Dr. Neha Gupta, age 36, will be extradited to Florida to face charges for allegedly killing her daughter, Aria Talathi, and staging her death. Gupta waived her right to contest extradition. Aria, age 4, was found unresponsive in a pool during a vacation in El Portal. An autopsy revealed no signs of drowning, but signs of smothering and bruising, which prompted investigators to suspect foul play and led to Gupta's arrest in Oklahoma.
No water was found in Aria's lungs or stomach, ruling out drowning, confirmed Dr. Tuyet Tran of the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner's Office. Neither was any food found in her stomach, calling into question the meal they'd shared before her death.
Instead, bruising inside Aria's cheeks and cuts in her mouth consistent with being smothered to death were discovered, said Dr. Tran. As the autopsy's result emerged, Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office investigators closed in on Gupta staging the murder as an accidental drowning and issued a warrant for her arrest.
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