Huh? The scarily thinner Olsen twin is demanding that police grant her immunity from any charges before she’ll talk to them about the tragic death of Heath Ledger:

Actress Mary-Kate Olsen has refused to answer questions from federal authorities investigating the accidental overdose that killed actor Heath Ledger until she receives immunity from prosecution, The New York Post reported.

The former child-star, famous for playing Michelle Tanner on “Full House,” was a close friend of Ledger’s and the first person called after her masseuse discovered Ledger’s body in his Soho apartment in January, The Post said.

But federal officials could force the actress to tell them details on the “Dark Knight” star’s drug use and events leading up to his death if they obtain a grand-jury subpoena.

One source told The Post that “everyone has been very eager to help, saying what a great guy Heath was, everyone except Mary-Kate, who has refused to speak.”

When Olsen got the call that Ledger — whose performance as the Joker in “The Dark Knight” has earned rave reviews — was dead, she reportedly failed to call authorities, and instead telephoned her body guards. According to The Post, they arrived just as paramedics got to the scene.

Ledger’s death was ruled an accidental drug overdose by medical examiners, caused by a combination of prescription drugs and the pain reliever OxyContin. According to The Post, the latter was likely received illegally.

Looks like America’s former sweetheart isn’t just using (as unconfirmed rumors claim) but maybe doing a little dealing on the side. Either that or she’s the kind of drug-addicted moron who hands out pain killers to her friends without a care in the world.

Is there a cover-up being orchestrated? The Post seems indicate that the feds think so and were not happy with the NYPD’s decision to let Olsen off the hook:

… And NYPD investigators closed their probe without interviewing Olsen because, they said, they got all the cooperation they needed from others. That decision, however, surprised some observers, considering Olsen’s role as a potential witness.

Instead of calling emergency responders after getting the call from her masseuse, Olsen telephoned her bodyguards in the Big Apple, telling them to race to Ledger’s Broome Street home, where they arrived just as paramedics got to the scene.

The US Drug Enforcement Administration, which opened an investigation to determine the sources of Ledger’s drugs, was not as sanguine as the NYPD about talking to the 4-foot-11, 90-pound Olsen.

The feds contacted her lawyer, Michael Miller, several times recently seeking her cooperation, but Miller has told the feds Olsen won’t be interviewed unless she gets immunity, exercising her constitutional rights.

According to sources, all of the drugs in Ledger’s body and discovered nearby in prescription bottles were legally obtained from two physicians – with the exception of OxyContin, a powerful painkiller.

Investigators “are trying to ID the source of the OxyContin,” a source said. “Did it come from a dealer, from a friend? If he had a bottle from a friend, was it taken by someone else before police responded? That is what is trying to be determined.”

The DEA probers were also aggressive with the NYPD, the sources said, and were forced to threaten to obtain a grand-jury subpoena before getting the department’s Ledger files.

An NYPD spokesman said the department never balked at handing over the files and did so after receiving a routine federal administrative subpoena.

Asked whether he asked for immunity for his client, Olsen’s lawyer said, “We are not going to comment on whether there is a criminal investigation,” and declined to speak further.

So it looks like Heath Ledger isn’t the only victim of the drug culture in this story. Olsen is clearly in some way involved in something which the feds will find out about. This is just another victimless crime though, right? Only Heath Ledger was hurt by his drug use, right? Not his child, not his family and certainly not Mary-Kate Olsen who’s quite possibly on her way to jail.

Though because she’s rich and a celebrity she won’t go to jail, but if it turns out she gave/sold the Oxycontin to Ledger that helped killed her friend she’ll have to live with that the rest of her life.

Eric Tavulares murdered his childhood sweetheart Lauren Aljubouri after watching about half of the overrated Natural Born Killers, a movie he claims to have watched 10-20 times. While it is a titillating part of the crime, it is overshadowing the likely true cause of Tavulares’ senseless murder of his friend, a history of drug use that is buried in the articles about the crime which instead decide to imply his viewing habits caused him to freak out.

From 620 WTMJ:

According to the criminal complaint, Tavulares told police that and Lauren, who he’d been dating off and on since 6th grade, had been watching the movie Natural Born Killers on Friday night. He told police he’d seen the movie about 10 to 20 times. Sometime in the middle of the movie, Tavulares says the two stopped the movie and went into the bedroom.

Tavulares told police that the two got into bed while holding a conversation. At some point, Tavulares says something caused him to “switch mentally” and he rolled over onto Lauren and began straddling her. He says he then started to choke her.

There was a struggle, at some point, Tavulares says he began to choke her from behind.

Tavulares says at some point he realized Lauren was dead and he jumped off her and then got up and started giving her CPR.

If convicted, Tavulares faces up to 60 years in prison.

He has two previous convictions in a case that accused him of drug use and one that accused him of resisting an officer.

Tavulares has a history of violence due to drug use, something that many reports gloss over but is important to understanding the crime. At 18 he already had two convictions for drugs and had resisted an officer; he was a ticking time bomb. A movie didn’t make that happen, a society that winks at drug abuse did.

Which isn’t to say that his obsession with Natural Born Killers, a movie produced by racist harpy Jane Hamsher of the Firedoglake, isn’t important at all. Natural Born Killers, the precursor to Rob Zombie’s awful House of a Thousand Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects, is an immature glorification of drug fueled violence directed and filmed in such a way as to only appeal to people who are high. I’d put forward that all three of the movies are only enjoyable when the audience is high.

Hamsher may claim Natural Born Killers was a social commentary on our obsession with violence but the truth is it’s a movie that feeds into the stunted and misanthropic impulses that are so prevalent in drug abusers. Natural Born Killers may pretend to be art but it’s little more than the Hollywood equivalent of rough sex pron, a niche film made to appeal to those who think violent sex gets a bad rap. And just as Zombie’s films tend to heroicize the villains in an attempt to give a thankfully small section of our society the artistic justification for their misogyny, anger and self-loathing, Natural Born Killers shows audiences a wider world that deserves to have the two main characters attack it. That presentation is designed to appeal to the Eric Tavulareses of the world.

The movie didn’t cause him to murder Lauren, but his love of the movie was a by-product of his devolving personality and drug addiction. Just as you can judge people who think Jackson Pollack was a genius as bleating art groupies who form their opinions by reading the Village Voice, a person who can sit through Killers twice, much less 10-20 times, is probably picturing himself in the Woody Harrelson role and has some issues with the rest of us.

Smoking Gun has the police report. JS Online has another take. Mahalo already has a very handy quick reference.