Marly Kinney, Kentucky teen who went missing attending booze fueled boat party ruled accidental after her body was pulled from Grayson Lake. Drowned teen was found to have triple legal BAC level for driving. Prosecutors announce new charges against two boat attendees for supplying underage drinker with alcohol.
A 19-year-old teen whose body was pulled from a Kentucky lake after going missing while attending an ‘alcohol laden’ boat party has been ruled to have died accidentally according to a grand jury.
There was no evidence of a struggle or a traumatic injury after the body of Marly Kinney was pulled from Grayson Lake, Carter County Assistant Commonwealth Attorney Barry Brandon Bradley announced Wednesday.
‘Investigators found no evidence that Kinney’s death resulted from criminal conduct, and the Grand Jury sought no criminal charges in connection with her death,’ Bradley wrote.
Kinney’s personal items, such as her bathing suit and jewelry, were intact and undisturbed, according to a Carter County prosecutors, FOX59 reported.
The medical examiner’s findings ‘were consistent with drowning,’ with ‘no lethal trauma,’ but her postmortem blood ethanol concentration was noted at 0.268%, the attorney said.
Of note, a blood ethanol concentration of 0.268% is a critically high level of intoxication that places an individual in the severe impairment or ‘stupor’ stage. For context, this is more than triple the legal driving limit of 0.08% in the United States.
Ryan Blanke and Isabelle Addis, both 21, were charged with third-degree unlawful transaction with a minor for allegedly giving her alcohol before the fatal accident, Bradley announced.
Kentucky State Police previously charged Cameron Conley, 23, with operating a boat while intoxicated or under the influence in connection with the incident, according to the Lexington Herald Leader.
Kentucky State Police said the boat operator admitted to drinking and recorded a blood alcohol concentration of 0.137, well above Kentucky’s legal limit of 0.08.
Conley later pleaded guilty and was ordered to pay a $25 fine and $189 in court costs.
Kinney, of Ashland, first vanished at around 4 p.m. on June 24, before she went overboard on a rented pontoon boat to use the bathroom.
Her group of roughly 10 friends didn’t initially realize she was missing, according to investigators.
‘The Office of the Commonwealth’s Attorney and Kentucky Department Fish and Wildlife extend their deepest condolences to Ms. Kinney’s family, friends and loved ones,’ Bradley concluded in the prosecutor’s release.
‘We recognize the profound loss they have experienced and hope that the conclusion of this investigation provides some measure of clarity and closure.’
Addis and Blanke are scheduled to be arraigned Sept. 30 in Carter County.
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