The Last Picture Of Daniel Alive
Daniel was so excited about the birth of his new baby sister. He didn’t like to fly but on September 9th, 2006 he took a flight from California to Miami and on to the Bahamas. He arrived there and was taken by Howard K. Stern directly to the hospital to see his mother Anna Nicole Smith and the three day old baby who is now known as Dannielynn.
Daniel was not a drug user but less than 12 hours later, he was dead from a massive overdose of Methadone.
Hired gun pathologist, Cyril Wecht said Daniel died of a fatal combination of Methadone and an antidepressant. At an inquest into the death of Daniel, compelling testimony came from Dr. Lee Hearn, Director of the Toxicology Laboratory for Miami Dade County. He testified that, if not for the Methadone, Daniel would not have died.
I think someone wanted Daniel to die.
He would have been 24 years old today. I pray you rest in peace Daniel. Its a tragedy that our system failed you by never investigating why you had to die and who is responsible.
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Hard to believe.
Very sad. It is a travesty of justice that his death was not properly investigated. God bless his soul. JMO
Wow QV, nice article, very touching.
Thanks ladies.
Believe it Freida.
(From QV: WARNING!!! HOWARD K. STERN TOOK THE PHOTOGRAPH THIS LINK GOES TO AFTER DANIEL DIED. I’m going to leave the link up because this picture has now been widely disseminated on the internet even though its disturbing.)
http://youtomb.mit.edu/youtube/RP9n2aiKIqY
Thank you, QV. He may have been finished with college, and leading a productive and exciting life. He may have helped his mother get free of her drug addictions and her enablers, and she could have been raising her daughter who would have adored her big brother. Instead, today, he lies in a foreign grave, away from those living who would have loved to at least visit his resting place, but are prohibited by Howie and a corrupt Bahamian government, and by economic restrictions. May he one day be returned to his home and his last plea honored. “Don’t leave me there.”
QV, doll, you need an edit function. lol…Make the “he” rather than “i”
I’m not for digging up no bones unless there’s some nutritional value left.
I’d rather believe “He’s not there, nor here no more.”
…and I wish I had not ‘clicked on’ “Wake UP’s” ‘link.’
Yet, I did and then I looked, and looked for something I could ‘read’ into that.
Some day I’ll sleep forever, too!
“Living isn’t supposed to be easy, you know.”
Reminds me of “Pants on the Ground.”
And he needed to shave.
What kind of ‘company’ did he keep?
I know he was lonesome and didn’t want to stand out.
Will there ever be any ‘kind’ of poetic justice done?
Will you ever display his artwork?
I think there’s a story hidden most times in “all that.”
If only his parents had of stayed true to their hearts.
Ain’t nothin’ better than fried chicken, really.
Unless you’re trying to lose weight.
Or if you’re truly vegan.
And ‘to my knowledge’ (lol) all HKS did ’twas snap and sell shots…and Larry, too….and Hugh Hefner, too…and on and on and on.
Who’s buying them?
Seems none of them really know how to cook.
Yet, for all we know they do.
I sure wish that ‘that little bird’ had leaned how to fly right.
Would have been nice to hear him twitter now.
Here’s Don Clark’s answer to the Stephens suit.
http://qvsplace.com/012210_Stephens_vs_Stephens-etal_Clark_Original_Answer.pdf
I fixed it Carole. I hope he is brought home one day as well. Very sad situation.
“Daniel was not a drug user”
It was actually discovered at the inquest to his death that he had been stealing methadone from Anna Nicole for a period of time before his death. People need to get their facts straight. No one followed the facts after the inquest actually happened.
Annaominous.
How do you spell ‘hippoppotomus?’
Some kind of nursery rhyme.
Nope, sorry that’s never been proven. But it was well taken at the inquest that the position of the video camera could not have possibly shown what anyone took out of the refrigerator. I interviewed two people who attended and heard the testimony.
Also the person who said Daniel took it out of the fridge previously said that he took it out of ANS bedroom. Someone couldn’t keep their story straight.
People need to stop believing internet rumors and seek out actual facts.
Axis is easy!
