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Jones trial continues; toxicologist testifies
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GEORGETOWN — The sci
entists who performed tests on
15-month-old Chelsea McClel
lan’s exhumed body capped an
exhaustive day of technical
medical testimony in nurse
Genene Jones’ murder trial by
telling jurors he found traces of
a deadly muscle relaxant in the
baby’s tissues.
Dr. Fredric Rieders, a toxico
logist who operates an indepen
dent laboratory in Pennsylvania,
said he helped exhume
Chelsea’s body eight months af
ter she died and then flew to
Stockholm, Sweden to perform
highly sensitive tests on the tis
sue samples.
Rieders said he detected the
muscle relaxant succinylcholine
in samples of Chelsea’s thigh
muscles and organs. Jones, a 33-
year-old mother of two, is ac
cused of killing Chelsea with a
drug injection at a Kerrville
pediatric clinic in 1982.
“Yes, in my opnion, I de
tected, identified and measured
succinylcholine present in a
number of the specimens,”
Rieders said.
The jury was immediately dis
missed for the day after Rieders’
testimony. '
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The bulk of the day’s testi
mony consisted of detailed dis-
criptions of how the test was de
veloped and how it was per
formed. In addition to Rieders’
testimony, the toxicologist who
developed the test also discussed
his procedures along with
effects of succinylcholine.
Dr. Bo Holmstedt described
the “fearful, horrifying” effects
of the muscle relaxant in earlier
testimony.
Holmstedt was not asked spe
cifically about tests for the drug
performed in his lab on the ex-
umed body.
He said the drug paralyzes
muscles, causing small, painful
twitchings under the skin, while
slowing the heart rate and stop
ping breathing.
H e said the drug caused
noticeable changes in the mus
cles of the eyes, hands and feet.
Chelsea’s mother, Petti McClel
lan, 28, testified Monday the
child showed those symptoms
after receiving an injection from
Jones.
She said the child’s arms “be
gan flopping around” and her
eyes “got all strange looking”
moments after Jones gave the
child the first of two injections in
a Kerrville pediatric clinic Sept
17, 1982, the day Chelsea died.
In cross examination, Brook
shire’s questions suggested suc
cinylcholine could be formed
naturally in human tissue. He
also built on an standing conten
tion that Holmstedt’s tests were
not precise enough to detect the
drug in minute amounts.
McClellan said Chelsea had a
cold the first time she went to Dr.
Kathleen Holland’s pediatric cli
nic, where Jones worked, on
Aug. 24, 1982. She said minutes
after Jones took the child into an
examining room, the baby suf
fered a seizure and was
to an emergency room.
Tests performed duriii
subsequent hospital stay
nothing wrong with theclii
Chelsea accompanied
mother to the clinic agait
Sept. 17 and Dr. Holland
tided Chelsea needed»
routine immunizations.Mdi
lan testified she heldherd^
ter in her arms asjonesgaitj I
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