Who Gave Anna Fatal Dose?

SmithIt is unclear if Anna took the fatal drug cocktail that killed her on her own or if someone gave it to her.

In all, she was taking nine drugs, including Valium, Ativan, antihistamines and chloral hydrate. She was also taking muscle relaxers. But Dr. Perper says it was impossible to know if she took some or all of the drugs without assistance.

Smith was on a variety of pain medication, including methadone, but none of those meds had anything to do with Anna's death, this according to Dr. Perper.

There was no evidence of complications with surgery either, including Smith's recent C-section operation.

We also learned today that the "additional evidence" that delayed today's announcement was information contained in Anna's computer. TMZ is told that the laptop computer was actually owned by Howard K. Stern.

Stern gave authorities access to the computer. The laptop helped determine the manner of death. Authorities were looking to see if there were e-mails showing the possibility of suicide or homicide but neither were found.





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16. What about the DOCTORS who prescribed large amounts of lethel drugs.......can somebody explaine why they are not be held accountable ???????

Posted at 11:39AM on Mar 26th 2007 by Just a thought

17. Frog level is right...
This is the real question that needs to be answered.... and UNTIL it is answered I fail to see how homicide is or can be ruled out !!!!

So this in itself...proves that it is so far a COVER UP !

Posted at 6:46PM on Mar 26th 2007 by Cari7000

18. HK$, YOU ARE A PRETTY SMART COOKIE. NOW YOU CAN RIGHT A GOOD "HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER BOOK" BUT, GUESS WHAT...WE DON'T BELIEVE IT!

I TRUELY HOPE YOU DON'T GET THAT LITTLE GIRL BECAUSE SOMEDAY SHE WILL KNOW WHAT YOU DID!

Posted at 9:14PM on Mar 26th 2007 by mrs marple

19. uhm ok my point?

if she was suicidal she would prob updated her will leaving everything to her daughter.
Ativan is a light sedative good for someone who suffers from anxieties and need a lil help to sleep

when are they suppose to get the dna test?

Posted at 11:36AM on Mar 26th 2007 by canadianchick

20. HK$, YOU ARE A PRETTY SMART COOKIE. NOW YOU CAN RIGHT A GOOD "HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER BOOK" BUT, GUESS WHAT...WE DON'T BELIEVE IT!

I TRUELY HOPE YOU DON'T GET THAT LITTLE GIRL BECAUSE SOMEDAY SHE WILL KNOW WHAT YOU DID!

Posted at 11:36AM on Mar 26th 2007 by mrs marple

21. Now you tell me they didn't know what they were doing? I think her dr is responsible too check this out!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloral_hydrate

In therapeutic doses for insomnia it is effective within sixty minutes, it is metabolized within 4 minutes into trichloroethanol by erythrocytes and plasma esterases and many hours later into trichloroacetic acid. Higher doses can depress respiration and blood pressure. An overdose is marked by confusion, convulsions, nausea and vomiting, severe drowsiness, slow and irregular breathing, cardiac arrhythmia and weakness. It may also cause liver damage. It is moderately addictive. Chronic use can cause dependency and withdrawal symptoms. It can potentate various anticoagulants and is weakly mutagenic in vitro and in vivo.

Posted at 12:05PM on Mar 26th 2007 by HomocideInMyOpinion!

22. Just an FYI in case you are not aware it is 100% possible to inject yourself in the buttocks I did it throughout my who pregnancy to inject blood thinners also I have a friend that was on a diet and she gave herself in the buttocks B12 shots for almost a year and lost a lot of weight. I guess trimspa will be going down now from their class action law suit considering Anna was using other drugs to lose weight . ALso in order to swallow syrup I find it hard to believe someone would be able to shove it down her throat w/ out her coughing it back up

Posted at 11:44AM on Mar 26th 2007 by whatever

23. Can you believe that Perper? The biggest question that we have all been asking is did he ask that female psychiatrist why she prescribed drugs that were lethal in combination?

He just gave her and Stern their get out of jail free card. I can't believe he never once went there with pertinent questions, yet carefully danced around the truth.

I used to handle escalated complaints at a hospital and I know all the lingo to carefully avoid the fact of the matter. Play on words even though the patient file said GUILTY!

Posted at 11:52AM on Mar 26th 2007 by conrad

24. Great....note to self....

If I decide to murder someone, I do not.....repeat....I do not give them toxic dosage levels of a medication, it will look too suspicious.

Rather just do my research find out which medications have bad interactions with each other, then I give them therapeutic doses of each and then cross my fingers.

The mix of drugs will do the murder for me.....and the death will be declared accidental!

P.S. HK$ lied under oath, he said ANS had not taken metadone for a least 5 months, while Dr. Perp said it was in her bile (2-3 days prior)

Posted at 12:53PM on Mar 26th 2007 by Vigilante Justice

25. Anna Nicole autopsy report: Much ado about nothing!

All the world’s a stage, and a small-town medical examiner will be strutting his hour upon it today to announce his autopsy report on Anna Nicole Smith…and then will be heard from no more. But am I the only one who thinks the Florida officials dealing with the death of Anna Nicole must be drinking (or smoking) something that induces eccentric, erratic and wholly narcissistic behavior?

