Autopsy findings cleared deputies  But questions still linger in
death of inmate at the Sandusky County Jail Jessica Cuffman Aug
1, 2013  When Craig Burdine was arrested on Aug. 11, 2007, no
one was surprised.  The 37-year-old had multiple run-ins with
police prior to that, with a history of drug abuse and crime.
To this day, his family doesn’t claim his innocence.  But six
years later, they continue to fight for justice in his death.
Lucas County deputy coroner Cynthia Beisser ruled Craig’s death
an accident caused by drug-induced excited delirium. In her
autopsy report, Beisser took note of his injures — extensive
external blunt trauma, internal bleeding, and fracturing of the
cartilage in his neck — but she did not see them as causing or
contributing to his death.  Beisser focused her findings on the
levels of methamphetamine and alcohol in Craig’s system, and she
stuck with this explanation in testimony during a wrongful death
lawsuit filed by his parents, Jess and Mardella Burdine, of Oak
Harbor.  Expe