Medical Examiner: Drugs and Alcohol Mix Killed Two Found Dead in Old Orchard Beach

Maine Public | By Ed Morin

Published March 2, 2017 at 4:40 AM EST

PORTLAND, Maine - The state Medical Examiner's Office says the January deaths of a former Old Orchard Beach town councilor and a young woman were caused by a mixture of drugs and alcohol and have been ruled accidental.

Forty-four-year-old Dana Furtado and 21-year-old Amber Morrow of Saco were found dead at Furtado's home Jan. 23.

A spokesman for the medical examiner's office says Furtado and Morrow died of acute intoxication due to the combined effect of alcohol and drugs, including fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid.

The Journal Tribune reports that police say the case is still under investigation and they are trying to identify where the drugs came from.

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Ed Morin

Ed is a Maine native who spent his early childhood in Livermore Falls before moving to Farmington. He graduated from Mount Blue High School in 1970 before going to the University of Maine at Orono where he received his BA in speech in 1974 with a broadcast concentration. It was during that time that he first became involved with public broadcasting. He served as an intern for what was then called MPBN TV and also did volunteer work for MPBN Radio.

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