Dr. Steward Cone is the coroner who examines Chase Andrews’s dead body. While answering Tom Milton’s questions, Dr. Cone says that the red fibers found on Chase’s jacket—fibers that are made of the same material as a hat found in Kya’s shack—could have been left there as long as four years before the incident. Consequently, Tom is able to prove that the fibers themselves don’t definitively incriminate Kya.
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Dr. Steward Cone Character Timeline in Where the Crawdads Sing
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Chapter 45. Red Cap: 1970
Eric calls his second witness to the stand. His name is Dr. Steward Cone , the coroner who examined Chase’s corpse. Throughout the questioning, Eric establishes not only that...
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