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...hour later, two hippies clambered to a porch outside the bathroom window and looked in. They saw Billy's body in the tub. His wrists had been slashed and a broken wine bottle thrust deep into his chest. Billy's mother, Carol Metherd, 24, sat silent on the puddled floor, her hands, T shirt and slacks soaked with blood. The two horrified hippies smashed their way into the room. Carol later curled on the floor in a fetal position; her only sign of life was the rolling of her eyes...
...Carol Metherd was a loner who lived apart from her husband. She studied horoscopes, Zen Buddhism and the maunderings of a ouija board and, it was said, turned on without drugs. "She was very spiritual," said a hippie named Mongol. But another recalled that Carol had talked of using "speed" (an amphetamine drug) to control her weight; a prolonged "high" with amphetamines is often followed by an even deeper letdown...
...week's end Carol was in a hospital while Denver's district attorney, James D. McKevitt, awaited the outcome of chemical tests for drugs on samples of her blood. "This is just a tragic example of what is going on in that area," said McKevitt, who has watched Denver's hippie population swell from almost nothing to an estimated 3,500 inside a few months after the Colorado legislature refused to make possession of hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD and speed a criminal offense...
...purposes like a malignancy, and usually proves fatal within 18 months. Since construction of a normal route for the bile was impossible in these cases, the Starzl team did transplants for Paula Kay Hansen, aged 2, of Fort Worth; Kerri Lynn Brown, 16 months, of Long Beach, Calif.; and Carol Lynne Macourt, 16 months, of Salt Lake City...
...children received a cortisone-type hormone to reduce the inflammatory reaction against the transplant; when two showed severe infections, the drug was stopped. All except Carol Macourt have suffered paralysis of the right diaphragm. Three have had severe infections in the transplanted livers. One had to have part of the liver removed; two more still have open drains. Even so, said Surgeon Carl G. Groth, there is evidence that three of the transplanted livers are regenerating...