chaoticidealism
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Woman in suitcase likely died of natural causes: ME
This is Brooke MacBeth.
She was 28 years old when she died. Or maybe 27. We don't know the exact age because she was found stuffed into a suitcase in her mother's closet, six to twelve months after her death, and it was no longer possible to determine exactly when she had died.
Brooke had cerebral palsy and an intellectual disability which has been described as giving her the "cognitive ability of a two-year-old". She used a wheelchair and she depended on her mother for the basic necessities of daily life.
When she last saw a doctor, she weighed 80 pounds. At her death, coroners estimate she weighed only 40. She had marijuana, oxycodone, and amphetamines in her system.
Because her mother left her body to rot in the closet, any evidence of the exact cause of her death was gone by the time she was found. The only thing the coroner was able to tell was that she hadn't died violently.
Brooke's death was judged "natural" by default, since the police could not actually prove that she had died by starvation or neglect and had found no evidence of trauma. They could accuse her mother only of hiding her body.
Brooke's mother, Bonnie MacBeth, is not being prosecuted.
This is Brooke MacBeth.
She was 28 years old when she died. Or maybe 27. We don't know the exact age because she was found stuffed into a suitcase in her mother's closet, six to twelve months after her death, and it was no longer possible to determine exactly when she had died.
Brooke had cerebral palsy and an intellectual disability which has been described as giving her the "cognitive ability of a two-year-old". She used a wheelchair and she depended on her mother for the basic necessities of daily life.
When she last saw a doctor, she weighed 80 pounds. At her death, coroners estimate she weighed only 40. She had marijuana, oxycodone, and amphetamines in her system.
Because her mother left her body to rot in the closet, any evidence of the exact cause of her death was gone by the time she was found. The only thing the coroner was able to tell was that she hadn't died violently.
Brooke's death was judged "natural" by default, since the police could not actually prove that she had died by starvation or neglect and had found no evidence of trauma. They could accuse her mother only of hiding her body.
Brooke's mother, Bonnie MacBeth, is not being prosecuted.