The Los Angeles County Coroner has received lab results purporting to show that actress Brittany Murphy was murdered — but will not re-open the case unless it gets more details, a top official in the office told TheWrap Wednesday.
“We take any allegations of homicide seriously, but just screaming about a test result without allowing us to look at the test result and what it means is not going to be helpful,” said Craig Harvey, the chief of the coroner’s operations bureau.
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Murphy’s father, Angelo Bertolotti, has sent reporters, the coroner’s office and the LAPD copies of independent lab results that suggest to him that Murphy died of poisoning from heavy metals.The