Anna Nicole Cause of Death Two Hours Away

Anna Nicole SmithAll eyes -- including TMZ's -- will be on Dr. Joshua Perper, Broward County Medical Examiner, who will announce the cause of death in the Anna Nicole Smith case at 10:30 AM EST.

Dr. Perper delayed the announcement because of what he termed were two new pieces of evidence, one of which, as TMZ reported, was a computer belonging to Smith that contained e-mail messages with doctors who supplied Anna Nicole with prescription drugs.

A live feed of the announcement from WTVJ in Miami can be found here. TMZ will have the announcement as it happens and will have constant updates as they emerge.

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211. The medical examiner and the police gave their report..none of us had the information they had to come to this conclusion..I resent that people make fun of the ME and the place on his head...take the time if you know how to read his background...he is well respected in his field and so far all the professionals on TV have agreed with him.....even though the biased reports try to get something different from them

Posted at 12:07PM on Mar 26th 2007 by Monday

212. We all know that Mo lied on TV. He said that Howard gave Anna drugs, and that Howard was acting funny on the day Anna died....I thought the police in FL. were smater than this....This was not a accident . It is gross neglect...Remember doctor shopping is a crime . Maybe the DEA needs to step in and do the right thing,arrest these scumbag doctors..

Posted at 12:31PM on Apr 2nd 2007 by cajun queen

213. FACT:

two people are dead, within 6 months, both young, both basically healthy

common thread HOWARD K STERN

Anna does drugs for 1/2 her life, she dies NOW? She had a high tolerance and knew her threshold.

Daniel is fine in LA, he is on anti depressants, he has some drinks with HKS and is dead in 48 hours.

Daniel was not prescribed methadone, it was given to him by Stern

Anna was not prescribed methadone, it was obtained by HKS

Two items in Annas frig, methadone, and weight loss shakes, would be easy to mix the two and administer

Anna runs a high fever days before death and HOWARD who LOVES her does nothing?

She died alone, no HOWARD around

Claims to be the father of Dannilynn HKS> but vigorously fights DNA testing?

Has no other client for a DECADE but ANNA NICOLE?

Last year California court rules ANNA can claim Marshall's estate (the old man)

Anna gets contract with Trimspa starts making money again

Has baby in Bahamas where laws on paternity are different. HOWARD is listed on BC after ANNA tells news media Larry Birkhead is father, HKS tells BIrkhead to deny this info.

Look, Howard K Stern is a moron, but smart enough to set himself up by killing Anna and Daniel, why Daniel you ask> because he was suspicious of Stern, also to give Anna something to grieve to further the idea that she didn't want to live, she LOVED the spotlight, she DIDN'T want to die, no matter how grief stricken, she had Danni to live for.

FACT: Computer mysteriously is stolen in 24 hours of Anna's death? ALONG with other personal information> computer hard drive cleaner ran on HD of laptop within hours of Anna's death....hmmmmm, interesting.

THIS is a WHITE OJ deal if I ever saw it, I just hope Birkhead gets his kid and HKS is left with nothing, he is no attorney thats for sure....there blood is all over him...

Posted at 12:31PM on Mar 26th 2007 by wake up people

214. A few interesting things Stern said on Larry King :
Aired September 26, 2006 - 21:00 ET

1) Daniel Wayne Smith Charitable Trust rec'd the money from the photos? Where is this trust, and where is the money?
2) Stern is "not too familiar with how medications work"? Interesting.
3) But he is familiar with the difference between the role of a Coroner in the Bahama and a Coroner in the US? hmmmmm....
4) It's up to a jury to decide if there were three people in Anna's hospital room? Was there, or was there not a third person in the room?


