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| The entryway of Disney's Grand California Hotel & Spa at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California |
We have just received word from the Orange County Coroner's office that the investigation into the "unexpected" death of Kerri Moynihan remains open, pending further investigation from the O.C. Sheriff's department. This suggests the O.C. Sheriff's department has not yet ruled out homicide as the cause of Ms. Moynihan's death and is continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding her untimely demise. We will keep you informed as more information becomes available.
Original report on 4/27/17 at 10:48 a.m.
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| The deceased is identified as Kerri Moynihan |
The dead body of a 32-year-old white female, identified as Kerri Alyssa Moynihan of Venice Beach, California, was discovered by Disneyland security this morning from an apparent hanging.
The story has since been confirmed by both the Anaheim Police Department temporarily stationed at the Disney Grand California Hotel & Spa and the Orange County Sheriff Coroner's Office.
The case number from the Orange County Coroner's office, which has yet to be listed on their website or public records, is
The date of birth of the victim is listed by the coroner's office as May 22, 1984. Tragically, the deceased died less than a month before her 33rd birthday.
Early this morning, Anaheim Police officers were called to the scene to hotel room number 4214 on the fourth floor, second wing of the sprawling Grand California Hotel at around 10:00 a.m. where the body of Kerri Moynihan was found and declared dead at the scene.
We were told that her body was found hanging lifeless by the neck near the bathroom on a coat rack of her hotel room closet.
Eye witnesses at the scene have told us that the victim in question was hanging by a bathrobe, or parts thereof, provided by the hotel inside her hotel room closet.
Police detectives have told us that the victim's body was cold and rigor mortis had already set in by the time her body was discovered by Disneyland security and Anaheim Police, suggesting she had been dead for hours when Disneyland security first responded to the call.
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| The body of a female found hanging at Disney's Grand Californian Hotel was identified as Kerri Moynihan of Venice, California, a financial manager at Activision Blizzard Studios |
Eye witnesses at the scene have told us that the victim in question was hanging by a bathrobe, or parts thereof, provided by the hotel inside her hotel room closet.
Police detectives have told us that the victim's body was cold and rigor mortis had already set in by the time her body was discovered by Disneyland security and Anaheim Police, suggesting she had been dead for hours when Disneyland security first responded to the call.
Disneyland security manager, Susan Glowacki, was the first Disneyland official to respond, but there may have been a delay in her response, according to witnesses at the scene.
Glowacki apparently called Anaheim Police, or "Deltas" as they are known over Disneyland staff radios, to the scene to investigate an "apparent hanging," after Disneyland security discovered the body of the deceased after entering the room when they got no response from anyone inside the victim's hotel room.
The body of the victim was being held at the Orange County Coroner's Office, and an autopsy was performed and had ruled the next day that the cause of death was by hanging; however, there is no explicit mention in the initial investigative findings of who may have been responsible for Ms. Moynihan's death, including the most obvious scenario suspected: by the victim's own hands.
Details of the case can be verified by contacting the Orange County Coroner's Office at 1071 W. Santa Ana Blvd., Santa Ana, CA 92703 or by calling their watch commander at (714) 647-7400.
The room in question where the body was found, is on the south side of the Grand Californian Hotel & Spa, located on 1600 Disneyland Drive, on the fourth floor, second wing, facing east, and overlooking the hotel's pool area and parts of the Disney California Adventure theme park on the Disneyland Resort and Parks.
The victim, described as a short, Caucasian female, age 32, weighing less than 120 pounds, was also described to police as being employed in some "managerial capacity" at Activision Publishing, based out of Santa Monica.
We have also since learned the deceased's family originally hails from Wilmington, Massachusetts, according to an obituary published in the Boston Globe some days after the death.
The victim was last seen alive with a female co-worker, who is described as Moynihan's superior at Activision, at around 2 a.m. after they had drinks at an unspecified bar or restaurant at the resort the night before.
Moynihan's employer, Activision Blizzard Studios based out of Santa Monica, California, was holding some sort of company function at the Disneyland Resort around the time of the incident in question.
The two co-workers were going back to their respective hotel rooms after having drinks at the company function in question held at the "Happiest Place on Earth."
What we don't know is this: what was said or what transpired in the events leading up to the tragic death, but it appears whatever transpired during that time was likely the key to the investigation as to what may have led to the deceased's untimely demise.
