Carbon Monoxide Suspected in Death
IRVINE —
A Riverside woman who was found dead in her car may have died of carbon monoxide poisoning, police said Tuesday.
A coroner’s autopsy conducted Tuesday morning was inconclusive, a deputy coroner said. Coroner’s investigators will begin a series of toxicology tests to try to determine the exact cause of death.
Investigators said the woman, Deborah Annette Vinton, 38, was sleeping in her car and may have been overcome by carbon monoxide blown into the car’s interior by its heater.
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