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The Big Question: How Did Anna Garcia Die?

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The Big Question: How Did Anna Garcia Die?

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From the evidence collected, it is reasonable to conclude that Anna Garcia died as a result of severe depression. After a life long full of inherited illnesses and a recent divorce, Anna just couldn't keep up any longer. Leading up to her death Anna stopped taking medication, stopped exercising, started eating very unhealthy, drinking alcohol and taking aspirin daily, and not practicing good hygiene which gave her a UTI and caused complications with her heart disease, diabetes, and sickle cell anemia. With an average person, "letting yourself go" would take at least about a year or so to kill you, but with her illnesses, it was virtually instantaneous. It began with the malfunction of her digestive system with her pancreas not being able to produce insulin. She stopped taking her medication and her body began having trouble processing food. Then her sickle cell anemia and cardiovascular diseases fell along with it as cholesterol built up causing blood clots as well as her sickled red blood cells creating multiple clots, one of which was in her brain because we also found out that she had a stroke. Then went her urinary system and without proper function of both waste eliminating systems, fatal infections and toxin build up made it only a matter of time before her body would quit on her.

As for her stab wounds, they could have been inflicted after death judging by the blood spatter because there was no smears nor struggles for survival. But who would stab someone after they were dead? Why would someone stab a dead person?

The fact that Anna was found in a bag, in a dumpster, had stab wounds and blood everywhere made it look like a murder. Alex Garcia was visiting her days before she died trying to get documents together for finalizing their divorce so he was obviously one of the last people to see her alive. Neighbors and friends also knew that Alex and Anna did not have the best relationship. Neighbors and friends like Lucy Leffingwell, who visited regularly and cared for Anna Garcia immensely. Everyday Anna lived without Alex, hurt them as much as it hurt her so after fining Anna's dead body and grieving for a short period of time, she made an impulse decision to get back at Alex for the pain he'd caused her. Lucy then inflicted stab wounds into Anna's dead body, put her in a bag, and threw it in the dumpster in order to frame Alex for murder. No one would ever expect Anna Garcia's best friend to do this, and what better way to get back at Anna's Ex-Husband and his new wife than to ruin their entire futures together by sending him to prison indefinitely?

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Further evidence that her urinary system failed as well.

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(6.1.1) When a person dies, it is because one or more of their body systems is unable to support life.

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Anna Garcia was not taking ample care of herself so her death could have been from poor self care. Since she never found anyone to replace Alex, the void left by him in her life was most likely filled with comfort foods and dwelling in depression, drinking, and over the counter pain killers.

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(5.1.3) Anna Garcia was on antibiotics which means that she had a bacterial infection in her urine/UTI. Urinary tract infections are common in women and typical increased risk factors include menopause, sexual activity, and/or poor hygiene. Anna Garcia was 38, while the average menopause age is 51, she did not have a significant other and she was divorced, so the only way she possibly could have contracted a UTI was probably from poor hygiene.

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Even more illnesses are revealed dealing with her heart and circulatory system as a whole.

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(4.2.2) A pill bottle for blood pressure medication was found in Anna's home but the autopsy reported that she was "most likely not taking her pills". Judging by her negative opinion of tedious treatment and maintaining good health, it is entirely believable.

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(4.2.1, 4.3.2) Anna Garcia's father had a heart attack at 41 years old and early heart disease runs in her family.  Anna's blood pressure averaged as 142/85 over the course of a cardiac stress test (Normal should be 120/80, so her systolic was high because her heart was pumping too hard ). She had a slight murmur but showed no signs of edema or swelling in her feet. She was an athlete but lost interest in exercising and began consuming a high calorie, high fat diet. She also drinks 3 glasses of wine per day and an aspirin to deal with stress of her job and illness. Anna had hypercholesterolemia, which is hereditarily contracted high blood pressure.

