Authorities in the Virgin Islands have launched a probe into the mysterious death of a former US athlete.
Jamie Cail, 42, was found in her house earlier this year, unresponsive and was pronounced dead on arrival at a nearby hospital, according to a press release by the US Virgin Islands Police Department.
Cail, a former swimming champion who participated in major swimming competitions and won several titles in the 1990s and 2000s, relocated to the Virgin Islands and worked at a coffee shop in St. John, according to her family.
The swimmer was a Claremont, New Hampshire, native.
According to the police department, Cail’s boyfriend, Kamal Thomas, arrived at their residence around midnight and found her unresponsive on the floor. According to the press release, he had gone home from a local bar to check on his girlfriend.
The boyfriend – who the police have not publicly identified, but sources say is Kamal Thomas, a 34-year-old man from Georgia who was in prison in the past for the 2007 murder of a Pennsylvania man – said he and another friend carried the 42-year-old woman to a nearby car and rushed her to the hospital.
Staff at the Myrah Keating-Smith Clinic immediately started to administer CPR to Cail, but they could not revive her. Medics pronounced her dead on arrival.
The Criminal Investigation Bureau, which is a branch of the police department, is now investigating her death.
Cail’s love for swimming began during childhood. She competed in freestyle and butterfly completions between 1998 and 1999. She went on to swim for the US at the FINA Swimming World Cup and Pan Pacific championships.
According to FINA, now known as World Aquatics, she won a gold medal at the Pan Pacific championship and a silver medal at the FINA Swimming World Cup.
Cain competed with the University of Maine women’s swim team in the 2000-2001 season before she graduated in 2003.
