Some new details from the ME's office about slain realtor to the stars Linda Stein. Toxicology tests on Stein, who was brutally bludgeoned to death in her Fifth Avenue apartment in October, show that there were "no traces of marijuana in her system," according to the NY Post.
Stein's assistant, Natavia Lowery, has been accused of murdering her employer. At the time of her arrest, police had said Lowery snapped after Stein verbally abused her and blew pot smoke in her face. Lowery's lawyer, Ron Kuby, spoke to the Post and reiterated that his client's confession was coerced:
"The police were able to tell her the things they knew, and she repeated those things back," he said. "She made things up to get out of the interrogation room. She made up the marijuana smoke. She made up the yoga stick. She made up the killing to get out of the interrogation room.
"The only way to get out was to confess," he said. "If they had kept her another hour longer, she would have told them the hiding place of Osama bin Laden."
Last month, the Post revealed that Lowery had been using Stein's ATM card so many times that a financial forensic analyst was now working on the case full time.
And the Daily Intelligencer asks a good question: "Why did it take over three months for toxicology reports to come in on her death and just ten days for Heath Ledger's?"
