Overview
- The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner on Thursday released findings confirming Carrie Elizabeth Romney died by suicide from blunt-force injuries sustained in an October fall from a Valencia parking garage.
- Surveillance and a witness documented her arrival at 7:10 p.m., pacing and looking over the parapet, then sitting on the edge at 8:23 p.m. before her body struck the ground three minutes later.
- Investigators concluded she fell backward from a seated position on the rooftop parapet of the five-story structure.
- A handwritten note described as a suicide note was recovered in the final pages of a Book of Mormon found on the front passenger seat of her vehicle beneath her purse.
- Toxicology reported 6.3 ng/mL of alprazolam in her system, and her husband told investigators she had previously driven off a cliff and voiced not wanting to go on; the couple had been separated since May with a divorce petition filed in June.