I spent nearly a week trying to get in touch with the two pathologists—emailing government officials and former employers and getting help looking for phone numbers from Times reporters based with the foreign desk. I got nowhere. The only utility in reaching this dead end was that it made an important point: If a full-time investigative reporter, with all the resources of The New York Times behind him, couldn’t even find these pathologists, how did Andrade’s family expect to ever get answers?

