Cause of death announced for drowned woman

The Orange County Sheriff’s Department has named the cause of death in the mysterious case of a woman whose body was found in the water near her Huntington Harbour boat in March.

Jim Amormino, an Orange County Sheriff’s Department spokesman, said the official cause of death for Anna Krivenkoff, 45, following an autopsy and toxicology reports, was “saltwater drowning due to acute alcohol intoxication.”

Sheriff’s deputies found the body of Krivenkoff at about 2 a.m. March 26 after they responded to word of a large pool of blood outside Turc’s, a Sunset Beach bar, Huntington Beach Police Lt. Craig Bryant said.

Investigators followed the trail of blood, which led them across Pacific Coast Highway and through a locked gate to a private dock near the Peter’s Landing shopping center.

Deputies found Krivenkoff’s body in the water beside her boat.

Preliminary reports indicated the woman had fallen and suffered a forehead injury on a rock outside the bar, but the final autopsy and toxicology reports indicated drowning and intoxication as the cause of death, rather than the forehead trauma.

The drowning was always billed by authorities as an accidental death.

Toxicology results take several weeks to process, Amormino said.

Reporter CANDICE BAKER may be reached at (714) 966-4631 or at candice.baker@latimes.com .