Frieda, “I sure wish that ‘that little bird’ had leaned how to fly right.
Would have been nice to hear him twitter now.
Cute!!
Actual facts…
Kids are into everything and you need to watch them like a hawk.
So easily, are they led astray.
They need 24/7 attention and a whole lotta’ luv… and learnin’…
Me and those darn songs.
“That Kid” needs more than little league and some paints and canvas.
Every real mommy knows.
Yet we ‘just love’ babies so much!!!
It’s just too easy, to believe that snapping a shot on film makes someone a monster.
Took a whole lotta’ nerve for a nerd.
Hope it ’twas more than for money.
I’d still like to believe in something more than pictures and words.
Some higher plane…reminds me of ‘runways and jet fuel.
And too deep, stuff over my head to imagine.
Nice to walk outside at ‘nite’ and look up.
Freida, I don’t have access to any of Daniels art work. I didn’t know he did any. I know his mom did.
As far as that picture is concerned, when the trial starts in California, watch, read and learn what makes a monster.
Freida: If you are commenting on my spelling, the spelling of ANONYMOUS is an intentional misspelling. Anna. Ominous. Hippopotamus.
QV: You ARE just an internet rumour provider. You have shown nothing to prove that you are any more believable than any other hack blogger. I’m not saying you are, I’m just saying it’s a little ironic to say people need to stop following internet rumours and seek out actual facts if you look at the forum in which this discussion is taking place. This wasn’t something I heard just on the internet, I heard it on Entertainment Tonight as I tend to avoid gossip/internet websites regarding this case for the most part. Which is not to say I automatically believe it because of that either. I just find it more believable that a young adult, who’s mother had had problems with drugs may have decided that it was time to experiment as teens/young adults often do, than this whole conspiracy drama. Why would Howard want the two “cash cows” dead? People talk about the Marshall money like it was in the bank. If Anna had died AFTER it was, that would make sense. But before, just does not make sense from any intelligent standpoint. The last person who would’ve even had a shot at that money besides Anna was Daniel. Marshall had no involvement in Dannielynn’s life whatsoever. It’s just a matter of common sense. But people don’t have much of that.
The first person to claim foul play was the sister of Anna Nicole’s stalker, being released later that year. You don’t think he’s going to look better as some sort of hero who tried to save her from evil, controlling Stern, as opposed to what he really was? And people ate it up and it grew and grew (0bviously can’t list off everything that went on from then ’til now), and now the D.A wants to set an example with this famous case. The doctors acted wrongly, obviously because they let their emotions get in the way, wanting to give her what they perceived she needed or at very least really wanted to ease the pain of her son’s death.
I am on a lot of the same medications as Anna was, and I trust my doctor to make the right call and myself to make the right choices. That responsibility would never be laid on my boyfriend. He, like Howard, is no doctor. And if Howard is found guilty that sets a scary presedence that it could be. Anna made decisions for herself, look where Larry Birkhead ended up out of her life. Howard did not want to be in that position. It’s easy to SAY if you really love someone you would not give them that many drugs. But when you are actually there, not only witnessing that person suffering through the pain but also with the threat of possibly never seeing them again if you go against them (they feel “betrayed”, a common theme throughout Anna’s life. eg. invited her whole family over for christmas, bought them all nice things after she was first successful and none of them stayed longer than a half hour). In a situation like Howard’s it is easy to judge from the outside what you would do, but not so easy when it’s happening to you. Plus you have a doctor’s go-ahead, which you trust. I think the doctors acted poorly, clouded with emotion. And Howard did what he thought was best at the time.
As for the pic, it was requested by Anna and it was stolen (although I know that is not fact, it is he said/he said), and should not be circulating the internet whatever it’s origin.
