timsdat
Posted : 8/9/2007 10:07:29 PM
I think we have not heard about it because it is boring news to the media, nowhere near as fun as the title "Evil brute Mastiffs Maul Man and Eat him in the Backyard!!!
I know. I just find it wierd that none of the major news sites in LA has run a followup with this major turn. There was this story and one in Canada says that the dog bites weren't fatal and that the man didn't die of a heart attack. There is much more detail in the Canada story. Good, bad or indifferent you will always see more than one story out there.
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Coroner rules out dog bites and heart attack in investigation of what happened to scriptwriter Jacob Adams
The last time anyone saw Jacob Adams alive, he was playing with his friend Ving Rhames's four large dogs.
The next morning, the Canadian scriptwriter was found dead on the actor's front lawn in affluent West Los Angeles, dog bites and blood all over his chest, legs and arms.
But what happened in those intervening hours has everyone from police to friends scratching their heads. An autopsy Tuesday found the 40-year-old did not die as a result of the bites, and that he was healthy in every other way.
Police say Mr. Adams, who had been living at the
Mission Impossible co-star's home for the past two years and worked as his professional stand-in, was seen outside the Brentwood, Calif., home at about 8 p.m. last Thursday. Half an hour later, friends tried calling him but got no answer.
Jacob Adams was a house guest at the home of actor Ving Rhames for the past two years. (AP)Whatever spurred one of the 90-kilogram mastiffs to give chase had Mr. Adams running so hard that police found his shoes more than nine metres from where his body was discovered.
“He made it to the gate, he got the gate closed to keep the dogs inside that grassy area, and he collapsed on the other side of that gate, about three feet from it,” said West Los Angeles Lieutenant Ray Lombardo.
When police arrived, the dogs – one with blood on its right forepaw; the other so old it hardly had any teeth – were running around freely on the lawn. Mr. Adams was pronounced dead at the scene.
Tuesday, the dogs were still in the custody of animal control.
Most of the bites were superficial, the Los Angeles coroner's office said Tuesday. It was also determined that Mr. Adams did not die of a heart attack and did not have any clogged arteries. The body is now being sent in for toxicology tests.
“At this point, it's simply a mystery. We're ruling it an undetermined death,” Lt. Lombardo said.