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Jesus Malverde

(10,274 posts)
Wed Apr 30, 2014, 09:12 PM Apr 2014

Peaches Geldof 'died of heroin overdose'

Last edited Wed Apr 30, 2014, 11:29 PM - Edit history (1)

Live Aid founder Bob Geldof's daughter Peaches died of a heroin overdose, the same cause of death as her mother Paul Yates in 2000, Britain's Times newspaper reported on Thursday.

The model died suddenly on April 7, aged 25, but the autopsy proved inconclusive.

However, Detective Chief Inspector Paul Fotheringham is due to tell a hearing in Gravesend, Kent, later Thursday that toxicology tests showed she had died of a heroin overdose, the paper reported.

Peaches, who wrote for British magazines and newspapers and presented celebrity-driven television shows, was found dead at her countryside home where she was looking after 11-month-old son Phaedra.

Read More: http://news.yahoo.com/peaches-geldof-died-heroin-overdose-233916609.html

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Peaches Geldof 'died of heroin overdose' (Original Post) Jesus Malverde Apr 2014 OP
Good lord what is with the widespread heroin use Egnever Apr 2014 #1
Its a real mystery.. Jesus Malverde Apr 2014 #2
yea that was my first thought Egnever Apr 2014 #4
WV is flooded with it. hollowdweller Apr 2014 #16
It's the legacy of a decade in Afghanistan malaise Apr 2014 #3
its the legacy of over prescribed pain pills Mosby May 2014 #28
I was going to post the same thing. Cleita May 2014 #34
Absolutely malaise May 2014 #41
It seems to be incredibly popular with the children of the rich Warpy May 2014 #26
The common thing between them they both have idle time...nt Jesus Malverde May 2014 #38
They also barely know their parents Warpy May 2014 #42
"Police searched the property for drug paraphernalia, but found none."... TeeYiYi Apr 2014 #5
Someone cleaned up...nt Jesus Malverde Apr 2014 #6
For what purpose?... TeeYiYi Apr 2014 #7
"unless they were involved" former9thward Apr 2014 #8
Still makes no sense... TeeYiYi Apr 2014 #10
Yes, but this is not TV. former9thward Apr 2014 #11
How do you know it wasn't murder?... TeeYiYi Apr 2014 #14
Maybe it was. former9thward Apr 2014 #15
If your a dealer, boyfriend, or royal prince... Jesus Malverde Apr 2014 #9
or she didn't do the drug on the property n/t TorchTheWitch Apr 2014 #19
Injection isn't the only way to do heroin. Spider Jerusalem Apr 2014 #12
Hard to believe she could OD by snorting it... TeeYiYi Apr 2014 #13
You can easily OD by snorting heroin. hollowdweller Apr 2014 #17
It's easy to OD by snorting heroin. Let's not spread dangerously misleading info. RedCappedBandit Apr 2014 #18
You're correct, of course... TeeYiYi Apr 2014 #22
how does smoking it leave behind paraphernalia? TorchTheWitch Apr 2014 #20
That's definitely one possibility... TeeYiYi Apr 2014 #23
could have been any or all of the above as well TorchTheWitch Apr 2014 #24
I still think it's suspicious.... TeeYiYi Apr 2014 #25
breast feeding? AngryAmish May 2014 #40
Sure she could Warpy May 2014 #27
True... TeeYiYi May 2014 #30
Even IV push, it takes a full 10 minutes for opiates to reach peak activity. Warpy May 2014 #32
I remain skeptical... TeeYiYi May 2014 #35
i wonder if that's how she was losing a lot of weight JI7 Apr 2014 #21
Such a shame. RIP, Peaches Geldof. flvegan May 2014 #29
She revealed the mothers' names who let their babies be raped Ichingcarpenter May 2014 #31
wow wow wow... Jesus Malverde May 2014 #33
There was a network this guy used Ichingcarpenter May 2014 #36
Modern jimmy saville Jesus Malverde May 2014 #37
The US is also involved Ichingcarpenter May 2014 #39
 

Egnever

(21,506 posts)
4. yea that was my first thought
Wed Apr 30, 2014, 09:38 PM
Apr 2014

But still. Does anyone not get heroin is highly addictive? What in the world gets these folks started and where in the hell are they getting it from. I have not lived a sheltered life by any means but I have only come across someone trying to sell heroin twice in my 48 years.

 

hollowdweller

(4,229 posts)
16. WV is flooded with it.
Wed Apr 30, 2014, 10:31 PM
Apr 2014

We passed welfare reform in the 90's and cut back on AFDC and made it harder to get.

But you could still get a Medicaid card and get opiates or benzos and then people started selling them and Adderal to make up the difference when they got cut off welfare.

