SUNBURY - The deaths of Deborah Demshock, of Excelsior, and Justin Boyles, of Milton, have been ruled accidental, according to autopsy reports released Friday.
Northumberland County Coroner James F. Kelley announced the results in a press release for the investigations conducted Feb. 16 by Forensic Pathology Associates, Allentown.
Both individuals were pronounced dead on Feb. 12 after being missing for several days. They were were found within 40 minutes of each other.
Demshock, 42, was found inside her vehicle, which had gone down a 50-foot embankment off Route 901 near Excelsior. Boyles, 31, was found behind Scot's Market in the Anthra Plaza, Coal Township.
Kelley reported Demshock's cause of death has been listed as hypothermia due to a motor vehicle accident with a contributory condition of Diabetes Mellitus.
"In Deborah's case," Kelley wrote, "it is believed she had
a diabetic event, which caused her to lose control of her vehicle."
Police said the vehicle then mounted a guard rail on Route 901 and traveled down an embankment. Her date of death has been established as Feb. 6, the day she was reported missing to police.
The cause of Boyles' death was also listed as hypothermia, due to acute mixed drug toxicity. Kelley said toxicology testing revealed MDPV, a synthetic stimulant, in his blood in addition to other drugs and medications.
MDPV is also known under other names as bath salts, "MDPK," "Magic," "Mtv," "Peevee" and "Super Coke." The adverse effects of the administration of these drugs include coma, severe respiratory depression, hypotension and cardiac arrest.
Officials determined his date of death to also be Feb. 6.
Boyles was found by a group of his friends from the Milton area who were conducting a search on their own in an area when they found a set of footprints in the woods and followed them. They found his body at the bottom of a small hill.
According to a girlfriend, Boyles was in possession of bath salts when he left the house. His last known whereabouts was a short distance away, when he used a credit card on her account at a Ranshaw convenience store on Feb. 3.