Moynihan's supervisor in question was the one who called the hotel's guest services desk out of deep concern for the welfare of the victim.
Apparently, the victim was not answering the co-worker's calls nor answering her hotel room door when co-workers were banging on her hotel room door at 9 a.m. in the morning on Thursday.
We were told by inside sources that the calls from Activision's staff were initially dismissed by Disneyland security management from a reluctance to disturb its guests, resulting in more delays before two Disneyland "Grand" security officers were finally sent up to the room to check on the welfare of the victim in question some time before 10 a.m. on Thursday morning.
According to our sources, only one of the two Disneyland security officers sent up to the room, whose name was identified to our sources as Fred Creamer, actually entered the room after knocking on Moynihan's door and found the gruesome discovery of a dead body hanging inside the closet when no one answered the calls from security entering the room.
Creamer could be heard over Delta radios repeatedly requesting from Disneyland Central Communications (also known as "Comm" for short) for Deltas (Anaheim Police) and paramedics, but his requests for medical help went unanswered for some time.
At some point in the radio transmissions, Comm finally asked Creamer, "What is the reason (for his request)?"
Creamer can then be heard over the radio replying that the guest inside had supposedly "hung herself."
After that, a Disneyland security supervisor Kim Rumbaugh, identified as a male voice over the radio as "Grand 2," broadcasted over the security radios for Creamer to cease all radio transmissions about the incident.
At that point, Disneyland nurses and paramedics, as well as Anaheim Police, were called to the scene as numerous Disneyland staff members were keeping tabs on Anaheim Police (A.K.A. "Delta") radio channels at the time of the call; however, no further details of the incident were transmitted over the radio.
Apparently, there was compelling reason for concern from the co-workers who made the call because of supervisor's inability to get a hold of the victim in the morning.
Numerous calls were sent to Disneyland security by Moynihan's co-workers who could not get a hold of Moynihan that morning before anyone from the hotel responded.
According to witnesses, the victim, who herself is an accountant and manager in financial planning and analysis at Activision Blizzard Studios, has had a history of depression and was on anti-depressant medication at the time of the incident; however, assuming that anyone who is depressed is also suicidal doesn't fully explain the underlying circumstances of what may have triggered the deceased to possibly take her own life, if that is in fact what happened.
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| The deceased, Kerri Moynihan, seen in the picture above on the right |
The victim was last seen alive with a female co-worker, who is described as Moynihan's superior at Activision, at around 2 a.m. after they had drinks at an unspecified bar or restaurant at the resort the night before.
Moynihan's employer, Activision Blizzard Studios based out of Santa Monica, California, was holding some sort of company function at the Disneyland Resort around the time of the incident in question.
The two co-workers were going back to their respective hotel rooms after having drinks at the company function in question held at the "Happiest Place on Earth."
What we don't know is this: what was said or what transpired in the events leading up to the tragic death, but it appears whatever transpired during that time was likely the key to the investigation as to what may have led to the deceased's untimely demise.
Moynihan's supervisor in question was the one who called the hotel's guest services desk out of deep concern for the welfare of the victim.
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| Disney security manager Sue Glowacki was the first official on the scene |
We were told by inside sources that the calls from Activision's staff were initially dismissed by Disneyland security management from a reluctance to disturb its guests, resulting in more delays before two Disneyland "Grand" security officers were finally sent up to the room to check on the welfare of the victim in question some time before 10 a.m. on Thursday morning.
According to our sources, only one of the two Disneyland security officers sent up to the room, whose name was identified to our sources as Fred Creamer, actually entered the room after knocking on Moynihan's door and found the gruesome discovery of a dead body hanging inside the closet when no one answered the calls from security entering the room.
Creamer could be heard over Delta radios repeatedly requesting from Disneyland Central Communications (also known as "Comm" for short) for Deltas (Anaheim Police) and paramedics, but his requests for medical help went unanswered for some time.
At some point in the radio transmissions, Comm finally asked Creamer, "What is the reason (for his request)?"
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| Photograph of the closet area in question |
After that, a Disneyland security supervisor Kim Rumbaugh, identified as a male voice over the radio as "Grand 2," broadcasted over the security radios for Creamer to cease all radio transmissions about the incident.
