sabpascu
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Also just out of curiosity, would sedatives like GHB or chloroform still be in the body after it has been in a water tank for several weeks? Some here have said that scientifically some of the lab work may be questionable so long after the individual has been lying in water. I would think that some of those would have such a short half life that they could be out of her system by the tank she was on the roof/in the tank.
Chloroform, guys? While acute exposure to chloroform wouldn't be detectable in an autopsy as chloroform leaves the body quickly, chronic intoxication with chemicals that break down into chloroform in the body will show up on an autopsy tho, you can find it in the liver an kidneys, but that's not the case here.
The portrayal of chloroform in movies - bad guy takes a rag, sticks it into chloroform and tries to smother someone from behind, they smell the chloroform and pass out - is extremely inaccurate. A 3 minute exposure to chloroform could lead to vertigo and dizziness at most. And that's like 3 minute exposure, not 3 seconds. About 10 minutes in conjunction with the administration of other kinds of drugs such benzodiazepines could render a person unconscious. Now you can administer benzodiazepines in various ways: with alcohol (there was no alcohol in her blood, there is alcohol in her bile but that doesn't mean she had alcohol recently, means she had a drink about one day before), IV injection (would have been signs of it) or pils...(no pills in gastric content).
GHB would have been detectable in blood or urine. However, someone would have had to hide it while offering her a drink. Or give her a ton of pills. (there were no signs of pills in her stomach contents) So GHB is very unlikely to have been used.
Also half-life doesn't work like that. Half of it being used by the body doesn't mean it's gone. There's still some left, considering the fact you need a larger amount to render someone unconscious plus there's metabolites that can be detected.
We were not in on the autopsy, and it was witnessed by the investigating officers who were hardly thorough. Who is to say that there were marks that went unrecorded? Or to say that the look for marks was even comprehensive? The report speaks only to what the coroner wants to be known or recorded.
An autopsy report is usually a pretty standard document as in it has a a list of aspects that need to be taken into consideration. So it's not just the medical examiner saying: Oh, her thyroid is unremarkable, that sounds good, let's put that in. There are some predetermined things he needs to look at and note so that anyone who reads it gets a good idea of the condition the body is in.
Case in point, look at the actress Natalie Wood. She supposedly accidentally drown after "falling" off a boat in the 80's. Just last year her case was reopened as suspicious after it came to light that she had visible contusions on her body that were somehow overlooked by the coroner.
I'm pretty sure there isn't someone whose job is specifically to review old autopsy reports and pictures. Pretty sure the reopening of the case had something to do with a confession or a tip because that's usually the case.
Who is say that EL was not somehow rendered unconscious or immobile by either partial aspyhxiation, chloroform, or some other drug that was not tested? They hardly ran all the drug tests they could have; was she even tested for poisons. She would not have struggled or resisted. Yes, this is all far fetched but no more so than her climbing into the tank of her own accord after suffering a psychotic break.
Ummm...people do all sorts of crazy stuff if they're mentally ill. Like AAAALL sorts of crazy stuff. Their view of the outside world isn't as we see it in those moments, they suffer from delusions, hallucinations...