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6 days ago
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Cause of Death Revealed for Daughter Who Died During Trail Hike with Her Dad
The Maine Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has reportedly released the cause of death for hiker Esther Keiderling, who died in early June during a Mount Katahdin trail hike The 28-year-old hiker's cause of death was listed as blunt force trauma, per News 10 ABC, WGME CBS 13 and WABI 5 Her dad Tim Keiderling's cause of death has not yet been listedMore details are emerging in the deaths of Tim and Esther Keiderling, the dad and daughter who died on a trail hike in Maine this month. A medical examiner revealed that the cause of death for Esther, 28, was from blunt force trauma, while father's cause of death has not yet been shared, reported News 10 ABC, WGME CBS 13 and WABI 5. Esther may have slid down the terrain with an uncontrollable force as her remains were found in a snow covered boulder field below the Cathedral Cut-off Trail, News Center Maine reported. PEOPLE reached out to the Maine Office of the Chief Medical Examiner on June 14 for additional details, but did not receive an immediate response. News Center Maine added that witnesses told investigators that Tim, 58, and Esther, were continuing their climb when harsh weather conditions, including wind gusts of up to 40 miles per hour. A mixture of sleet, rain and snow reportedly also impacted the father and daughter as wind chills dropped into the teens, and hypothermia was a high risk. Investigators also said that the Keiderlings did reach the summit of Saddle Trail but veered off course during their descent, the outlet and Esther, both of Ulster Park, N.Y., were last seen on June 1 at around 10:15 a.m. local time. The duo had set out from the Abol Campground to hike Mount Katahdin, according to a statement from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. Days later, on June 3, authorities updated the statement, writing that a Maine Warden Service K9 search team found Tim's body near the summit of the mountain, but his daughter remained missing. The organization updated the statement again the following day on June 4, announcing that searchers had found Esther's body. Tim's brother-in-law Heinrich Arnold posted on the family's New York-based church, that the deaths had been "difficult to fully grasp." He continued, "Both were taken from us far too soon, and we are all left asking: 'Why?' ' Arnold thanked the community for the outpouring of support and shared what was giving the family solace as they mourned the father of six and Esther. "One comfort to the family is knowing that Tim and Esther were doing something they both were passionate about: being near to God, surrounded by expansive views and visions, immersed in nature, in the raw and wild beauty of creation," Arnold said. The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife did not respond to PEOPLE's request for further updates on June 14. Read the original article on People
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Health
- Yahoo
Cause of Death Revealed for Daughter Who Died During Trail Hike with Her Dad
The Maine Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has reportedly released the cause of death for hiker Esther Keiderling, who died in early June during a Mount Katahdin trail hike The 28-year-old hiker's cause of death was listed as blunt force trauma, per News 10 ABC, WGME CBS 13 and WABI 5 Her dad Tim Keiderling's cause of death has not yet been listedMore details are emerging in the deaths of Tim and Esther Keiderling, the dad and daughter who died on a trail hike in Maine this month. A medical examiner revealed that the cause of death for Esther, 28, was from blunt force trauma, while father's cause of death has not yet been shared, reported News 10 ABC, WGME CBS 13 and WABI 5. Esther may have slid down the terrain with an uncontrollable force as her remains were found in a snow covered boulder field below the Cathedral Cut-off Trail, News Center Maine reported. PEOPLE reached out to the Maine Office of the Chief Medical Examiner on June 14 for additional details, but did not receive an immediate response. News Center Maine added that witnesses told investigators that Tim, 58, and Esther, were continuing their climb when harsh weather conditions, including wind gusts of up to 40 miles per hour. A mixture of sleet, rain and snow reportedly also impacted the father and daughter as wind chills dropped into the teens, and hypothermia was a high risk. Investigators also said that the Keiderlings did reach the summit of Saddle Trail but veered off course during their descent, the outlet and Esther, both of Ulster Park, N.Y., were last seen on June 1 at around 10:15 a.m. local time. The duo had set out from the Abol Campground to hike Mount Katahdin, according to a statement from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. Days later, on June 3, authorities updated the statement, writing that a Maine Warden Service K9 search team found Tim's body near the summit of the mountain, but his daughter remained missing. The organization updated the statement again the following day on June 4, announcing that searchers had found Esther's body. Tim's brother-in-law Heinrich Arnold posted on the family's New York-based church, that the deaths had been "difficult to fully grasp." He continued, "Both were taken from us far too soon, and we are all left asking: 'Why?' ' Arnold thanked the community for the outpouring of support and shared what was giving the family solace as they mourned the father of six and Esther. "One comfort to the family is knowing that Tim and Esther were doing something they both were passionate about: being near to God, surrounded by expansive views and visions, immersed in nature, in the raw and wild beauty of creation," Arnold said. The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife did not respond to PEOPLE's request for further updates on June 14. Read the original article on People
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6 days ago
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Cause of Death Revealed for Daughter Who Died During Trail Hike with Her Dad: Reports