STERN: When we had all the media outcry after Daniel passed, there's literally been photographers camped across the street, driving back and forth, camera crews. And we decided that if we release those images, which told a story of a joyous night, that it was going to be a good thing and we were going to do it to create a Daniel Wayne Smith Charitable Foundation. So she hasn't profited from those images. You know, those images were used or are going to be -- she hasn't received any money yet. Obviously, the funeral is going to take place long before any money comes from that.
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KING: What are the latest test results on the cause of death of Daniel?
STERN: We're still waiting. You know, we're still waiting to find out what the cause is. We got some initial toxicology reports from the Doctor's Hospital, which came out negative, except for a medication called Lexapro but we also now have an indication that there may have been other prescriptive medication in his system but we don't know, you know, if that would have contributed to his death or not.
KING: Now, Lexapro is an antidepressant, right?
STERN: Yes, I'm not too familiar with how medications work but, yes, it's an antidepressant.
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KING: What was the biggest misconception?
STERN: Of how the media has reported it? KING: Yes.
STERN: Oh, well, I mean, you name it. They said that there was blood and that there was vomit in the room, which is absolutely false. The way that Magistrate Virgil used words like "suspicious" and "not natural" when she's, you know, she's legally trained. She's not a doctor.
You know, people don't understand that the coroner here in the Bahamas is different than a coroner in the United States. The coroner in the United States is a doctor and actually would be the pathologist who does the autopsy and that's not the case in the Bahamas.
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Just, you know, other -- the way that she had said, you know, initially that there may or may not have been a third person in the room. It's up to the jury to decide and then followed that up with saying that she knows who the third person in the room was but, you know, didn't want to prejudice the investigation.
When I had been in the room the whole time, you know, from the time that Anna had given birth and all the hospital personnel knew that and, you know, all the authorities knew that. I was actually the person who gave the initial police statement.

Posted at 12:51PM on Mar 26th 2007 by Hmmmmm...

215. Oh Yes...Howard killed her and Daniel...? AND THEN HE Bought off the ME and the Cops.. with what $$$$?? Please ....................... Give me a Flipping Break!

Posted at 12:39PM on Mar 26th 2007 by Anna's Angel

216. I wonder if anyone has considered, along with the prescription drugs, looking into antifreeze poisoning as in the two cases in Atlanta, Georgia which resulted in death.of two men involved with the same woman. iNITIALLY RULED ACCIDENTLY!!!!

There is definitely something wrong with this picture. Anna's mother was sooooooo RIGHT when she warned Anna to be careful>>>"You might be next".

WITH ALL THE PEOPLE INVOLVED IN HER "24 HOUR" EVERY DAY LIFE, SOMEONE NEEDS TO BE HELD RESPONSIBLE..

GET THAT YOUNG BABY GIRL TO A SAFE HAVEN>>>>>NOW.

Posted at 7:23PM on Mar 26th 2007 by Flora

217. #110 I agee with you .I will never watch E.T. again

Posted at 1:34PM on Mar 26th 2007 by jane

218. Anna accidently overdosed a couple of times years ago, but she always got medical treatment at a hospital, I believe this was before she met Stern. Why is it that she got so afraid to go to Hospitals after she met Stern?? Maybe he is controlling her life?? Maybe Stern knew that sooner of later Anna would accidently overdoes again (or it could be helped along). In a court of law it would be hard to say that" it could be proved beyond a reasonable doubt " that Anna had been helped to be accidently overdosed. So Howard will be free on this one. The coroner was lying when he said it would be too hard to give Anna the drug without her knowing... She wanted the drug, she was going to take the drug, what's to stop someone from giving her just a little too much??. No, she would not have to be forced, because she would have trusted that she was not getting too much. Just enough to make her not wake up. Also the coroner lied when he said the drug has a bitter taste and it could not be secretly given in something like food, etc., That can't be true because that is what was called Mickey Finn..it was used for date rape years ago in alcohol. Also I wonder why it took so long for Perper to find the sore injection site with other scars on her buttock?? NOW VERGIE AND ANNA'S FATHER CAN SUE DR. KHRIS FOR WRONGFUL DEATH, BECAUSE DR. KHRIS SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN ANNA HELP. I HOPE VERGIE DOES SUE EVERYONE RESPONSIBLE. I KNOW, IF IT WERE ANNA SHE WOULD SUE. ALSO ESPECIALLY THE BABY SHOULD BE GIVEN A GUARDIAN AND A LAWYER BECAUSE THE BABY CERTAINLY SHOULD SUE FOR WRONGFUL DEATH. ANNA WOULD CERTAINLY SUE.

Posted at 1:50PM on Mar 26th 2007 by Mary K

219. I do not think there was foul play involved. I think it's unfortunate however if you may recall when Anna Nicole was doing her reality show, many times she was obviously high. She and her son both had severe problems and thats a pity, but don't be quick to cry wolf when it may be nothing more than a horriffic tragedy.

Posted at 8:16PM on Apr 26th 2007 by amsetti

220.

