Welcome to it's a crime I'm Linda and today we're gonna be talking about Alex
Cox's results from his autopsy and his toxicology as you know
Alex's Laurie valo de belles brother he died on December 12 2019 and we've been
waiting for about five months for the results so I'm about to share them I'm
also gonna have my hubby who is a 16 plus year paramedic weigh in on some
things and I'm going to share what he had to say but before I get into it if
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Alexander Lamar Cox died on December 12 2019 he was only 51 years old his birth
date was January 18th 1968 he died one day after Tami de belles body was
exhumed and around 2 weeks after he got married to his new wife Zulema past
Dennis they got married in Las Vegas and Alex even took zoo lemmas last name
according to the wedding records now on the day that he died his stepson Joseph
Lopez found him on the bathroom floor and he called 911 911 25 ok I have the
paramedics on the way so he's in the restroom right now Gilbert can we get
you started I'm already in round all right thank you
ok is he on his back or on his stomach where is he at he's on his side
ok can you lay him flat on his back on the ground um I'll try is just the
species there and I'm trying to just keep cool right now you said his wife
the species on the ground ok I know that's gross but if we can just go ahead
and get him flat on his back I want to make sure he's breathing because if he's
not we're going to do a few things that's it did you
he's cool like cold we gotta get you on your back does he seem more awake or
more asleep he won't press though okay is he opening his eyes are moving at all
breathing okay is he breathing normally like his chest is rising and falling
he's not making any weird sound yeah he's making a very exhaling foul night
okay if he's doing that we need to start CPR so I need you to get him flat on his
back on the ground okay I'll do that let me know when he's flat on his back
and we're going to give you instructions okay okay oh I know it's that idea but
you're doing a really good job by helping them if you can do that okay oh
no he's not breathing
no no too big okay just try to get him on his
back because we can do chest compression what is that here okay give her the
phone then so did she say the mother just got there
yeah we're Corinne we're coming on mineral right now we're almost there
it's really bad come up there any better we need to get them on his back can you
put your mom on the phone she's right here you're on speaker okay
ma'am the paramedics are pulling up but in the meantime we need them to get flat
on his back and we need to give him chest compressions okay just compression
but does she know how to do CPR yes no tell okay how far you we're pulling
up out front right now so they're grabbing their equipment and they're
coming in are you on the first floor or the second we on the second floor second
floor in the bathroom yeah okay and the door is unlocked
yeah okay do you see the paramedics now yes okay Joseph you did a good job I
know that was really scary but thank you for your help okay Joseph before you
hang out Joseph before you hang up I need your last name Joseph let the
paramedics do their business and tell me what your last name is well Joseph
what's your last name Lopez okay and what's your date of birth
Joseph Alex's last I don't know you don't know his name
okay all right do you let the officer in yeah okay
sounds good I'm gonna let you go up I think what was interesting in this phone
call was that Joseph didn't know that Alex was married to Zulema he actually
said that it's my mom's boyfriend he even said the mail appeared to be in his
40s so we didn't even know his age and also he didn't even know Alex's last
name now also interestingly in a clip that I saw last night of Laurie's mom
Janice and her sister summer they said that they didn't even know that Alex got
married nor did they know that he moved back to Arizona so everything kind of
seemed hush-hush which was interesting so as a recapping that 911
Joseph found Alex on the floor not really responsive he went on the 911
freaking out a little bit and then Zulema came into the door a little bit
while later and you can hear she's saying yes she's kind of sounding
frantic that she knows CPR and then they got off the phone and then Alex actually
died later that day and they did the autopsy and the toxicology and now we
have his results so according to the medical examiner the primary cause of
death for Alex Cox is bilateral pulmonary thromboembolism death is our
thorough sclerotic and hypertensive cardiovascular disease and so basically
it's a pulmonary embolism and now when you look up the symptoms of it symptoms
of pulmonary embolism depend on the size of the clot where it lodges in the lung
so a lot of times people will get deep vein thrombosis which is in your legs
and the clot actually travels so the most common symptom of a pulmonary
embolism is shortness of breath this may be gradual or sudden and other symptoms
