Police awaiting toxicology results for Hopkins professor found in Baltimore harbor

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"No evidence of foul play has been found in the death of Elizabeth "Liz" O'Hearn — the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine neurology professor found unresponsive in the Baltimore harbor last week — and it will not be ruled a homicide, according to city police.

O'Hearn, 53, an accomplished neurologist who broke ground in the field of neurodegenerative disease and joined the medical school's faculty in 1997, was found unresponsive in the water near her Canton home in the 2300 block of Boston Street about 4:45 a.m. Thursday. She was pronounced dead hours later at Johns Hopkins Hospital."

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/mar...,4221629.story

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Strange stuff sometime happens around water.

Old people here in FL sometimes fall into canals/lake and gators get them. From my experience it is takes effort to even fall into a canal/lake.

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bodies regularly turn up in the Harbor....
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http://articles.baltimoresun.com/200...amy-copper-dog

Welcome to town - call a cop
March 22, 2009|By LAURA VOZZELLA

Baltimore State's Attorney Pat Jessamy urged her counterparts from around the country to soak up the city's charms while in town last week for a meeting of the National District Attorneys Association.

Good thing DAs aren't fainthearted conventioneers.

During a lovely waterfront reception at McCormick & Schmick's on Thursday night, Jessamy encouraged the prosecutors to stroll back to their hotels along the Inner Harbor's brick promenade. Some of them took her up on the idea - and came across a body floating in the water.