i think he killed himself
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aikenidol24 — 19 years ago(March 04, 2007 09:53 AM)
Scorpio7:
"The fact is, this case remains UNSOLVED, simply because modern-day forensics didn't exist almost 50 years ago (when George Reeves was killed), and probably cannot be utilized, at such a late date."
Did you see the Forensic Files episode where they went back in time to look at the Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping? If forensics can go back and look at evidence from the '20's, why can't they look at evidence from the 50's?
I'm not a forensic expert, nor do I claim to be one, but I don't see where this case can't be solved in some way. What about bullet trajectory into the skull? Was it at the right angle for suicide? (Yes, I know, horrors of horrors, Mr. Reeves might have to be dug upeek!)
My other main question is to Mr. Beaver: as an expert, don't you have better things to do than spend time disputing things on a message board? The fact that you spend a lot of time on here seems to me that you might not be who you clai5b4m to be. No offense. -
JimB-4 — 19 years ago(March 04, 2007 01:00 PM)
Bullet trajectory into the skull was perfectly angled for suicide temple to temple, with a very slightly higher exit wound maybe five degrees off horizontal, if that. Also, skull beveling and skin laceration is completely consistent with a contact wound.
Couldn't dig Reeves up, though. He was cremated by his mother after the third (private) autopsy revealed no evidence of foul play.
And you're right I've got lots of better things to do. I'll leave it to content, context, and the opinion of others whether I am who I say I am. But it's a weakness of mine that I get involved in these online debates and discussions, which do indeed take up time I could be finishing my damn book.
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JimB-4 — 18 years ago(June 04, 2007 12:45 AM)
Several of his friends whom I interviewed told me about two prior suicide attempts.
I don't think wrestling was his only job option. But he had almost none that didn't involve Superman.
Yes, I am nearly certain he took his own life.
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kathleen28262 — 18 years ago(September 28, 2007 08:29 AM)
When oh when will Mr. Beaver's book be out? I'm so anxious to read it.
The recent movie has awakened interest in a man who from what I have read seems to have been a decent human being and was certainly a charismatic individual it is natural for we who admired him to hope that he did not take his own life, indeed that he was not so unhappy or desperate that he would want to do so and of course also the tragedy that whether by his own hand or not such a young man who had so much going for him would lose his life.
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JimB-4 — 18 years ago(September 28, 2007 09:08 AM)
No fingerprints were found on the gun because the gun had a thick coat of oil which wouldn't hold fingerprints. (And the homicide cop who nailed Son of Sam, told me that in thirty years investigating homicides, he'd never once found fingerprints on a gun.)
There were no powder burns on the head wound because in a contact wound, the powder is forced into the wound track and not onto the skin surrounding the wound. As another veteran homicide cop said, "I start thinking murder when I DO find powder burns on a supposed suicide's head."
The spent shell was found beneath the body because in most cases of gunshot-to-the head, the shooter takes the most natural position holding the gun so that it is almost upside-down. (Try it with your hand. It's a much more natural position than with the gun perfectly right-side-up.) Such a position would eject the shell from a Luger behind the victim. It's no great leap to imagine the body then falling atop the shell.
The gun was found between his feet because he was sitting on the edge of the bed when he fired the shot. The gun dropped straight down onto the floor between his feet and his body fell back onto the bed. That's how he was found lying on his bed with his feet on the floor. Homicide police have told me repeatedly that, due to reflex action, the location of the gun is rarely meaningful. One cop told me he'd found a suicide in a locked room, no windows, body in a chair, and gun stuck in the light fixture overhead.
The Paramount deal is false. It never happened.
Some of his friends said he was happier than he'd been in years. I've talked to many who said he was as depressed as they'd ever seen him. Who are you going to believe? One of his closest friends, an actor on the Superman show, told me it didn't surprise him one bit that Reeves killed himself.
The people in the house delayed calling the police because they were EXTREMELY drunk. One of them finally called her lawyer and said, "Oh my God, George shot himself! What do I do?" The lawyer said, "Hang up and call the police, stupid!" Also, the delay loses all its "sinister" aspects when you realize that they TOLD the police they'd delayed calling! -
JimB-4 — 18 years ago(November 01, 2007 02:02 PM)
Correction. I just checked back with that detective. He said111c that in thirty years of investigating homicides, he'd found fingerprints on a weapon twice once on an empty cartridge case and once on the magazine. He said he remembered those because it was so extraordinarily rare to find prints on a gun that most cops don't really depend on gun-prints as evidence.
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