of pulmonary embolism include anxiety clammy or bluish skin chest pain that
may extend into your arm jaw neck and shoulder fainting irregular heartbeat
lightheadedness rapid breathing rapid heartbeat
restlessness spitting up blood and weak pulse and then for the arthrosclerosis
of cardiovascular disease basically he had his artery narrowed due to the
build-up of plaque and he had high blood pressure that led to other complications
now Alex's niece Melanie was on that Dateline special and she did say that
she talked to Alex every other day and that he had troubles breathing she also
said that he was super healthy so we know that's not right
so I weighed in with my hubby which I mentioned that he is a paramedic and I
asked him about the narcan because it showed in Alex's report that there was
caffeine in his system and also narcan and so a lot of times when people
overdose on drugs the paramedics come in they give narcan and then it reverses it
but I was asking him okay well what about in this situation so he said what
happens is basically Alex was unconscious and then barely breathing
and then he stopped breathing like we heard in the 9-1-1 call and then he says
when medics show up and they see this they may think that you know it might be
some sort of opioid overdose because he's not breathing
you know he's fairly young guy he's 51 years old they might not suspect a heart
attack or the pulmonary embolism they just might see that his breathing is
really shallow or not breathing so in my hubby's protocol what he says
is if he had super low breathing and small pupils let's say he said he would
give narcan to counteract it if in fact there were opiates in his system but
even if they administer narcan and you don't have it in your system that he
said it's not a big deal like it wouldn't cause any harm and then when we
listened to the call Alex was on his side at first and he was having what
sounded like labored breathing what Joseph said and he was making a sound
but he was still breathing and he was in a recovery position at this time because
he was on his side now then dispatch told him to put him on his
and then you heard gurgling in the in the call and he sounded like he was
choking on his own saliva because he was lying on his back so mr. Linda said that
he would be better to lie on his side when he was in that recovery position
because as soon as he went on his back he made the gurgling sound and then
Joseph said he stopped breathing now one of the things also I asked him because a
lot of people are asking about this is Joseph found him on the floor and he was
covered in his own feces and I said well doesn't that happen after you pass away
because he was still alive and he said no sometimes if they're going to the
bathroom you know they could have been doing that and then something happened
they fell on the floor or or it could happen drink so I was asking about that
and the only extra thing he said was yeah when medics come they'll see a 51
year old who looks maybe fairly healthy then they may think opioid first and
they wouldn't necessarily think heart attack or the pulmonary embolism and he
said breathing might have been in their protocol too because everybody has
different protocols maybe it's different up in Canada than it is down in the
states and pulmonary embolisms can happen if you sit a lot if you're
sedentary we know that Alex said that he's actually a truck driver from the
body cam from when Charles valo got killed or when he killed Charles bellow
and he said he drove a truck for a living now in the last few months of his
life he did quite a bit of travelling aside from his job in September he drove
to rexburg from Arizona with lorry with the kids to live there and that's a 13
and a half hour drive then they took a trip a week later to Yellowstone
National Park with Laurie and the kids and that's five hours there and back and
then in October he drove back to Gilbert Arizona for the attempt on Brandon
boudreaux's life and that was 13 and a half hours of driving there then he
drove back for another 13 and a half hours and that's a total of 26 hours and
then at the end of October he drove with Mel
his knees - American Fork Utah where Brandon's parents lived and drove back
so it's four hours there and four hours back and then he also flew with Melanie
at the end of October from Idaho Falls to Gilbert Arizona they rented a u-haul
and then they drove all the way back to rexburg which is another 14 hours then
at the end of November he drove to Las Vegas with his soon to be wife Zulema
they got married and that was a nine-hour drive there and a nine-hour
drive back and then just a short time later like just a few days later they
went and packed up and they went from Rexburg back to Gilbert Arizona which is
another 14 hours so he's having a lot of driving a lot of sitting and we don't
even know if he drove truck for those four months - so it does make sense to
me that he did have a pulmonary embolism and that there wasn't anything else
funky going on it it does line up now according to his new wife Zulema he