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(4.1.1, 4.2.1) At the time of Anna Garcia's death her heart stopped beating . At age 37, her doctors sent her to the cardiologist for a complete cardiac work-up.

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Anna Garcia suffered many complications from her diabetes which could have led to her death. Due to difficult divorce and stress it could have caused her to have more health problems than previously thought.

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Anna Garcia had glaucoma, type 1 diabetes, and discoloration of her feet.

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Anna Garcia died as a result of her poor and failing health, contrary to the murder theory. Though this still fails to explain why she was found in a bag

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Anna Garcia: Victim

Alex Garcia: Ex-Husband, after a bad divorce

Erica Piedmont: Alex's new wife

Doug Green:  Neighbor and Friend

Lucy Leffingwell: Anna's best friend and bakery owner

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Anna Garcia is revealed to have many health issues that possibly led to her cause of death. Still not quite sure who out of the suspects, played a role  in her death.  No provable signs of foul play.

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Judging by the way her body was found and that she did not call the police herself, Her death appeared to be a homicide

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(3.1.2) As early as age 10 Garcia has had a seemingly negative opinion of hospitals and medicine. In her entries she's said things like "stupid hospital", "Oh! I forgot the worst part!", "I'm trying to stay hopeful...but sometimes its really hard", "I just don't know weather I should...try to manage a little longer with this pain", and also the situation where Alex Garcia and Anna began "talking more and more about starting a family" indicate an immense stress level on her which could only give her illnesses the potential to get worse.

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(2.3.3) Some complications of diabetes include those of the eyes, ears, mouth, nervous system, , feet, skin, high blood pressure and others. Specifically, Anna Garcia's right eye lens was reported to be cloudy, with swollen blood vessels which is a sign of glaucoma. Her urine was not reported to have any evidence of prescription drugs although it should have , considering all of the health issues she had. Her feet were also dark and discolored, all of which exemplifies significant evidence of non-compliance.

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(2.2.1-2.2.3) She recorded her food entries from August 11th and suddenly stopped on August 13th but was only found dead on the 15th. Her entries were fairly healthy meals up until then which could indicate that she did not want to document the two days before her death because she knew she was eating unhealthy with insufficient amounts of protein, carbs, lipids, or nucleic acids and not complying with her diabetes.

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The Insulin Glucose Connection+Food Testing

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The Insulin Glucose Connection+Food Testing

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(2.1.2-2.2.1) Since Anna Garcia was somewhat overweight, it is easy to believe that she may have had Type 2 Diabetes. With Type 2 diabetes insulin/glucose charts, when glucose spikes, insulin has a difficult time keeping up and can't ever reach it. However, when you refer to her medical records, you can clearly see that when her glucose levels spike (as it did shortly before she died because her stomach was found to be full) insulin stays the same. That is because she has Type 1 Diabetes and has had it since childhood.

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(1.1.6) Blood spatter diameter can be used to identify the manner of death. In Anna Garcia's case, there was no smear of the blood spatter found at the crime scene to identify a struggle, so chances are this was not a homicide.

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(1.2.2,3.2.2) Through DNA sequences you can determine a wide range of hereditary illnesses and diseases.  When someone has a mutation in their hemoglobin, it can result in Sickle Cell Anemia which is a disease Anna Garcia had.

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(1.3.1) Here we learned about how the systems of the body worked together. Out of the muscular, skeletal, cardiovasular, respiratory, immune, endocrine, integumentary, urinary, digestive, and reproductive system, Anna Garcia had easily identifiable problems with her cardiovasular system, urinary system, and digestive system, involving her heart disease, UTI, and diabetes.

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(1.1.5)  The emergency call was made at 9:45am, Police and EMT arrived at 9:56am. Anna Garcia was found face down in a pool of blood with a body temperature of 73*F. It was 92*F outside. She was pronounced dead on August 15th at 11am

When people die, they lose body temperature according to the Glaister Equation which is 98.4- rectal temp/1.5 which equals approximate hours since death.