NO AUTOPSY ORDERED IN FATAL FIRE!
OFFICIALS CAN SPIN THESE DEATHS – BUT CAN NOT DENY THEM
Why are so many U.P. deaths of all kinds not being thoroughly probed by MSP, fire officials and the fire marshal?
Family man Doug Lintz made Christmas dinner for loved ones just hours before his death
By Greg Peterson
U.P. Breaking News
Owner, News Director / 1-906-273-2433
(Iron River, MI) – The family of the latest Upper Peninsula elderly resident to die in a daylight fire is questioning why no autopsy was performed – and the victim is being remembered tonight as a caring family man who spent his final hours with those he loved – and was known for being an expert outdoorsman and taxidermist.
He even cooked Christmas dinner for loved one’s only hours before his death. This despite suffering from cancer.
60-year-old Douglas “Doug” Michael Lintz died on Monday afternoon in a fire that quickly swept through his home at 1119 N. River Avenue in Iron River, MI.
U.P. fire officials have not been owning up to all the blazes in a recent spate of strange fires – more than a dozen in three weeks – including one today in Skandia and another fire today in Iron River. We have no details about either blaze.
Lintz’s longtime female friend Kristine “Kris” McNamara was not at his home when the fire broke out – but reportedly was there earlier in the day. She has her own residence.
Lintz was a self-employed taxidermist and talented at reloading of bullets and shotgun shells.
Lintz made Christmas dinner for family friend Alaina Seymour and her kids.
That family friend and neighbor, who has known the victim since she was 12 years old, could only watch in grief and horror as Mr. Lintz’s home burned in a fire of unknown origin.
“He started hunting and fishing at about 12 or 13,” his brother said tonight. “At 13 years old, he was professionally employed by Hyde and Kidd of Utica, MI” – a business known as a hunting and fishing taxidermy shop. The store also included everything that Lintz loved – guns, ammo, bows, plus fishing gear and and related stuff.
Apparently the Michigan State Police Fire Marshall and local fire officials did not want an autopsy performed.
“The undertaker picked him up at the house and was going to the funeral home,”his brother said. “I was dumbfounded! No autopsy!”
The fire chief told family “they probably will never know the cause due to water damage and freezing,” Lintz said about his brother’s tragedy.
Lintz’s father’s side of the family has Upper Peninsula roots.
“Doug’s wish was to be cremated without funeral or fuss,” according to his brother Lyn Lintz. “He will be going to Sidnaw after cremation.”
It is one of over a dozen U.P. house fires in recent weeks documented by U.P. Breaking News – but fire officials in several jurisdictions are refusing comment. The death of Mr. Lintz was preceded by two elderly residents who died recently in a daylight fire at their home in Fulton,. MI in the Copper Country in Keweenaw County.
Keith Murphy
Michigan wildfires suppressed by the Department of Natural Resources to date and compared to last year.
Upper Peninsula Breaking News by Greg Peterson 