It was a rare strain of nk induced lack of oxygen and blood to the brain. Happens all the time.
Almost sounds like they water boarded the poor kid to death.
what the H was this kid doing in NK in the first place?
There is no sane reason to ever travel to that He!!hole.
I hoped they would be able to be more specific on the probable cause of death. Plenty of things can cause hypoxia: drugs, injuries, near-drowning, etc. I’d like to know what the Norks did to him.
The parents thought his teeth looked different, but the coroner said nothing was wrong with them. There seems to be a discrepancy here. You would think a federal autopsy would be performed in an international situation such as this.
In Cincinnati, coroners are elected. Who elects a neuroradiologist over an emergency room doctor to be a coroner?
AFAIC, we need to murder a North Korean in retalliation. tit for tat. no slight should go unanswered with this regime. But we won’t and it will be correctly perceived as lack of resolve. They have already beaten us and they know it.
Put pressure on the carotid artery long enough and there will be brain death. Do it often enough more and more brain dies.
This is actually something he could have done to himself. Not saying he did but with the long sentence he was given; I wouldn’t rule out suicide.
Failed suicide by hanging IMHO.
I hope all my buddies in the Air Force name a special bomb after him. Warmbier’s away!!!!!
Jack became a fixture in my youth. His mother, Mary, was my sixth grade teacher [1950s]. Several times a year we would gather personal care supplies in shoe boxes, write letters; and his mom would send them through the Red Cross.
Jack's mom kept his plight in the fore. Jack was held for 20 years by the Chinese, during the cold war. Details about his capture were very hush-hush; no one ever revealed what really happened. As far as I knew, Downey never talked about it. CIA written account: " Two CIA Prisoners in China, 195273"
When he finally came home, he went to law school and became a judge in Connecticut; what amazed me, he carried on with life without skipping a beat.
I saw the interview with his parents...seem to be quite intelligent and level-headed. This discrepancy between what they saw and what the coroner is saying is very puzzling.
How was anybody able to make these determinations without an autopsy? In order to determine the cause of death, an autopsy is necessary. His parents prevented an autopsy so everything else is a guess. You can do nothing more than guess. An autopsy would have revealed the real cause of death and, even more, what had happened to their son.