On May 27, the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office announced that Megan Trussell, an 18-year-old CU Boulder student who went missing in February, had died by suicide “as a result of the toxic effects of amphetamine” — a key ingredient in Adderall — with hypothermia as a contributing factor.
Trussell’s parents, Joe Trussell and Vanessa Diaz, have questioned that conclusion. They say the coroner’s office and sheriff’s department failed to provide sufficient evidence to support a suicide determination and did not fully investigate other possibilities. Trussell had no recorded history of suicidal ideation or suicide attempts, the family said.
“They did the bare minimum to prove that it was a suicide and nothing more,” Joe Trussell told Boulder Reporting Lab…