The family of ex-swim champ Jamie Cail, who died of an alleged fentanyl overdose in the US Virgin Islands, claims she had been beaten — and that her death was not an accident.
Local police have said the 42-year-old woman, who hailed from New Hampshire, allegedly died of “fentanyl intoxication with aspiration of gastric content,” meaning particles from her stomach entered her lungs.
But Cail’s family disputes the finding that her death was “accidental.”
“We know that Jamie did not ingest fentanyl intentionally. There is definitely foul play,” Jessica DeVries, who identified herself as a cousin and a family rep, told Insider.
The family shared graphic post-mortem photos of Cail’s body with the news outlet that show her left eye apparently heavily bruised and a mark on her nose.
“Her face is bashed in. Did fentanyl do that to her?” DeVries told Insider. “Jamie’s face was smashed in, the top of her skull and her nose.”
She said the family “decided to release the photo because we need everybody to understand that Jamie was not a fentanyl user — that she had actually been beaten.”
DeVries ripped the official finding as an “atrocity,” insisting that the photos taken of Cail’s body by a family liaison in March after the autopsy show that “somebody put their hands on Jamie.”
Virgin Islands police and the medical examiner’s office did not immediately respond to requests for comment by Insider.
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