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Autopsy results for Stacey Nicole English, the Atlanta woman who disappeared December 26th and was subsequently found dead almost a month later, have finally been released.
[READ: Body Found Identified as Stacey Nicole English + Robert Kirk Wants "Fresh Start"]
The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office has announced that English, 36, who was missing almost a month before her body was discovered in a wooded area near Lakewood Fairgrounds, most likely died from hypothermia, and her death has been ruled “accidental”.
Details…
According to the AJC, the medical examiner’s office revealed that was no evidence of bodily harm, and toxicology tests showed no evidence of a drug overdose.
The Medical Examiner’s Office released the following statement yesterday (February 14, 2012):
“Based on a combination of information sources including the autopsy, the sequence of events and circumstances, toxicology results, medical and mental health records, and statements of witnesses and acquaintances, the most likely cause of Stacey English’s death is cold exposure complicating underlying neurological and psychiatric disorders,” the statement reads.
“Because cold exposure is an external, environmental condition, the manner of death has been classified as accident.
Atlanta police also issued a statement, saying that they now consider the case closed “as a result of the findings of the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office and the investigation conducted by the Atlanta Police Homicide Unit.”
To refresh your memory, English was a SunTrust Bank employee who resided in Buckhead. Her Volvo had been discovered abandoned, with the engine running, on Dec. 27 less than a mile away from where she was subsequently found a little less than a month later on January 23rd..
Robert Kirk, a male friend who was visiting from St. Louis, was the last person known to have seen English alive.
Kirk immediately became a “person of interest” in the case and it was reported that English asked him to leave her home after they’d gotten into some sort of argument. There was also another missing woman in Kirk’s hometown whose case was eerily similar to English’s.
[READ: Could St. Louis Man Be Connection Between Two Missing African-American Females?]
When interviewed, Kirk told detectives English began “acting peculiar” the night of Dec. 26, asking him if he was Satan. Another friend of English’s shared a similar account with police.
[Click HERE to View FULL Police Report (.pdf file)]
English’s badly decomposed body was found, nestled in a hole created by an uprooted tree, on Jan. 23 by two men searching for scrap metal.
While there are reports that English had tried to kill herself 3 years ago, family members have always maintained that they did not believe she would intentionally harm herself.
“There’s no doubt in my mind that there had to be some foul play,” Jamison said in a Jan. 26 interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
English’s mother and stepfather Kevin Jamison have yet to make a comment on the findings and truthfully, it still sounds a bit bizarre.
Hypothermia?? (yeah… I had to look it up)
A condition in which core temperature drops below the required temperature for normal metabolism and body functions which is defined as 35.0 °C (95.0 °F). Body temperature is usually maintained near a constant level of 36.5–37.5 °C (98–100 °F) through biologic homeostasis or thermoregulation.
If exposed to cold and the internal mechanisms are unable to replenish the heat that is being lost, a drop in core temperature occurs. As body temperature decreases, characteristic symptoms occur such as shivering and mental confusion.
This is Atlanta…the city where it was near 60 degrees on Christmas. How the hell did someone die of hypothermia? Maybe it’s just me, but something just doesn’t seem right…
R.I.P. Stacey Nicole English
Suspicious indeed….sounds like someone put her in a freezer then dumped her body.
Possible. If she were scantily clad, combined with low overnight temps. Sounds unlikely i know, but i have seen a somewhat similar scenario where a man froze to death in the summer. Long story cut short, its possible. I’m not however ruling anything out, RIP.
It’s not strange. Her body temperature could drop to those levels. Especially if she was anemic. Plus they said the drugs she was taking for her mental illness contributed to the drop in her body temperature. I’ve been in the room as a person that was anemic and the room seemed hot to me, but the anemic person was cold and shivering. So if that’s what the autopsy said, then that’s what it was.
The whole fact of the matter is this; Her car was still left running, where in the hell was she going, she have had mental issues, but cold is col! Warm car…. Cold weather! Im going to have to agree with Nickolette Watkins on this one. Someone froze that woman and then dumped her body. This is really plain.
Straight BS…..
Something isn’t right with this story. I sense a cover up.
I’m confused still. Wasn’t her body found under a tree? If so, how did it get there?
