Chief medical examiner Andressa Boer Fronza said she believes they passed out in the hot tub, where they ultimately died from the combined effects of the substances.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe cause of both deaths was exogenous poisoning, favouring the process of heatstroke with intense dehydration, thermal collapse, culminating in organ failure and death.\u201d<\/p>\n
A space heater was found running in the room, producing additional heat that would have contributed to the pair\u2019s severe dehydration.<\/p>\n
The couple, who had been together for nearly 20 years, had no signs of other injury.<\/p>\n
Chief of Police Felipe Simao Gomes said 16 forensic reports have been carried out as part of the investigation, ruling out electric shock, drowning, or carbon monoxide poisoning.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese circumstances, combined with the substances found on the bodies, led the Civil Police to conclude that the cause of death was sudden and not due to third-party intervention.\u201d<\/p>\n
Relatives of the dead woman are pushing back against claims she had a drug problem, describing the stories as \u201cfake news\u201d in an October 1 statement, according to the Sun.<\/p>\n
\u201cGiven the inconsistencies, we raise serious concerns about possible forced ingestion or poisoning and demand a rigorous, transparent and impartial investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police have not addressed allegations de Silva may have been made to consume the illicit drug.<\/p>\n
Gomes did respond to her family\u2019s other concerns, confirming that while the couple \u201chad a busy social life\u201d, there was nothing to suggest their drug use was a \u201chabit\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt may be that the physical constitution, both his and hers, were not compatible with the use of a substance like that, especially when combined with alcohol.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sagaz and de Silva\u2019s daughter is now in the care of family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chief medical examiner Andressa Boer Fronza said she believes they passed out in the hot tub, where they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[47179,74,51585,1558,6325,575,27274,8414,13978,690,6179,1874,6868,42,51584,6735,78,51587,4274,43,51586,3766,16784,51583,165,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-63292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-4yearold","tag-after","tag-bath","tag-been","tag-birthday","tag-brazil","tag-brazilian","tag-couple","tag-daughters","tag-dead","tag-died","tag-found","tag-girl","tag-headlines","tag-hot","tag-hotel","tag-in","tag-jose","tag-motel","tag-news","tag-orphaned","tag-parents","tag-room","tag-scalding","tag-their","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}