With A Ph.d., Victim Of Drug Abuse Didn't Fit Stereotype

He wasn't passionate or romantic, she said, but worked hard and seemed happy to be in the same profession as his girlfriend. Their red-brick Dover Street rowhouse was just a few blocks from the university.

It is there that police said John and McCracken led a life that the young woman's mother never saw. McCracken told authorities that he and John injected themselves with buprenorphine and morphine. Police said they had turned their unkempt house into an indoor marijuana farm, with grow lights and fans vented with aluminum dryer hoses. Police said they found pills in bags, at least 20 bongs, 30 marijuana plants growing up to two feet high and more packed and stored in Mason jars.

According to court documents, McCracken gave police a detailed account of what happened Sunday, saying he and John soaked two buprenorphine pills in water before filtering them and filling two syringes each with 1 mg doses of the drug. He said John, who has asthma, injected first and immediately had trouble breathing. He helped her use her inhaler, and then dialed 911.

She got to the hospital at 6 p.m. and died 49 minutes later. McCracken said he didn't get a chance to shoot up because John had already gone into distress. Police found her syringe in the living room of the house.

McCracken told police that he didn't think John overdosed, but instead injected a bad batch of drugs. Police said results of toxicology tests to determine how John died are pending.

Woessner said she met with McCracken on Tuesday and described him as "very upset, because they were playing, they were doing what couples do. This was not an intentional thing."

Just the same, she does not want him at her daughter's funeral on Saturday. She said some relatives are angry with him and with what happened, and she wants the service to be a place "where I hope to celebrate her life."

Woessner repeated that she doesn't blame the boyfriend but said, "I say to God, 'I hope that Clint can someday find some peace with this.' "

Baltimore Sun reporter Jonathan Pitts contributed to this article.

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