how many deaths resulted from the hot tent horror of the sweat lodge?
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. A third person has died a week after she attended a sweat lodge ceremony at the Angel Valley Retreat Center that has already left two dead and nearly two dozen hospitalized. The deaths are being investigated as homicides and James Arthur Ray, the self-help guru that led the retreat is in the crosshairs. Liz Neuman of Minnesota died Saturday at a Flagstaff hospital, Yavapai County sheriff’s spokesman Dwight D’Evelyn said. The 49-year-old suffered multiple organ damage during the Oct. 8 ceremony at a resort near Sedona, a resort town 115 miles (185 kilometers) north of Phoenix that draws many in the New Age spiritual movement. Authorities were treating all three deaths as homicides, but no charges have been filed. Neuman was among more than 50 people crowded inside the sweat lodge run by self-help guru James Arthur Ray. An emergency call two hours after they entered the lodge reported two people not breathing. Twenty-one people were taken to area hospitals with illnesses
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – The attorney for the family of a Minnesota woman who died more than a week after being overcome in an Arizona sweat lodge ceremony said yesterday that he plans to sue over her death. Liz Neuman, 49, of Prior Lake, suffered multiple organ damage and was in a coma before she died Saturday at a Flagstaff hospital. She was among dozens crowded into the sweat lodge Oct. 8 at a resort outside Sedona, a city 115 miles north of Phoenix that draws many in the New Age spiritual movement. Louis Diesel, an attorney for Neuman’s family, said appropriate measures were not taken to prevent her death. Neuman was among three people who died after more than 50 were crowded in the sweat lodge run by self-help guru James Arthur Ray. Authorities were treating all three deaths as homicides, but no charges have been filed. Twenty-one people were taken to area hospitals with illnesses ranging from dehydration to kidney failure. Kirby Brown, 38, of Westtown, N.Y., and James Shore, 40, of Mil
