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By JERRY LYNOTT; Times Leader Staff Writer
Sunday, January 11, 1998 Page: 5
WILKES-BARRE- More than a dozen law enforcement officials from two counties
met Wednesday to discuss what they termed “significant similarities” in the
1996 prescription drug overdose deaths of two physicians’ wives.
The group headed by Luzerne County District Attorney Peter Paul Olszewski
Jr. and Lackawanna County District Attorney Michael Barrasse huddled for more
than an hour behind closed doors.
Olszewski said they had a “rather productive meeting” and had an
opportunity to share information about the deaths of Deborah Gorski and
Kimberlie Ann Tayoun.
He cautioned that the investigations are “far from being over,” but would
not provide details on the directions they are taking.
Barrasse said a new investigative grand jury will be seated in Scranton,
but he has not determined whether to use it in the Tayoun probe.
Tayoun, 29, was found dead Aug. 19, 1996, in her Scranton apartment. She
had moved there in the spring, shortly before her divorce from Dr. Paul J.
Tayoun. She had overdosed on the anti-depressant amitriptyline. The manner of
her death has not been determined, Barrasse said.
A coroner’s inquest in November 1996 determined Dr. Eugene Gorski was
responsible for the death of his 38-year-old wife. She died nine days before
Tayoun from an overdose of alprazolam, a drug her husband had prescribed for
he