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try to read Completely....... Too Gud. A Murder or a Suicide…??? 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 Case: 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, "A person, 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. In 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 u nloaded. 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, if the gun had been accidentally loaded. The
continuing investigation turned up a witness who saw the old
couple's son load ing 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 hat 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