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Factfinder2 ago

I don't know whether you've ever seen Heather's death certificate: PDF (scroll down past birth certificate) http://www.autopsyfiles.org/reports/deathcert/orourke,%20heather_dc.pdf

Notice that the problem was actually in her small intestine, which is where Giardia usually wreaks its havoc. It can lead to IBS (irritable bowel syndrome). Crohn's is one type of IBS.

Giardia: https://www.medicinenet.com/giardia_lamblia/article.htm (Note it says individuals who practice anal/oral sex may become infected.)

Crohn's disease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crohn's_disease

Heather's immediate causes of death were:

A) Cardio-respiratory arrest.

B) Suspected septic shock.

C) Acute bowel obstruction.

The bowel obstruction was likely in the small bowel because the other significant condition contributing to death was stenosis (narrowing) of the small intestine.

An exploratory laparotomy (opening the abdomen to search for the cause of a problem) was performed on her date of death, 2/1/1988. A bowel resection (removal of a section of bowel) was also performed, presumably due to the stenosis.

She died at 2:43 pm (1443 hours). It doesn't say what time the surgery was performed, so she might have died during surgery.

When she died, her bowel had been obstructed for 36 hours, so a day and a half before she died. She was in septic shock for six hours, so that could have begun before or after surgery. She was in cardio-respiratory arrest for 30 minutes, likely the amount of time that they spent trying to revive her before calling the time of death.

Incredibly sad.

darkknight111 ago

I believe those articles don’t debunk the blind.

They do however give me a theory about the incident. I’ll get into more detail later.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4479362/ IBS CAN be caused by sexual abuse (it is a POTENT contributor to it too).

Factfinder2 ago

No, of course they don't debunk the blind, and I wasn't attempting to debunk.

I was pointing out that her death certificate shows the problem that killed her was in her small bowel, not in her colon.

As the article on Giardia noted, the disease can be caused by oral/anal sex, meaning performing oral sex on a male who has had anal sex, thus actually supporting the blind.

Undoubtedly she had damage to her genitals and colon from long-term abuse, but those things apparently weren't the cause of death.

darkknight111 ago

What you found is very useful...and paints a MUCH darker picture about what really happened on 11/7/1986 if my theory is correct.

My theory regarding the incident is as follows: Repeated anal rapes killed her, with the incident on 11/7 being the worst injury that accelerated the process.

Given what that exec said in the Culkin interview about getting carried away, I can conclude that they were particularly brutal with Heather. The medic getting involved supports this.

I suspect that they perforated Heather’s rectum and in the process injured her small intestine via something akin to blunt force trauma (blunt force trauma can contribute to stenosis). Which makes me believe the foreign object inserted was a metal pole shaped thing.

3141592653 ago

Its so horrible

Factfinder2 ago

Wow, that is dark and certainly possible.