Irate at charges that he had not been taking his medicine, Milosevic agreed to new blood tests.
It was in part that examination that led prison doctors to suspect foul play, perhaps by Milosevic, Uges said. Was there some substance that would nullify the blood-pressure medicines? "We realized that the only thing that could do this was rifampicin," he said. A blood sample was found to contain the compound.
Some experts said rifampicin itself was unlikely to explain Milosevic's death, since he did not die of a stroke, a far more common problem with high blood pressure. Also, its effects on blood pressure could have been counteracted by increasing the dose of his blood-pressure medicines, said Joris Delanghe, a toxicologist at Ghent University in Belgium
Could they have suffocated him that night. There was a big delay between when he died and when they said they discovered him dead. Weren't they checking on the prisoners every hour and weren't the lights always on?