Grundy County Coroner Speaks Out On Heroin
(CBS) -- The coroner of far west suburban Grundy County is speaking out on heroin as he reports on the death of a 25-year-old woman from the drug, leaving behind a five-year-old daughter.
Coroner John W. Callahan says the mother of 25-year-old Rebecca Smith found her lifeless on the family's living room couch Wednesday morning in Morris, Illinois.
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Callahan says while toxicology hasn't been completed, the condition of the woman's body and surrounding drug paraphernalia make it likely she was killed by a heroin overdose.
He says while he doesn't normally publicize drug deaths, the victim's mother, Nancy, asked that all the information about her daughter's death be made public in an effort to warn others in the rural community about the hazards of hard drug use.
