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Beer, cocaine might have killed student

The Associated Press
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 05.17.2008
MESA — A Phoenix-area college professor told emergency dispatchers that a female student had been drinking and doing cocaine in his apartment before she collapsed and died, police reports and dispatch recordings show.
Paradise Valley Community College psychology professor Michael Todd told the dispatcher that Andria Ziegler, 19, drank 17 beers in the hours before she died on April 20.
Ziegler was one of Todd's students, and college district officials have told him he is being fired for having an inappropriate relationship with a student, a violation of the college's policy. She was pronounced dead about an hour after Todd, 51, called for help.
Phoenix police are investigating the case as an unknown death and have not labeled it as criminal in nature.