Has anyone had a chance to see this latest juicy tid-bit about the death of Daniel? (this is from People- snip-)
Gaither Ben Thompson, who knew Daniel and was one of the last to see him alive the night before he died, says Daniel was in great spirits after seeing his newborn sister for the first time. "I don't think Daniel took his own life," says Thompson, rejecting one theory in the case.
Thompson, who dated Smith in 2005 and spent time with her, Stern and Daniel in the private room of Nassau's Doctors Hospital on the evening of Sept. 9, adds: "If someone else gave him drugs – either before he left California or after he arrived – I don't think it was intentionally to hurt him at all."
Police records show that the morning Daniel died, a nurse found a partially dissolved and scored methadone tablet in the bed Stern had slept in. According to the reports, Stern said Daniel had also slept in that bed, but nurses who entered Room 201 recalled no one but Stern in that bed.
The records also show that Stern left the room a few hours before Daniel died. A nurse places him out of the room at 4 a.m. Nurse Odumade Adenike noted that sometime after 2 a.m. Stern went to the nursing station and asked what restaurants were open – despite having already purchased soda, sandwiches and chicken strips at a 24-hour mini-mart an hour earlier.
"He left and returned back about 4:00 a.m., but he had nothing in his hand and went straight to the room," Adenike told police.
The inquest may also seek to understand what happened to the jeans Daniel wore when he died.
Police collected the other items Daniel had been wearing: a brown t-shirt, white undershirt and blue underwear. Thompson's son-in-law, Ford Shelley, told police that the day Daniel died, he went to Stern's home in the Bahamas and saw Stern pick up two white tablets that had fallen from Daniel's jeans pocket and take them into a bathroom. Ford then heard the toilet flush.
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,1536410_20015926,00.html
So it tells us that G. Ben Thompson was at the hospital when Dannielynn was born. Not just Gina and Ford.
I believe it also cuts out our Wendy's cup theory, because it puts Stern going to the mini-mart at 2am and the photos were taken around midnight (is that right?)
It also has Stern leaving the room AGAIN and returning at 4 am.
Interesting stuff - thanks for posting it.
Interesting that DWS's jeans disappeared or are not listed in items of clothing at hospital, but then later seem to be ones HKS has in his hands and the pills fall from pocket at Horizons with FS.
The inquest may also seek to understand what happened to the jeans Daniel wore when he died.
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Huh? He wasn't wearing any pants?
The way I read it, Howard had already went to the 24 hour mini-mart before 2 am and sometime after 2 am he'd asked the nurse about open restaurants and didn't return to the room empty handed until 4 am.