I’m sure you’re right. The combination of anti-anxiety drugs alone is unheard of. I cannot imagine what would cause a doctor to prescribe 4 different types for one patient. The fact that they were all within prescribed ranges on autopsy means ANS was being drugged according to a schedule, but why so many? It’s stupefying.
I hadn’t known that the judge in SF ordered a DNA test for the day after ANS died. If that is true, weren’t they supposed to be on the Cracker that day? Was the plan to flee the Bahamas on the boat with the baby in order to evade the test? Or was getting her off Methadone necessitated out of fear that it would show up in the test (if a drug test was also ordered)?
Maybe the chloral hydrate was needed when the Methadone was reduced. Or was the chloral hydrate the drug of choice for a murder? With all the others mixed in, it would simply look like one more ingredient of a cocktail for a bereaved psych patient, as Perper concluded? Muddy the waters with a huge mixture of precribed meds? But why would the murderer leave his and her names on the bottles? (The nannies said the labels on the bottles were missing.) Did they have to put the labels on to get them through customs?
Just trying to figure out what are the weeds and what are the flowers (when they’re sprouts, it’s hard to know).