Edd
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just been sent this
Do you like a good murder mystery?
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> Do you like to read a good murder mystery? Not even Law and Order would
> attempt to capture this mess. This is an unbelievable twist of fate!!!! At
> the 1994 annual awards dinner given for Forensic Science, AAFS President
> Dr. Don Harper Mills astounded his audience with the legal complications
> of a bizarre death. Here is the story:
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> On March 23, 1994....... the medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald
> Opus, and concluded that he died from a shotgun wound to the head. Mr.
> Opus had jumped from the top of a ten-story building intending to commit
> suicide..
> ----
> He left a note to the effect indicating his despondency. As he fell past
> the ninth floor, his life was interrupted by a shotgun blast passing
> through a window, which killed him instantly. Neither the shooter nor the
> deceased was aware that a safety net had been installed just below the
> eighth floor level to protect some building workers and that Ronald Opus
> would not have been able to complete his suicide the way he had planned.
> -----
> "Ordinarily," Dr Mills continued, "Someone who sets out to commit suicide
> and ultimately succeeds, even though the mechanism might not be what he
> intended, is still defined as committing suicide." That Mr. Opus was shot
> on the way to certain death, but probably would not have been successful
> because of the safety net, caused the medical examiner to feel that he had
> a homicide on his hands.
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> The room on the ninth floor, where the shotgun blast emanated, was
> occupied by an elderly man and his wife. They were arguing vigorously, and
> he was threatening her with a shotgun! The man was so upset that when he
> pulled the trigger, he completely missed his wife, and the pellets went
> through the window, striking Mr. Opus. When one intends to kill subject
> "A" but kills subject "B" in the attempt, one is guilty of the murder of
> subject "B."
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> When confronted with the murder charge, the old man and his wife were both
> adamant, and both said that they thought the shotgun was not loaded. The
> old man said it was a long-standing habit to threaten his wife with the
> unloaded shotgun. He had no intention to murder her. Therefore the killing
> of Mr. Opus appeared to be an accident; that is, assuming the gun had been
> accidentally loaded.
> ----
> The continuing investigation turned up a witness who saw the old couple's
> son loading the shotgun about six weeks prior to the fatal accident..
> ----
> It transpired that the old lady had cut off her son's financial support
> and the son, knowing the propensity of his father to use the shotgun
> threateningly, loaded the gun with the expectation that his father would
> shoot his mother.
> ----
> Since the loader of the gun was aware of this, he was guilty of the murder
> even though he didn't actually pull the trigger. The case now becomes one
> of murder on the part of the son for the death of Ronald Opus.
> -------
> Now comes the exquisite twist... Further investigation revealed that the
> son was, in fact, Ronald Opus. He had become increasingly despondent over
> the failure of his attempt to engineer his mother's murder. This led him
> to jump off the ten-story building on March 23rd, only to be killed by a
> shotgun blast passing through the ninth story window.
> -------
> The son, Ronald Opus, had actually murdered himself. So the medical
> examiner closed the case as a suicide.
>
> A true story from Associated Press, (Reported by Kurt Westervelt)
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Ally
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summary?
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Alex
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man shot dies, suicide
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Edd
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quote:
Originally posted by Ally
summary?
weird
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CCA
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An old story, heard it loads of times and its been posted on here before
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Edd
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quote:
Originally posted by CCA
An old story, heard it loads of times and its been posted on here before
sorry 
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Alex
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quote:
Originally posted by CCA
An old story, heard it loads of times and its been posted on here before
that was a bit harsh there! 
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CCA
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sorry, not meant in a harsh way
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Ally
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i cant believe i actually took a minute to read that
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Skinz
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is it really true though? seems like too much coincidence
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Edd
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doubt it to be honest but like i said weird.
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Gsi_Ire
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sounds very like a story in an aussie murder show i saw before, murder one or something it was called.
but in it the son wanted his mother dead to get moeny to clear debts, the father shot at the mother thinking gun was not loaded and killed a stunt man jumping off the roof.
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Edd
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erm that was a little smaller than planned
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