{"id":8344,"date":"2012-02-26T02:34:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T00:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/bad-cocaine-killed-american-tv-producer-in-uganda\/"},"modified":"2012-02-26T02:34:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T00:34:25","slug":"bad-cocaine-killed-american-tv-producer-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/bad-cocaine-killed-american-tv-producer-in-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Bad&quot; cocaine killed American TV producer in Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">KAMPALA<\/span> Feb 25 (Reuters) &#8211; An American television<br \/>\nproducer found dead on a hotel balcony in Uganda last week died<br \/>\nafter taking contaminated cocaine, police and a private<br \/>\ninvestigator said on Saturday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>An official toxicology report confirmed the narcotic was in<br \/>\nJeff Rice&#8217;s blood, dispelling initial suspicions the<br \/>\nfather-of-two known for his work on the U.S. show &#8220;The Amazing<br \/>\nRace&#8221;, had been poisoned by attackers.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rice, who was found slumped over a table bleeding through<br \/>\nthe nose and mouth, died of asphyxiation, a post mortem showed.<br \/>\nDrug users who fall unconscious risk inhaling vomit.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rice &#8230; used cocaine which had lethal additives and that&#8217;s<br \/>\nwhat killed him,&#8221; Uganda police spokesperson Asuman Mugenyi told<br \/>\nReuters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Brad Nathanson, a private investigator and friend of Rice,<br \/>\nsaid he had been shown the toxicology report by police and there<br \/>\nwas no evidence of &#8220;foul play&#8221; in Rice&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In fact it was as a result of buying bad drugs, cocaine to<br \/>\nbe specific &#8230; it was a bad concoction,&#8221; Nathanson told<br \/>\nreporters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have read the toxicology report &#8230; it shows that there<br \/>\nwere small traces of cocaine in their blood and urine,&#8221; he said,<br \/>\nadding he had travelled to Uganda as a friend of the Rice family<br \/>\nfollowing rumours he had been poisoned, and not for payment.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rice&#8217;s assistant, identified by police as Kathryne Fuller,<br \/>\nwas found unconscious at the same time Rice&#8217;s body was<br \/>\ndiscovered on Feb. 18 at the Serena hotel in the capital,<br \/>\nKampala. She is now conscious but paralysed down the right hand<br \/>\nside of her body.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ugandan police said on Saturday they had arrested a man who<br \/>\nconfessed selling drugs to the pair who had been in the east<br \/>\nAfrican country working on a documentary.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KAMPALA Feb 25 (Reuters) &#8211; An American television producer found dead on a hotel balcony in Uganda last week died after taking contaminated cocaine, police and a private investigator said on Saturday. 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