FL - Ky. couple found dead of CO poisoning at I-95 rest area

[fraudqueen]

That's the same rest area where another young couple were found dead after a few days. Same Thing. Terrible

 

[JeannaT]

Sounds to me like they were just trying to sleep, and died. So sad.

 

[Armchair2]

I'm beginning to see a common link

 

[Splenda]

But, didn't I hear that the emergency flashers were on in the car? Carbon Monoxide poisoning is usually a silent killer. If they were alert enough to turn on the flashers, wouldn't they have had the ability to hit 911 if they were feeling sick? On a side note, jb, this looks like a pic of my dog.

 

[bflocket]

Did they release the results of any toxicology tests that might have been done on them?

I mean no offense whatsoever, but when I hear "Eastern Kentucky" and "Florida" mentioned in the same sentence, opiates are 250% likely to be involved somehow. Could that kind of thing have caused them to pass out and neglect the fact that their car's running?

I know for a fact that there are lots of folks from Kentucky (especially Eastern KY) that are hooked on opiates and will go down to Florida to get them. That was a few years ago and people would go down to the many Pain Clinics down there due to it being a retirement (i.e. old folks with medical issues) area.

That was much more common back then, back when people just wanted Percocets or OxyContin and could get them easily somewhere. I don't know if is like that today, now that heroin's taken over both the small towns and bigger towns of Kentucky. Heroin is the main thing that came out of them getting so strict with scheduled drugs.

 

[fraudqueen]

Did they release the results of any toxicology tests that might have been done on them?

I mean no offense whatsoever, but when I hear "Eastern Kentucky" and "Florida" mentioned in the same sentence, opiates are 250% likely to be involved somehow. Could that kind of thing have caused them to pass out and neglect the fact that their car's running?


I know for a fact that there are lots of folks from Kentucky (especially Eastern KY) that are hooked on opiates and will go down to Florida to get them. That was a few years ago and people would go down to the many Pain Clinics down there due to it being a retirement (i.e. old folks with medical issues) area.

That was much more common back then, back when people just wanted Percocets or OxyContin and could get them easily somewhere. I don't know if is like that today, now that heroin's taken over both the small towns and bigger towns of Kentucky. Heroin is the main thing that came out of them getting so strict with scheduled drugs.

All the pain clinics in Florida were shut down, I believe....at least all of the ones I've known about. Even family doctors will not write scripts for pain killers anymore. It's really sad for the people who need them for medical reasons.

 

[Elley Mae]

Authorities are investigating whether the couple, who apparently had been dead for several days, died of carbon monoxide poisoning. Kelshaw said the car's tank was empty, the battery dead and the ignition key was in the "on" position.

http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/37706024.html

bbm

 

[Elley Mae]

Sgt. Chuck Mulligan, a St. Johns County, Fla., sheriff's spokesman, said he has no evidence that Kenneth Oldham, 23, and Kayla Hinton, 22, had drugs or alcohol in their systems. But in their black Volkswagen Jetta was a bottle of pain pills prescribed by a South Florida physician and filled by a pharmacy there just before they died.

http://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article43996500.html

bbm, jmo I think it's possible that they did take the pills from the empty bottle found and from the car running the carbine monoxide and combination of pills is what caused their deaths. So sad

 

[Elley Mae]

A medical examiner says that young Kentucky couple found dead at Florida rest area last month, died carbon monoxide poisoning.

According to a St. Augustine newspaper, the bodies had carbon monoxide levels of 45 percent.

The report also indicates the car’s catalytic converter had been removed, which might have contributed to their deaths.

http://www.wsaz.com/home/headlines/37649269.html

 

[bflocket]

All the pain clinics in Florida were shut down, I believe....at least all of the ones I've known about. Even family doctors will not write scripts for pain killers anymore. It's really sad for the people who need them for medical reasons.

I think the Pill Mills were still going strong when this couple died and a few years thereafter. That's via my own eyes, not any kind of research.

Those regulations haven't done anything but harm. An older person, say someone in their 80's, with longstanding pain (i.e arthritis) has to be brought to the doctor's office every few weeks. Not for a "health related" check-up, for a pee-test to make sure that they've been taking their pills. The people the regulations were aimed at have moved on from snorting Oxycodone to shooting heroin. But they still keep their eyes on the patients that need pain (or anxiety, ADHD, etc) legitimately.

I saw a story the other day about some man from Chicago being arrested because he sold Fentanyl-laced heroin that led to 10-or-so OD's in central Kentucky