Smith Autopsy Results: Accidental Overdose

Fox News | 3/26/07

[pabianice]

No evidence of illegal drugs. Nothing unusual on video. Nothing to indicate foul play. Accidental overdose with no criminal evidence present.

[Texas Songwriter]

At autopsy, the buttocks' abcesses are a curiosity. Most of the time these are 'sterile abcesses'....though not always. What I would like to know is what made the woman septic. If she died of sepsis and pneumonia, as originally reported, then a pivotal question becomes, 'What was the offending bacteria?" If she died of Gram posivive cocci....Staphlococcus.... with Staph pneumonia then it is likely it was due to dirty needles. The fact that she had abcesses of the buttocks indicated that she did not inject herself....she was spoiled and I am sure not the kind of junkie we mostly think about when we consider self administered narcotics. The most common form of pneumonia in heroin addicts is Staphlococcus pneumonia. Now, she was taking Methodone, a drug which is in itself a narcotic, and is used mostly to wean people off of heroin, morphine, dilaudid...very potent narcotics.

Therefore, if she died of Staph pneumonia, it was most likely administered by someone else. I wonder if the medical examiner performed cultures on the vials of medication which was injected. That might be interesting.

This woman was essentially well nourished, not in need of nutritional supplimentation and therefore should have had an intact immune system. Relatively speaking, fairly few well nourished patients, not immunocompromised, die of Staph pneumonia. Relatively speaking with reference to the general population, lots of heroin addicts (self injecting drug users) develope Staph pneumonia.

[Sam's Army]

"Society is to blame. And Bush."

I blame it on too much caffeine. And not enough.

[KoRn]

Top 100!

[nmh]

IMHO this was a very confused girl that hung with the wrong people. She was weak morally to begin with and her "friends" enabled her death. They were sadistic, financial parasites. The end is still not here yet ... now it's the baby's turn to be a money maker.

I feel so sorry for this little girl ... she'll never know for sure if people love HER or her MONEY. Truly donating this money to charity would give her a healthy chance in life otherwise it will destroy her too.

IMHO, they should remove that baby from Stern. TWO people died directly on HIS watch. How many more need to die before it is in your face clear that very BAD THINGS happen around Howard K.Stern?

Do you think it's normal to have SEVEN, paid up enforce life insurance policies on ANS? I don't. He was an enabler waiting to cash in or her dead, or alive - it didn't matter to him. He IS sadistic and money is his god. He makes my skin crawl.

I don't know about the others ... perhaps her mom didn't do such a good job raising her ... so that maybe this wouldn't have happened but she DOES love her daughter and her grand daughter. I feel sorry for her. Perhaps if Anna had a DAD growing up, he would have protected her from predators and shown her HEALHTY LOVE - not ugly exploitive, simulated sex as "love". Girls NEED their Daddy in their life - ANS didn't have that either.

I wouldn't be surprised that part of the attraction to the old billionaire and his money was looking for a FATHER FIGURE that might love her instead of just using her as an object to satisfy himself - face facts - no matter how much Viagra this old guy took, it couldn't have been too often that she had to perform her "wifely duties". He took her shopping and in his own way tried to care for her.

It's a very sad situation. As for Larry - who knows what he is all about ... time will tell.

[nmh]

"If ALL of this is true..(Why is the report being made by an Indian tribe?), she and her people have to be the stupidest people around. She's taking NINE medications and running a 105 temperature? Anything over 103 is very dangerous in adults, and someone taking so many medications? HKS should have called 911 and had them DRAG her there. I know it's easy in retrospect. I'm sure in their world, there are doctors who will come to you..yes...even in your hotel room.
It still stinks. Maybe he didn't do it, but he has her blood on his hands."

Hildy you are absolutely RIGHT!

A NORMAL person would do that.

HKS is NOT a normal person. He is a sadistic parasite. He could care less about ANS. He was busy buying a boat with HER money when she died.

How many people, do you know that have SEVEN, in force, paid up, life insurance policies on a 39 year old woman? Dead or alive he was determined to make money off her. She was his cash cow.

HWS makes my skin crawl. There is something very cold about him. Had I been him, as soon as that fever climbed to 105 - an ambulance would have been called and I'd have been at the side of that loved one - till they were okay. The difference is HKS didn't give a flying you know what about her - just cared about her money.

