The Region - News from Jan. 8, 1987
The Manhattan Beach mother whose complaints launched the McMartin Pre-School molestation case died of liver disease, the Los Angeles County coroner’s office reported. Judy Ann Johnson, 42, was found dead in her home on Dec. 19. Coroner’s spokesman Dean Gilmour said autopsy results indicated that she died of “fatty metamorphosis of the liver.”
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