First ~ TV Guide Channel, which this site is part of, has devoted 2 hours complaining that the Broward County Medical Examiners office. ( Dr.Perper ) has been less than fourth coming with her cause of death . Rightly so !

I'm asking TV Guide Channel , who should be reading this, to get in touch with me, Then look at all of my documentation ,talk to my experts and ask why My Dad who was killed at Eisenhower Hospital showed positive for the same CHLAMYDIA markers : CHLAMYDIA Psittacosis ,CHLAMYDIA trachomatis & Chlamydia pneumoniae ? My Mom and Dad were married for 63 years. My Mom does NOT test Positive .

Is it because they're afraid of a Pandemic ? We know CHLAMYDIA is Morphing as Dr. Dean from Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute has shown in her study. Is it because most Hospitals are infected with these Parasites ? We do know that CHLAMYDIA is no longer an ( STD ) Sexually Transmitted Disease . It's now become an Airborne Disease .

All I find myself asking everyday since my Dad was killed, is why hasn't the Riverside Health Dept. in Calif , who notified us of my Dad testing positive for CHLAMYDIA while in Eisenhower Hospital come forward. We've even told the Riverside Coroner that had my Dad's body for 3 and a half weeks that this blood work exists. It's been over 6 months and we still have no cause of death.

It's going to take some one in the media that has some huge ones to come forward and take on these Institutions of Health .

Posted at 5:46AM on Apr 3rd 2007 by DadRestinPeace

221.

First ~ TV Guide Channel, which this site is part of, has devoted 2 hours complaining that the Broward County Medical Examiners office. ( Dr.Perper ) has been less than fourth coming with her cause of death . Rightly so !

I'm asking TV Guide Channel , who should be reading this, to get in touch with me, Then look at all of my documentation ,talk to my experts and ask why My Dad who was killed at Eisenhower Hospital showed positive for the same CHLAMYDIA markers : CHLAMYDIA Psittacosis ,CHLAMYDIA trachomatis & Chlamydia pneumoniae ? My Mom and Dad were married for 63 years. My Mom does NOT test Positive .

Is it because they're afraid of a Pandemic ? We know CHLAMYDIA is Morphing as Dr. Dean from Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute has shown in her study. Is it because most Hospitals are infected with these Parasites ? We do know that CHLAMYDIA is no longer an ( STD ) Sexually Transmitted Disease . It's now become an Airborne Disease .

All I find myself asking everyday since my Dad was killed, is why hasn't the Riverside Health Dept. in Calif , who notified us of my Dad testing positive for CHLAMYDIA while in Eisenhower Hospital come forward. We've even told the Riverside Coroner that had my Dad's body for 3 and a half weeks that this blood work exists. It's been over 6 months and we still have no cause of death.

It's going to take some one in the media that has some huge ones to come forward and take on these Institutions of Health . Well to answer some of your questions the best way that I can.

First ~ TV Guide Channel, which this site is part of, has devoted 2 hours complaining that the Broward County Medical Examiners office. ( Dr.Perper ) has been less than fourth coming with her cause of death . Rightly so !

I'm asking TV Guide Channel , who should be reading this, to get in touch with me, Then look at all of my documentation ,talk to my experts and ask why My Dad who was killed at Eisenhower Hospital showed positive for the same CHLAMYDIA markers : CHLAMYDIA Psittacosis ,CHLAMYDIA trachomatis & Chlamydia pneumoniae ? My Mom and Dad were married for 63 years. My Mom does NOT test Positive .

Is it because they're afraid of a Pandemic ? We know CHLAMYDIA is Morphing as Dr. Dean from Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute has shown in her study. Is it because most Hospitals are infected with these Parasites ? We do know that CHLAMYDIA is no longer an ( STD ) Sexually Transmitted Disease . It's now become an Airborne Disease .

All I find myself asking everyday since my Dad was killed, is why hasn't the Riverside Health Dept. in Calif , who notified us of my Dad testing positive for CHLAMYDIA while in Eisenhower Hospital come forward. We've even told the Riverside Coroner that had my Dad's body for 3 and a half weeks that this blood work exists. It's been over 6 months and we still have no cause of death.

It's going to take some one in the media that has some huge ones to come forward and take on these Institutions of Health .

Posted at 5:56AM on Apr 3rd 2007 by DadRestinPeace

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