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Was The Mysterious Death Of A Young Mom Found Unresponsive In Her Bathtub An Accident Or Murder?
03.02.2023 - 01:59 / perezhilton.com
In 2020, a woman passed away in the bathtub, but investigators still haven’t confirmed whether it was an accident or not.
The tragedy began on July 22, 2020, at 9:24 a.m. when dispatchers received a 911 call from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. John “Jay” Tolson, then 29, called to seek help for 38-year-old LeeAnn Hartleben, saying:
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With his voice shaking, he went on:
According to the man, LeeAnn “had been drinking. She fell in the kitchen.” He even told the dispatcher she was breathing loudly but he couldn’t “get her to wake up.” Paramedics rushed to LeeAnn’s cottage in the Outer Banks community where they found her unresponsive in the tub. She was a mother of two children, who are now 15 and 8. They were not present at the time of her death.
The avid gardener was airlifted to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital on the mainland in Norfolk, Virginia. According to her first cousin Trisha Cahoon, who spoke to People about the legal case on Thursday, she was placed on a ventilator in the ICU. She recalled:
Since it was the midst of the pandemic, Trisha noted:
Apparently, doctors had told the family Hartleben sustained blunt-force trauma wounds to her head that were inconsistent with the fall Jay had described in the 911 call — which is why there’s so much suspicion in the case. According to Cahoon, LeeAnn had bruises on her neck and arms, injuries the doctor claimed “did not come from a standing position.” She continued:
LeeAnn officially passed away three days after she arrived at the hospital, on July 25, 2020. Her cause of death was ruled “complications of blunt force trauma to the head with hepatic cirrhosis with clinical hepatic failure contributing,” the
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