My thoughts are with her family, friends and community. I really was hoping it wouldn't be this. Love to everyone.
Very heartfelt post koalasleuth. RIP Katy.:rose:
My thoughts are with her family, friends and community. I really was hoping it wouldn't be this. Love to everyone.
Well with no indication of foul play and it was publicized that they had one drink - I can't find anything about GHB regarding Katy, so where did this come from.? Seriously.
Could it be just a tragic accident?
"No obvious signs of foul play"
"The jaws of depoe bay" is that the mouth of the river ? If so it implies she was around that bridge. I still am struggling to believe that it was an accident. God its horrible.
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I knew someone would call me on my badly-worded question: "Will they be able to find traces of GHB in her system after all these days?" I should have said "Will they be able to find traces of GHB in her system if they were present after all these days?" I just read it, and of course I couldn't edit it. Thanks for your comment; I was in too big a hurry, or something I guess, when I worded that posting. Mea culpa. :banghead:.. ...:doh:
I certainly did not mean to suggest that she did have GHB in her system -- so please excuse, fellow Sleuthers, please excuse. Several of us thought it could be a possibility that could have affected her walking and judgement, and possibly worse, but we may never find out what caused this to happen. I hope we will be told the results of the autopsy and tox screens (if there were any done), but we'll just have to wait & see.
ETA: If the ME finds no foul play -- which sounds likely -- I do indeed think it could just be a tragic accident. She could have somehow slipped/tripped on a rock or something she did not see in the dark and that could have caused her to tumble down into the sea. Or she could have been leaning over for whatever reason and lost her balance and just tumbled. I feel so sorry for the family that she left behind.
I'm not sure where the GHB idea came from, but here's a possibility. When someone referred to Katy as drunk, I said we had no idea whether she had more than one drink or if someone slipped her a mickey. I wasn't suggesting anyone had...but was just defending her from being called drunk and from the implication that it caused her probable demise. My point was that we didn't have enough information to state that she was impaired at all. I guess my comment was misinterpreted or misread. It certainly could be a tragic accident.
They have already confirmed there was no foul play so speculation about ghb is ridiculous and irresponsible.
WHO?
Link.
Or nothing.
I just started following this thread, because yesterday I was in Newport, OR and saw quite a few of the missing persons posters up for this case.
My thoughts. A drunk woman, late at night, walking along the sea wall, while texting about the moon over the ocean, is a disaster waiting to happen. People fall into the water and drown all the time here.
Summer drownings, 2006-present
I believe that was directed at my post. From my experience when someone spends an evening drinking in a bar, they are usually impaired when they leave. That comes from my personal experience. My dad was an alcoholic. More then once the cops came to our house, to tell my mother that they had found my dad laying on the sidewalk “again” bleeding from his head, and she should go to the Emergency Room and pick him up.
Like it or not, drinking alcohol impairs your abilities. People really shouldn’t be driving, walking or riding a bike after consuming any amount of alcohol. The argument that she only had one drink, sounds improbable. That sounds like something, someone would tell a cop when they get stopped for DUI. “I only had one or two drinks”. Yeah, right.
The first time I read the details of this case, there was no doubt in my mind that she fell off the bridge. Other posters here had already pegged that would have been the location of her last text.
I am glad for her family's sake she was found...RIP young lady..... we will more then likely never know what happened, but I hope it was fast ....So very sad...IMHO
WHO?
Link.
Or nothing.
Katy Roe’s autopsy complete; results under investigation
PORTLAND — The Oregon State Police Medical Examiner’s office completed the autopsy on Katherine “Katy” Roe, although the official cause of death of the Depoe Bay woman has not yet been determined.
Deputy State Medical Examiner Christopher Young said Friday, May 6, that Roe’s autopsy had been finished, but the results are still under investigation.
U.S. Coast Guard Station Depoe Bay personnel discovered Roe’s body in the ocean just outside Depoe Bay Harbor on Thursday, May 5 at 5 a.m.
"There were no obvious indications of foul play, and the body’s condition was consistent with having been in the water since her disappearance"
But still under investigation means, by my experience, awaiting the toxicology results which could take some time. If there were ligature, a blow to the head, etc., not always obvious, it would be concluded after the autopsy. Investigating means waiting on tox and DNA possibly.
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BBMThe statement about "no obvious indications of foul play" was issued before the autopsy, I think. I find it curious that they say the autopsy results are under investigation. If it were a simple drowning, I feel like they would say that. Rest in Peace Katy.
A 22-year-old Depoe Bay woman whose body was found last week in the ocean near Depoe Bay Harbor appears to have drowned...
An autopsy by the state Medical Examiner's Office found no signs of traumatic injury or trauma, sheriff's officials said in a news release. Toxicology results are pending.
+If there were no signs of traumatic injury or trauma, it would seem that she entered the water from the beach, rather than falling down the rocks somehow. I'm also thinking that a sneaker wave would have tossed her around and battered her, but perhaps not. However she got into the water, she drowned and it's a tragedy.