Speaking on the general topic; I think "motive" is the wrong angle to look at the situation, whether it be from a murder
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Hollywoodshack — 11 years ago(January 14, 2015 04:51 PM)
The book, Hollywood Cryptonite, tells all the facts that make it possible Reeves could have been murdered. Oil on the gun, no fingerprints, incomplete atopsies..car heard screeching away after he was shot..it's all there.
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princebuster82 — 11 years ago(February 26, 2015 12:06 AM)
"Hollywood Kryptonite" is a sensationalist piece of garbage devoid of any real facts. It was poorly researched and any "evidence" presented to show that Reeves death was anything but suicide is hearsay forty years removed from the actual events.
On powder burns: Reeves body was never checked for powder burns, so any claims that "there was no powder burns on his body" is merely speculation. The absence of any VISUAL signs of powder burns is consistent with the notion that Reeves held the gun away from his head rather than directly at it. This doesn't mean that someone else pulled the trigger, it just means that the gun was at least three inches away from his head- not an uncommon feat. It furthers my personal theory that he accidentally shot himself while drunkenly fumbling for the pistol.
There are no "incomplete" autopsies. There were two complete autopsies done that both arrived at the same conclusion: suicide.
Reeves slept in the nude and had no qualms about walking around with no clothes on. He was very proud of his body and would often stop and look at himself in the mirror and adjust his hair or flex a bicep. Add to this vanity a dose of inhibition reducing alcoholism and there's no reason to not believe he would have walked down to the party in his living room stark naked to kick everyone out.
There's no mystery here. I'd like to BELIEVE that someone murdered him, but there's just no evidence to support that theory. He was depressed, drunk, high on pills, and irritated by the party that was keeping him awake. He was known to brandish his gun when drunk and agitated and I believe that he got the gun out of the nightstand with the intention of waving it around to scare everyone into leaving and he accidentally pulled the hair-pin trigger. Such a waste. -
princebuster82 — 11 years ago(February 26, 2015 09:10 PM)
Why would he need to oil up the gun the night he died? Or are you suggesting that oil on a gun will evaporate within minutes? He could have oiled the gun weeks, months earlier.
You're obviously going to believe whatever you want to believe, reality be damned.
