By Chuck Hustmyre

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Late in the afternoon on Feb. 24, Alex and Molly brought Jason to see Dr. Siegfried.

According to a statement Dr. Siegfried later gave to police, Jason "looked awful." His brain appeared to be bulging through the soft spot in his skull and he was "grunting and posturing." His appearance "scared" Dr. Siegfried, and, after conferring with another doctor, she told the boy's parents to drive him to the emergency room at Boulder Community Hospital, just three miles from her office. Dr. Siegfried later said she didn't think Jason had time to wait for an ambulance.

From Boulder Community Hospital, Jason was rushed to Children's Hospital in Denver, where doctors performed emergency brain surgery. He died seven days later.

Since they hauled their dying son into the emergency room on Feb. 24, Alex and Molly Midyette have yet to tell police what happened to him and have so far refused to explain how or why Jason, who was not quite 11 weeks old when he died and weighed just under 8 1/2 pounds, had 27 broken bones, a fractured skull, and severe brain damage.

Although the Boulder County coroner ruled in July that Jason's death was a homicide, Boulder County District Attorney Mary Lacy has yet to charge anyone in connection with his death. Lacy has also refused to comment on the case other than to say that it is still under investigation.

Assistant District Attorney Ken Kupfner, in charge of the Jason Midyette case, told Crime Library, "There's no conceivable way we're going to talk about a case that's under investigation."

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