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NY paramedic disputes man on dad's death

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November 19, 2009

NY paramedic disputes man on dad's death

By Terence Corcoran
The Journal News

PEEKSKILL, N.Y. — A man who died after his son left him in a sweltering car while he was at work last year may have been dead longer than the two hours that his son told police he'd left him.

Paramedic Steve Colt estimated Wednesday that Joseph Pressman had been dead four hours when he examined his body around 4 p.m. July 7, 2008.

"He was very hot to the touch, and rigor mortis had set in," Colt testified in the reckless-endangerment trial of Theodore Pressman, the 85-year-old victim’s son.

Full story: Colt: Rigor mortis occurs quicker in cold weather

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