Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MCCARTNEY DEATH MYSTERY
Questions continue to linger over the
circumstances of Linda
McCartney's death, with California authorities
pressing their
investigation of the death and the McCartney
family trying to keep
private where she died. On Wednesday night, Paul
McCartney's
spokesman Geoff Baker dismissed suggestions her
death might have
been "assisted," after the Santa Barbara County
Sheriff's
Department said it was investigating why no death
certificate had
been filed. Linda McCartney, wife of the former
Beatle for 29 years,
died Friday from breast cancer, which had spread
to her liver. She
was 56. Baker said in his statement Wednesday
that she died in a
place "that was private to her and her family" --
hinting that place
was not in Santa Barbara, as had been widely
reported.
Yesterday, The PEOPLE Daily posted news from
next
week's PEOPLE Magazine, saying that Linda
McCartney
actually died at the family's ranch in
Tucson, AZ. Tucson
radio station KVOA-TV later quoted
unidentified sources as
saying the Pima County medical examiner
authorized her
cremation. It said a University of Arizona
cancer specialist
signed the death certificate. Britain's
Independent newspaper
said McCartney's body was cremated at
Tucson's Bring
Funeral Home. A worker there refused
comment. The
family's statement Sunday announcing her
death did not
specify where Linda died, saying only that
the family had been
on vacation in Santa Barbara. "Everyone has
always assumed
that it was Santa Barbara, California,"
Baker's statement
Wednesday to Britain's national news agency,
Press
Association, said. "In an effort to allow
the family time to get
back to England in peace and in private it
was stated that she
had died in Santa Barbara."
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