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One of the more bizarre stories this weekend concerned the death of Carol Anne Gotbaum, the daughter-in-law of New York City Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum. On Friday, on the way to rehab in Tucson, she arrived late to the airport in Phoenix and demanded to be allowed to board her flight. She was arrested for disorderly conflict, cuffed, and placed in an airport holding room. Half an hour later she was dead.

A police spokesman theorized she "tried to manipulate the handcuffs from behind her to the front, got tangled up in the process and they ended up around her neck,"-an inexplicable turn of events, according to the family.

Go ahead. Place your hands behind your back and pretend your wrists are cuffed. See if there's any possible way you can then get your hands stuck around your neck in a position that would choke you to death. And if you can get yourself in such a position, ask yourself: Do I have four elbows?

Phoenix police are now "asking whether other substances in her body may have played a part in her becoming unconscious, leading to her death." Failing that, they'll probably suggest that she was involved in some kind of auto-erotic sexplay gone awry. An autopsy will be performed today.

Public Advocate's Daughter-In-Law Dies At Airport [WCBS]
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