Then they started cracking down on prescriptions after they had created tens of thousands of junkies, and, at least here then the gangs from Detroit and Columbus started moving large amounts of heroin to fill the void.

In a lot of rural America drugs are the only entertainment. I always noticed that the more rural, the less money, the less things to do the harder the drugs. I guess the same is true with the ghetto but I'm a country person.

Is the gov't involved? Don't know. But it IS interesting that back in the 80's when the US and Israel were in Lebanon we were flooded with cheap Lebanese hash. Then when the US was heavily involved in Central America we had the cocaine and crack epidemic. Now with the middle east and Afghanistan we have the poppies. Maybe just the chaos of war makes it easier to get it out.

One thing is for sure every time they have tried to crack down on pot thru blockade or drug testing or whatever the less bulky more dangerous drugs have got thru.

malaise

(268,885 posts)
3. It's the legacy of a decade in Afghanistan
Wed Apr 30, 2014, 09:37 PM
Apr 2014

and lots of people are now filthy rich while others are hooked or dead.

Mosby

(16,297 posts)
28. its the legacy of over prescribed pain pills
Thu May 1, 2014, 12:27 AM
May 2014

Developed from opiates.

Look around the internet, I'm sure you'll find an article or two.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
34. I was going to post the same thing.
Thu May 1, 2014, 02:06 AM
May 2014

Before we raided Afghanistan opium production was in decline. The farmers started growing again after we invaded because it was a good cash crop for them. Heroin is cheaper than many other street drugs these days.

Warpy

(111,234 posts)
26. It seems to be incredibly popular with the children of the rich
Thu May 1, 2014, 12:23 AM
May 2014

as well as with poor folks who have lost all hope. Numbing out and sleeping through life is their way to cope.

It's a symptom, not the disease.

Warpy

(111,234 posts)
42. They also barely know their parents
Thu May 1, 2014, 05:01 PM
May 2014

thanks to overlarge mansions, nannies, and prep schools. The parents see them between engagements as Mom tries to keep up with the competition from wannabe trophy babes and Dad chases more money for bigger, um, bragging rights.

TeeYiYi

(8,028 posts)
5. "Police searched the property for drug paraphernalia, but found none."...
Wed Apr 30, 2014, 09:44 PM
Apr 2014
How does that possibly add up?

TYY

TeeYiYi

(8,028 posts)
10. Still makes no sense...
Wed Apr 30, 2014, 10:03 PM
Apr 2014

...unless someone has admitted to being there when she died.

Leaving the rig behind would suggest that she died alone by her own hand. By taking the rig, they've called attention to themselves and removed all doubt.

TYY

former9thward

(31,965 posts)
11. Yes, but this is not TV.
Wed Apr 30, 2014, 10:11 PM
Apr 2014

Since it is not "murder" the cops will expend very little effort trying to find out who was there.

former9thward

(31,965 posts)
15. Maybe it was.
Wed Apr 30, 2014, 10:21 PM
Apr 2014

But since this happened April 7 I would think the police would have declared it such if they were so inclined.

 

Spider Jerusalem

(21,786 posts)
12. Injection isn't the only way to do heroin.
Wed Apr 30, 2014, 10:13 PM
Apr 2014

You can smoke it or snort it, it's less effective than injecting but it still works.

TeeYiYi

(8,028 posts)
13. Hard to believe she could OD by snorting it...
Wed Apr 30, 2014, 10:15 PM
Apr 2014

...and smoking it would have left behind paraphernalia.

TYY

TorchTheWitch

(11,065 posts)
20. how does smoking it leave behind paraphernalia?
Wed Apr 30, 2014, 10:41 PM
Apr 2014

Put drug in cigarette, flush baggie or whatever it came in down the toilet, smoke drugged cigarette, die.

TeeYiYi

(8,028 posts)
23. That's definitely one possibility...
Wed Apr 30, 2014, 11:07 PM
Apr 2014

I was thinking of straws, tin foil and a lighter as paraphernalia. That, or a pipe.

TYY

TorchTheWitch

(11,065 posts)
24. could have been any or all of the above as well
Wed Apr 30, 2014, 11:25 PM
Apr 2014

She could have done it off the property like an old friend of mine always did or perhaps someone came over and they left with the paraphernalia.

People that do drugs often don't want there to be evidence of it in their home or where ever they're visiting especially those people in the public eye.

I'm not surprised at all that no paraphernalia was found.

TeeYiYi

(8,028 posts)
25. I still think it's suspicious....
Wed Apr 30, 2014, 11:49 PM
Apr 2014

Her husband was conveniently somewhere else the night it happened and the police found no evidence to indicate method of ingestion.

