Trevor Collins

So immediately we have two other toxicologists, which this is their whole job, going...

Uh, he didn't really use the right test.

And also his conclusion is wildly outlandish and it would be a first of its kind.

So immediately this is starting to feel a little flimsy.

Like what's going on here?

Dude, I love it.

It's like peer review on record in the trial with a grand jury.

I love that layering of like, okay, this is prominent.

And you're right.

This is feeling really fishy right out the gate.

And it's kind of why the family and the community are kind of like, this doesn't feel right.

Something's off, but we don't know what it is.

To add a little bit more to Dr. Malik and fill in some colorful backstory here, we have journalist Mara Leverett, who wrote a book about this very case entitled The Boys on the Tracks.

And in this book, they discuss how Dr. Malik was accused by his own staff of keeping outdated crime lab tools.

So immediately you're working with outdated tools.

You're going to get outdated results that are going to sway cases left and right potentially.

Okay.

With this, he allegedly fabricated findings in autopsy reports before certain cases went to court.

So he's kind of, he's kind of like chat GPT.

It's like he's got the tools, he's got the expertise, and he's just filling in answers and making it up a little bit.