Why didn't the sherriff have a autopsy done on Alex? The accident was questionable from what I recall. Wouldn't it have shown that Alex had been dead before the accident?
(I have become such a CSI obsesser, lol, I question everything these days)
Well, are autopsies routinely done in car accident cases like this?
I mean, sure, there were some questions about WHY the crash, if it was accidental or suicide or possibly some kind of arranged murder. But the sheriff didn't have any reason to suspect that the injuries Alex got weren't from the crash. Probably, also, they wouldn't have wanted to upset his parents any further with the idea of cutting up his body.
"A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it. If the Rowan tree's roots are shallow, it bears no crown." From 'the farthest shore', Ursula LeGuin.
Or Valenti prevented Hanson from having an autopsy done on Alex.After all Max tried to heal Alex when he still was in the ambulance. If there had been autopsy done later probably someone would have noticed something and Max would have been screwed.