Do you like to read a good murder mystery?

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 lehappy_bunnylications 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..
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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.
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"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.
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The continuing investigation turned up a witness who saw
the old couples son loading the shotgun about six weeks
prior to the fatal accident..
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The son, Ronald Opus, had actually murdered himself.
So the medical examiner closed the case as a suicide.


A true story from Associated Press,