“Yesterday, a court order was issued to prevent the release of certain material collected in the course of the OCSO investigation into the death of Bob Saget. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office will comply with this order while remaining committed to transparency and following access law. to public records,” the OCSO said in an email.
Last month, Saget’s family filed a lawsuit against the Orange County Sheriff’s Office and the medical examiner’s office, demanding that certain investigation records related to his death not be released to the public. On Monday, a Florida judge issued a permanent injunction blocking the release of additional records related to the death investigation, CNN previously reported. Florida conducted a health check on Saget on the day of his departure on January 9 after they were unable to contact him. Hotel security contacted local authorities after finding Saget “unresponsive and cold to the touch”.
The responding authorities found the room was in order, with no “evidence of a struggle, any foul play, or that anyone else was in the room at any time during his stay,” the report said.
“Mr. Saget was lying on his back on the right side of the bed, partially covered by a sheet and bedspread, his left arm resting freely on his torso and his right arm at his side. The sheets, bedspread and pillowcases on the bed were white, and on them or where “There were no traces of blood or bodily fluids in the suite yet,” the report says, adding that Saget appeared to have had a small swelling and a bruise over his left eye.
The report notes that although the door between the room adjoining Saget’s room was unlocked, the occupants had checked out two days earlier and there was no evidence of entry afterward. The report states that Saget’s room was opened shortly after 2:00 AM local time on January 9, the time corresponding to his departure from the Jacksonville concert that night, and was not opened again until 4:00 PM by hotel security personnel who came to check. on him.
“No one entered or left his room until security came in at the request of his family that day,” the report said.
The report states that four legally prescribed drugs were found in Saget’s luggage.
An autopsy performed the next day by Chief Medical Examiner Joshua Stephanie found “a fracture at the base of Mr. Saget’s skull, signs of hemorrhage around the brain, and demonstrated a force transmission that fractured the orbital bones at the front of the skull.” .”
Stephanie “explained that the force required to break it, combined with the fact that the skin at the back of the head was still intact, led him to believe that the injury was most likely caused by ‘something hard covered with something’.” soft,” and he cited a fall on carpet as an example,” the report says.
Stephanie concluded that such a blow would have “deafened” Saget and caused symptoms such as dizziness, confusion, and slurred speech. Stephanie told investigators that Saget would not have been able to drive two hours earlier from Jacksonville, which he reportedly did in his rental car after suffering such a head injury, the report said.
After the autopsy, investigators returned to the hotel to re-examine the scene “to identify specific locations or objects in the room that may have caused the injury.” The message says that nothing definite has been installed. Stephanie noted that Saget’s head injury likely occurred within hours of his death, but could have occurred days before, the report said. The report said a number of interviews conducted by authorities with people who interacted with Saget in his final days turned up no evidence of drug or alcohol use or any unusual behavior.
The photograph, taken at the request of a valet at the Ritz Carlton in Orlando in the early hours of January 9, shows no visual signs of trauma or injury on Saget’s face, the report said.
The cause of death was determined to be blunt trauma to the head. The report states that the cause of death was an accident.
Joe Sutton of CNN contributed to this report.