A day earlier, McClendon had been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiring to rig bids for oil and natural gas leases. The report comes just a day after the Oklahoma City Police announced that they did not find evidence to support the theory of suicide, saying McClendon’s death was an accident.
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The Oklahoma State Medical Examiner’s Office is still investigating McClendon’s death.
The investigation’s conclusions do not rule out suicide, and do not give the manner of McClendon’s death.
Police found no evidence that Aubrey McClendon, the Oklahoma City oil magnate who proposed a controversial development in the Saugatuck dunes, meant to kill himself in a fiery March 2 crash, National Public Radio reports.
Though no alcohol was involved in the accident, an unspecified amount of over-the-counter drug doxylamine (which can be used as an antihistamine or to treat insomnia) was found in McClendon’s system, the report said.
McClendon’s roughly 20 percent ownership stake in the Oklahoma City Thunder has become a concern of his estate’s creditors. Creditors with claims totaling hundreds of millions of dollars have appeared in that case, although few details about Mr. McClendon’s estate have been made public.
The vehicle’s data recorder showed McClendon was driving 88 miles per hour and then tapped his brakes before impact, police have said.
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Police found no significant tire marks on the road as the vehicle drove left of center. “We spoke to anybody who may have had contact with him after he found out about the indictment”, Oklahoma City Police Capt. Paco Balderrama told the Associated Press. “He did not leave anything that would be interpreted as a suicide note or message”.
