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Title: Toxicology report doesn't resolve voodoo-ritual death
Post by: Shana A on September 18, 2009, 08:23:20 AM
Toxicology report doesn't resolve voodoo-ritual death

By JASON NARK
Philadelphia Daily News

http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20090918_Toxicology_report_doesn_t_resolve_voodoo-ritual_death.html (http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20090918_Toxicology_report_doesn_t_resolve_voodoo-ritual_death.html)

Authorities in Camden County have received Lucie Marie Hamilton's toxicology reports, but say they still don't know how the Arkansas woman died during a voodoo ritual in July.

The Camden County Prosecutor's Office would not discuss yesterday what, if anything, the reports found or issue a cause and manner of death.

"It didn't resolve the question of why she's dead," spokesman Jason Laughlin said of the report.

Hamilton, a 20-year-old male-to-female transgender woman from Little Rock, flew to New Jersey in July to undergo a spiritual cleansing at the Gloucester Township home of "Houngan" Hector Salva.