The couple had spent the day celebrating their young daughter\u2019s birthday, drinking alcohol and doing cocaine, before going to a nightclub and checking into the Dallas Motel at around midnight.<\/p>\n
When they failed to pick up their daughter the following day, relatives raised the alarm and reported the pair missing.<\/p>\n
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Jeferson Luiz Sagaz, 37, and partner, Ana Carolina Silva, 41, died from heatstroke in a motel bathtub. NX<\/p>\n
Their bodies were found in the motel bathtub.<\/p>\n
Authorities ruled that heatstroke was the cause of death, but that the cocaine and alcohol in their blood may have dulled their reactions to the severe heat.<\/p>\n
The water in the bathtub had reached 122 degrees Fahrenheit, while a space heater in the room was also turned up high, investigators found.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe cause of both deaths was exogenous poisoning, favoring the process of heatstroke with intense dehydration, thermal collapse, culminating in organ failure and death,\u201d Chief Medical Examiner Andressa Boer Fronza said Thursday.<\/p>\n
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Alcohol and cocaine were found in their blood according to toxicology tests. NX<\/p>\n
Traces of cocaine and very high blood alcohol levels were revealed in toxicology tests.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe use of cocaine, which in doses alone could cause torpor, drowsiness and even coma in the individual, combined with alcohol, which also causes this in high doses, such as torpor, coma and drowsiness,\u201d Director of Forensic Medicine for the Scientific Police, Dr. Fernando Oliva da Fonseca, told G1 Globo.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAdd the two together, increasing the [risk] factor and that\u2019s exactly what may have happened, the person goes into torpor at that temperature and it rises and they don\u2019t feel it and don\u2019t have a defense reaction,\u201d the doctor said.<\/p>\n
Torpor is a state of physical dormancy similar to hibernation, where the body\u2019s metabolic rate slows considerably.<\/p>\n
Further examination of the motel room, the couple\u2019s car and security cameras was carried out, while Civil Police forensic reports were able to rule out carbon monoxide poisoning, drowning or electric shock, as well as anybody else being involved in their deaths.<\/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 Police Chief Felipe Simao Gomes said.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Carolina\u2019s family issued a statement claiming she was not a drug user, and suggesting she was forced to consume cocaine and alcohol.<\/p>\n
The couple had been together for almost two decades and had no history of violence in the relationship, according to police.<\/p>\n
Carolina\u2019s nail salon paid tribute to her.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe say goodbye to a mother, a boss, a daughter, a wife, [and] an exceptional woman,\u201d the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police officer and his businesswoman wife died from heatstroke after getting into an overheated bathtub while drunk…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":283578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,4214,5416,1230,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-283577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brazil","10":"tag-deaths","11":"tag-drugs","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa","24":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115331936088559575","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}