The Bizarre Toxic Death Of Gloria Ramirez

this week on BuzzFeed install we covered the puzzling case of Louie Ramirez or she's more known on the Internet the toxic woman her death is yeah don't don't sight the Internet her case is so bizarre that actually served as the inspiration for an episode of the x-files and many other TV shows right now we're on a way to Riverside California to visit the cemetery where she was buried so without further ado let's get into it let's get into it Gloria Ramirez was a 31 year old woman diagnosed with cervical cancer on February 19 1994 around 8:15 p.m. Gloria Ramirez arrived at the Riverside General Hospital emergency room where it was found that Ramirez his heart was beating at a rate too fast for her body the medical staff attempted to defibrillate but soon notice that Ramirez his body was covered in an oily sheen and that her mouth was emanating a strange fruity garlicky smell what the [ __ ] I mean could you even detect fruity garlic if he came down to me but they talked about it for ten minutes and were like what is that I know one of them was like fruity garlic and everyone's like oh yeah that they are like Jesus can ya God we have a patient here a nurse named Susan Kane began to draw blood from Ramirez and upon doing so Kane noticed the blood had a chemical odor even stranger medical resident Julie court insky noticed the blood filled syringe also contained strange Manila colored particles floating in the blood an observation also noted by attending physician dr. Humberto o TOA shortly after nurse Kane abruptly fainted Kane stated that her face was burning and was escorted out on a gurney this sparked a bizarre domino effect medical resident Julie Kerensky complained of lightheadedness and also fainted she shook and experienced apnea a condition where a person stops breathing for a few seconds at a time I'm little if I were to kick what is what oh right directly after that respiratory therapist Marine Welch also collapsed here's a quote from Welch quote I remember hearing someone scream then I woke up I couldn't control the movement of my limbs end quote this woman is like a she's it's like she sounds like the Manhattan Project in case you're keeping score that's three people that fainted other staff members reported feeling sick and the hospital declared an internal emergency all other patients were evacuated to the parking lot and a small crew continued to work to save Gloria's life it seems odd to evacuate all other patients why maybe just send the stink bomb out to the parking lot that is true why didn't they just like to be a huge amount of work to move everybody else out what if we take all of the patients outside and put them in the parking lot yep good idea didn't one guy the back we know we could just shut up you idiot we've already decided however at 8:50 p.m. Ramirez was pronounced dead the body was moved into an isolation anteroom by two other staff members Sally Bell dara'a a nurse who helped move the body began to vomit and reported feeling a burning sensation like nurse Susan Cain Balderas was hospitalized for 10 days and experienced apnea like or Kinski core chin ski however was in the worst shape of all staying in intensive care experiencing a malady of issues including avascular necrosis a condition where bone tissue does not receive enough blood and begins to die what she used crutches for months after hospitalization all staff members that had been affected by Ramirez his body were treated in the parking lot and their clothes were removed and put in bags at a fear of a toxic chemical in the end Ramirez his body affected 23 of the 37 emergency room staff and five staff members were held in the hospital overnight you don't think though like maybe one of them was like oh I feel sick I gotta go home and the other ones were like uh yeah me too a burning pain I got to go home I gotta go be I got a host even think this was on elaborate I gotta cook delivered she's cared for tented Jesus Christ around 11 p.m. about two hours after the incident a hazardous materials team arrived in full hazmat suits they search the hospital for two toxic chemicals that could possibly be responsible however no chemical was found six days later an autopsy was performed by the Riverside coroner's office in airtight suits in a newly configured airtight examining room they took samples of blood tissue and even air from the body bed nothing conclusive came from the autopsy these hazmat guys will get it they got an airtight room and then they're just like yeah no I don't know man it's just [ __ ] weird weird county officials called her death quote the most baffling in local history and quote and the mystery became a media frenzy by the end medical detectives from ten different local state and federal forensic departments investigated the case on April 20th 1994 Gloria was finally buried in Riverside California a fool two months after her death so here we are that's where she was buried [Music] you know cemeteries are always very spooky in here are you sniffing what is wrong