Calif. Doctor Gets Stuck in Boyfriend's Chimney, Dies
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Dr. Jacquelyn Kotarac, 49, first tried to get into the house with a shovel, then climbed a ladder to the roof last Wednesday night, removed the chimney cap and slid feet first down the flue, Bakersfield police Sgt. Mary DeGeare said.
While she was trying to break in, the man she was pursuing escaped unnoticed from another exit "to avoid a confrontation," authorities said.
Dr. Jacquelyn Kotarac from Bakersfield, CA is seen in an undated photo from
Dr. Jacquelyn Kotarac from Bakersfield, Calif., is seen in an undated photo from Facebook. She died after getting stuck in a chimney while apparently trying to break in to her boyfriend's home.
DeGeare said the two were in an "on-again, off-again" relationship.
The man's identity was not revealed by police, but the man who resides in the home is William Moodie, 58.
"She made an unbelievable error in judgment and nobody understands why, and unfortunately she's passed away," Moodie told The Associated Press. "She had her issues - she had her demons - but I never lost my respect for her."
Reached by telephone, Moodie did not dispute the police's characterization of his relationship with Kotarac. He would not comment on the circumstances that led to her death, saying it was more important to focus on the good she did in life.
Moodie, who runs an engineering consulting firm, said Kotarac was a superb internist who often provided service and medication free of charge to her patients.
Kotarac apparently died in the chimney, but her body was not discovered until a house-sitter noticed a stench and fluids coming from the fireplace Saturday, according to a police statement. The house-sitter and her son investigated with a flashlight and found Kotarac dead, wedged about two feet above the top of the interior fireplace opening.
Firefighters spent five hours late Saturday dismantling the chimney and flue from outside the home to extract Kotarac's body, DeGeare said.
Officials said Kotarac's office staff reported her missing two days prior when she failed to show for work. Her car and belongings remained near the man's house.
A cause of death has not been determined, and an autopsy was scheduled for Tuesday. Foul play is not suspected, though investigators have been looking into the incident as suspicious.
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ThatdBMe
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--Snip--While she was trying to break in, the man she was pursuing escaped unnoticed from another exit "to avoid a confrontation," authorities said.--Snip--
He was there, knew she was trying to break in, and left? Did I misread that?
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ThatdBMe
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MotherForTruth
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ThatdBMe:
What is your point?
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MotherForTruth
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ThatdBMe
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MotherForTruth:
If he was there and was aware she was trying to break in, why didn't he call the cops? Why did it take 3 days for the house sitter to find her?
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ThatdBMe:
The article does not go into details but it is possible that she banged on the front door and he escaped from the back door trying to avoid confrontation and obviously her uncontrolled behavior. He could have been long gone when she decided to try "alternative" entrance - chimney.
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MotherForTruth
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ThatdBMe
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MotherForTruth:
Good point.
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ThatdBMe
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galwayman
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Nuts not sure ! obsessed no doubt about it! too bad she did a lot of good for people it is a crappy way to die!
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galwayman
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dalistuff
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maybe she didn't read the book about how hormones change around the early fourties that lead to hot flashes later on. Too bad for her though.
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dalistuff
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UtopianSky
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They said she was a doctor, but they did not say what kind of doctor.
I'm guessing a Psychiatrist, since she was nuts. - 1 year ago
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UtopianSky
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Incredulous
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UtopianSky:
internal medicine...her profile is still public on many sites. creepy
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Incredulous
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jubal
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This woman was an idiot.
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jubal
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NiceN
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A thousand books read, studied, and memorized to attain a M.D. will still not give you an ounce of common sense. Doctors are just normal people that have read plenty of books.
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NiceN
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MotherForTruth
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One driven woman.
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onemalefla:
She's gotta be nuts. I really don't know why people think the chimney is a good idea. It's much easier to jimmy a locked door or pop through a window. I wouldn't know anything about that of course *shifty eyes*
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onemalefla:
If koo koo is code for ageing Hottie I MUST agree. :-)
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versasrev
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You know, this tragedy could have been averted if only this woman would have stopped and thought one thing.