At that point, Disneyland nurses and paramedics, as well as Anaheim Police, were called to the scene as numerous Disneyland staff members were keeping tabs on Anaheim Police (A.K.A. "Delta") radio channels at the time of the call; however, no further details of the incident were transmitted over the radio.
Apparently, there was compelling reason for concern from the co-workers who made the call because of supervisor's inability to get a hold of the victim in the morning.
Numerous calls were sent to Disneyland security by Moynihan's co-workers who could not get a hold of Moynihan that morning before anyone from the hotel responded.
According to witnesses, the victim, who herself is an accountant and manager in financial planning and analysis at Activision Blizzard Studios, has had a history of depression and was on anti-depressant medication at the time of the incident; however, assuming that anyone who is depressed is also suicidal doesn't fully explain the underlying circumstances of what may have triggered the deceased to possibly take her own life, if that is in fact what happened.
We were told by witnesses at the scene that anti-depressant pills were scattered all over the victim's hotel room, desperately trying to make it appear as obviously that it can be that it was an apparent suicide; however, the overt display only raised more red flags with investigators at the scene.
Again, this very fact appears to focus the spotlight back on the immediate events leading up the apparent hanging. Was this indeed a bone fide suicide as we are led to believe from appearances alone, or was this intended to merely look like a suicide to cover-up something much more sinister?
The victim's name was released by the Orange County Coroner's Office on Friday afternoon after an autopsy was completed according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office, and arrangements have since been made to release Moynihan's body back to her family in Wilmington, Massachusetts; however, the Orange County Coroner's office still have an open case on their hands.
County coroner officials did however confirmed to us only hours after the incident on Thursday morning that they did in fact receive the body of Moyinhan who had apparently passed away "unexpectedly" at the location in question, the Disney's Grand Californian Hotel, but that's all that they would say.
To date, neither Disney nor Activision has made any public statements about the grave and immensely sad tragedy nor acknowledged that the incident happened at all to the press.
Disney's Grand Californian Hotel is Disneyland's flagship hotel in the Anaheim Resort built in the dark and gloomy Craftsman style copied from other more iconic and authentic Craftsman-style hotels in California such as The Lodge at the Torrey Pines Golf Course in La Jolla, California and the Ahwahnee Lodge (one of the hotel interiors used in the Stanley Kubrick film, The Shining) in the Yosemite National Forest, California.
The hotel was given a four-diamond rating by the American Automobile Association (AAA) travel agency in 2001, and is currently only one of two AAA four-diamond hotels in the City of Anaheim—the other being the Disneyland Hotel, located across the street from the Grand California Hotel.
This is far from being the first "unexpected death" reported at one of the Disneyland hotels or at the resort in general, begging the question to be asked: Is this really the "Happiest Place on Earth?"
Many Disneyland visitors have died of unnatural causes over the years on resort property, mostly from hangings, shootings, stabbings, drug overdoses inside the Disneyland Resort, and more dramatically, jumping off of the Disneyland Hotel towers or various parking structures.
Disneyland is also situated in one of Anaheim's three highest crime areas, which over the years has earned the city the not-so-flattering moniker, "Anacrime," due to the city's well-known reputation for gangland violence and criminal activity.
The Disneyland Resort is bordered on its west and east property lines by two distinct "gang injunction zones," according to court filings by the Orange County District Attorney's Office.
The intent of the gang injunction zones were initially designed to restrict the activities of reputed gang member who are identified to be gang members by the local law enforcement agencies; however, an unintended consequence of these arbitrary police crackdowns by geography has forced many gang members to leave the confines of the injunction zones where they reside to pursue their criminal activities elsewhere in safe havens where they cannot be arrested or detained without probable cause, such as at the neighboring Disneyland Resort.
Burglaries, thefts, armed robberies, vandalism, violent crimes, and other miscellaneous criminal activities by gang members and other known violent criminals are highly prevalent on Disneyland property as a result of the unintended consequences of the gang injunction zones or just because Disneyland is a magnet for career criminals seeking to prey on a dense population of unsuspecting potential victims.
Up to now, Disneyland officials have had a very good track record of hiding and covering-up those "unexpected" crimes on property from the public record with the help of the police, city and county officials, and the county coroner's office.
A private funeral service for the deceased is planned for Thursday morning, May 4th at St. Thomas of Villanova Church in Wilmington, Massachusetts, and Ms. Moynihan's body will be interred in her final resting place at Interment Wildwood Cemetery in Wilmington.