First we were variously entertained and outraged by the PT-Barnum performance of Judge Larry Seidlin who spent 6 days auditioning for a TV show instead of taking 6 hours to arrive at the patently-obvious decision to have Anna Nicole buried in The Bahamas.

Then there was Judge Lawrence Korda who we thought had restored judicial knowledge, temperament and dignity to the Florida bench (by punting litigation about Anna Nicole’s Will and the paternity of her baby to California and The Bahamas, respectively). Therefore, imagine our shock, dismay…and hysterical laughter when news broke last week that he was arrested for blithely smoking weed on a park bench.

Which brings me to today’s media event starring Broward County Medical Examiner Dr Joshua Perper. Because who knew that Seidlin was just an understudy to Perper when it came to doing anything to extend his 15 minutes of Anna-Nicole infamy. But this is the plot twist that has the entire world now fixated on Perper.

After all, Perper had everything he needed to determine the cause and manner of Anna Nicole’s death weeks ago. Yet he made himself the ringmaster in a circus of pundits speculating about foul play when he delayed his autopsy report - purportedly to consider new evidence. And, this delay has been made all the more farcical given media reports, um, er, rumors that this alleged new evidence was related to the invariably nebulous thoughts and drug solicitations Anna Nicole typed into her computer during some of her drug-induced streams of consciousness. (Thoughts, incidentally, which are probably catalogued more authentically in her two diaries that were just sold for half million dollars.)

I am not a pathologist, and I’m not going to play one here. By the same token, however, Perper is not a detective and he should not be playing one on TV. But that’s precisely the role he’ll be playing this morning when he makes his contrived-for-TV (and thoroughly-anticlimactic) announcement. Namely, that:

Anna Nicole’s death was accidental. And, that she died from infections and other complications caused by the ingestion and/or injection of a cocktail of drugs, which was made fatal as much by her own carelessness as by the negligence of others, including Howard K. Stern, who failed to seek proper medical attention for her. Period!

Alas, anyone tuning to hear this wannabe detective announce murder charges against Howard K. Stern will be justifiably disappointed….


Inquest into death of her son Daniel in The Bahamas


Of more worthwhile interest for Anna-Nicole junkies and, I suspect, far more worrisome for Stern, is the inquest into the death of her son that is scheduled to open tomorrow in The Bahamas.

The court will take testimony from a number of witnesses, including the coroner and forensic pathologists to explain the cause (an ingestion of a more lethal cocktail of drugs in his case) and manner of death (an accident due to the unexpected but fatal chemical interaction of those drugs). Indeed, I suspect the most sensational findings will be that Stern facilitated the illegal transshipment of drugs into the country and perverted the course of justice by disposing incriminating evidence after the fact. Both of which, of course, are relatively serious crimes and would land him in jail - if found guilt as charged.

After all evidence is presented (and with 20-plus witnesses scheduled to testify, this could take two to three weeks), the 7 or 9 members of the jury will present their findings to the judge - who can reject, amend or present them as is to the prosecutors. They in turn can reject, amend or prosecute based on their discretion.

Accordingly, I predict (but don’t bet your kid’s lunch money on this) that the jury will return a verdict (by a majority) of criminal mischief against Stern with respect to the findings cited above; that he will be prosecuted; and that Stern will be found guilty and sentenced to spend a fair amount of time in our island paradise in far less accommodating confines than he has become accustomed to at the Horizons estate.
http://www.theipinionsjournal.com/

Posted at 11:59AM on Mar 26th 2007 by For your information

26. Jen
How does the ME know what Anna was thinking...??? or how much she knew.......is he psychic too ???

The guy is a raving lunatic.... That drop on his head as a baby did more than just leave a lump.....thats for sure !

Posted at 3:53PM on Mar 26th 2007 by Cari7000

27. You just can't take the same amount of drugs when you weigh 150 as you could when you weighed 250.

Posted at 11:38AM on Mar 26th 2007 by MY THOTS

28. leave it to TMZ to still try to keep it going the said what they thought and you still need to keep it going I hope all of the parties get you for defamation of character

Posted at 11:45AM on Mar 26th 2007 by still can not let it go

29. SORRY, POST @15, I MEANT THIS FOR YOU SUE AT POST #2 HER MOTHER & SON WERE THE ONLY REAL PEOPLE IN HER LIFE!!!! WITH THAT SAID SUE, YOU NEED TO GET ONE!!!!

Posted at 12:14PM on Mar 26th 2007 by adrlau

30. It should not matter how you or I feel about Howard. Whether we think he’s Dannielynn’s rightful father and Anna’s best friend, or something else. What should matter, to every person who cares about “innocent until proven guilty” – to every person who cares about integrity, justice, and fairness – is that the media should not have the power to wholesale and purposely destroy a man’s life and reputation based on nothing more than gossip and hearsay.

Maggie

Posted at 11:32AM on Mar 26th 2007 by Maggie"

Amen Maggie... I cannot believe that even after the report has been disclosed people are still trashing Howard..really people you need to get a life...a real life

Posted at 11:42AM on Mar 26th 2007 by Lulu

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