I could try and go through the chimney, requiring me to get a latter climb on a roof, take off the top, and then crawl down; thus getting dirty in the process ... or I could just break a window, carefully reach in with my hand, unlock the window, raise it up, and hop on in the house; thus saving me time, dignity, and keeping me clean.
Moral of the story ... look before you leap.
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versasrev
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Timmyeatworld
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stage 5 clinger anyone?
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curtisreed
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This can be filed under "When smart people do stupid things."
That'll be one less Obama vote.
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common_sense_please
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curtisreed:
Actually a fail this epic means one less supposedly smart vote for Republicans or the Tea Party.
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common_sense_please
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versasrev
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curtisreed:
It's hardly human to wish, or be glad for, the death of your political opposition.
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versasrev
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versasrev
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common_sense_please:
It's hardly human to wish, or be glad for, the death of your political opposition.
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versasrev:
I never said I was glad about her death....I said given this was a rather illogical, over the top, and ill-conceived plan its a much better guess she would have been a republican --because it seems lately the its the Republican and Tea Party candidates that have that market cornered. And I inferred that curtisreed was obviously confused and thought only those who might vote for President Obama in the future would do something this silly.
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common_sense_please
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common_sense_please:
I got where you were coming from, and yes an idiot would politicize a death unnecessarily; however falling strait into someone else's ploy isn't a very intelligent move either.
Don't play the same game as the fool, play a better game.
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versasrev
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versasrev:
geez lately everything has to be about who is smarter or more intelligent.
and if you really want to call me out for being unintelligent you might want to rethink that because I didn't fall into a strait...I chose to just mess with curtisreed--just as you chose to vote me down for that choice.
Also who reads a couple of anonymous obviously sarcastic and silly comments and takes them as a completely serious commentary and calls people out on them without basically falling straight into a trap and playing games as well?
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common_sense_please
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common_sense_please:
Who said it wasn't all a game. As you were bothered about the way he played his game and so made your own game to play, so to did I.
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versasrev
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versasrev:
It is very human. It's just not very nice.
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treewolf39:
True, I shouldn't use hyperbole. It always seems to spoil the point.
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versasrev
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treewolf39
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So sad. Sad that anyone thinks a chimney is an entrance to a house. This comes from Santa and the Three little pigs.
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treewolf39:
I saw this on AOL and apparently this woman, the owner of the house, the journalist who wrote the story and possibly even the police all think the chimney was an entrance because the journalist wrote that "While she was trying to break in, the man she was pursuing escaped unnoticed from another exit "to avoid a confrontation," authorities said."
thus they all believed a chimney qualified as a initial exit or entrance.
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common_sense_please:
Oh snap! That was an awesome catch. I completely missed that the first time.
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versasrev
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common_sense_please:
What has possessed her to gain entry into the boyfriend's home? He sure felt the need to escape...
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common_sense_please:
Maybe the home owner tricked her into trying the chimney. I build chimneys and really have a hard time Imagining a SOBER adult trying to pass through a chimney.
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treewolf39
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MotherForTruth:
That I don't know--I wasn't there. Nor am I a psychic.
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common_sense_please
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treewolf39:
I think there is a whole lot more to this story than the media is reporting and the only reason it made the news at this point in the investigation is because we live in a media saturated society where stories get put out there by irresponsible journalists or news company corporations to bump up advertising revenue and/or bump up the number of "hits" a story gets on the internet.
But mostly I think the true tragedy is that nobody at any level of this intervened to help this misguided woman and obviously harassed man resolve their problems before one of them ended up dead.
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common_sense_please
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common_sense_please:
Beautiful; You think with compassion. Humans ARE a tricky lot. There is most always more to the story. Our society IS socially disconnected because of media and work time demand. I think we are all falling through the cracks in a completely flawed system.
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treewolf39
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MotherForTruth:
To Europe? Yes, to escape from . . .
Well, there I too go -- jumping collectively into the alluring and all inviting hype-machine of our modernly "enlightened." :)
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justadad