with you he said it smells like fruity garlic Jesus Christ all right we're gonna get back in the car if you're gonna keep doing that all right well prepare our respects sorry Gloria sorry Gloria weird way to die the official cause of death was cardiac dysrhythmia caused by kidney failure due to her cervical cancer and what that the case was officially closed however the cause of the puzzling illnesses at the emergency room remained a mystery yeah I was gonna say if I was in that office and the guy was like well case closed I feel like everybody else in the office was like uh you forgetting something was that case with that being said let's hop into some of the theories as to what occurred that night ooh the first Theory comes from the California Department of Health and Human Services reputable I think well I think this theory is [ __ ] but okay well anyways would be to you most reputable logical fact-based source yeah a little orange horseshit who interviewed 34 emergency room staff members on duty that night they concluded that the emergency room staff experienced in Mass Soccio genic illness or mass hysteria which is defined as an illness when no identifiable environmental cause despite a group of people agreeing on a set of experience symptoms yeah good yeah I think they all just imagined it at the same time I mean that's half 3/4 there's a bunch of those people in France who started dancin till they died what yeah you just made that up right now it's a real thing pal I mean soon enough dawn they pointed to the absence of poison and Gloria's system and the fact that nobody on the ambulance on the way to the hospital had experienced any symptoms most masked socio genican illnesses have an environmental trigger that sets off the experiencing of symptoms the California Department of Health identified the strange odor as this trigger yeah you know the mind is a powerful thing no yeah no yeah look at mine 23 of the people were affected and not all of them were in that room word travels fast in the hospital they're all next to each other Yoko check out the fruity garlicky smell you don't think they were probably shouting down the hallways at each other however Julie Gorge insky the medical resident most affected by the Siddhant how the lawsuit for six million dollars against the coroner's office in the hospital and disapproved of this explanation Marine Welch the respiratory therapist also felt she was not a victim of mass hysteria the whole idea of hysteria is that you don't realize it you're not like yeah we all participated in a mass hysteria it was it was a real riot I was rich in ski was a man she got [ __ ] up she was having a great time what a fun hysteria that was it's not like a flash mob no stuff what okay the second theory is from the Livermore Laboratory would discover abnormally large amounts of a compound called dimethyl sulfone in Gloria's autopsy samples to explain this they theorized that Gloria used an anti-inflammatory gel called DMSO to cope with their cancer pains the gel would account for the garlicky smell and oily sheen and interestingly enough DMSO is one oxygen atom away from the compound dimethyl sulfone the mysterious compound found in excess in Gloria's autopsy samples the Livermore Lab performed a test combining DMSO with oxygen much like the oxygen mass administered to Gloria that night and the result was an oversaturation of dimethyl sulfone to the point where white crystals were formed crystals that look similar to the Manila colored particle seen in Gloria's blood by the medical staff that night and with that they proved how the dimethyl sulfone could have appeared but the reality is that dimethyl sulfone is still harmless however the team theorized that if the dimethyl sulfone broke down perhaps due to the electric shocks of the defibrillator as people on the internet have suggested and then combined with natural sulfate compounds inside Gloria it could form dimethyl sulfate which is a strong chemical that can cause damage to the heart liver and kidneys it also can cause paralysis delirium and convulsions to name a few symptoms that are uncannily similar to those experienced by the medical staff that night well there you go so essentially there was an excess of this one compound yeah and they figured that this compound could break down and combined with sulfate which sometimes occurs in bodies yeah it would cause this really really poisonous compound and you don't believe is because Josi however the earth bury that dimethyl sulfate was formed inside Gloria has been highly scrutinized by other scientists as impossible and it's also worth noting that the Livermore Lab did not run any tests to try and prove this theory or create a successful simulation in fact the head of the lab himself admits it is merely a theory quote we've never said this is what happened just that people should look into it and cool haha he backpedaled really quickly really did nonetheless the coroner's office ran away with this theory and released a statement in November 1994 stating as the most likely