Clearly the AUTOPSY is not still pending, as she was buried some weeks ago. (more sloppy journalism?)
Perhaps Cause of Death is not yet fully established, but that is hard to believe as well.
An autopsy would virtually immediately reveal if she suffered (and died from) smoke inhalation.
Did a deploying airbag cause a cervical or skull/brain injury that disabled her? Was she still belted in? and so on and so on.
Blood and tissue tox screens could take six weeks, and she passed on 1/10/2011 ... so it could be legit ‘they’ don’t have that data.
But the fire scene investigators probably knew within two or three hours where/ how/ why a FIRE started. Point of origin, cause of ignition, propagation, fuel source, presence of any accelerants would all be ‘known’ within a few hours.
Weird.
I don't think I'd want to be the coroner these days.
He might get real depressed pretty soon...