Young Woman Found Dead at Home of Budweiser Heir
- Posted on December 24, 2010 at 4:12pm by
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HUNTLEIGH, Mo (AP) — Authorities were investigating the death of a 27-year-old woman whose body was found earlier this week at the suburban St. Louis home of former Anheuser-Busch CEO August Busch IV.
Police and the St. Louis County medical examiner’s office on Thursday identified the victim as Adrienne N. Martin of St. Charles. An autopsy has been conducted but results could take four to six weeks.
Police were called Sunday afternoon to the home in the St. Louis suburb of Huntleigh and found Martin’s body. St. Louis County forensic administrator Suzanne McCune said there were no signs of trauma or illness.
Art Margulis, an attorney for Busch, said Martin was a friend of Busch who was visiting the home. He said there was “absolutely nothing suspicious” about Martin’s death.
“It was a tragic death of a young woman,” he said.
STLtoday.com, the website for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, quoted unnamed friends as saying Martin and Busch were dating. The 
newspaper said Martin was the mother of an 8-year-old child.
Frontenac police, whose area of coverage includes Huntleigh, provided information in a faxed news release that did not say if the death was considered suspicious. Phone messages seeking an interview were not returned. The release did not say why news of the death was not announced until four days later.
The statement from police said the department received a 911 call at 1:15 p.m. Sunday about an “unresponsive person” at the home. Martin was deceased when paramedics and officers arrived, the release said.
McCune declined to speculate on the investigation or the cause of death. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch quoted an unnamed law enforcement source as saying the case was being investigated as a possible overdose. McCune would only say that an overdose was among the possible causes.
A woman identified as Adrienne Nicole Martin, from the St. Louis area and the same age as the victim, posted on the website iStudio.com that she was studying to be an art therapist and was hoping to become a model. “I really would like to do beer advertising,” the woman wrote in the posting.
Busch, 46, was chief executive at Anheuser-Busch from 2006 until the maker of Budweiser, Bud Light and other beers was purchased by InBev in 2008. The $52 billion merger created the world’s largest brewery. Busch remains a member of the board of directors for InBev.
The Post-Dispatch reported that Busch and his wife of 2 ½ years divorced in 2009.
In 1983, Busch, then a 20-year-old University of Arizona student, left a bar with a 22-year-old woman. His black Corvette crashed and the woman, Michele Frederick, was killed. Busch was found hours later at his home. He suffered a fractured skull and claimed he had amnesia. After a seven-month investigation, authorities declined to press criminal charges, citing a lack of evidence.
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Comments (58)
RodT82721
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 12:21pmThe rule of law was never intended for anyone involved in a $58 Billion merger, those laws are for the unwashed masses.
Report Post »Paleo Archer
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 7:53amBusch Lied…Model/Girlfriend Died….Sorry, Just had to.
Report Post »Cut From A Different Cloth
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 3:59amThree words to the father of Adrienne Nicole Martin POP POP POP……
Report Post »MR_ANDERSON
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 2:56amLet’s all cast guilty votes before we know the whole story, and what happened. I hear that it is the in thing to do; all the left is doing it, why not the right?
Does anyone actually listen to Glenn Beck’s message, or do you just listen to his comedy? Saying it is fishy is one thing; using this story to claim the rich get away with everything and don’t follow laws, or that he killed her is another.
Report Post »ericgt
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 2:28amDid see this in the local news media.
Report Post »Eyeball
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 1:19amCan’t say anything until the autopsy comes back.
Report Post »ericgt
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 5:41pmBody was creamated(sp) before new years eve
Report Post »Bunnie
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 11:34pmDagneyT
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 4:45pm
In fact, it smells fishy! Something’s up. What I really want to know is why are the results of the autopsy going to take so long?
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Toxicology takes several weeks.
