Doctor dies in boyfriend's chimney...

[jjarman]

I read some things about this story that gave it a whole new twist. Seems the doctor's purse was found in a neighbor's yard over a fence. Now why would a woman throw her purse over someone's fence? She wouldn't. She would leave it in the car. Boyfriend says she came to the house and he would not let her in. He said he sneaked out another entrance. And why did the boyfriend just conveniently leave for a few days and leave it to the fish sitter to find the body? It just does pass the smell test, pardon the pun.

 

[bored]

Bad Santa Claus impersonation!

 

[FireDancer]

I read some things about this story that gave it a whole new twist. Seems the doctor's purse was found in a neighbor's yard over a fence. Now why would a woman throw her purse over someone's fence? She wouldn't. She would leave it in the car. Boyfriend says she came to the house and he would not let her in. He said he sneaked out another entrance. And why did the boyfriend just conveniently leave for a few days and leave it to the fish sitter to find the body? It just does pass the smell test, pardon the pun.

An astronaut putting on a diaper and driving across the country to stalk a coworker makes just as little sense but it happened. Anyone dumb enough to try and enter a house through a chimney is dumb enough to drop their purse off the roof of the house while doing so which could account for it ending up in the neighbor's yard.

I'm sure there will be an investigation and if it is something other than reported we'll find out.

 

[Imzadi]

I read some things about this story that gave it a whole new twist. Seems the doctor's purse was found in a neighbor's yard over a fence. Now why would a woman throw her purse over someone's fence? She wouldn't. She would leave it in the car. Boyfriend says she came to the house and he would not let her in. He said he sneaked out another entrance. And why did the boyfriend just conveniently leave for a few days and leave it to the fish sitter to find the body? It just does pass the smell test, pardon the pun.

It is extremely hard to get a lifeless body up a ladder to the roof and then drop it in. The body is total dead weight.

Although, I wonder, if she went to get a ladder, why not just take a big rock and break into one of the windows or on the upper floor and climb in? (If there was an upper floor.) Why go to all the trouble of a sooty chimney?

 

[Magpie]

I read some things about this story that gave it a whole new twist. Seems the doctor's purse was found in a neighbor's yard over a fence. Now why would a woman throw her purse over someone's fence? She wouldn't. She would leave it in the car. Boyfriend says she came to the house and he would not let her in. He said he sneaked out another entrance. And why did the boyfriend just conveniently leave for a few days and leave it to the fish sitter to find the body? It just does pass the smell test, pardon the pun.

What? You think the boyfriend somehow stuffed her down the chimney?

I suspect if she was the man in this story everyone would be saying how lucky the girlfriend was to get away from him. They'd be commending her on her smarts in sneaking out the back door when her enraged boyfriend came pounding on her door. And they'd never blame her for not returning to the house in the days afterward.

I don't know how close the neighbour's fence is to the house, but if it's anything like ours, just dropping the purse on the roof would send it shooting out over the fence.

 

[Disney Doll]

There's no pill that cures stupid.

 

[FireDancer]

There's no pill that cures stupid.

Oh yes there is:

 

[cm8]

 

[laurie31]

Wow, what a horrible way to die.

She must be one of those physicians who has book smarts but no common sense.

And...I think it's totally wrong that I now have The Chimney Song stuck in my brain! Wrong, wrong, wrong!

http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/song_details.aspx?SongID=6647

 

[Deb in IA]

Strange how irrational one can become when passions and obsessions are involved.

She reportedly was a supurb internist who often provided service and medication free of charge to her patients.

To put a face to the story, here is a photo of Dr. Jacquelyn Kotarac:

Sad to think that now, she will forever be remembered for the horrific way she died, and not all the good that she did for other people . . .

 

[Octoberbride03]

I was wondering how she died in just 2 days....oh that poor woman.

I imagine suffocation or some variant will be discovered in the autopsy. And who's to say she didn't break anything sliding down either.

 

[Myothername]

But if you were going to break into someone's house by going down the chimney would you take your purse with you? No. You would leave it in the car. And odds are it would not just slip into the neighbor's yard. It is just very strange.

 

[ChicagoFitnessClub]

But if you were going to break into someone's house by going down the chimney would you take your purse with you? No. You would leave it in the car. And odds are it would not just slip into the neighbor's yard. It is just very strange.

Regardless of how strange it seems, the boyfriend did not stuff the woman down his chimney. That's just an impossibility and it would make about as much sense as Ralph Nader running for Prez.

 

[Imzadi]

But if you were going to break into someone's house by going down the chimney would you take your purse with you? No. You would leave it in the car. And odds are it would not just slip into the neighbor's yard. It is just very strange.

She probably went to talk to him and took her purse with her, expecting to get in the front door, the way normal people are usually let into the house.

Do you go to your S.O's house expecting to have to break into the house? I would think she would have been more prepared, like had tools, a hammer, a crowbar, etc. in the purse, if she pre-planned a break in.


When he wouldn't let her in, that's when she went berserk. So, she had the purse with her when she went looking for the ladder. Who knows, maybe the ladder belonged to the neighbor and was in his yard?

 

[LilyWDW]

But if you were going to break into someone's house by going down the chimney would you take your purse with you? No. You would leave it in the car. And odds are it would not just slip into the neighbor's yard. It is just very strange.

She tried to get in the house through the chimney... obviously she was already not thinking straight. So to say that "logically" she wouldn't take her purse with her means nothing. There is no logic in what she tried to do in the first place. She just may have taken her purse with her because she was NOT thinking.

 

[Darsa]

True; however I happened to find the circumstances surrounding it to be a bit odd as well. Especially the fact that the boyfriend was oh-so-conveniently out of the COUNTRY when this all happened. Who knows... OTOH, I really can't see him hoisting a body up to the roof just to get it down into the chimney...

Ack, I gotta stop reading those crime blogs... lol!

 

[Planogirl]

I would break a window! Actually, I wouldn't break in at all but a chimney?!

 

[Imzadi]

Who knows... OTOH, I really can't see him hoisting a body up to the roof just to get it down into the chimney...

I would think there would have to be some scrape marks being dragged up to the roof, that are not consistent to sliding & getting stuck in a chimney. Also, how would he know she didn't fit? Who thinks, I'll kill her and stuff her down the chimney? That would be just as every bit wacko.

It would have been easier to just have pushed her off the roof, making it look like she fell.

 

[Tracy Savage]

How did the guy not notice his ladder? wouldn't ya look up to where is was and notice the chimney cap off and wonder why?

 

[Imzadi]

The video in this news link says it was a permanent ladder. (Attached to the side of the house? ) That's probably where she got the idea from to climb up & slide down. In the video, the neighbor says they found the purse in the backyard. Not in her backyard, but in the owner's backyard. (There is nothing gruesome in the video.)

The news article that goes to the link with the video, says the woman tried to enter the house first with a shovel. Umm, yeah, that's when I'd try to leave undetected through the another way and not want to come back for a while. What's sad is, if you look at the video picture before clicking in it, a window is right next to the chimney. If she had a shovel, she could have just broken the window.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/31/dr-jacquelyn-kotarac-dies_n_701355.html