I suspect the baby is no on his radar screen to keep his pockets lined ... . I would bet you she had no idea what she signed or said with all those drugs in her. HKS was controlling the situation. ANS was in NO condition to think or behave rationally and HWK totally exploited that to his advantage - now he wants the baby and to head up the MONEY - hopefully they'll find something to throw this creep in jail.

[nmh]

..(Why is the report being made by an Indian tribe?),

She died in an Indian territory, Seminole and they have sovernity from the regular police force - it's weird but true.

[nmh]

"... lots of heroin addicts (self injecting drug users) develope Staph pneumonia."

Methadone is the drug of choice when pregnant to stave off heroin use. This could also explain WHY she had pneumonia just after she gave birth to her baby. I suspect she was a heroin user.

[firewalk]

If what you think is true, he'll get nailed (& so will other people)
patience...

[tennmountainman]

How do you know she wasn't been feed the drugs to keep her in a cunfused state. After all, based on some reports, assets she paid for were transferred into a corporation controlled by Stern.

I'm not saying it's so, but certainly a possibility.

[pitinkie]

ping

[Texas Songwriter]

It is said, 'The most successful murder is one in which no one suspects the death was a murder."

To have died of sepsis as a complication of contaminated needle might just fit that bill. Howard Stern is not a bacteria, but if the injectibles were cultured and found to be laced with bacteria, one of many species, especially one that caused her pneumonia and sepsis, that confluence might up the ante in regards to suspicion. It, at least, deserves consideration.

[tennmountainman]

And who might be sticking her with dirty needles in the rear?

[nmh]

"If what you think is true, he'll get nailed (& so will other people)
patience..."

Frankly I'd never heard of her till she died and was bombarded like everyone else with her on the news. As I saw snippets of interviews of her ... you could SEE she was OUT OF IT in a major way. Of course ole HKS was at her side grinning. In my book, this is unabashed sadism - seeing someone in self destruct mode and ENCOURGAING it. He knew darn well she was on TOO MANY drugs. Upi cannot do this indefinitely - perhaps the reason for SEVEN, PAID up and inforce life insurance policies on ANS?

Someone needs to be punished for this. She may have very well popped those drugs in her mouth or rear but those around her made SURE large quantities of these drugs were available for her. That's not right - I draw the line there - she was too out of it to know what she was doing.

I give her mother credit in speaking out when her son died - warning her about the company she kept - they were bad news. I can also understand her hate towards her mother for saying that - although I don't believe she REALLY hated her mother - just hated hearing the TRUTH about the company she was keeping.

[nmh]

"How do you know she wasn't been feed the drugs to keep her in a confused state. After all, based on some reports, assets she paid for were transferred into a corporation controlled by Stern. "

I believe you hit the nail on the head -

keep her in a CONFUSED state to keep CONTROL of her MONEY.

Isolate her so others can't help her and cash in on her dead or alive - that's how I see this sadistic parasite, HKS. He gives me the creeps. He's a very COLD, CALCULATING person.

[NavyCanDo]

Greta Van Susteren should be able to milk another three or four weeks out of this story.

[nmh]

HKS?

The "nurse"?

[firewalk]

I agree with you...

[jrg]

Accodental overdose of what?

Semen, apparently.

[msgumshoe]

The HGH (human growth hormone) and B-12 were used for anti-aging and were injectibles. The only other drugs she injected were anti-nausea drug and methadone.

Her behind was apparently, a huge pin cushion that had been getting injections for so long it was full of scar tissue and even abscesses. One was pierced and sent infection through her blood that probably caused the high fever. Antiobiotics that DR KE provided brought that under control but still may have contributed in part to her death.

The drugs that killed her was primarily choral hydrate in combination with a host of anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds.

All of these drugs were being prescribed by 3 different doctors who we are being told, didn't know about eachother. But what of Dr. KE? She was there day and night for 6 months???

How could she not know? What about HKS who picked up all the meds and testified that he adminstered her meds to keep her safe?

Surely... surely... this is not over.

[Arizona Carolyn]

All those questions and more have been answered on the ANS thread... We are on thread two but the threads have been running in chat since February 8th.