https://nypost.com/2024/03/09/us-news/angela-chao-made-panicked-call-before-dying-in-completely-submerged-tesla-on-texas-ranch/
Made panic call
Angela Chao may have died after accidentally putting her Tesla in reverse, a mistake she made before.
WSJ reports – Story by lloydlee@insider.com (Lloyd Lee, Jack Newsham)
But details of how Chao’s Tesla ended up in the pond have not yet been divulged by authorities, leading some people, including J. Kyle Bass, a prominent hedge fund manager and founder of Texas-based Hayman Capital Management, to question if the Tesla was hacked.
“Does the Blanco County Sheriff have the technical capacity to investigate the Tesla logs to determine if the car was tampered with or even hacked?” Bass wrote on X. “This case continues to become more and more suspicious.”
In a letter to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton dated February 29, which was obtained by Business Insider, a Blanco County public information officer wrote that, while the preliminary investigation indicated that the incident was an “unfortunate accident … the Sherriff’s Office is still investigating this accident as a criminal matter until they have sufficient evidence to rule out criminal activity.”
Angela Chao, the sister in-law to Mitch McConnell was found dead yesterday in a submerged vehicle on the family ranch. Police are investigating this as a possible homicide.
The death of Sen. Mitch McConnell’s billionaire sister-in-law is being investigated as a crime weeks after her body was pulled from her submerged car in Texas.
Angela Chao, 50, was found dead in her sinking vehicle in a pond on a ranch in Johnson City, near Austin, on Feb. 11.
“Although the preliminary investigation indicated this was an unfortunate accident, the Sheriff’s Office is still investigating this accident as a criminal matter until they have sufficient evidence to rule out criminal activity,” the Blanco County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a Thursday letter to state Attorney General Ken Paxton, according to CNBC.
“This incident was not a typical accident,” the agency added.
First responders spent more than an hour trying to get Chao, CEO of bulk dry shipping giant Foremost Group, out of her vehicle, according to the Austin American-Statesman.