Autopsy shows only alcohol in Joseph LaBute's system

Toxicology tests performed on the body of a man found in the Scioto River three weeks after he went missing from the Short North revealed only alcohol in his system. The final autopsy report of Joseph LaBute Jr., 26, leaves the cause and manner of his death undetermined and sheds no light on the circumstances that might have contributed to it. Even the finding that LaBute's blood-alcohol level was .15 percent might be unreliable, according to the office of Franklin County Coroner Anahi Ortiz. An