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Actually, according to FCPD and CSUPD they have not released the toxicology reports and therefore have not said exactly what her blood alcohol level is.


James Baetke
The Collegian
Police reported Tuesday that the female CSU student found dead at the Sigma Pi fraternity house Sunday evening was involved in a single-car accident the night before.

Rita Davis, Fort Collins Police Services spokesperson, said 19-year-old Samantha Spady was coming home after the CSU football game and lost control of her vehicle in Fort Collins.

“The day after her death we received a call about an abandoned vehicle. Samantha had driven that car that evening,” Davis said.



Davis said the timeline from when Spady was picked up from the scene of the accident and when she was found dead at Sigma Pi the next day is still under investigation.

The national organization for Sigma Pi suspended the CSU chapter until the investigation clears the house of any wrongdoing.

Darren Pettapiece, president of the Sigma Pi chapter at CSU, said reports that someone from the fraternity house picked her up from the scene are untrue.“The investigators are still detailing her last hours,” Davis said.

There were no signs of obvious trauma nor was foul play a factor in her death, Davis said.

Giving a tour to his mother, a Sigma Pi fraternity member who did not live in the house at 709 Wagner Drive stumbled upon Spady’s body Sunday night. A coroner investigator and police responded to the scene around 6:30 p.m.

The Larimer County Coroner’s Office said Spady’s cause of death has not yet been determined but said officials cannot rule out that the accident may have contributed to her death.

“I do know that through the investigation we will investigate the car accident,” said Debbie Reifdorff, a deputy coroner for the coroner’s office. “If the car accident was involved in the death it will be on the death certificate.”

“The cause of death is pending,” Reifdorff said. More information should be available by the end of the week.

Although preliminary results show that Spady’s death may be alcohol-related, it is still unclear until the final autopsy results are finalized, Reifdorff said.

<b>Although some reports have stated Spady’s blood-alcohol level as five times the legal limit, FCPS, the coroner’s office and the CSU Police Department have all denied officially releasing that information.

“We do not have (her blood-alcohol level),” Davis said. Reifdoff said her office never releases preliminary information like that.

“I do not know where that information came from,” she said.

Yvonne Paez, public information officer for CSUPD, said that to her knowledge, CSUPD does not have that information, and if it did it would not be released unless it was public information.</b>

Students and faculty across the campus and residents in her hometown of Beatrice, Neb., are in shock.

“The whole (fraternity) house is in shock. It is a somber place right now,” said Pettapiece, who will remember her beautiful smile and caring personality the most.

Jason Sutter, Beatrice High School’s principal, knew Spady since the eighth grade and watched her grow up in high school as a cheerleader, National Honor Society member and homecoming queen.

“Sam was a leader. She was one of our best students in her class. She very much enjoyed school and was well respected,” Sutter said.

Chet McGrury, owner of Silver Screen Video in Spady’s hometown of Beatrice, employed Spady for about two years.

“She was a real neat girl, a real popular, friendly kid,” McGrury said. “She had real potential. She was going places.”