"People think it happens to someone in a dark alley... It can happen to anybody": TV reporter on her 21-year-old daughter's OD death
A TV reporter from South Dakota went in front of the camera earlier in September to share with viewers the tragic details of her 21-year-old daughter's overdose death from fentanyl-laced heroin in May, only three days before she was to start treatment for her addiction. Angela Kennecke from Sioux Falls is an investigative reporter for KELO, a CBS affiliate. She has come forward to share that she made the broadcast of her daughter, Emily Groth's death with the hope that other families in similar situations will take action and not have to go through the pain she went through.
She said: "If I can prevent one other mother from going through the heartbreak I am going through, it’s good that I spoke out." The mother had said that an autopsy on Emily's body found six times the therapeutic dose of fentanyl for a large adult male.
