Here’s one of your last Read the Leads for the May-June issue before the June issue hits the stands…and this one shows definitively that you should be sure and either pick up the print edition or keep your online membership up to date, because you’re not going to see this on the free side, nor are you going to have read it anywhere else.
That’s because the public officials in charge of things like this make sure there’s no one else publishing it. So we’re it. We’re the only ones who not only suspected what the background of this case was, but we set out to find out and disseminate it to the public.
Here now is your evening Read the Lead about what happened in late December 2013 regarding the death of a well-liked trooper’s wife in Wayne County, Toxicology: Drowning victim’s BAC .169; you won’t read it anywhere else, so read it here.
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Miz Murbarger with the mudders, aka Pond Creek Pink Panty Riders.
WAYNE CO.—The victim of a tragic rural Wayne County drowning incident in late December 2013 had more than twice the legal limit of alcohol in her system when her body was recovered, autopsy information shows.
The autopsy information as well as toxicology on Jennifer Murbarger, 42, was finally made available to Disclosure on Thursday, April 18, under a Freedom of Information Act request.
The final diagnosis was made by Dr. James Jacobi, who works for the Regional Pathologist’s Office in Evansville with Dr. John Heidingsfelder, on February 3, 2014.
Jacobi’s notations showed that Murbarger’s death was “consistent with drowning following a motor vehicle entry into cold water on a submerged road.”
The county road was CR 1270 North on the east side of Jasper Township, just west of Massilon Township in the Buggerville area of Wayne County between Elm River to the west and the Little Wabash River to the east.
The road was flooded and Murbarger was traveling on it in the early morning hours (the autopsy report indicates at 1:30 a.m.); unfamiliar with the area and how it floods, she drove into the backwater in subfreezing temperatures December 27, 2013.
Because reports on the matter were so vague, with no explanation given as to what Murbarger, the wife of Illinois State Police trooper Jayson Murbarger, was doing at that time of morning in that remote part of the county, and because of the overwhelming response to locate her as put forth by the Illinois State Police, which included a fixed-wing aircraft outfitted with FLIR (forward looking infrared) to locate her car, many in Wayne and surrounding counties wondered what really had gone on that night, as did Disclosure. When inquiries continued to turn up vague responses…
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