Creepy….
yea, that is crazy….justice will be serve one day tho…watch
How you sure from cold in hotlanta? #weird
**die
That man prolly kept her locked into some type of storage freezer or sum and then dumped her body. smdh
The girl was having an episode (she was talking about Satan to more than one person). She was driving, then ran out of her car and left it running. She then proceeded to run through the woods. Thereafter, she eventually tucked herself into the fallen tree in order to get some warmth. She nonetheless died of hypothermia. Sounds plausible to me.
All of the people who were blaming that man for the death of this girl should be ashamed of themselves. What happened to innocent until proven guilty?
It’s sad that she probably had an episode of whatever psychological disorder she was suffering from. If two people said that she was acting bizarre and mentioning Satan maybe she chose to try and hide in the hole from the tree and lapsed into a coma due to hypothermia. Was she clothed? Now if Robert Kirk was any kind of friend he should have alerted authorities or at least family member on her condition when he last seen her. Maybe they could have gotten her help before it escalated to death.
Everyone is forgetting that a tree was on top of Stacey, that to me suggests foul play… This case needs to be reopen and reinvestigated.
@ TB you seem to know alot about what happen, maybe the police need to interview YOU!!!!!!SMH
Bullshit…. why would she get out a warm car to freeze in the cold, something happened and they covering it up, details dont add up.
Sad……..and hypotemia in Atlanta is far fetched…..re-open that case asap. I live in SC and it really doesn’t get that cold in the south….every blue moon it might drop below 20 degrees.
Don’t drink the koolaid!!! So she put herself face down and feet in the air under a tree and died from hypo on the warmest winters in history!!
How did her body get where it was?
Something is definitely WRONG about this whole picture. I’m whispering a prayer now for “Justice”!!! What’s done in the dark, always reveals it’s self later in the light.
Nope, not just you Michelle…I was thinking the same thing before I even read the article. Hypothermia? in Atlanta? please…Her family needs to fight to have this reinvestigated. Ridiculous…hypothermia….
right and how did the tree get on her? wow…if i were her parents i would further investigate!
If she was going through a psychotic spell, it definitely explains what happened. All along, nothing pointed to foul play besides the running car. If she thought people to be Satan, she was probably trying to hide. She probably tucked herself under the tree/debris to try to conceal herself.
Hypothermia is definitely possible. Even the warmest winter can produce the coldest nights. I bet you won’t seen nann homeless person, that is able-bodied sleeping on a street in the winter. They migrate to shelters or tunnel ways where it is warmer and they use whatever cloths they have compiled over time. If they are in the right psychological state, their bodies and minds will realize it is too cold out. Ms. English was probably in a mental state where her protecting herself and hiding, from whatever being she thought was after her, was even more important that her warmth at that moment.
Also, her mother knew she had been treated for pyschological disorders/suicide attempt but she didn’t want the case to be overlooked because of that. That’s why she, in previous reports, denied that her daughter was taking anti-psychotic medications. I’m sure she didn’t want her daughter’s medical history on display for the world, but she also knew if she confirmed the information, the case may have gone in a different direction.
Again, she was obviously going through something psychologically. Clearly, most of you haven’t interacted with anyone with any psychological disorders. And everything in life doesn’t have to be conspiracy just because one of our ppl are involved…
I guess it is easier to believe foul play than misadventure. But what we do not want to believe is that this woman showed signs of mental illness. She probably suffered a long time but everyone around her may have been in denial. Im sadden to think that she died needlessly. You can get hypothermia in the south. Your core temperature just has to drop anywhere from 5-10 degrees. What clothes did she have on? At night, the temp got down to 45 degrees and if she was wet her core temp would have drop significantly.
I bet someone was trying to harm her and she ran into the woods to hide from that person. While hiding and scared- died from the weather condition during that time. They need to continue investigating
@ Pam I’m going to have to agree with you big sis. By the way the temp in Atlanta that night was 46 degrees and raining.
@ Pam I’m going to have to agree with you big sis. By the way the temp in Atlanta that night was 46 degrees and raining.
People, the girl had some type of breakdown and died in the cold period. This is what I suspected early on. The parents and family need to stop being in denial. The facts speak for them self. May she rest in peace!
I don’t understand how the medical examiner can say that she suffered no physical trauma when her body was found badly decomposed in the woods.
I think there is a limited amount of information and I don’t see how a determination can be made either way. However, since they seem to insist that one can, I remain suspicious of at least the competence of the investigation if not the motives.
