September 18, 2008
Former CNN Producer Found Dead with Daughter
Former TV producer Julie Horner Lankamp was found dead in her Gold Street apartment Tuesday with "her crying young daughter clutching her legs," as the Daily News sensationally puts it. Relatives say they hadn't spoken with Lankamp since Sunday and police don't know how long the two-year-old had been stranded with her mother's body, which had begun to decompose. Lankamp had a broken jaw, bruises, and dried blood pooled near her nose and mouth, but the city medical examiner doesn't believe Lankamp's injuries were caused by a beating. An empty glassine envelope with cocaine residue was found near her corpse, and investigators say her injuries may have been caused by a fall after a drug overdose. Results of a toxicology report are pending, but in the meantime police are looking to interview her ex-husband, who was arrested at the end of last year "for attacking her with a chair while using their child as a human shield," a source tells the News.
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Yay for death! Double yay for babies clutching dead parents.
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"Cocaine's a hell of drug"
-Rick James
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a drug* .... damn it
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Goddamn. How do people get so messed up?
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I feel so bad for that kid. He's never going to get over any of this. Some people should not have children.
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Whoa, I guess you can rule out "natural causes."
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wow, another depressing story today.
(thunk, thunk)
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That's just sad. Poor little girl. Thanks a lot Gothamist...
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"Yay for death! Double yay for babies clutching dead parents."
Get professional psychiatric help asap, please.
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Poor kid.
No license (or drug testing) required to bring 'em into the world...
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@matty - luckily the child will not likely remember.
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How did she sink so low? What happened to her that led up to this, besides just the coke?
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Because cocaine always makes one pass out and fall down onto one's face!??
Doesn't sound too "natural" to me.
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The jaw is one of the strongest bones in the body.
I don't know enough about cocaine overdoses, but a broken jaw sounds like a very suspicious injury.
I believe someone who overdoses on cocaine doesn't stand up straight and then suddenly falls over with full force.
and to those people who say "loser cocaine addict": Cocaine is extremely addictive, and when you're lonely, and get to doing it alone a lot, it is easy to get lost.
And even if you have a child, perhaps this woman was so alone and lost that she didn't know how to get help.
I still believe that the coke was not what killed her.
Anyway, Cocaine addiction is still and ADDICTION.
It is extremely disrespectful to talk negatively about her.
How would you like it if when after you die people on the internet call you a pathetic loser?