A doctor that had been missing for two days was discovered dead in a chimney of her boyfriends house in Bakersfield.
The doctor who was identified as Jacquelyn Kotarac, 49, was trying to break into her boyfriend's home on La Mirada Drive in Bakersfield. She tried using a shovel to get in and when that didn't work she climbed up a permanent ladder and used it to climb up on the roof. Then, Kotarac removed the chimney cap, slid down the flue, feet first, and became stuck part of the way down.
While she was attempting to break in, Kotarac's boyfriend left out the back of the house. No one knew she was in the chimney until someone came over take care of pets in the home and began to investigate the odor and fluids coming from the fireplace, two days later. They found Kotarac dead about two feet above the top of the fireplace opening.
Firefighters had to dismantle the chimney in order to remove Kotarac's body.
Sgt. Mary DeGeare of the Bakersfield police said that the boyfriend and Kotarac had an on-again, off-again relationship and he wanted to avoid a confrontation with her, so he left the home while she was trying to break in.
According to the Kern County Coroner's Office an autopsy revealed that the doctor died from mechanical asphyxia. Ray Pruitt of the Kern County Sheriff's Dept. said that mechanical asphyxia is when the chest is compressed to the point that you can no longer breathe.
Comments
Hahaha.
This is why women generally do not play Santa Claus.
If trying to be Santa Claus, she was a few months early
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