This article just appeared in the Press-Citizen, stating that:



"A conservation officer with the Department of Natural Resources said criminal charges could be filed soon regarding a boating accident last month at Coralville Lake that killed a fourth-year University of Iowa medical student. . . .



While boating with friends on July 10, authorities said Hill fell from the boat at around 8:15 p.m. and was believed to have drowned. However, autopsy results show Hill died of “blunt and sharp-force injuries of his head and neck,” a clerk in the Johnson County Medical Examiner’s office said."



I first read this as implying an attack of some kind against Hill. But as I read more closely, this would also fit if the driver of the boat were intoxicated, as was Hill, and when the driver made too sharp a turn, Hill fell off the boat into the propellar. I guess we'll have to wait and see.



UPDATE

Yeah, it was OWI with a boat. But they carefully stated that the operator's level of intoxication had nothing to do with the death.