Dehydrated woman who claims she was held hostage dies

[Coyote]

A 29-year-old woman’s dying claim that she was held hostage without food and water remains under investigation by Oklahoma and Missouri authorities.

Amber G. Barr, of Fairland, Okla., died at 3:03 p.m. Sunday in an intensive-care unit at St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Joplin, according to the Jasper County coroner. Barr was taken to the hospital late Thursday afternoon in critical condition from dehydration.

Coroner Rob Chappel said she died after slipping into a coma. Chappel said an autopsy is scheduled to be performed today at Cox Medical Center South in Springfield. He said it is his understanding that doctors at the hospital in Joplin believe the woman died of dehydration and that she also showed signs of malnutrition.

Joplin police have said that Barr told a nurse while still conscious at the hospital that she was held hostage without food or water. A 67-year-old man who took Barr to the emergency room denied the claim to a police officer and told him that he had given her two glasses of water on the way to the hospital.

Chappel said preliminary findings of police over the weekend were “inconclusive.” He said the autopsy may help determine the cause and manner of death.

The man who dropped her off left the hospital before he could be interviewed. A male acquaintance called the hospital and told them the woman had been living with the 67 year old man for the last two weeks.

A sex slave scenario gone bad, maybe?

http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/local_story_068221411.html

[Unamused Cat]

This is a really bizarre story.

[Wicked Doll]

Hmmmm--she had been living with this guy for a couple of weeks, but he didn't stay at the hospital after dropping her off? It will be interesting to see how this story develops. Something doesn't seem right.

[Coyote]

The man who took Amber Barr to a Joplin hospital suffering from severe dehydration says he did not have anything to do with her death.
“That story is not true,” Bobby Stogsdill said Tuesday during a telephone interview.
Stogsdill, 67, acknowledged that Barr moved into his home in Fairland, Okla., about three weeks ago. It was voluntary, and he did not prevent her from leaving, he said.
“I didn’t hold her against her will,” he said. “She had food to eat. She had water. I cooked for her three times a day.”
Stogsdill said Barr could not have been talking about him when she made that claim to the nurse.
Barr had been in declining health in recent weeks, Stogsdill said. She was at Integris Baptist Regional Health Center in Miami about a month ago, he said. He was uncertain what was ailing her at that time, but she had told him it was a problem with a kidney, he said.
Stogsdill corrected some information the Globe obtained from Joplin police and included in two articles on Barr’s hospitalization and death. He said he never spoke to a police officer at the hospital the day he took Barr there.
Stogsdill said he denied having held the woman hostage without food or water to a nurse and not to a police officer. He said he told the nurse that he had given Barr two glasses of water on the way to the hospital. He said he left the hospital when the nurse asked him to leave Barr’s room.
He said Barr had told him of abuse by a previous boyfriend. He said he thinks Barr may have been confused and talking about that when she talked to the nurse.
“She would get me and him mixed up,” Stogsdill said. “When she was at my house, she would think she was at his house.”
A Joplin Police Department report states that an ex-boyfriend of Barr’s called the hospital shortly after she was taken there. He reportedly told a nurse that Barr had moved in with Stogsdill two weeks earlier, and that he had been holding her hostage and keeping her under his control with “mind-altering drugs.”
Bobby Stogsdill has not been charged and has not been identified as a suspect in the investigation.

The complete article is here:
http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/local_story_069233848.html?start:int=0

To me his story still doesn't add up.

[Wicked Doll]

To me his story still doesn't add up.

No it sure doesn't. I agree, something isn't right. First Stogsdill said it was her kidney and then pneumonia. Things that make you go hmmmm.

How did she end up with this guy anyway?

[Coyote]

Preliminary reports state that Amber Barr died of pneumonia; toxicology is still pending.

[Harley_Tech]

A Joplin Police Department report states that an ex-boyfriend of Barr’s called the hospital shortly after she was taken there. He reportedly told a nurse that Barr had moved in with Stogsdill two weeks earlier, and that he had been holding her hostage and keeping her under his control with “mind-altering drugs.”


This part sounds like the former boyfriend trying to cover HIS tracks to me.
Looking to shift blame to the guy that might have actually taken care of her after HE screwed her up.

I could be wrong,

R

[Wicked Doll]

This part sounds like the former boyfriend trying to cover HIS tracks to me.
Looking to shift blame to the guy that might have actually taken care of her after HE screwed her up.

I could be wrong,


Sounds a little bit like they BOTH had a hand in her abuse and are trying to point the finger at the other IMO.

R.I.P. Amber Barr

[Kalehue]

What a story. Hope they get to the bottom of it.

[Coyote]

Bobby Stogsdill, the man who dropped Amber Barr off at the hospital before her death, was arrested late Thursday night after he allegedly sold 10 Carisprodol pills for $3 each to a Miami resident. Carisprodol is a generic brand of Soma, a Schedule IV narcotic.
Law enforcement officials are stating that the two cases are not related, but this is the same man. Toxicology results are expected to take at least two weeks in Amber Barr’s death, and investigators are remaining hush about her death until then.