuit of a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Medical Examiner unearthed these autopsy documents.
The hyoid fracture was documented by a forensic anthropologist two weeks after Lesin died in 2015.
The Lesin autopsy documents show that officials with the Diplomatic Security office of the State Department (presumably) and the Russian embassy were involved in the case from the first night, on the phone with the forensic investigators. scribd.com/document/40228…
After the pathologist finds the hyoid fracture on Nov. 19, 2015, two weeks after Lesin's death, it isn't mentioned again in the OCME documents--not even in investigators' chronologies--until Apr. 1, 2016, when someone associated with the US Attorney's Office calls to ask about it
A disparity: A 2017 BF article (buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…) cites a "serving US intelligence officer" who offers that Lesin was beaten with a baseball bat and a source w/ "direct knowledge of the autopsy" who said Lesin had broken ribs...
Radio Free Europe's experts (rferl.org/a/of-suspiciou…) unanimously say Lesin's reported injuries are not consistent with a bat, and the autopsy records make no mention of broken ribs, afaik. They say the skeleton is intact, a conclusion amended only to include the hyoid fracture.
er that should be nearly* unanimously I guess