I have followed Anna since before she died. When she was alive, people would’ve said Howard was her puppet and not vice versa. Why is Howard not writing a tell-all if he is so money-hungry? People are willing to buy them from nobodies (I’m sure by now everyone’s heard about Larry Seidlin’s new endeavour) who haven’t been in her life for 20 years or even at all, of course they would want to read from the person who actually lived it with her. His easiest defense would also be to claim she was an out of control drug addict, when in fact he is stating the opposite. Because he cares about protecting her name. Why would he care that people believe she “never abused her pills” (a quote from his testimony) when it is a known fact that she did, at times? It looks more incriminating on him than if he were to just come out and say, true or now, she did and he didn’t know how to stop it. Saying she didn’t just makes him seem like a liar. She did need those medications, as he says, but not in the way she took them at all times (obviously, or else, IMO, she would not be dead). He is “protecting her name”, as he said in his eulogy, to the detriment of his own.
As someone who suffers from trauma and sleep disorder, myself, trauma only contributing to sleep disorder, I know what it’s like to need to keep taking medications to try to sleep or at least be in some sort of state of relaxation, I know it can get out of control. You can forget how much you took, it takes more when you’re stressed, you feel such a strong NEED to get some relief. I have no idea what it’s like to lose a son and I have some terrible nights, so I can’t even imagine. My belief is that she tragically went overboard. And is it really that hard to believe that a mother would die that way after her son, her one and only, had died? I think the whole idea of mind control is completely ridiculous. Anna did drugs AND had problems with her family before Howard ever came into the picture. Long before. Like I said, I have followed Anna for about….11 years now or so. I just don’t agree with everything that is happening to Howard right now.
However, that aside, I do appreciate the article, and always like to take time to remember Daniel on this day as I do on February 8th. I have seen their memorial in the Bahamas when I went on the 10th of Feb-25th for the 2 year anniversary and it is beautiful. I left a letter at Horizons, but I highly doubt it was received or is still there. The Bahamian locals had told me that Howard had only been back a few times.
Anyway, as I’ve said to many people who I’ve gotten into this debate with, I don’t want to fight, I doubt either of our minds are going to change, so we should leave it and just bond (well, we don’t have to bond necissarily) over the fact that we both share a love of Anna and Daniel. I hate when celebs pass and their whole lives become about how they died. Kurt Cobain is the first that comes to mind. People forget to celebrate their lives, as you are doing in this article. Obviously you can respond with your own opinions, I’m just saying I don’t want to become involved in a huge back and forth argument with neither of us budging when that’s not necessary…I’m sure you know how people online can be.
Anyway, I do like your article. Don’t agree with all of it, but can’t change that. The reason I responded like this is because I want people to know that I am not just basing information off of internet rumours. Just like I think Anna would’ve given Howard the boot if she felt there were reason to, I would not be defending Howard if I thought there were any chance he was involved in her death. Anna meant/means a lot to me. I spent a ton of money to go to the Bahamas last year and have a tattoo on my right arm. She will always be important to me….and I appreciate anyone else that cares about her or Daniel, even though I may not agree with them.
“Would have been nice to hear him twitter now.
Cute!!” ……really?? I found that a rather inane wish, but maybe I’m just not up to the times. I think if anything, Anna would’ve been doing more twittering than Daniel. He seemed more private. JMO. I suppose it would be nice to hear from them in any form, twitter is just not the first thing that comes to mind for me.
Howard is that you?
Just seemed too, much to read for my pea-body brain.
Freak Detector, no less.
Time for my nap…Meow!!!
Whoever is monitering these posts as they go up, please do not post my second one as now my first is up, I was just re-posting the same stuff, and people don’t need to see 2 big, long comments like that.
I appreciate your comment Leeanne. I don’t want to argue and get into a back and forth either so I wont. I would like to write a rebuttal but I can’t say everything I would like to at this time. I’m sure most of us who are left will still be around when I can so I’ll hold it until that time.
I was complimenting Frieda on her sense of humor more than the meaning of her comment. There are lots of us who enjoy her quips and opinions sometimes. However, to me what I said was not out of line.
As always…
Oh, just one more thing…
There’s still the possibility that Anna and Daniel are alive and well and living in Dubai.
Tomorrow maybe, no doubt will come and I’ll read every word of that long post, for naught.
Tonight though, maybe I’ll just dream about some ‘drama’ or painting or fishing.
