King had contacted the attorney general’s office after seeing television coverage of mortuary workers recovering bodies from Memorial. He was disturbed by the number of bodies found in Memorial’s chapel. He told them about the man he had pronounced dead early Thursday morning and carried to the chapel. “That person made the sixth patient. I’m willing to go to my grave on that because I was counting in my head,” he said. “After that, nobody else died on my second-floor area before I left the hospital. I left the hospital between twelve thirty and one thirty.”
