70 Doctors Criticize Eappen Death Theory

More than 70 doctors sent a letter to CBS criticizing a “60 Minutes” report which suggested that Matthew Eappen was strangled, not shaken and slammed by his au pair, as prosecutors contend. The CBS program reported Sunday that two doctors believe the 8-month-old baby was strangled up to two days before he was hospitalized on Feb. 4, 1997. Lawyers for au pair Louise Woodward said they may seek a retrial; prosecutors said there is no evidence to warrant one. Woodward was convicted in October 1997 in Cambridge, Mass., of second-degree murder. The judge reduced her sentence to involuntary manslaughter and freed her.