The Hamilton County coroner is walking back her previous announcement that a laboratory report indicated that Rhoda Nathan, a woman brutally beaten and killed in Blue Ash in 1994, did not have Hepatitis B, which contradicted the autopsy that Hamilton County Prosecutor Connie Pillich used to “exclude” Elwood Jones as a suspect.
In a release, Coroner Lakshmi Kode Sammarco said that she has received the lab report that shows Rhoda Nathan did in fact test positive for Hepatitis B from Jones’s attorneys. That report, she said, was not in her office’s case file at the time she went through it earlier this month. However, it does in fact match the autopsy and death numbers connected to Nathan’s case.
“I would like to thank attorney Dave Hine for providing this information that we did not have in our case file until today,” Sammarco said in a release…