Nearly one year ago to the day, eighteen-year-old Megan Trussell was found dead in Boulder.
No one had seen or heard from the University of Colorado freshman in six days by the time park rangers discovered her body on February 15, on a rocky slope above Boulder Canyon Drive. She was covered in a thin layer of snow. Her purse, cell phone and a single shoe were missing. A mass of pill material the size of a softball was later found inside her stomach.
Investigators ruled the death a suicide. As the report goes, surveillance footage shows Trussell walking off campus alone on the night of February 9, shortly after getting into a fight with her roommate and being broken up with by her boyfriend. Her cause of death was the toxic effects of amphetamine, a key ingredient in Adderall, with hypothermia as a contributing factor, according to the Boulder County Coroner’s Office…