Report Post »Bluestraveler
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 10:01pmProbably a liberal. lol
Report Post »DOUBLE U
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 9:47pmAs I always said…One in the Busch…Is worth 2 with the hand. W
Report Post »Finger Follie
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 12:05pmMore like one in the Busch is worth 2 in he morgue.
Report Post »Atrocities
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 7:36pmWell he did it again. How much justice can YOU afford? Well this guy can afford to buy his way out of ever facing any at all.
Report Post »KENYAN_WRECKING_BALL
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 7:19pmI hate budweiser products. did ted kennedy secretly move to st. louis? May GOD have mercy on Her soul.
Report Post »Highland
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 8:41pmHe no longer has an interest in Bud. The brewery was sold to a Belgian company.
Report Post »Liberty7
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 7:14pmWe probably will never know the truth of what happened to this beautiful mother of one, but it sure doesn’t look good considering his history.
Report Post »ConservativeBeauty
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 7:07pmDon’t want to pass judgment as to what happened with this women or against Busch IV, but he’s been in trouble with the law before and got off. She may have been on a cocaine binge . Normal 27 yr olds don‘t just die unless there’s an underlying medical condition. Wonder if it was him that called 911. Crappy time of year for that to happen, but no time is good..
Report Post »bisbad1955
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 7:03pmWow, sounds like a good candidate for a future Democratic Senator. This guy is not from Mass. by any chance is he?
Report Post »dadsrootbeer
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 6:27pmwas living in st. louis in 1983 and his daddy got him off the 1st manslaughter and DUI cause he was a Busch. bet he skates again. Don’t drink his products, he is a punk.
Report Post »Highland
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 8:40pmSo was I. There was August IV and the dead girl in the car in Arizona and his uncle/cousin/whatever he was who shot and killed a pal at the family home and skated on that (got probation for killing the guy and then had the audacity to ask the court for permission to leave the country to participate in polo matches in Europe).
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 6:14pmYou just have to wonder why she was there in the first place. Rich man and pretty young woman. Don’t take much figuring. But until the facts are out and I will wait for the jury to decide.
Report Post »Workforit
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 6:09pmCan You say CSI… Las Vegas? Miami?, New York? take your pic this Augy Busch needs a serious looking into….
Report Post »flashk
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 5:40pmAsk the family of the late Harry Caray how much power the Busch family has in that neck of the woods. Caray ,a quintessential promoter of AB products ,moves abrubtly to Chicago! Very controlling family, just like the Kennedys’ .
Report Post »M 4 Colt
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 4:59pmWell let me see back in 83 he had a girl die and nothing happen,and i remember this case well because at the time i lived close to ASU and it was in all the papers and all over the TV news but nothing happen to him then, and why, because lets all say it together BECAUSE HES RICH, and now another girl up and just dies, ya right he will use his money, power and influence and nothing will come of this death either..
I hate to say it but in this country you have two sets of laws one for the rich and the other for the rest of us. One more case in point, Charley Rangel lied and cheated on his taxes and nothing happened to him now if that was one of us little people we would be still sitting in jail waiting for out trail, that we would lose and then we would be told how much more time we would be spending in jail.
The people i feel most sorry for will be the family of the girl who just died because just like the family of the girl he killed before they will get nothing but lip service from the cops and the run around from the district attorneys office and nothing closet to justice for there dead daughter!!!
Report Post »Redistributor
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 5:19pmLaws for the rich!? They make them and break them. No laws for them.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 5:35pm@Redistributor
We see this every day almost within the Senate and the White House; so why should it come as a suprise most of the rich will get off. THEY can at least afford the army of lawers it will take. One fact though is to be remembered, the accused are presumed innocent first – remember the case in which a zealous DA brought rape charges on three college kids who later were cleared by the feds?
Those kids reputations are forever tarnished by such accusations, and everyone wanted to string them up without a trial.
Report Post »1TrueOne55
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 7:39pmWell in God’s court there is only one judgement.