If they say so. But the skeptic in me still believes there is more to her disappearance.
Interesting that she disappeared while leaving her car running. A girl here in STL disappeared the same way, and she has yet to be found to my understanding. Plus, they went to the same school and shared FB friends. Too coincidental. Something smells rotten in the state of Denmark.
how would they know , she was badly decomposed and it wasnt cold enough to die , it just started dipping in the 20′s only lately you can’t rest in peace if you didnt die right .
Mental illness is real. If she was off her medication and hearing voices, it’s very possible that she would’ve ended up in the woods or any number of odd locations.
I have a brother who is Paranoid Schizophrenic and Bipolar…and when he’s off his medication, it is a STRUGGLE. I could write a book on what my family has gone through to get him the help he needs.
I pray for Stacey’s family….this is a very sad situation.
I think the ME and police are being short because they can’t reveal too much of her medical history without violating HIPPA. Her mother seemed to be in denial of her daughter’s condition. Her own father did not know that she had attempted suicide 3 years prior. Her mother was more concerned with Stacy’s image. The condition is blacked out on the police report appears to be a long word..maybe schizophrenia? As unfortunate as this sounds, it appears as if she were off her medication and she was having a pychotic episode. To a normal person, the behavior sounds suspicious, but to a person with mental illness…this is very plausible. It was cold that night and raining. She burrowed under that tree. She left her car running because her mind told her that someone was after her. I think her parents should use her death to start a discussion in the black community on mental illness. We need to learn that it is ok to get help and talk about it.
For those saying it wasn’t cold enough for a person to die during that timeframe, try going outside in a t-shirt and jeans for a few hours tonight. Temps should be about the same as they were then. Do that and then tell me how you felt. Then turn the water hose on and soak your clothes to simulte being caught in the rain. I’ve been out working on days similar to this and I know how cold you can get. Her dying in this manner, while tragic, is not implausible.
My condolonces to her family. I wish she could’ve gotten the hlp she needed before this happened.
I agree with all those who understand "Mental Illness". I’m a nurse with 30 years of working in Behavioral Health. I see often the many patients coming in due to being off of medications. They present very delusional, psychotic, and positive for auditory and visual hallucinations. It’s sad but very true. It takes weeks of medicating these patients before they are back to normal. Mental Illness is real! RIP Stacey and prayers for the family. Also prayers for Robert Kirk who has been persecuted by many. Just shows you have to stay prayed up because you never know what your tomorrow may bring. Peace and Blessings.
I’m glad that some people are putting together that just because this man was the last person to supposedly see her, there is a REASON he is not a suspect. Mental illness is real. The same way that we try to say that black people can’t be serial killers is the same thing that we’re saying here. I mean, remember the sniper? Tell me how many people were floored when John Muhammad and John Lee Malvo ended up the prime suspects. We need to get out of denial and realize that mental illness is not a "white people’s disease." It’s an everybody’s disease….. I feel for her and her family.
Abandoning her car cuz she’s hearing voices (due 2 a mental health disorder) & dying from hypothermia r all plausible. N our community Mental Health Disorders r not accepted & openly discussed. If Stacey did die accidentally then her parents now have an opp. 2 affect & save alot of lives through education & awareness. Perhaps it will help them heal. If something more sinister happened.I know they r going 2 fight 4 their daughter. This case is very bizzare & my ques. is why didn’t the police find her sooner? Her body was 1 mile away from her car. Didn’t they search that area w/help from fam & friends. How did they miss her? Did LE or any1 video tape or record the inital search? If her parents believe she was killed & placed there, they can pay 4 a 2nd autopsy & have the medical examiner look 4 lethal..deadly drugs that go undetected (during a normal autopsy) unless u r specifically looking 4 them. In the end its a tragedy. Such a bright..vibrant young woman. My prayers r w/the fam. ~R.I.P. Stacey English~
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Sadly, I know hypothermia can kill. My Dad had Alzheimers, wandered out of a nursing home disoriented, and died from hypothermia in the late spring. Can’t speak on Ms. English’s potential cause of disorientation. But hypothermia can definitely happen anywhere on a cool, rainy night. Prayers and condolences to Ms. English family and friends. Lord help us love, appreciate, and take good care of each other. – Tru