# Carbon Monoxide Death Repeated Two Months Later

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**Created:** [June 12, 2013, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carbon-monoxide-death-repeated-two-months-later/660857 "2013-06-12T23:52:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carbon-monoxide-death-repeated-two-months-later/660857/1 "2013-06-12T23:52:49Z")

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“A faulty pool water heater was the source of carbon monoxide that killed an 11-year-old boy at a North Carolina motel last weekend and a couple who slept in the same room about two months earlier, police said Wednesday.”  
[http://www.enquirerherald.com/2013/06/12/2528678/police-pool-water-heater-cited.html](http://www.enquirerherald.com/2013/06/12/2528678/police-pool-water-heater-cited.html)

Anyone else puzzled why they didn’t find the cause the first time yet allowed the motel to remain open?

Actually it appears earlier investigations were incomplete:

> **['Mystery' of 3 deaths in same hotel room traced: Carbon monoxide | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2013/06/11/us/north-carolina-hotel-deaths/index.html)**
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> Three deaths weeks apart but in the same North Carolina hotel room have been blamed on carbon monoxide poisoning.