Without our reporting in finding out what happened that night, this incident would have likely been swept under the rug, buried and long forgotten without a peep said from Disney or by any public official in Orange County's law enforcement community. We, however, are determined to find out the truth about what really happened that night, so stay tuned.
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| The hanging was said to have taken place inside a closet near the hotel room's bathroom using a bath robe provided by the Grand |
The victim's name was released by the Orange County Coroner's Office on Friday afternoon after an autopsy was completed according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office, and arrangements have since been made to release Moynihan's body back to her family in Wilmington, Massachusetts; however, the Orange County Coroner's office still have an open case on their hands.
County coroner officials did however confirmed to us only hours after the incident on Thursday morning that they did in fact receive the body of Moyinhan who had apparently passed away "unexpectedly" at the location in question, the Disney's Grand Californian Hotel, but that's all that they would say.
To date, neither Disney nor Activision has made any public statements about the grave and immensely sad tragedy nor acknowledged that the incident happened at all to the press.
The hotel was given a four-diamond rating by the American Automobile Association (AAA) travel agency in 2001, and is currently only one of two AAA four-diamond hotels in the City of Anaheim—the other being the Disneyland Hotel, located across the street from the Grand California Hotel.
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| The deceased, Kerri Moynihan, seen on the left rooting for her hometown team, the New England Patriots |
Many Disneyland visitors have died of unnatural causes over the years on resort property, mostly from hangings, shootings, stabbings, drug overdoses inside the Disneyland Resort, and more dramatically, jumping off of the Disneyland Hotel towers or various parking structures.
Disneyland is also situated in one of Anaheim's three highest crime areas, which over the years has earned the city the not-so-flattering moniker, "Anacrime," due to the city's well-known reputation for gangland violence and criminal activity.
The Disneyland Resort is bordered on its west and east property lines by two distinct "gang injunction zones," according to court filings by the Orange County District Attorney's Office.
The intent of the gang injunction zones were initially designed to restrict the activities of reputed gang member who are identified to be gang members by the local law enforcement agencies; however, an unintended consequence of these arbitrary police crackdowns by geography has forced many gang members to leave the confines of the injunction zones where they reside to pursue their criminal activities elsewhere in safe havens where they cannot be arrested or detained without probable cause, such as at the neighboring Disneyland Resort.
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| Map of Disneyland's two gang-injuction zones on the west and east sides of the resort |
A private funeral service for the deceased is planned for Thursday morning, May 4th at St. Thomas of Villanova Church in Wilmington, Massachusetts, and Ms. Moynihan's body will be interred in her final resting place at Interment Wildwood Cemetery in Wilmington.
Without our reporting in finding out what happened that night, this incident would have likely been swept under the rug, buried and long forgotten without a peep said from Disney or by any public official in Orange County's law enforcement community. We, however, are determined to find out the truth about what really happened that night, so stay tuned.
Sources:
- Tributes: Kerri A. Moynihan, 32 Wilmington, MA (5/02/17)
- Nichols Funeral Home: Obituaries: Kerri A. Moynihan (5/01/17)
- Wilmington Apple: OBITUARY: Kerri A. Moynihan, 32 (5/01/17)
- Legacy.com: Obituary of Kerri A. Moynihan of Wilmington, MA (4/27/17)
- Boston Globe: Obituary of Kerri A. Moynihan of Wilmington, MA (4/27/17)
- DIS: Police investigate death at Disney's Contemporary Resort (3/26/17)
- MyNews13: Deputies investigating death at Disney World resort (3/23/17)
- Inquistr: POLICE INVESTIGATING DEATH AT DISNEY’S CONTEMPORARY RESORT — PERSON SUSPECTED OF JUMPING TO DEATH (3/22/17)
- My News LA: Disneyland death leap third suicide from ‘Mickey and Friends’ (11/27/16)
- OC Register: Officials ID man who died after jumping off parking structure at Disneyland (11/26/16)
- LA Daily News: Man jumps to his death off Disneyland parking structure (11/26/16)
- OC Register: Man dies after jumping off parking structure at Disneyland (11/26/16)
- My News LA: Disneyland suicide: Not the ‘happiest place on earth’ (11/26/16)
- Wikipedia: Incidents at Disneyland Resort
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