PA Mom - just watched Nancy Grace ask Dr. Perper or whatever his name is - the Medical Examiner from Broward County - respond to a question from a caller who asked:
What if the methadone was mixed with orange juice that ANS ingested - would that show up in the autopsy."
His (stupid) answer IMHO - was that there was blood in ANS's stomach so we don't know if that might have had some orange juice in it - but we have taken the contents of the stomach and sent them off for testing.
Nancy Grace then said - I guess you won't tell us the results of the urinalysis yet either, will you. The ME said no - Nancy Grace said - well that makes me think the Urinalysis showed evidence of the cause of death. The ME said - not it doesn't necessarily mean that.
They also earlier asked - how can there be any talk of the body going to anybody when they don't know the cause of death yet. The ME said - that the body can be let go because they got all the tissues, etc that is necessary to determine the cause of death. (My question is - how can he possibly know this????? Many times someone dies and they come back and say cause of death not determined - and the ME just PUTS ON a cause of death - even though they do not know it. For most deaths, that's accepted. For ANS - such a result from an autopsy is TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE.
But I don't know if the body can be "kep" for 3-5 weeks like they say these lab tests will take.