An amazing murder mystery, tell me how will it end!!
By immisme
@immisme (39)
India
October 23, 2006 9:20am CST
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 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..
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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 sai d that they thought the shotgun was not
loaded. The old man sai d 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
couple's 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.
NOW YOU HAVE TO TELL ME HOW THE STORY WILL END? I will be posting the end of the story soon!!!!! Lets see who cracks it.
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