The Maine Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has reportedly released the cause of death for hiker Esther Keiderling, who died in early June during a Mount Katahdin trail hike The 28-year-old hiker's cause of death was listed as blunt force trauma, per News 10 ABC, WGME CBS 13 and WABI 5 Her dad Tim Keiderling's cause of death has not yet been listedMore details are emerging in the deaths of Tim and Esther Keiderling, the dad and daughter who died on a trail hike in Maine this month. A medical examiner revealed that the cause of death for Esther, 28, was from blunt force trauma, while father's cause of death has not yet been shared, reported News 10 ABC, WGME CBS 13 and WABI 5. Esther may have slid down the terrain with an uncontrollable force as her remains were found in a snow covered boulder field below the Cathedral Cut-off Trail, News Center Maine reported. PEOPLE reached out to the Maine Office of the Chief Medical Examiner on June 14 for additional details, but did not receive an immediate response. News Center Maine added that witnesses told investigators that Tim, 58, and Esther, were continuing their climb when harsh weather conditions, including wind gusts of up to 40 miles per hour. A mixture of sleet, rain and snow reportedly also impacted the father and daughter as wind chills dropped into the teens, and hypothermia was a high risk. Investigators also said that the Keiderlings did reach the summit of Saddle Trail but veered off course during their descent, the outlet and Esther, both of Ulster Park, N.Y., were last seen on June 1 at around 10:15 a.m. local time. The duo had set out from the Abol Campground to hike Mount Katahdin, according to a statement from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. Days later, on June 3, authorities updated the statement, writing that a Maine Warden Service K9 search team found Tim's body near the summit of the mountain, but his daughter remained missing. The organization updated the statement again the following day on June 4, announcing that searchers had found Esther's body. Tim's brother-in-law Heinrich Arnold posted on the family's New York-based church, that the deaths had been "difficult to fully grasp." He continued, "Both were taken from us far too soon, and we are all left asking: 'Why?' ' Arnold thanked the community for the outpouring of support and shared what was giving the family solace as they mourned the father of six and Esther. "One comfort to the family is knowing that Tim and Esther were doing something they both were passionate about: being near to God, surrounded by expansive views and visions, immersed in nature, in the raw and wild beauty of creation," Arnold said. The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife did not respond to PEOPLE's request for further updates on June 14. Read the original article on People
Fox News
10-06-2025
- Fox News
John O'Keefe did not die where prosecutors claim in Karen Read trial, doctor testifies
John O'Keefe did not hit the back of his head and suffer fatal injuries on the lawn where Karen Read found him the morning after prosecutors allege she clipped him with her Lexus SUV and left him to die in a blizzard, according to a defense expert. "If you fall back on a flat surface, you get, many times the tear you get in the scalp can be more like a star because you just hit one part, and then the tears go and kind of a star pattern," testified Dr. Elizabeth Laposata, pointing to an evidence photo not shown on the courthouse video stream. "And also, because you would not have those vertical, discrete vertical scraping of the skin, you, you would tend to if you fell back on grass, you would tend to see, you might see grass in the wound, or you would tend to see an irregular kind of crisscross pattern of the flattened grass. And that's not what we have here on Mr. O'Keefe." She said he must've hit his head on an uneven surface. "But that ridge also, it wasn't smooth," she testified. "It had some little grainy, grainy things sticking up on it." While she agreed that blunt force trauma to the head killed O'Keefe, she also said she did not see signs of hypothermia, contradicting the second cause of death in his official autopsy. Laposata's testimony contradicts the testimony of Dr. Aizik Wolf, a brain surgeon who took the stand for the prosecution earlier in the trial. "The only way he could get this kind of an injury was to fall backwards, hit the back of his head, and then the resulting energy forces going into his brain, into the base of his skull," said Wolf, who testified that he'd seen numerous injuries, often fatal, from backward falls in icy Minnesota weather early in his career. "This is what happens when soft tissue hits a solid ground," he testified. Read's defense scored a minor victory before jurors arrived in court Tuesday for the 30th day of her murder trial in the death of O'Keefe, her former boyfriend and a Boston police officer. Attorney Alan Jackson asked Judge Beverly Cannone to reconsider and order yesterday blocking defense witness Laposata from testifying about dog bites. After a contentious back and forth with Brennan, which saw the two talking over one another and raising their voices, Cannone denied the request but also offered a compromise. "In her experience, Mr. Jackson, you have to lay a foundation in her experience saying animal bites," Cannone said. "This is consistent with what she has seen in an animal bite." GET REAL-TIME UPDATES DIRECTLY ON THE TRUE CRIME HUB Laposata is a forensic pathologist and professor at Brown University's medical school, whom Jackson described as "absolutely peerless," although she resigned from her prior role as Rhode Island's chief medical examiner amid an audit that found her office let hundreds of incomplete autopsies languish under her watch, according to local reports from the time. She returned to the stand once jurors arrived, and she explained the internal injuries to O'Keefe's brain and said pressure on the brain stem from internal swelling and bleeding as a result of the fracture is what killed him. The cut over his right eye, however, was caused by a different impact. She said it did not appear to have been inflicted by the spoiler on the back of Read's SUV.
Yahoo
09-06-2025
- Yahoo
St. Louis man charged in fatal punch case
ST. LOUIS – A St. Louis Circuit Court judge signed an arrest warrant Friday for a man in a fatal punch case. According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department's probable cause statement, the incident occurred on May 25 in the 3200 block of Knapp Street, located in the city's Hyde Park neighborhood. Police said Donald L. Cummings, 43, was at a residence with others when the victim arrived. Cummings and the victim greeted each other and then Cummings punched the victim in their face. Caught on Camera: Tornado likely struck near De Soto, Missouri The victim fell back and struck his head on the pavement. Police said the victim was taken to the hospital. He died on May 31. The medical examiner ruled the victim's death a homicide via blunt force trauma. The St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office charged Cummings with second-degree murder. Cummings will be jailed without bond, pending a court appearance. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