Report Post »Oncapecod
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 4:51pmThis is clearly Busch’s fault!
Report Post »mossbrain
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 4:57pmHa, good one.
Report Post »Freedom1984
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 5:17pmDitto!!!! lol
Report Post »patriot308
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 8:40pmObama thinks he is framing a Bush, but HAAARRRVAARRRDDD didn’t teach him how to spell.
Report Post »betterthantv
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 4:44pmSomebody ought to tell the Busch family that the Kennedy‘s don’t like competition!
Report Post »TennesseeConservative
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 4:34pmThings that make you say hmmmm!
Report Post »Buck Bagaw
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 4:34pmNothing to see here people, seemingly healthy, 27 year old women drop dead all the time.
Report Post »CYCLONE
Posted on December 26, 2010 at 9:28am“absolutely nothing suspicious” ….. :-) :-) :-)
Report Post »TexOkie
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 4:28pm3 will gate you 5 it was not a beer overdose.
Report Post »guyperram
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 4:21pmSure sounds fishy
Report Post »DagneyT
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 4:45pmIn fact, it smells fishy! Something’s up. What I really want to know is why are the results of the autopsy going to take so long?
Report Post »tgarrett369
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 4:53pmvery sad. beautiful girl.
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 5:03pmProbably too much partying, and too many drugs/alcohol….she passed out and didn’t wake up..sad.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 5:32pmIt indeed does smell fishy, as for the autopsy report, it could be that there is something they did find and are seeking to make 100% sure one way or another as to WHAT it is. Against a member of the Bushe family, they will need proof of wrongdoing cast in titanium and laid out on a concrete foundation.
http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm
Report Post »Creestof
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 5:35pm@DagneyT
Report Post »My sister passed away in July of this year and I did not have a cause of death until November. Part of the problem was the condition of the body made a positive ID difficult (not the case in this matter), but the toxicology reports seem to take forever. I don’t know enough about it to know “why” they take so long. In the end it was Hypertensive Cardiac Disease. I sympathize with this young lady’s family…an autopsy should not be needed unless there are signs of foul play. The ME will refuse to release the body for memorials so they can slice them up, and you are at a stand still with insurance company’s, creditors and so on until you have a “cause” of death…most will not talk to you with DC’s that state “Pending.”
tower7femacamp
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 6:55pmI wonder if she died during the winter solstice ? and was it a ritual sacrifice ?
Report Post »http://www.gnosticliberationfront.com/lucifer_and_satan.htm
Fletch
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 6:59pmthe Busch family tried to buy up most copies of this book and persecuted the two St Louis reporters/authors::
Under the Influence: The Unauthorized Story of the Anheuser-Busch Dynasty
in hardcover it is selling for $976.00 and $1266.37 for a copy here on Amazon
For example – one of Gussie’s daughters or sisters moved to Germany and built a castle at the start of WW2 … she thought the Fuhrer had the right ideas … they had to kidnap her and bring her back so it wouldn’t hurt the brand which took off after it was distributed to the troops in theater during the same war
Report Post »Republic
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 8:17pmThe autopsy is done right away. Results take that long, mainly for the toxicology processing. State crime labs are usually overworked and underfunded now.
Report Post »Highland
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 8:38pmSmart move for your attorney to be one of the top criminal defense lawyers in St. Louis. Just a coincidence, I’m sure.
Report Post »Bunnie
Posted on December 24, 2010 at 11:33pmToxicology takes several weeks.
Report Post »Cobra Blue
Posted on December 25, 2010 at 8:53amSomething is not right about this story. Guarantee you something ran afoul with this gal. Think the truth will come out?. Kinda like the car accident case. You and I driving a car with someone in the passenger seat. We have an accident. The passenger dies., We claim amnesia. Yea Right! We wake up in the cross bar hotel. doing 10 – 20 making little rocks out of big rocks. Money still talks louder than ever these days. Especially if you are in the Obama administration.
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