Burning Man: Death at US Festival Treated as ‘Suspicious’

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Believed to have died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

Perhaps a defective generator? Or absorption fridge that runs off propane/kerosene?

Still hard to explain since he was found in his car though...

Being found at 6:30PM (1830), too hot to have had been burning candles inside still. A bad hookah???

Maybe suspicious because the body had been moved?

Maybe he died because of someone's fridge, they freaked out and decided to dump in elsewhere.

Sounds like a job for CSI.

Where's David Caruso? Eyyyyowwwww!

I wonder what they see that makes it suspicious. Carbon monoxide is not easy to murder with and there are a host of straightforward reasons why someone in their car would die from it. Was there a tube found going from the tailpipe into a window?

With any car made in the last 25 years that old trick would take ages and probably make you sick and weird for a while before killing you

Interesting, is that because of ventilation or emissions?

Catalytic converters. The exhaust is cleaned at the engine before it goes through the tailpipe.

Why ?

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