i think he killed himself
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JimB-4 — 18 years ago(September 28, 2007 09:08 AM)
No fingerprints were found on the gun because the gun had a thick coat of oil which wouldn't hold fingerprints. (And the homicide cop who nailed Son of Sam, told me that in thirty years investigating homicides, he'd never once found fingerprints on a gun.)
There were no powder burns on the head wound because in a contact wound, the powder is forced into the wound track and not onto the skin surrounding the wound. As another veteran homicide cop said, "I start thinking murder when I DO find powder burns on a supposed suicide's head."
The spent shell was found beneath the body because in most cases of gunshot-to-the head, the shooter takes the most natural position holding the gun so that it is almost upside-down. (Try it with your hand. It's a much more natural position than with the gun perfectly right-side-up.) Such a position would eject the shell from a Luger behind the victim. It's no great leap to imagine the body then falling atop the shell.
The gun was found between his feet because he was sitting on the edge of the bed when he fired the shot. The gun dropped straight down onto the floor between his feet and his body fell back onto the bed. That's how he was found lying on his bed with his feet on the floor. Homicide police have told me repeatedly that, due to reflex action, the location of the gun is rarely meaningful. One cop told me he'd found a suicide in a locked room, no windows, body in a chair, and gun stuck in the light fixture overhead.
The Paramount deal is false. It never happened.
Some of his friends said he was happier than he'd been in years. I've talked to many who said he was as depressed as they'd ever seen him. Who are you going to believe? One of his closest friends, an actor on the Superman show, told me it didn't surprise him one bit that Reeves killed himself.
The people in the house delayed calling the police because they were EXTREMELY drunk. One of them finally called her lawyer and said, "Oh my God, George shot himself! What do I do?" The lawyer said, "Hang up and call the police, stupid!" Also, the delay loses all its "sinister" aspects when you realize that they TOLD the police they'd delayed calling! -
JimB-4 — 18 years ago(November 01, 2007 02:02 PM)
Correction. I just checked back with that detective. He said111c that in thirty years of investigating homicides, he'd found fingerprints on a weapon twice once on an empty cartridge case and once on the magazine. He said he remembered those because it was so extraordinarily rare to find prints on a gun that most cops don't really depend on gun-prints as evidence.
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