This afternoon the NYC Medical Examiner has concluded that 29-year old Carlisle Brigham died from “blunt impact trauma to her neck.” The finding confirmed what police suspected late yesterday and today — that the young woman’s death inside a Lower East Side apartment building was an accident.
Results of toxicology tests won’t be available for a few weeks.
Brigham fell down a flight of marble stairs at 191 Orchard Street yesterday morning after a night of heavy drinking. Estranged from her husband, she was temporarily staying with a friend. Brigham’s father heads an investment bank in St. Louis and once served as New York City’s budget director.
Brigham worked at the Museum of Natural History until this past spring.
