BULLHEAD CITY — What should have been a happy homecoming for Suzanne Post and her mother Sharon Haugen turned to tragedy when Post was found dead outside of a friend's home in mid-July. "Everything just seemed odd to me," Haugen said. Putting together the pieces of her daughter's last day hasn't been easy for Haugen, who reported her daughter missing on July 15.
Unbeknownst to her, Post had been found dead two days earlier. Post had visited a friend on July 13 to swim in a pool, Haugen said, but had stepped outside — possibly to make a phone call — sometime while she was there. Post was found lying beside her car, still parked outside of the friend's home hours later, deceased.
Post had only recently moved to Bullhead City to live near her mother after separating from her husband in Seattle. "Everything was finally coming together. She was starting the new job and .
.. she had a beautiful place to live, renting a room from this wonderful young man who was gone most of the time.
A lot of people helped me with donations, other angel moms," Haugen recalled. "Things were just going well for her. I'm glad we had three and a half months together, but I'm drained by the whole thing — it's so awful.
" Confusing for the grieving mother is how the authorities have handled the investigation into Post's death, specifically the Medical Examiner's office refusal to conduct an autopsy. According to Haugen, the daughter's death was deemed to have been the result of natural causes. Bull.