Posted on 04/12/2018 12:58:29 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s office recently ruled that the Mountain View woman whose body was found floating in the water along the Bay Trail in Sunnyvale last December died of drowning.
According to an autopsy report medical examiner Dr. Joseph O’Hara signed off on March 28, Chuchu Ma had “multiple minor blunt force injuries and pulmonary edema consistent with drowning.”
But while Ma’s cause of death may be known, the manner of her death remains undetermined, perhaps indefinitely. Monday morning, Capt. Shawn Ahearn of the Sunnyvale Department of Pubilc Safety said Ma’s case is now considered closed.
The 23-year-old Google engineer was found in the water Dec. 7 and pronounced dead at the scene. The autopsy report, obtained by the Town Crier, noted that witnesses saw Ma entering the water the previous day and that a 911 call showed her to be disoriented. The report states that Ma’s “confused state is highly suggestive of psychotic behavior and may explain her entry into the water.”
However, nothing in Ma’s medical records revealed that she had expressed suicidal thoughts.
The autopsy report ruled out any sexual violence against Ma, based on the lack of physical injuries.
The toxicology report also came back clean for any alcohol, illegal drugs or prescription drugs. Only caffeine was found in her system. In December, a representative from the county’s medical examiner-coroner’s office said that the autopsy and toxicology reports were supposed to take four to 12 weeks. Instead, it took the county four months to release Ma’s cause of death.
Thank You
It happened 20 years ago.
They are in God’s Hands now.
But I still miss Both of Them.
My condolences for Your loss.
It brings the fragility of Life into perspective real fast, doesn’t it?
Tin foil hat on.
Was she working on Google’s contract with the NSA?
Tin foil hat off.
5.56mm
She was acting confused and near the water when last seen AND SHE HAD NO DRUGS BUT ONLY CAFFEINE IN HER BLOOD STREAM, so.. Suicide!
http://padailypost.com/2018/04/09/doctor-offers-hypothesis-about-how-google-engineer-died/
Dr. Elizabeth Fraze suggested that, considering the 23-year-old Google engineer’s history of pancreatitis and the fact that she was monitoring her blood sugar with a medical device, she may have experienced the cognitive impairment and behavioral changes that can accompany the low blood sugar state suffered by diabetics.
“Diabetics drive their cars into trees and wipe out buses of nuns all the time,” Fraze said. “My diabetic patients carry a card that says, ‘If I’m acting oddly, I’m diabetic. Please look into my blood sugar.’”
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Fraze suggested that Ma could have been hypoglycemic rather than psychotic or suicidal, but said that her hypothesis didn’t contradict O’Hara’s conclusion that she had likely entered the water in a confused state and drowned.
“Hypoglycemia starves the brain,” Fraze said. “There are medical reasons that could explain her confusing actions.”
Fraze has practiced endocrinology for 37 years and is an adjunct professor at Stanford, but emphasized that her background is not in forensics and her knowledge of Ma’s death is limited to what she read in the Post and Ma’s autopsy report.
That report shows that Ma had slightly high blood sugar when she was autopsied, which Fraze said could indicate the Somogyi effect, a spike in blood sugar in response to hypoglycemia.
Thank you. Yes, it certainly does. I knew two college friends killed during college or shortly thereafter and another fraternity brother who dove into a pool and broke his neck. Life is fragile and short and takes unexpected turns.
Cognitive Dysfunction and Diabetes Mellitus, April 2008.
"The deleterious effects of diabetes mellitus on the retinal, renal, cardiovascular, and peripheral nervous systems are widely acknowledged. Less attention has been given to the effect of diabetes on cognitive function. Both type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus have been associated with reduced performance on numerous domains of cognitive function. The exact pathophysiology of cognitive dysfunction in diabetes is not completely understood, but it is likely that hyperglycemia, vascular disease, hypoglycemia, and insulin resistance play significant roles."
“...multiple minor blunt force injuries and pulmonary edema consistent with drowning.”
Since when are blunt force injuries consistent with drowning?
The autopsy report, obtained by the Town Crier, noted that witnesses saw Ma entering the water the previous day and that a 911 call showed her to be disoriented.
How could a 911 call "show her to be disoriented"? Did the caller think Ma was disoriented? Based on what?
Did the police show up and interview Chuchu Ma after the 911 call? If not, how do they know it was the same woman on both days? If so, what did the police do after interviewing her?
Not enough information.
The drowning doesn’t seem to indicate anything, but seeing the picture you posted (if that is the location where she drowned) I would say the LOCATION is what SMELLS BAD about the incident.
Doesn’t seem like the kind of place one would want to go swimming to begin with.
So someone beat her to a pulp, knocked her out and tossed her in the drink.
Clear evidence of foul play. This is a murder. Case to be buried because it's inconvenient.
But witnesses saw her acting strangely near or in the water, no?
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