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Suburban Mom Not On Drugs When She Set Fatal FireNaperville Mother Bolted Front Door Before Setting Fire To Home, Killing Herself And Her 2 Young Kids
CHICAGO (Naperville Sun) ― Nimisha Tiwari was not under the influence of alcohol or narcotics when she set fire to her Naperville home last summer, killing herself and her two preschool-age children.
Documents obtained by The Naperville Sun from the medical examiner's office of Cook County indicated the 32-year-old mother sustained burns over 95 percent of her body. It also said she had not ingested drugs or liquor before igniting the Aug. 11 blaze.
Nimisha Tiwari, her 4-year-old son, Vardaan Tiwari, and 18-month-old daughter, Ananya Tiwari, were fatally burned in their home at 1960 Nutmeg Lane, in Naperville's Impressions at Laurel Glen neighborhood.
Law enforcement officials have concluded Nimisha Tiwari dead-bolted the front door of the two-story house while her husband was away. She then poured a canister of gasoline inside and outside the master bedroom and set it afire with a lighter as she and the children lay on the bed.
Vardaan was pronounced dead that afternoon after being rushed to Edward Hospital in Naperville. DuPage County Coroner Pete Siekmann said a toxicological "testing panel" completed in mid-August concluded the boy had not been sedated or poisoned before the start of the blaze.
Nimisha and Ananya Tiwari were flown by helicopter to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood. Nimisha was pronounced dead that day, while Ananya died several hours later on Aug. 12.
Assistant Cook County medical examiner Valerie Arangelovich performed autopsies on the bodies of the mother and daughter. Arangelovich declared Nimisha's manner of death as suicide and her daughter's as homicide, according to records.
A toxicologist's report that accompanied Arangelovich's findings indicated morphine and fentanyl were in Nimisha's bloodstream at the time of her death. Both drugs are pain relievers that were most likely administered to her in the Loyola University Medical Center emergency room.
A companion neuropathology report dated Sept. 2 also affirmed earlier reports that Nimisha had suffered from multiple sclerosis.
Ananya died of burns to about 40 percent of her body, according to Arangelovich's report.
The toddler's body, like that of her mother, tested positive for the presence of fentanyl, records showed. Ananya, like her brother, had not been drugged before the start of the fire.
Nimisha Tiwari and her husband, Anand, came from elite Hindu families, and married in India in April 1999. They moved to the U.S., living at various times in Texas, Bensenville, Wheaton, Oakbrook Terrace and Naperville.
The marriage proved to be a rocky one. Nimisha Tiwari told relatives her husband had become increasingly controlling, and she obtained an emergency court order of protection against him in May. Anand Tiwari countered that his wife's mental state was deteriorating because of her battle with multiple sclerosis.
Anand Tiwari reportedly has moved from Naperville since the deaths of his wife and children.
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Suburban Mom Not On Drugs When She Set Fatal FireNaperville Mother Bolted Front Door Before Setting Fire To Home, Killing Herself And Her 2 Young Kids
CHICAGO (Naperville Sun) ― Nimisha Tiwari was not under the influence of alcohol or narcotics when she set fire to her Naperville home last summer, killing herself and her two preschool-age children.
Documents obtained by The Naperville Sun from the medical examiner's office of Cook County indicated the 32-year-old mother sustained burns over 95 percent of her body. It also said she had not ingested drugs or liquor before igniting the Aug. 11 blaze.
Nimisha Tiwari, her 4-year-old son, Vardaan Tiwari, and 18-month-old daughter, Ananya Tiwari, were fatally burned in their home at 1960 Nutmeg Lane, in Naperville's Impressions at Laurel Glen neighborhood.
Law enforcement officials have concluded Nimisha Tiwari dead-bolted the front door of the two-story house while her husband was away. She then poured a canister of gasoline inside and outside the master bedroom and set it afire with a lighter as she and the children lay on the bed.
Vardaan was pronounced dead that afternoon after being rushed to Edward Hospital in Naperville. DuPage County Coroner Pete Siekmann said a toxicological "testing panel" completed in mid-August concluded the boy had not been sedated or poisoned before the start of the blaze.
Nimisha and Ananya Tiwari were flown by helicopter to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood. Nimisha was pronounced dead that day, while Ananya died several hours later on Aug. 12.
Assistant Cook County medical examiner Valerie Arangelovich performed autopsies on the bodies of the mother and daughter. Arangelovich declared Nimisha's manner of death as suicide and her daughter's as homicide, according to records.
A toxicologist's report that accompanied Arangelovich's findings indicated morphine and fentanyl were in Nimisha's bloodstream at the time of her death. Both drugs are pain relievers that were most likely administered to her in the Loyola University Medical Center emergency room.
A companion neuropathology report dated Sept. 2 also affirmed earlier reports that Nimisha had suffered from multiple sclerosis.
Ananya died of burns to about 40 percent of her body, according to Arangelovich's report.
The toddler's body, like that of her mother, tested positive for the presence of fentanyl, records showed. Ananya, like her brother, had not been drugged before the start of the fire.
Nimisha Tiwari and her husband, Anand, came from elite Hindu families, and married in India in April 1999. They moved to the U.S., living at various times in Texas, Bensenville, Wheaton, Oakbrook Terrace and Naperville.
The marriage proved to be a rocky one. Nimisha Tiwari told relatives her husband had become increasingly controlling, and she obtained an emergency court order of protection against him in May. Anand Tiwari countered that his wife's mental state was deteriorating because of her battle with multiple sclerosis.
Anand Tiwari reportedly has moved from Naperville since the deaths of his wife and children.
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