Why didn’t he check the feces for CH since it is common to show there?
If it was indeed in the room, why wasn’t it checked for immediately? Why did he delay for ‘clinical info’?
If not in the room, why lie and add it to the list?
Feds need to investigate Perper!
CH has a half-life of 4 minutes so CH itself would not be detected - it’s metabolites is what gave the levels away:
“The absence of the parent chloral hydrate in the blood of Miss Smith suggests that her death did not occur immediately after a large ingestion/administration of the drug; due to the extremely short half-life of 4 minutes
for chloral hydrate and since the chloral hydrate was a liquid preparation.
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Miss Smith had a peripheral blood TCE concentration of 75µg/mL and TCA concentration of 85µg/mL which is consistent with her having received repeated doses of chloral hydrate over a couple of days. A general therapeutic range for TCE is 2 to 12µg/mL
The TCE concentrations found in the blood, liver, brain, gastric and duodenal contents taken from Miss Smith are similar to literature concentrations (i.e., blood, 55µg/mL; brain, 91µg/g; liver, 200µg/g; and gastric, 5g) found in a fatality that occurred 3 hours after ingestion of chloral hydrate6.
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Serum and vitreous (eye fluid) chloride levels were elevated suggesting dehydration,
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This suggests that she took a significant dose of chloral hydrate in the hours preceding her death.
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j. Chloral hydrate may result in jaundice or icterus in cases of chronic toxicity. The absence of these findings suggests an overdose resulting in acute toxicity in this case.
b. If most cases of suicide, the victim ingests a large amount of a drug to insure death. The bottle found of chloral hydrate found near Miss Smith was only half empty.
c. In many case of prescription drug overdose, multiple drug levels are elevated.
In this case, all drug, except chloral hydrate are at therapeutic levels.
http://www.broward.org/medical/investigative_report.pdf
And Howie executor of the estate! That is like having Michael Jackson lead a Cub scout troop.