CORONER RULES OUT TAMMY MURDER PLOT

The body of country great Tammy Wynette will not be exhumed and tested for signs that she was murdered, a coroner in Tennessee ruled last night. Davidson County Medical Examiner Bruce Levy rejected an appeal by Wynettes daughters that an autopsy be performed on the singer.

The body of country great Tammy Wynette will not be exhumed and tested for signs that she was murdered, a coroner in Tennessee ruled last night.

Davidson County Medical Examiner Bruce Levy rejected an appeal by Wynette’s daughters that an autopsy be performed on the singer.

“Tammy Wynette was terminally ill and her death was due to natural causes,” Levy said.

Wynette, 55, died last April 6 from what her personal physician Wallis Marsh declared was a blood clot in her lungs.

Blood clots were among several health problems the ailing “First Lady of Country Music” suffered from in her last years.

“There was more than enough evidence that she had trouble with blood clots and the purpose of an autopsy is to explain unnatural causes of death,” Levy said.

Three of Wynette’s daughters met Levy this week and he promised to consider their request to exhume her body and autopsy the remains.

Their lawyer Dan Warlick claimed there were “curious” facts surrounding Wynette’s death, including a delay in calling the police and her heavy use of prescription drugs.

Warlick could not be reached for comment on the medical examiner’s decision, but he has said the daughters would pursue other legal avenues.

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