Christe Chen murder: ‘Odd’ that bride killed on Fiji honeymoon was not shipped back to U.S. for second autopsy

Christe Chen's remains could have been sent back to the U.S. in a sealed casket for a second autopsy, according to forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden.

The body doesn't disappear. So whatever, no matter what the condition of the body is, the next of kin has a right to make its own burial arrangements. Michael Ruiz is a reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to michael.ruiz@fox.com and on Twitter: @mikerreports

Ronald Gordon, the attorney for Chen’s family, previously told Fox News Digital the victim had suffered such horrific injuries that the hospital staff told her parents she would have to be cremated before being returned to the United States. 

Lacerations around her eyes were so deep that the hospital advised her family against embalming Chen in order to transfer her remains, he said. The wounds were so severe the morgue attendant feared that embalming fluid might leak out.