Maybe she was spun too. In an environment where a bunch of tweekers are cooking dope, I can imagine there were a lot of cups and cans and stuff laying all over the place.

Who knows how much diluted lye it takes to kill a human being - people who are spun out of their gourds aren't known for paying close attention to which glass they pick up.

"Is this my diet pepsi?"

Bam - over - just like that. One sip.. "This doesn't taste right..." I don't even know if lye has an odor. I never did the cooking thing.

It did take ten days for her to die. I imagine it was an especially brutal death when you consider that - ten days of lye poisoning, and whatever it took to try to unsuccessfully reverse that.

Ever seen someone pick up some tobacco chewers spit can and take a sip? If they're spitting into a beer can or a soda can... ew...