What (or Who) Killed Anna Nicole Smith?
By Julie Pike
Mar 11, 2007
Anna Nicole Smith died in early February. Over a month later police and the medical examiner in the case have yet to release the cause of death. That, combined with the fact of some sort of 'spectacular new evidence' that has reportedly shook loose in the case has pundits and celeb watchers waiting and wondering what (or who) killed Anna Nicole. The Nightly entertainment and news show Access Hollywood reports that we're still at least a week away from the autopsy and toxicology results that could answer the question.
What (or Who) Killed Anna Nicole Smith?
The program's newsroom notes that calls to the FBI and the DEA over the past several days yielded non-answers and non-comments. Police seem to be determined to take their time before divulging anything.
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A report online details: The ever-cryptic Seminole Police Department (they're in charge of the probe) say the delay in the release of the results has been caused by the gathering of information and that we shouldn't read anything special into that. They also say this probe is not criminal, not now anyway. The Bahamian Police acknowledged to Access Hollywood that chief Charlie Tiger from Seminole PD had been there but they say there has been no contact with our Federal authorities.
But drug experts in the islands tell us that Methadone, which had been prescribed for Anna Nicole, is illegal in the islands because it is an addictive medication. And they say bringing it into the islands constitutes trafficking in illicit drugs.
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The mystery continues. In the same online item AH brings in what keeps interest going in the case. We watch a lot of those "procedural" shows on TV like "CSI." So we're intrigued that the so-called chain of evidence in this case now extends from Florida to South Carolina. Ford Shelly, the son-in-law of G. Ben Thompson, who owns Anna Nicole's Bahamas house, gave a laptop computer and other items (now being referred to as evidence) to the Horry County (S.C.) authorities and they've agreed to turn it over the Seminole cops.
Next - the Associated Press reports the prosecutor there says it could have "potential relevance" to the Anna Nicole investigation. Are we any closer to knowing? Probably. But it appears that the authorities are in no hurry to release the information.
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