Did Harry Crist actually commit suicide as New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams claimed?
No. The autopsy report which was suppressed for approximately eleven years asserts that Crist was the victim of a homicide. No suicide note was ever given to the pathologist who examined the body and Abrams suppressed it if any note ever existed. The pathologist, Dr. Alexander Aplasca, testified that he never observed nor documented a self-inflicted wound on Crist’s body. He was never shown the weapon which caused the fatal injury. He found no gases and substances, which would be emitted from a weapon, on Crist’s body or on his hands. The police never gave the pathologist any crime scene photos. Pagones’ friend, Scott Patterson, whose father was one of the highest-ranking officials in the state police department, had a key to Crist’s apartment. Patterson became one of Gov. George Pataki’s personal bodyguards.
