Cause of Death for Hannah Anderson’s Mom Only Makes DiMaggio’s Motives Harder to Understand

dinsdag 20 augustus 2013

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by Adriana Velez 3 hours ago

A sad bit of closure has been reached in the case of abducted teen Hannah Anderson. The San Diego coronor's office has released the cause of death for Hannah's mother: Christina Anderson died from "blunt force injury of head." Her death has been ruled a homicide, and she was declared dead at 8:25 p.m. though police do not know at what time she actually died. According to a leaked arrest warrant, Anderson was found in family friend James DiMaggio's burned home next to a crowbar.

Since the coroner's report doesn't mention burns or smoke inhalation, we may be able to infer that she died before DiMaggio's home was set on fire ... but that doesn't make her death any less horrific or tragic. She was still murdered in a brutal way. And we still don't know why.

There are the allegations that Christina and her 8-year-old son, Ethan, were tortured before their deaths. There is no new information either confirming or refuting this. And there is still no report on the cause of Ethan's death. According to reports, his body was found badly burned. So a lot of questions are still to be answered -- and yet I'm not sure how much we really want to know.

But most puzzling of all, even if police do prove that DiMaggio killed Christina and Ethan, we may never know what his motivation was. Does Hannah even know? She says she didn't even know her mother and brother had been killed.

With DiMaggio also dead, police are left to piece the case together based on what they can find. With every new detail revealed, it's even more infuriating to know that DiMaggio will never have to answer for his alleged crimes -- if he really was responsible for the deaths of Christina, Ethan, and their dog.

Do you think police will ever figure out why Christina and Ethan were killed?

Image via San Diego Sheriff's Dept.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Adriana Velez

is a staff writer who dabbles in food, parenting, news, entertainment, molecular biology, and anything else that that pops into her head. She lives with her elementary school-aged son in Brooklyn, land of urban farms and artisan everything.  

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Cory Monteith’s Cause of Death Is Exactly What We Feared

woensdag 17 juli 2013

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by Adriana Velez 11 hours ago

We have a sad update to the story of 31-year-old Cory Monteith's unexpected death. The Vancouver, Canada police have announced that according to the British Columbia Coroners Service, Cory Monteith died of "mixed drug toxicity, involving heroin and alcohol." It's what we'd feared -- and what we'd suspected. Cory lost his battle against substance abuse. In a statement, the coroner's office said, "There is no evidence to suggest Mr. Monteith's death was anything other than a most tragic accident."

I'm horribly sorry to hear this was Monteith's cause of death. I was hoping it could have been something else, a freak aneurysm, anything. I wanted to believe rehab earlier this year had worked for him, that Lea Michele's love could sustain him. In the end, neither was enough. I don't know what anyone else could have possibly done to prevent this death.

We still know very little at this point -- what triggered his relapse, how he got the drugs and alcohol, and who was enabling him. Police believe he was alone at the time, which is utterly heartbreaking. We do know that as a seasoned addict (his history with substance abuse goes way back, to his early teens), he knew how to hide it well.

An ex-girlfriend, Mallory Matoush, says, "Cory kept me in the dark about his drug use." She says he just seemed like a "happy guy" to her. He'd told her about his earlier struggles, but he never did drugs in front of her, and she saw him drink only moderately. She was shocked to hear about his death. "He had so much more to do. He would have done so many good things with his life."

According to TMZ, Cory was living a double life. While in Los Angeles he showed up for work sober, every single time. But when he returned home to Vancouver, his friends would weaken his resolve. His family, Lea, and sober supportive friends were aware of and deeply concerned about these relapses in Canada.

How do you feel knowing that it's been confirmed that drugs and alcohol caused Cory Monteith's death?

Image via Splash News

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