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re: Does this picture depict murder or suicide?

Posted on 3/29/16 at 6:57 pm to
Posted by tigerbutt
Deep South
Member since Jun 2006
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Posted on 3/29/16 at 6:57 pm to
Murder. The bullet actually entered her left side of head and exited the right. Therefore creating the splatter portion of the blood on the wall towards the mirror . The right side of the blood area doesn't have the splatter effect because of the cranium not allowing the blood to projectile as it would toward the front of the head including temple area especially . With that said she had to actually be facing the larger mirror and either shot herself with her left hand or she was murdered. In this case she was murdered.
This post was edited on 3/29/16 at 6:59 pm
Posted by blueboy
Member since Apr 2006
56322 posts
Posted on 3/29/16 at 6:59 pm to
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Yeah, I'm not sure which one it is, but it does look like there's a shadowy figure with a gun in it. I think this may be much simpler than we think it is.
I think that shadow is the reflection of the lamp.

And yes, I'm calling the window a mirror. Sorry for the confusion.
Posted by 19
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Member since Nov 2007
33189 posts
Posted on 3/29/16 at 7:00 pm to
The body looks arranged.

1) the gun still in her hand...possible, but not likely.

2) the cig still in her hand... (see #1)

3)the cig, in the "comfortable smoker's grip" NOT even bent or broken...very unlikely.

4)the stool. If you set it back up as is, it's positioned too far to the left of the writing space. Looks like it was tucked under the counter before it was tipped over, as in it wasn't in recent use.

5) the lamp unplugged. The note was written elsewhere and planted, jibes with #4.

...the shell casing is a strange place to plant it, if it was. My amateur arse would assume if it hit the window or landed on counter, it would end up on the floor due to the speed of ejection.
Posted by Hog on the Hill
AR
Member since Jun 2009
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Posted on 3/29/16 at 7:01 pm to
quote:

Murder. The bullet actually entered her left side if head and exited the right. Therefore creating the splatter portion of the blood on the wall towards the mirror . The right side of the blood area doesn't have the splatter effect because of the cranium not allowing the blood to projectile as it would toward the front of the head including temple area especially . With that said she had to actually be facing the larger mirror and either shot herself with her left hand it she was murdered. In this case she was murdered.
I don't think blood spatter from an exit wound would dependent on something like that. If the bullet exits the cranium at a perpendicular angle, it shouldn't splatter differently in the anterior and posterior directions.
Posted by OMLandshark
Member since Apr 2009
108256 posts
Posted on 3/29/16 at 7:01 pm to
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I think that shadow is the reflection of the lamp.



There is an L shaped shadow. I don't see how the lamp could provide that reflection. It may be something we can't see off screen.
This post was edited on 3/29/16 at 7:02 pm
Posted by mauser
Orange Beach
Member since Nov 2008
21540 posts
Posted on 3/29/16 at 7:05 pm to
Suicide, but wants it to look like the boyfriend who broke up with her murdered her and botched making it look like a suicide.
Posted by Jcorye1
Tom Brady = GoAT
Member since Dec 2007
71391 posts
Posted on 3/29/16 at 7:07 pm to
The bullet entering and leaving a skull causes the body to jerk towards the bullet. It's the same reason JFK jerked towards the bullet.
Posted by Scruffy
Kansas City
Member since Jul 2011
72063 posts
Posted on 3/29/16 at 7:07 pm to
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Pen on paper is also oriented to left-handed person.

If you look closely, you'll notice it is also a left-handed lamp. Obviously murder.
This post was edited on 3/29/16 at 7:09 pm
Posted by Ostrich
Alexandria, VA
Member since Nov 2011
8744 posts
Posted on 3/29/16 at 7:07 pm to
Murder. The blood spatter would be higher up on the wall if it was a suicide (unless she shot herself straight on in the forehead which is unlikely).
Posted by blueboy
Member since Apr 2006
56322 posts
Posted on 3/29/16 at 7:08 pm to
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There is an L shaped shadow. I don't see how the lamp could provide that reflection. It may be something we can't see off screen.
Well, if that's a person holding a gun, why would the killer plant a different gun on the victim? Ballistics would figure out that it's not the gun that killed the victim.
Posted by m2pro
Member since Nov 2008
28607 posts
Posted on 3/29/16 at 7:11 pm to
I would say murder because the right hand holding the gun would no longer be holding a gun after a direct head shot. It would be dropped, and not hand over gun.

:shrug:

*edit*

He/she isn't left handed. The orientation of the paper shows the way a piece of paper is slanted for a righty. I am trying to put together the way the body is oriented, flipflop and stool! hrmmm
This post was edited on 3/29/16 at 7:14 pm
Posted by Waffle House
NYC
Member since Aug 2008
3945 posts
Posted on 3/29/16 at 7:11 pm to
Murder. Women don't shoot themselves in the head on suicides. They are too vain.
Posted by 19
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Posted on 3/29/16 at 7:12 pm to
Oh, I forgot:

Having the gun or the smoke still in hand is possible, but BOTH?
Posted by LSUsmartass
Scompton
Member since Sep 2004
82364 posts
Posted on 3/29/16 at 7:14 pm to
100% suicide
Posted by m2pro
Member since Nov 2008
28607 posts
Posted on 3/29/16 at 7:16 pm to
If it were suicide, the left hand would have held the gun if the person was sitting on the stool... and they damn sure wouldn't still be holding onto a cigarette after hitting the ground under any circumstance.

planted! / murder
Posted by Mufassa
Member since Aug 2012
1664 posts
Posted on 3/29/16 at 7:16 pm to
All I'm saying is that if it was a murder, it would most likely have happened when she was unprepared as she was sitting down with a writing utensil and smoking, so you could reason she wouldn't have had time to remove her glasses.
Posted by chunk
UNDER YOUR BED
Member since Jan 2007
5126 posts
Posted on 3/29/16 at 7:18 pm to
Murder
Posted by hawaiiantiger
KANEOHE, HI
Member since Jan 2010
350 posts
Posted on 3/29/16 at 7:25 pm to
the light is on her right. she wouldnt write with her right hand and block the light, so she writes left handed so the light shines on paper.
Posted by Mufassa
Member since Aug 2012
1664 posts
Posted on 3/29/16 at 7:27 pm to
Is there an answer to this nonsense or do we keep guessing till the thread dies?
Posted by MorningWood
On the coast of North Mexico
Member since May 2009
2668 posts
Posted on 3/29/16 at 7:28 pm to
Going to say murder. Reflection in the window looks like someone is standing there
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