Suicide or Murder?????????

[HumorMe]

I woke up this morning and took my kids and their friends to the animal shelter (like every Saturday morning) to let them help out at our local animal shelter and play with the dogs and cats there.

After they finished, I started home and dropped off everybody and headed for my house. I came down the street and I noticed a lot of cars at a house 5 doors down but didn't pay it any attention since I was coming from the other direction and I wouldn't be passing that house.

As soon as I entered the house, my phone rang and it was my mother. She asked me what was going on at that house and I told her I didn't know because I hadn't gone that way. She said there was an ambulance there and marked and unmarked police cars all around it.

I told her I would walk down there and check it out. When I got down there, people I know and didn't know were standing around but nobody was saying anything, so I asked them what happened. They said they weren't at liberty to talk but it was bad. By the way, this is at a prominent lawyer's house where all of this is happening.

I walked across the street to a friend's house because he is a lawyer also and works with this lawyer (partners) and he was inside and I could tell he had been crying. He told me this guy's wife had committed suicide and one of the sons found her this morning dead.

Everybody around this neighborhood are either lawyers, doctors or executives and everyone knows each other. Now it is 5:00 pm and the area down there is marked off with yellow police tape and the road is blocked off.

I have heard the husband is currently being question as well as the son who found her.

My question is:

Does it usually take this long to process a suicide scene?

Some of the police here answer my suspicions!

 

[DcupSheepNipples]

Does it usually take this long to process a suicide scene?

They still treat it like a murder scene regardless! If it's not cut and dry then it can take a long time!

 

[PHATchik]

I'm not police, but the fact that this is a prominent lawyer makes the case very high-profile. In instances like this, you want to cover every angle carefully because the media will have you for lunch if you miss something crucial. (I'm media so I know this) Plus, sadly enough, due to the high number of domestic homicides, it's hard to really pinpoint immediately whether or not a husband or wife is guilty.

 

[HumorMe]

I'm not police, but the fact that this is a prominent lawyer makes the case very high-profile. In instances like this, you want to cover every angle carefully because the media will have you for lunch if you miss something crucial. (I'm media so I know this) Plus, sadly enough, due to the high number of domestic homicides, it's hard to really pinpoint immediately whether or not a husband or wife is guilty.

Well, his father was in the state senate for 30 some odd years and recently died. This guy ran for his father's senate seat but lost in November. He has been seen quite frequently in a number of bars by himself and drunk as a skunk as recently as last night.

I know the family and they know me but I don't know them on a social level (a few ocassions we have been at the same functions and spoke). Something seems amiss right now.

I know, as of this minute, he is down at the police station being questioned. They have local, county and state police there right now.

 

[PHATchik]

Well, his father was in the state senate for 30 some odd years and recently died. This guy ran for his father's senate seat but lost in November. He has been seen quite frequently in a number of bars by himself and drunk as a skunk as recently as last night.

I know the family and they know me but I don't know them on a social level (a few ocassions we have been at the same functions and spoke). Something seems amiss right now.

I know, as of this minute, he is down at the police station being questioned. They have local, county and state police there right now.

The fact that he has a history of drunken behavior probably makes them start wondering if perhaps he is a violent drunk. THe fact that he was drunk last night is even worse because it raises the questions about did they have an argument, was there an accident, etc. However, for this to appear a suicide, then the scene would have to have been staged carefully. THat almost makes it look premeditated.

 

[DigitalKyle]

"Not at liberty to talk about it" bah. They can say what they please.

 

[PHATchik]

"Not at liberty to talk about it" bah. They can say what they please.

Actually, they can't. Until the man is officially charged, they cannot vocalize allegations or suspicions. He would be tried in the media before he was even officially charged. Plus, they would possibly have a lawsuit on their hands for slander if he wasn't even charged. The most they should have been saying at that point was "we're looking at all angles" or something generic like that. Plus, you have to realize that they still don't have a clue what really happened. They are trying to figure it out themselves.

 

[SofaGeorge]

ANY home death is treated as a possible homicide. That is something you have to prepare people for if there is a death in the family.

Many times a parent has died at home from cancer or a heart attack (or suicide.) The family deals with the loss with shock and grief. What they don't realize is that when they call the police/paramedics... that the police or paramedics are TRAINED to treat every home death as a crime scene investigation.

People flip out. Their mom or dad just died of a stroke or whatever... and suddenly police are tearing the house apart and telling them "don't touch the body." It's a real psychological shock on top of the already difficult situation.

That is why if a home death is expected (like cancer) - you need to have a copy of the medical records ready when the police arrive. (They can't "tell" someone has cancer by looking at them.) You also need to have the phone number of their doctor ready (to sign the death as a natural death)... and... and this is very important... you should have a copy of "no resuscitation" papers filled out. Life support sucks... so if you are expecting a home death and they don't die (just go into a coma) you want to have signed papers so that they won't be forced on to life support.

 

[DigitalKyle]

Actually, they can't. Until the man is officially charged, they cannot vocalize allegations or suspicions. He would be tried in the media before he was even officially charged. Plus, they would possibly have a lawsuit on their hands for slander if he wasn't even charged. The most they should have been saying at that point was "we're looking at all angles" or something generic like that. Plus, you have to realize that they still don't have a clue what really happened. They are trying to figure it out themselves.

Oh, when humorme said "When I got down there, people I know and didn't know were standing around but nobody was saying anything, so I asked them what happened. They said they weren't at liberty to talk but it was bad." I just assumed he meant neighbors, not any of the investigators.

 

[HumorMe]

Oh, when humorme said "When I got down there, people I know and didn't know were standing around but nobody was saying anything, so I asked them what happened. They said they weren't at liberty to talk but it was bad." I just assumed he meant neighbors, not any of the investigators.

No not neighbors but the officials said that.

It is 7:30 pm now and they are still processing the scene. In fact, her body hasn't been removed from the scene.

 

[PHATchik]

Let us know what happens. I'm kinda curious now.

 

[HumorMe]

Let us know what happens. I'm kinda curious now.

They (authorities) still haven't left from the house yet but are expected to finish up sometime this morning. A friend called me this morning and told me that his mother heard on the police scanner last night around 10:00 pm they arrested the husband. So, it looks like he killed her or at least there is questionable evidence that linking him to the killing.

I'll know more this afternoon.