Paraphernalia could be anything that suggested evidence of how the overdose quantity of heroin was ingested. A cigarette would have left a filter behind. Snorting might leave residue on a mirror or cd case or inside a straw....

Husband Thomas Cohen, 23, had spent the previous night apart from his wife and was looking after their eldest son, 23-month-old Astala.

He takes the 23-month-old and leaves her with the 11-month-old...while he does what? Why take just one child and not both?

She's left in charge of her 11-month-old son and decides to ingest a lethal quantity of heroin without leaving any clues behind? I'm just not buying it and I'm not buying the husband's alibi.

Call me a cynic.

TYY

Warpy

(111,234 posts)
27. Sure she could
Thu May 1, 2014, 12:26 AM
May 2014

Especially if she'd gotten an especially hot batch.

The route doesn't matter much, the quantity of drug does.

TeeYiYi

(8,028 posts)
30. True...
Thu May 1, 2014, 12:38 AM
May 2014

...but if she had snorted it, there would've been some kind of evidence left behind to indicate that she had just snorted a lethal dose of heroin.

The police indicated that there was no paraphernalia found which suggests that either they don't know or aren't saying how the lethal dose of heroin was ingested.

TYY

Warpy

(111,234 posts)
32. Even IV push, it takes a full 10 minutes for opiates to reach peak activity.
Thu May 1, 2014, 01:58 AM
May 2014

The folding money went back into her wallet and the compact mirror got licked....and then she blissed out and died.

Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
31. She revealed the mothers' names who let their babies be raped
Thu May 1, 2014, 01:14 AM
May 2014

Peaches Geldof is under police investigation after breaking a court order by naming two women who allowed their babies to be abused by paedophile singer Ian Watkins.
The daughter of Boomtown Rats star Bob Geldof tweeted the names of two women involved in the case.
The two children are guaranteed life-long anonymity and naming their mothers could lead to their identification.
Detective Chief Inspector Peter Doyle, Senior Investigating Officer from South Wales Police said:


http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/peaches-geldof-facing-possible-police-investigation-after-tweeting-names-lostprophets-paedophile

Lostprophets star Ian Watkins admits trying to rape two babies

ROCK singer Ian Watkins yesterday admitted attempting to rape the babies of two fans, as well as ten other sexual offences.


Watkins, 36, now faces jail after admitted attempting to rape the 11-month-old baby of a fan "Woman A" and conspiring to rape the baby daughter of another fan "Woman B".

The two fans, 21, from Yorkshire, and 24, from Bedfordshire, are also facing jail after admitting their role in the sex offences on their own children.

Police fear there may be many more child victims across the world, as the former boyfriend of Children in Need presenter Fearne Cotton "exploited his celebrity status in order to abuse young children".

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/445274/Lostprophets-star-Ian-Watkins-admits-trying-to-rape-two-babies


100 were abused....She had enemies


Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
36. There was a network this guy used
Thu May 1, 2014, 05:17 AM
May 2014

for his crimes which means a conspiracy of fact. She brought the crimes to international attention vs just a british thing.

Jesus Malverde

(10,274 posts)
37. Modern jimmy saville
Thu May 1, 2014, 05:24 AM
May 2014

The court privacy laws in the UK seem as much designed to protect the powerful as the powerless.

Sick society.

Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
39. The US is also involved
Thu May 1, 2014, 05:38 AM
May 2014

Pedophile GOP senate candidate arrested, indicted on 113 counts

http://www.examiner.com/article/pedophile-gop-senate-candidate-arrested-indicted-on-113-counts


The Franklin Coverup Scandal

The Child sex ring that reached Bush/Reagan Whitehouse


http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/Franklin/FranklinCoverup/franklin.htm


Arrest only a Tip of a Pedophile Network by WMR

February 10-13, 2014 – SPECIAL REPORT. Washington, DC (WMR) Loskarn arrest only a tip of a pedophile network that includes Alexander, other Tennessee politicians


The December 11, 2013 arrest by U.S. Postal Inspectors of Senator Lamar Alexander’s chief of staff Ryan Loskarn on charges of possession and distribution of child pornography in connection with international law enforcement’s Toronto-based Project SPADE, represents only the tip of an iceberg which connects Alexander to a network of Tennessee politicians and businessmen associated with child sex abuse.


Loskarn, who was released against the wishes of federal prosecutor for the District of Columbia Mi Yung Park to the custody of his parents in Sykesville, Maryland for being a suspected suicide risk, was found hanging in the basement of his parents’ home on January 23. Foregoing an autopsy, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for the State of Maryland in Baltimore concluded, based on a mere visual inspection of Loskarn’s body, that he had died from self-inflicted hanging.

http://www.roseanneworld.com/blog/2014/02/loskarn-arrest-tip-pedophile-network-wmr/

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