Yes, there is a list of banned words that are commonly used by spammers. Unfortunately a lot of those words are also used in every day conversation and the catcher grabs those also.
This is only the first or second comment I have posted or even article I’ve read on here , so I am not familiar with the different personalities/sense of humours. I don’t think what you said was out of line either. I must have just not got the joke or something…
Thank you, I understand, I will keep my eye out for your response.
Hi Leeanne. I’m sorry. I thought you were someone from the beginning when I first opened this site in Feb of 2007. Now I understand too :-)
Thanks!
QV, could you tell me who started the rumor about Daniel taking drugs? HKS even said Daniel didn’t take drugs I think he told the truth here only to protect himself.
Also, are your readers aware that there where many of us who believed HKS was innocent and it was only after facts became public he is only left with a few supports?
I also remember howard on ET saying Anna and Daniel were awake late at night at the nursery while he was sleeping. When he told the public that something was off and IMO was an attempt to divert responsibly.
I thought, at first maybe this was not appropriate…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb3XAP0c8WU
Leeanne please write more!!!
T’was definitely an inane wish.
Meant to be so, too!!!
My humour isn’t always funny!
QV, there was a painting we ‘caught’ a glimpse of once-upon-a-time among some trophies.
Didn’t anybody know how to add?
And, I’d say that people that paint, don’t always ‘paint pretty pictures, just like ‘to write.’
Nice to get some ‘undivided attention’ and not to dwell but discover.
This is safe chat and keeps idle minds busy.
It’s just a shame “That Kid” didn’t get more attention than he wanted.
Might have made him more a man to be on his toes.
But what do I know, really!?!
Hi Mary, it was Larry Birkhead, but he has changed his story from the beginning.
LOS ANGELES — Anna Nicole Smith’s son Daniel Smith did drugs and stole Methadone from his mother, according to Larry Birkhead’s testimony Monday during the Bahamas inquest into his death, TMZ.com reported.
Anna Nicole Smith noticed some of the drugs were missing from her Studio City home in April 2006 and checked the security cameras which revealed her son Daniel Smith and his friends were behind it, Birkhead told the inquest.
Birkhead, the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s daughter and only heir, changed two of the stories he gave to police concerning Daniel, according to the celebrity Web site.
When asked about his statement saying he saw Anna Nicole Smith give her son Methadone, he said he wasn’t sure if he specifically saw the former Playboy Playmate give it to him, TMZ.com reported.
Birkhead told police he saw Howard K. Stern smoke pot with her and her son. When asked about that statement while under oath, he said he was not completely clear on what he saw, TMZ.com reported.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,338632,00.html
Thank you QV, it is very understandable Ms. Aruthur’s point of view and her concerns. Howard and Larry together…let me borrow Bonnie’s words, “makes me sick”.
Thinking back to when this all begun, the fun and loved shared it had to be so very difficult for you to come forward and tell the public the facts and how we were tricked. I look back and wonder how that man and his posse could have been successful in fooling any of us was ideological reasoning and the method of playing emotions is clear.
I am very sorry for being hard on you and acting like a total emotional fool, what came over me is something very hard for to realize.
I do pray for Ms. Arthur and would do anything I could to help her. It is so sad once understood just how horrible the last 12 years had to be on her. I know she had a lot of support and doesn’t need me but my support is hers.
Leeanne,
There were no metabolites of the methadone in his tissues so he had not taken the drug prior to this one time event. At least not for time if he had ever taken it before, and that is a really big IF.
http://archive.nassauguardian.net/pubfiles/nas/archive/images_pages/01302008_A11.pdf
From the article:
… Smith did not habitually use the drugs, as there were no metabolites of the drug in his tissues.
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This is from the testimony of Dr. Hearn.
Dr. Hearn testified that it was an intentional ingestion, which meant it was either suicide or homicide.
Also regarding Dr. Hearn’s testimony:
http://www.jonesbahamas.com/news/45/ARTICLE/15605/2008-01-30.html
However, he said in order to determine whether a suicide occurred officials would have to look at other things like statements to the family and the history of the deceased.
