PORT DOUGLAS, Australia - Internationally acclaimed forensic pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht was retained by the family of Steve Irwin to investigate the famed crocodile hunter's cause of death following injuries he sustained in a stingray attack on Monday while snorkeling off the Great Barrier Reef. Initial reports were that a stingray's barb pierced Irwin's chest and put a hole into his heart. Dr. Wecht examined Irwin's wounds and concluded that there had to be a second stingray involved, which he suggested was hiding in an underwater grassy knoll to Irwin's right at the time of the attack. "One stingray could not have caused the wounds Mr. Irwin sustained," Dr. Wecht said. "If there had been just one stingray barb, upon entering Mr. Irwin's body, it would have had to take an immediate acute angular turn, come back almost two feet, stop, then make a second turn before exiting the body at the right posterior axillary area. The vertical and horizontal trajectory of this stingray, under the single or 'magic' stingray theory, is absolutely unfathomable, indefensible, and incredible."
The implications of the second stingray theory are immense, Dr. Wecht explained. "The fact is there is not just one but there are two killers on the loose somewhere in the Great Barrier Reef."