cause the third theory is from the Ramirez family who believes that the emergency room incident and Gloria's death were due to the hazardous conditions already present in Riverside General Hospital in fact in 1991 three years before Gloria's death two hospital employees were forced to receive medical treatment after a sterilizer Mansley poisonous gas oh what three years before not great no it's not ideal not a great track record in 1993 sewer gas was found in the emergency room in an inspection here's a quote from Gloria sister Maggie quote I honestly believe my sister may have lived if she hadn't gone into that emergency room that night I don't know what the county is afraid of but we want answers end quote there are three strange occurrences to support this theory and may suggest a possible cover-up from the county mmm this goes all the way to the top I don't know if we should be looking into this Ryan yeah there's all my backgrounds on the stones are we gonna cut out or throw some oily sheen for us oh they're good yeah we're gonna wake up tomorrow more you have an oily sheen on your that's their calling card I can't wait till this story is over so I never have to say the word she never again but this with you and she I don't like it it's too close to my name you don't want the Nick garlicy Shan Shan no man no I don't the first is that after the initial autopsy Riverside County deputy coroner Dan capito said that Gloria had not died from natural causes but after the county revealed their official autopsy conclusions capito flip-flopped claiming Ramirez had in fact died from natural causes capito capito I know is you could be the second strange occurrence is that the initial investigator from the coroner's office Stephanie L bright a woman considered a top investigator had committed suicide one month into the investigation deputy coroner Dan capito said that due to the case al bright quote may have been under pressure end quote the third and perhaps most peculiar occurrence was the fact that the syringe used to take Ramirez his blood was accidentally tossed out an oversight that is especially curious when you consider the fact that the hospital even took the time to put staff members clothes in bags in the parking lot that night meanwhile playing hot potato with a poison syringe but the poison syringe oh this is like one of the weirdest scientific occurrences of all time bag that up during the trash Coby threw it in however Tom De Santis the Riverside County spokesperson claimed the vents in the emergency room were checked by independent inspectors after Gloria's death and nothing unusual or harmful was found yet the Ramirez family maintained that something is being covered up and filed a malpractice and wrongful death lawsuit against Riverside County each one of these theories that you're positing they make more and more sense the first one I was like yeah that could be it in the second I was like oh yeah great picks out this third one is like oh there's sewage and poisonous gas in the hospital yeah the fourth theory is from the internet where many believe that the emergency room incident is a strong case for Gloria Ramirez being a victim of alien abduction okay did you shut your mouth of Doug what's the difference in just steering the other three because the other three are based on facts and some pretty plausible like that's shut up your I can't even this is I thought you were like on the level on this one the first three theories were so grounded in reality and now you're just like oh yeah Bigfoot Scrooged on her chest you willful enthusiasts site unusual reaction with the emergency room staff as evidence of extraterrestrial meddling uh-huh look I'm not saying this is what happened I'm just saying it's a possibility can you say definitively this is not a possibility that she wasn't abducted i definitively cannot it's a theory then what get into the theory that is it that's it [ __ ] you that definitively did not happen because the theory then is just oh maybe it was aliens maybe aliens so after all these years the mystery behind the strange occurrence and Riverside General Hospital indoors the test of time was it a case of mass hysteria was this an improbable chemical reaction gone wrong perhaps this was a cover-up of poor hospital conditions or is this proof of something beyond science possibly extraterrestrials regardless no theory has been definitively proven in the case of Gloria Ramirez remains unsolved you know what happened the aliens probably abducted her I can't wait to see where this is going aliens probably abducted her the aliens were like all right let's do our stuff let's do all our little tricks on her let's put a little probe upper butt hole or whatever they do and then they probably started throwing up and they're like the only [ __ ] he's probably like we should evacuate the whole ship I was like [ __ ] that drop her off the hospital [Music]

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Length: 14min 54sec (894 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 03 2016