Did anyone watch the HBO documentary 'There's something wrong with Aunt Diane'?

[Hellothemouse]

I finally finished watching the show today. I can tell that her husband must have a very different way of grieving than most people. Not saying that he is wrong, its just different. Also At what point is enough enough? They had samples tested twice and they both came back with the same answers. At what point does he say "It seems as if she had been drinking and smoking pot and who knows why she did what she did but its done and it sucks"

 

[msjprincess]

I do not have HBO, so thanks for talking about the highlights. I cannot comment on the show but I can add:

If she was a closet alcoholic, a .19% (190 mg/dl) is not unusual, nor that high.

I used to work in a DUI processing center. We would get alcoholics in for a blood draw at 9am, after not drinking since they went to bed. They would wake UP with a 100mg/dl level and appear perfectly fine and function through their day. Functional Alcoholics is the term we used. They were priests, lawyers, warehouse workers, every walk of life.

I have seen alcohol levels of 600-800 mg/dl and the people are walking talking and far from being in acute medical distress. Yes, they were drunk and you knew it, but you would never, ever guess the level was that high.

We used to have a game of "guess the level" when they came in, and like the Price is Right you had to be the closest without going over. Sick, maybe, but it passed the time.

An alcoholics mind and liver does not process like a normal persons. Has the autopsy report been released? Do we know if there was chronic liver damage?

I would be VERY interested to know how much she drank the night prior.

That's very true. My father was an alcoholic . He drank over a liter of vodka a day and he very rarely appeared drunk. He was hospitalized once after having seizures and was still legally drunk 24 hours later.

The autopsy didn't show any liver damage or signs of chronic alcohol use http://www.lohud.com/assets/pdf/BH14176392.PDF

 

[nataliela]

I just finished watching this. It took me a couple of days and I didn't give it my 100% attention, so forgive me if I missed a few details...

1- The husband worked nights, she worked days- She could have easily been drunk every night and he wouldn't know it.

2- Im sure this would be a very hard task, but I wish they could pull up all the surveillance footage from the radius of getting off the tappan zee and before getting on the Taconic. There had to have been something somewhere catching her driving by on camera.

3- As for the husband suing the brother in law. Is it a personal suit against the BIL or is it against his insurance company and the BIL is named in it? If its to collect insurance for the son, then the BIL needs to be named.

4- I think the sister is acting like she knows much more than she does. When she called the PI about the DNA results, he told her that he had already given the results months ago and nothing changed. The conversation just seemed really strange to me.

5- I personally think she was having some sort of melt down or panic attack when driving back onto the taconic. If you've ever had one or seen someone have one, its like they get tunnel vision and block out everything around them. You are the only person that matters at that point. It could have been alcohol induced, maybe she freaked out when she realized how much she drank or something else tipped her off. I hate to make excuses, but I am just having a hard time thinking about how someone could do this.

 

["Got Disney"]

I wish I. Never watched this....I have been thinking about this ever since...it creeped me out. not just what happened but the way the DH and sister acted....it was very strange. very one sided....

 

[momrek06]

[QUOTE="Got Disney";42224349]I wish I. Never watched this....I have been thinking about this ever since...it creeped me out. not just what happened but the way the DH and sister acted....it was very strange. very one sided....[/QUOTE]

ITA, living so far away from where this happened I had heard of it when it happened but of course did not keep up with the day to day details that went on following the accident. Watching the 'doc' was disturbing. Between the timeline of that morning, the families involved and the lawsuits. Very upsetting for all involved esp little Bryan.

 

[RDillow]

The one thing that really makes me upset, is how you can all pass your judgement about her having a drinking problem. Being drunk one time does not qualify as a drinking problem. And at this point that is the only time we know she did have alcohol in her blood. Maybe her tooth was hurting and the alcohol was helping the pain. Maybe not. All im saying is nobody really knows what happened. But her husband loves and believes that she was not drinking. And he is adamant that his wife was not a drinker. And has went to great lengths to clear her name. Look in the mirror people. We all could be in her position or his. Your all not perfect or above making bad choices. I would not want to be judged by the worst thing i ever did. I im sure most people will say the same thing. I don't know what happened but neither do you. Things get missed and over looked in autopsy and toxicology reports all the time. So they could have and probably did miss something very important.

 

[Imzadi]

RDillow, What an incredibly odd ZOMBIE thread from 12 years ago, to come join a message board for, purposely bump up and then bash everyone who posted 12 years ago. Are you related to the woman in the news story???

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