Incredible Murder Case (967 hits)
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Submitted by Matthew Owen <momanlad.at.hotmail.com> (View user info) at 2004-03-28 09:57:51 EST
I had this emailed to me and felt the need to share.
How Bizarre, How bizarre
Subject: bizarre death For all you CSI lovers,
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:
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.
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."
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 had actually murdered himself
so the medical examiner closed the case as a suicide.
A true story from Associated Press, (Reported
by Kurt Westervelt)
In other news, hello people. I haven't been on here for f'king ages!! How is everyone that can remember me?
User Reviews
Submitted by hamilton (user info) at 2004-08-08 17:13:37 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
http://www.ubersite.com/m/39310#696226
Am i to take it that you are a cop, by reading this?
If you are, have you ever heard of a guy named Howard Ankers?
just curious.
Submitted by squattail (user info) at 2004-06-05 22:11:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
This was on the start of the movie Magnolia. They had another one where a man got murdered at Greenberry Hill by three theives with the last names Green, Berry and Hill. The third one was the one where the firefighter helicopter scooped up a scuba diver from the lake he was swimming in (who dies).
The story about the suicide murder shotgun isn't real.
Submitted by Insanethemind (user info) at 2004-06-05 21:56:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
No Comment
Submitted by Marx740 (user info) at 2004-03-31 01:08:03 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
good story but old +0
Submitted by HotCarI (user info) at 2004-03-31 00:54:47 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
fuck off.
i outta give u a hot carl
Submitted by caveman (user info) at 2004-03-31 00:40:01 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Pretty Fuckin' Cool
Submitted by dakingisdead (user info) at 2004-03-28 21:04:28 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
0 only for relating the story because I kind of like it.
However as previously pointed out this was not a true tail but an illustrative imagining.
I do love it when people grab hold of these and then they become fact.
Consider your self succked in.
Submitted by crackergirl (user info) at 2004-03-28 20:48:48 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
I think this _was_ on CSI, or some other such show.
Submitted by quack (user info) at 2004-03-28 20:39:57 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
still cool, even if untrue
Submitted by YELLOW-MAN (user info) at 2004-03-28 19:41:14 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
interesting.......
Submitted by jimbo (user info) at 2004-03-28 13:15:24 EST (#)
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Here's the direct link http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/opus.htm
Submitted by jimbo (user info) at 2004-03-28 13:13:08 EST (#)
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This story is not true. Dr. Mills related the story to the audience as an example of potential legal complexities inherent in bizarre deaths.
Check out http://www.snopes.com for the full story.
Submitted by creep_firebombing (user info) at 2004-03-28 13:11:51 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Fuck me. Who saw that comin'?
Werd.
Submitted by Random Joe at 2004-03-28 12:22:10 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Old.
Submitted by MickGinny (user info) at 2004-03-28 11:35:15 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
trippy.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2004-03-28 10:16:52 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
magniolia
Submitted by youarsoghey (user info) at 2004-03-28 10:16:39 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Fucking awesome.
Submitted by Herpes (user info) at 2004-03-28 10:07:28 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Completely insane.
Submitted by DarthAwesome (user info) at 2004-03-28 10:01:23 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Weird shit.