actually had complaints of burning in his chest and shortness of breath the
week before and Laurie allegedly calls Zulema and said hey I'm worried about
Alex can you check on him zoo llama calls Joseph Joseph goes to check on him
and Joseph finds him on the floor and then calls 911 Melanie said in the
Dateline special now when it comes to Gilbert police they said the next step
for Gilbert Police Department detectives assigned to this case will be to review
the autopsy report in its entirety the case is still active at this time and
there's a representative for Alex's family members including Zulema his name
is Garrett Smith and this is what he has to say in their most private
conversations and their most public statements they've always avowed and
asserted that Alex died of natural causes there's a history of this type of
medical issue in the family I'm sure that this report strengthens them it's
nice to have empirical evidence for what you're saying they're relieved they're
still saddened by the loss of their brother and their husband and their
uncle and their son but there's got to be a sense of comfort that there
fond and wonderful memories of Alex won't be marred in the future by this
speculation and rampant gossip that's been going on about him and when I look
to see about a funeral I tried to find out obituaries and that kind of thing
all I could find was something on findagrave.com and it lists that Alex
was cremated but no real obituary anywhere and no mention of a funeral and
I had wondered earlier in previous videos if Laurie even went to her
brother's funeral and she was in Hawaii at this time she flew to Hawaii on
December 1st with Chad and they ended up renting a home there I believe it was
December 10th and I don't believe she went back to Arizona to mourn the loss
of her brother now there was also a statement from the Coxes family about
the medical examiner report and they made this through their attorney's
office and this is what it said the maricopa county medical examiner
determined that Alex Cox died from natural causes the report dated May 8
2020 states the primary cause of death was bilateral pulmonary thromboembolic
indicial in which arteries in the lungs become blocked by blood clots our
thorough sclerotic and hypertensive cardiovascular disease was named as a
contributory cause of death Alex's widow Zulema passed Ennis along
with his mother Janice Cox sister summer shifflett and his niece melanie
pawlowski are pleased to see the report confirms what they knew and maintained
since Alex's death on December 12 2019 in interviews with many news agencies
the family stated numerous times what they knew to be true Alex's death had no
sinister aspect with the degree of vindication the family hopes that the
confirmation of this truth will help all to step back take a breath
and allow the truth to enfold through the process rampant rumors of evil plots
and conspiracy the family of their time to grieve their loss of their husband
son brother and uncle even so the family finds comfort in the medical examiner's
finding that Alex Cox died of natural causes now
earlier this year there was reports that Alex might have been connected to Tammy
de belles death which is being investigated and Janice had something to
say about this Alex's mom she said that Alex has always been protective and
loyal but could never be considered a hitman and she says I can't help but
laugh Alex is the most laid-back person he's been funny his whole life he surely
wasn't perfect but he doesn't have the intensity of a hitman he doesn't have
the desire to be a hitman he doesn't think death solves anything
and she said it was hard to hear about Alex from the police we didn't know that
he had gotten married we didn't know he had moved back to Arizona that was very
hard so it affected every part of her family and just in a statement it's
interesting because on one hand she says I know my son he's the most laid-back he
could never be considered a hitman and and this kind of thing and then in the
next breath she says well I don't even he didn't tell us that he was married he
didn't tell us he was going to Arizona so that's what I see in that so am i
surprised at the cause of death I am surprised it was a pulmonary
embolism although when you start to put it
together that he was a truck driver he had high blood pressure he's done all
this traveling it does add up he said he had shortness of breath wasn't feeling
so great so I can understand that I never really thought you know some
people in the comment said well maybe he committed suicide I didn't think that
that was their opinion I I never thought that he would do that after all this I
just don't think after you do some of these things and had a pretty normal
conscience let's just say when Charles valo died I just didn't think he would
he would go and kill himself but a lot of people are still skeptical about the
about these results so let's have a chitchat about that in the comments
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