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Cascade Effect Killed Yale Professor.

I speculated in this earlier post about the mysterious death, in custody, of a young Yale professor. He’d gotten violent with police (they had come to his house because of domestic violence) and had sustained a mild injury in the scuffle. He was then put in jail for the night. During the night he died, and not by suicide.

The wound sounded too small to have done him in. What then?

Samuel See was only 34, but the medical examiner has concluded that he had had a small heart attack a few days before his arrest; See also had meth in him. He died of “acute methamphetamine and amphetamine intoxication with recent myocardial infarct.” Meth is real bad for your heart. I’m going to assume the heart attack was meth-related.

So when I say cascade I mean a bunch of things seem to have conspired to kill him:

1. the heart attack;

2. the mental as well as additional physical trauma from the domestic violence/arrest violence;

3. being incarcerated and therefore not having his health and welfare closely monitored.

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UPDATE from the Yale Daily News: Background on See’s harrowing personal problems.

Margaret Soltan, January 7, 2014 12:40AM
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