Posted on 08/25/2020 1:08:51 AM PDT by nickcarraway
We're working to get more details on this story and will update it as soon as we know more. BY MIAMI HERALD
The wife of a veteran Miami police officer died after she was trapped for much of a sweltering afternoon in the back seat of his patrol SUV at the family’s Miami Shores home, authorities confirmed on Monday.
Investigators are treating the death of Clara Paulino, 56, on Friday as a horrific accident. Detectives suspect that Paulino — as her husband slept inside the home after finishing a midnight shift — climbed into the backseat of his marked Ford Explorer SUV in search of something, then could not escape when the doors somehow closed and a self-locking mechanism kicked in.
As the temperature outside soared well over 90 degrees on Friday, Paulino spent several hours stuck inside the SUV until her family discovered her body after 5 p.m., according to one law-enforcement source. Miami-Dade detectives found her fingerprints all over the inside of the SUV.
“Clearly, she was panicked and trying to get out,” the source told the Miami Herald.
The Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s Office is still investigating, and has not ruled on a cause or manner of death. Paulino, according to a law enforcement source, had a history of medical problems that may have contributed to her death inside the SUV.
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Why do you put up with them? Why don't you get an ad blocker? I use uBlock Origin. Excellent.
What browser do you use?
I’m definitely going to buy something like that when I get a car.
Here’s a tip for everybody. Any phone can contact 911 (provided it’s carrier compatible), even if it doesn’t have paid service. I’ve a got small phone for my pocket, and a bigger one for apps.
Police vehicle. No access to front seat from back seat.
The front windshield of a car can be kicked out...other than that it’s always a good idea to have something under the car seat that can break glass.
Yes. Monk is needed. Something is definitely not right.! I am quite suspicious.
Why would any wife need to go search the backseat of her husband's police cruiser?
Looking for evidence of an affair?
Mine is ALWAYS in my pocket, but I also ALWAYS wear jeans, even to church.
It sounds like an alarm button should be installed in the back of these vehicles. Make it so it will only activate after 30 minutes of vehicle inactivity. Problem solved.
Maybe hoping to find some drugs that a perp ditched before getting to the jail?
That’s what I was wondering. Who goes in a car to look for something and shuts the door behind them??
Only logical reason is if it was or started pouring. Possible in Miami in middle of August. It rains almost daily here in south Florida in August in afternoons
The front windshield can only be kicked out in the movies. The adhesive has a tensile adhesive strength of at least 500 psi. On the average windshield, that’s about 80,000 pounds total to cause failure.
(30 years in the adhesive industry, 20 of it with windshields)
I’d also suspect that the side and rear windows are treated with an anti-fracture coating to render them unable to break with a window breaker tool.
“Maybe hoping to find some drugs that a perp ditched before getting to the jail?”
That works, too.
No horn in the backseat?
So, one accidental death of someone who probably shouldn’t have been on the car anyway and you want to propose adding an alarm in every cop car in the country?
Yes- I do.
If husband was asleep, why would wife look in back seat of his patrol car? What would he keep there? Nothing? They need to look at husband and son very closely.
LOL at all the replies!
What a pile on!
FReepers have ALWAYS been experts on everything.
Still, they always fail at one thing:
Thorough reading of posted articles before replying!
If you want cradle to grave nanny state protection from all things, perhaps you belong on another forum.
Life is risk. Actions have consequences and we’re all going to die of something, some of us in accidents and stupid mistakes. You can’t predict every eventuality.
Yea, but in the case of comment 52, I actually am an expert in my response.
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