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Grassley questions feds, Baltimore police in unsolved death of Fairfax teen Annie McCann
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Grassley questions feds, Baltimore police in unsolved death of Fairfax teen Annie McCann
By Tom Jackman March 8
@TomJackmanWP
The mystifying death of 16-year-old Annie McCann in 2008, found in a Baltimore housing project far from her Fairfax County home, has always been accompanied by the mystifying investigation of the Baltimore Police Department. The police concluded that Annie committed suicide by drinking the antiseptic Bactine, a vile-tasting substance that numerous experts, including the manufacturer Bayer, have said could not have killed her at the amounts found in her body.
Annie McCann, right, and her mother Mary Jane Malinchak-McCann, in an undated photo. Annie McCann was found dead in Baltimore in 2008, and now a U.S. senator is seeking answers from investigators. (courtesy McCann family)
For more than seven years Annie’s parents have fought ferociously for a fuller explanation, and now they have a powerful ally: Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Grassley on Monday released letters he sent last week to the Baltimore police, the FBI and Bayer asking some of the many unanswered questions surrounding Annie’s death. Grassley’s letters in another Fairfax County case, the 2013 police shooting of John Geer, led to a judge’s order that forced police to finally provide information to Geer’s family in January 2015 about who shot Geer and why.
The discovery of Annie’s body near a dumpster at the Perkins Home apartments in Baltimore, at 3 a.m. on Nov. 2, 2008, was the shocking end to a life lived almost totally in the Alexandria area of Fairfax County, where Annie was a well-liked junior at West Potomac High School. The Baltimore police said there were no obvious signs of trauma, though Annie’s parents Daniel McCann and Mary Jane Malinchak-McCann have since learned otherwise. With no “signs of foul play,” the Maryland chief medical examiner turned to toxicology and ruled that Annie had ingested a fatal amount of lidocaine, one of the active ingredients in Bactine. She had a bottle to spray on her recently pierced ears, her parents said.
{From Nov. 2009: What happened to Annie? Fairfax couple have questions about daughter’s death}
“Annie drank Bactine,” Baltimore homicide Maj. Terrence McLarney told The Post in 2009. “It’s just a poison. People drink poison. It’s true we can’t find another one with Bactine. When they decide to kill themselves, they use what is there. The point is, she poisoned herself.”
Grassley questions feds, Baltimore police in unsolved death of Fairfax teen Annie McCann
By Tom Jackman March 8
@TomJackmanWP
The mystifying death of 16-year-old Annie McCann in 2008, found in a Baltimore housing project far from her Fairfax County home, has always been accompanied by the mystifying investigation of the Baltimore Police Department. The police concluded that Annie committed suicide by drinking the antiseptic Bactine, a vile-tasting substance that numerous experts, including the manufacturer Bayer, have said could not have killed her at the amounts found in her body.
Annie McCann, right, and her mother Mary Jane Malinchak-McCann, in an undated photo. Annie McCann was found dead in Baltimore in 2008, and now a U.S. senator is seeking answers from investigators. (courtesy McCann family)
For more than seven years Annie’s parents have fought ferociously for a fuller explanation, and now they have a powerful ally: Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Grassley on Monday released letters he sent last week to the Baltimore police, the FBI and Bayer asking some of the many unanswered questions surrounding Annie’s death. Grassley’s letters in another Fairfax County case, the 2013 police shooting of John Geer, led to a judge’s order that forced police to finally provide information to Geer’s family in January 2015 about who shot Geer and why.
The discovery of Annie’s body near a dumpster at the Perkins Home apartments in Baltimore, at 3 a.m. on Nov. 2, 2008, was the shocking end to a life lived almost totally in the Alexandria area of Fairfax County, where Annie was a well-liked junior at West Potomac High School. The Baltimore police said there were no obvious signs of trauma, though Annie’s parents Daniel McCann and Mary Jane Malinchak-McCann have since learned otherwise. With no “signs of foul play,” the Maryland chief medical examiner turned to toxicology and ruled that Annie had ingested a fatal amount of lidocaine, one of the active ingredients in Bactine. She had a bottle to spray on her recently pierced ears, her parents said.
{From Nov. 2009: What happened to Annie? Fairfax couple have questions about daughter’s death}
“Annie drank Bactine,” Baltimore homicide Maj. Terrence McLarney told The Post in 2009. “It’s just a poison. People drink poison. It’s true we can’t find another one with Bactine. When they decide to kill themselves, they use what is there. The point is, she poisoned herself.”
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