May 30th, 2009 
Superior
A pathologist hired by the family of one of two women whose mysterious deaths in Thailand drew worldwide attention says her “lungs were 100 percent congested,” Jill St. Onge’s fiancee and brother said.
“He said her lung tissue was gone,” said her brother, Robert St. Onge.
The pathologist has not determined what caused her lungs to fail, he said, and a final report on her May 2 death may still be weeks away.
But members of St. Onge’s family said they feel the pathologist’s findings, though preliminary, are enough to contradict public statements made by Thai investigators that St. Onge was the victim of food poisoning.
“I am 99.9 percent sure she did not die of food poisoning,” said Ryan Kells, St. Onge’s fiancee, who was with her when she died. “She suffocated to death. I am not a doctor, but I know when someone can’t breathe.”
Kells and St. Onge, both artists from Seattle, were on a three-month vacation through Southeast Asia when they arrived on Thailand’s Phi Phi Island.
They had gotten engaged while on the trip and were keeping friends and family up to date with their adventures.
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