PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Chicago Tribune
By David Zucchino
Conspiracy theories worthy of a Dan Brown novel arose in Philadelphia last month after a local prosecutor said she considered the Jan. 31 death of the city’s 88-year-old Roman Catholic cardinal “peculiar.”
Relax.
A suburban Philadelphia coroner announced Thursday that there was nothing peculiar, or even suspicious, about the death of Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
“Elderly people often die suddenly,” Montgomery County Coroner Walter I. Hofman told a news conference. “This is a natural death.”
Montgomery County Dist. Atty. Risa Vetri Ferman had asked the coroner to review the cardinal’s death, though she said she had no particular reason to suspect foul play.
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