Published 11:24 AM EDT Mar 10, 2020Actor Harry Hains died from an accidental fentanyl intoxication, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner.The 27-year-old, who died on Jan. 7, was best known for his roles in 'American Horror Story' and 'The OA.'
Hains isn't the only young star to die recently from the drug, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes as 'a synthetic opioid pain reliever.' In January, rising Twin Cities rapper Lexii Alijai died at 21 as a result of an overdose of fentanyl and alcohol, according to a medical examiner's report.
The coroner, Dr. Thomas Noguchi (called the 'coroner of the stars'), said that her death was caused by 'acute barbiturate poisoning', resulting from a 'probable suicide'. Many theories cropped up. Most Shocking Celebrity Deaths of All Time. The loss of a Hollywood great is never easy, but in certain stars’ cases, their passing came long before it was their time to go. Talents like Amy Winehouse, Prince, Whitney Houston, Cory Monteith and Robin. Blazblue central fiction tutorial for beginners.
In October, TobyMac’s son, Truett Foster McKeehan, died at 21 after accidentally overdosing on fentanyl and amphetamines, according to autopsy and toxicology reports.Hains' mother, actress Jane Badler, broke the news of his death in an Instagram post at the time.' 7 my beautiful son died. He was 27 and had the world at his feet. But sadly he struggled with mental illness and addiction,' she wrote. 'A brilliant spark shone bright too short a time. I will miss you Harry every day of my life.
'Celebrities and non-celebrities alike took to the comment section to send their thoughts and prayers.Actress Lois Robbins wrote, 'Love you Jane. My heart breaks for you and your family. RIP beautiful Harry.' Actor Shawn Ashmore wrote, 'I am so sorry for you loss Jane!!' Actress Celia Freijeiro wrote, 'I am so deeply sorry for your loss, Jane.
Sending you and your family love and support.' In addition to 'American Horror Story' and 'The OA,' the Melbourne-born star was also known for his role in the 2016 drama 'The Surface.' Badler is best known for playing Shannon Reed in the 'Mission: Impossible' television series from 1989 to 1990 and playing Diana in the television series 'V' from 1984 to 1985.
Jordan Strauss, Jordan Strauss/Invision/APBobbi Kristina Brown, 2015The little-girl-lost daughter of the late, legendary Whitney Houston died July 26, 2015, in an Atlanta-area hospice nearly six months after she was found unconscious in her Georgia home. She was 22. She never regained consciousness to explain what happened before she was found face down and unresponsive in her bathtub in suburban Atlanta.More than a year later, the autopsy results were released: She died from a fatal combination of multiple drugs and immersion in water. But the medical examiner could not say whether her death was intentional or accidental so it was ruled 'undetermined.'
Although her family cast suspicion on her boyfriend at the time, no one has been charged in connection with her death. Anonymous, APNatalie Wood, 1981Thirty-six years after Natalie Wood drowned off the coast of Catalina Island in California, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in February re-opened the investigation into her mysterious death. With her then-husband, Robert Wagner, now a person of interest, Wood's case remains one of many celebrity deaths still shrouded in suspicion, at least among some detectives.On Nov. 29, 1981, the child star-turned-Oscar-nominated actress disappeared from her yacht under circumstances that remain murky at best. Hours later, her body was found, clad in a flannel nightgown, red down jacket and blue socks, floating in the Pacific about a mile away from the yacht and off the island's Blue Cavern Point.Her death was ruled an accidental drowning at the time.
But the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department reopened the case in 2011; the following year, the cause of death on her death certificate was changed to 'drowning and other undetermined factors.' Now detectives have reopened the case again. So far, no charges have been filed against Wagner or anybody else. Milton GreeneMarilyn Monroe, 1962Beautiful, glamorous and doomed. Hollywood's most vibrant star died suddenly at just age 36. She was found dead in her bed on August 5, 1962, at her Los Angeles home, apparently due to a barbiturate overdose.Her death was officially ruled a probable suicide: She slipped into a coma after taking too many sleeping pills. But many fans thought it might have been an accidental overdose.
Moreover, conspiracy theories about her demise have never entirely evaporated. Plenty of people to this day are willing to believe she was murdered and that the Kennedys might have had something to do with it since she supposedly had affairs with both President Kennedy and his brother Robert Kennedy.But it's all bunk. The coroner ruled at the time she had too many barbiturates in her body for it to have been an accident. She had overdosed before and suffered from sharp mood swings. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's office reviewed the case in 1982 but found no evidence to support any of the theories, and backed the findings of the original investigation. PHIL MCCARTEN, APDavid Carradine ('Kill Bill'), 2009Thai police found David Carradine, the actor and martial artist who starred in both Kill Bill films, naked and hanging in the closet of his Bangkok hotel room, authorities told the BBC. The 72-year-old was in Thailand to work on his latest film, Stretch, a manager said.
A private autopsy found Carradine died of asphyxiation, ruling out suicide but leaving open the possibility of accidental death, per the Hollywood Reporter. His widow settled a wrongful death suit against the company behind the film in 2011, claiming an assistant was supposed to help Carradine navigate the city, but abandoned him the night before police found his body. APElizabeth Short, the 'Black Dahlia,' 1947One of the most famous cold cases in U.S. History, 22-year-old Elizabeth Short was found naked in a vacant Los Angeles lot, her body cut in half at the waist, drained of blood and posed. Her face had been cut from ear to ear, and investigators later found evidence that she had been bound. It was the gruesome death of Short, an aspiring actress, that catapulted her into celebrity with an iconic name: Black Dahlia. Her murder remains unsolved over six decades later. ABC Photo Archives, ABC Photo Archives/Getty ImagesJack Nance ('Eraserhead'), 1997The actor, star of cult favorites Eraserhead and Twin Peaks, met up with friends at a coffee shop in South Pasadena, Calif., on the afternoon of Dec.
29, as People recounts. He had a bruised eye. 'I told off some kid,' he said, as actress Catherine Case later recalled. 'I guess I got what I deserved.' Case's husband, screenwriter Leo Bulgarini, found Nance dead the next day on the floor of his apartment. Authorities later determined Nance suffered blunt-force trauma to his head and had fought with two men at a doughnut shop the day prior, suffering a blow to the head.
Anonymous, ASSOCIATED PRESSWilliam Desmond Taylor, silent film director, 1922William Desmond Taylor had directed dozens of silent films when police found the 49-year-old lying on the living room floor of his Los Angeles bungalow with a bullet in his back, according to History. After his death, a love note to him from Mary Miles Minter, a young star of his silent films, was reportedly found in Taylor's home. Minter later admitted that she and her mother, Charlotte Shelby, had been at Taylor's home on the night of his killing, according to History.
And the gun used in Taylor's killing matched the one Minter had once tried to shoot herself with before. No prosecutions ever came in the case, which remains unsolved.