This stems from a case happening in my home state. A woman* (in her mid twenties) was found buried in a shallow grave behind a home after leaving a bar with a man “with no force indicated”. The coroner ruled her death was an accidental overdose. How do they know it was accidental? Couldn’t this guy have given her these drugs? What’s the protocol for determining intentional or accidental overdoses?
Edit: changed young girl to woman
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When there is no evidence of force or malicious intent, and when the toxicology and other evidence shows a plausible about of drugs and/or metabolites. Also, a ruling of accidental only means there is no evidence of an intentional overdose, not that one did not occur.
It is entirely possible the woman (20+-year-old females are women) you mention was murdered or committed suicide, but it will take evidence beyond the autopsy to prove that.
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