In this episode of Crime Watch Daily Updates: How does one woman end up dead after allegedly drowning in a toilet bowl?
Today we’re looking at the case of Tracy Cusick, a 32-year-old woman who lived in Ottawa, Illinois, with her firefighter and bar-owning husband and their children. The family seemed content on the outside, but Tracy reportedly dealt with her own inner demons as she battled substance abuse with methadone, a powerful painkiller.
On January 17, 2006, Tracy’s husband, Kenneth, found her unresponsive in a bathroom with her head inside the toilet and called 911. Paramedics transported her to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Initially, the autopsy report said she died by drowning, and there was a small amount of methadone still in her system. The coroner listed her manner of death as undetermined, but that didn’t satisfy some law enforcement officials.
The Ottawa Police Chief dove into Tracy’s case and after looking through autopsy photos, found a small cut on her chin and forehead. Years after her death, her body was exhumed and a coroner’s jury determined she died by homicide because some of her injuries reportedly could not have been possible without some sort of force from another person.
Tracy’s husband, Kenneth, was arrested in February 2017 on suspicion of first-degree murder.
He went to trial in 2019, but a jury found him not guilty of murder.
Following the acquittal, Kenneth sued the Ottawa Police Chief, the LaSalle County State Attorney, and other officials in federal court because he alleged, they framed him for Tracy’s death. Kenneth’s lawsuit argues his reputation was destroyed and he endured years of pain and suffering as a result of the murder charge against him. He claimed the law enforcement officials kept going after him as a means of political gain.
As of January 2023, that case has not yet been tried.
Let’s look back at the case of a young mother whose death baffled the community
Toilet 🪠 murder toilet attacked and killed stop it nobody ever drowns in toilet
Lol toilet attack cops
How could anyone drown in toilet bowl bullshit the toilet did not kill her
Methadone had nothing to do with her death wtf
So this woman says he was aquitted in 2017 and then says as of Jan 2023, the case has no been tried. Wth.
Unpopular opinion, I do believe that methadone is so powerful that with lots of alcohol you could pass out in a toilet bowl. And I do believe that a man or woman could rip a toilet out after their spouse was found dead in it, just simply out of anger. I don' think that lack of tears equals guilt. This is sad either way 🙁 Makes sense that her sister would want someone to blame.
Who prescribed the methadone?
Was her consumption bring monitored?
Her being prescribed methadone was irrelevant and only showed that she was in treatment likely for opioid use disorder.
Toilet related deaths are usually from bearing down and cardiac issues, not drowning although technically possible.
Is it just me or does the sister look like Roseanne in She-devil 😅
Unless she felt like throwing up and when she was over the toilet nodded out and drowned in toilet bowl
As a Methaodne user … she isn’t not allowed to drink or do other drugs U can’t mix alcohol not even a New Years sip
I don't believe her sister
Kids drown in buckets and toilet bowels Idk that an adult could 🤔
her sister literally sounds drunk in the interview. good lord. i hope she finds it in her to heal from this. i can only imagine that pain, but it's no excuse to be unkind to yourself. 🙁
Any of us would destroy a room our wife killed herself in really now no1 wants that memory lol
Brilliant police work 👏 👍
Andrea Isum shut up.
What part of the toilet was the head in tho
This is a heartbreaking case, hope that the wife Rest In Peace. 😢
Probably took too much and passed out in the toilet. Not that hard to figure out.
They care more about their conviction rate than the family. That's painfully obvious . How tragic.
This black woman talks too loud 17:51
This black woman talks a lot or too fast 15:18
So sad 😢 And so strange..
The water in the toilet is too low to drown. Unless you're standing on your head in the water. Even then, I still don't think there's enough room or water for someone to drown.
How old is this show??? It ends totally different than what Ana said in the beginning. Couldn't you at least post something that is not completely obsolete? They did roll the dice in the end and LOST.
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Wow smh our "justice" system really is s"&t!