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It appears from the circumstances and from what people had to say, even HKS initially, that Daniel didn’t commit suicide. So that only leaves homicide.
From the first article I linked:
… Hearn said it was possible that the drugs had been diluted in a drink.
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Sadest part is the jury wasn’t allowed to consider either of the possibilities.
JMO
Mary, I have to say that I feel I owe every single person who belonged to the old site an apology for misleading them. I watched too much TV and did not do any investigation on my own. I knew that they were here for Stern but was shocked at how some hated me because I found out the truth and could not carry on a charade any longer. A lot of misunderstandings resulted from all that happened too. Oh well, its water under the bridge and some fences have been mended so thats good. Thanks so much for the apology and the one above is for you too.
I really believe Mrs. Arthur will be ok. She has quite a small army pulling for her and her team in Houston go above and beyond for her and won’t ever stop. Plus as more truth comes out, she will have more of the public support she should have had in the first place if not for people and their dirty tricks. Get this. There is a company who comes by this site often to check out whats being written. They are a public relations firm to gauge public perception. And its not Virgie’s company. She doesn’t have things like that. Why is that even necessary? Oh I know. Ammo for a lawsuit or 2 or 20…lol! ….Bingo!
Thanks SheStone. That fantastic mental archive of your always comes in handy. I was praying that someone would come over and rebut. :-)
Great facts!
I don’t feel mislead and think you did what you believed at the time. As soon as you knew the truth you published it and the backlash was horrible. We wanted to believe a lie and didn’t want to see truth. It took guts to do what you did. Man, do I understand how vicious it was for you. I truly do QV and the fact I played apart in it is something I will regret for the rest of my days but was a valuable lesson.
Thank you for your kind words.
Ain’t no use regretting the past, unless a lesson has not been learned…or ‘leaned.’
Just noticed my typo.
Hope Leeanne is very careful taking the correct, prescription dosage.
It’s a little cloudy and raining in my neck of the wood today.
Somethings are just obvious, and it’s not always easy to look up and see the sun, or the moon, or the stars…for that matter.
But they are there!!!
“He noted there was no
evidence that Smith did not
habitually use the drugs….”
To me it sounds like he is saying there is no evidence that he did NOT use drugs habitually. When asked by VIRGIE’S lawyer (who would obviously direct a question to try and incriminate), he said it was POSSIBLE the drugs were placed in his drink. But he said there was no evidence that he did not habitually use drugs….That was the quote. In that article, he also stated he believed the drugs were taken on purpose.
I respect other’s beliefs, but I think when something is being posted as news, it should be added that there is a bias (I just recently saw the post about Larry Birkhead’s “pandering”) and not presented as fact.
*the winky face was just supposed to be another bracket.
I’m sure that was a typo Leeanne. You left out the next line, “AS THERE WERE NO METABOLITES OF DRUGS IN HIS TISSUES”.
And those are the facts. Stern said Daniel was not a drug user. Are you going to say that Stern lied too? And that Larry was telling the truth? Larry also previously said the methadone was taken from Anna’s bedroom. Then he changed it to the kitchen. Why did Stern not back him up on any of that?
Larry Birkhead is “pandering”, “going to bat for”, PIMPING. Whatever you want to call it. He said many different things in Florida and he swore to tell the truth. Now he lies.
I don’t see where there is a bias. I am quoting factual information. I interviewed two individuals who were actually at the inquest which is something you can not say. Tell me how your information is any more truthful than mine when mine came straight from the Bahamas.
So, that ‘law man’ packed a weapon called a camera, along with all those tons of ‘words’ packed into books and laptops.
Slept on her couch, got a new pair of shoes, lives now in solid-tube…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5rVmXyZP5s
So don’t forge, or forgive, or know ‘this story’ never t’wood have begotten this far if not for him.
Not to mention he held a mighty fine umbrella, and had woes of his own.
Boo me, or boo who you?
I wonder what Daniel was studying in college and what he wished to become?
I wonder if he had ‘counselors’ working for him to realize some goal?
Yet more than likely, he just got his ‘tuition’ paid, and those ‘counselors’ did, too!!!
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