She had alcohol in her system but it is impossible to know whether it contributed to the death of a piano teacher who was missing for a month before her car was found submerged in the New River, according to an autopsy report obtained Monday by the Sun Sentinel.
Lisa Hayden-Gordon’s death has been ruled an accidental drowning, the May 6 report said.
Affectionately known as “Miss Noodles,” Hayden-Gordon, 51, was in an “advanced stage of decomposition,” her face caked in mud, laying in the back seat of her Hyundai Elantra with the sunroof slightly ajar in 12 feet of water when her body was recovered Feb.