I was watching unsolved mysteries and they had a thing about his death on there!!! It was weird! It was saying how maybe
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hrafn1 — 19 years ago(June 30, 2006 05:55 AM)
"I personally don't think he shot himself. The gun had no finger prints on it. I don't think someone who was going to commit suicide would clean the gun of finger prints. That's the 2000thing that I find odd about it- at least from what the documentary told."
Also very difficult to clean the fingerprints - after you shot yourself!!!!!
Don't know the story well enough to comment but how can someone shoot himself but no fingerprints on the gun? I'm confused if that makes sense. -
angrybeavers13 — 19 years ago(August 13, 2006 02:26 PM)
Re: "I say it was murder, why would he kill himself just a few days before his new TV Show?"
Ke16d0ep in mind, that the new "TV Show" was another Superman series, and Reeves didn't like playing Superman.
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tater_nuts96 — 19 years ago(August 24, 2006 06:15 PM)
He was shot twice but they only found one bullet that mixed with the fact he was very drunk that night and pissed off at the fact this couple showed up after a party at his house had ended, helped force the police into saying it was a suicide.
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princebuster82 — 17 years ago(November 04, 2008 01:57 AM)
He did have prior long term depression. He was stuck in the role that made him famous. He drank heavily. He was involved in a relationship that he by all accounts wanted out of.
The thing that's clear by both autopsies is that he was quite drunk at the time of death and on prescription meds that when mixed with alcohol could cause suicidal tendencies.
I don't think that he necessarily MEANT to kill himself but when you're drunk and zonked out on pills who knows what's going on in your mind?
I personally think that he meant to go down to the party that was keeping him up, (he'd already gone down once and yelled at everyone to get out) and maybe wave the gun around or fire up in the air. In the process he shot himself fumbling for the gun (which had a VERY sensitive hair trigger). The myth that he shot himself twice is just that- a myth. Nowhere does it indicate that there were two seperate wounds. The other myth is that the trajectory was such that it was impossible for him to shoot himself.
Anyone with a basic understanding of trajectory and physics can point out not only that it was possible to shoot himself, but can replicate the exact angle he shot himself, an angle that suggests he accidentally did it while pulling the gun from the dresser drawer.
As for the gun not having any fingerprints, ANY heavily oiled gun (which the Luger was quite oiled) will not leave fingerprints. Such is the point in oiling the exterior of a gun, to prevent such corrosion in the finish. Also a very well known fact that has been mythicized into a conspiracy theory.
Anyone with a shred of inquisitive detection will come to the conclusion that Reeves shot himself, most likely by accident, while fumbling for his gun. Anything else is pure speculation. It was sensationalized at the time to sell more tabloids, something we're just as guilty of today. -
Noirdame79 — 16 years ago(August 02, 2009 11:44 AM)
There was no gun powder residue on Reeves' hand either, which also contradicts the suicide theory. If he fired the gun, the residue would have been on his hand, just as his fingerprints would have been on the gun.
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stargazer_1682 — 16 years ago(October 01, 2009 01:20 AM)
The story isn't that he was shot twice, with only one wound - it's that two shots rang out. And according to the novel, "Hollywood Kryptonite," and I believe other reports, one bullet hole was found in the
floor
of his bedroom, the bullet having lodged itself in the wall of a room downstairs.
I've never heard any report or story that Reeves was drunk when all of this went don't; at least not to my recollection. He was trying to sleep while the "party" was going on downstairs, which prompted Reeves to come down and yell at them, for keeping him up. He was in training for exhibition wrestling event and needed his sleep.
The first couple of autopsies on Reeves, the ones that would have actually produced proper results, were badly mismanaged. His gun wound wasn't checked for gun shot residue, it just sewn up without a second thought. There were other things, I forget off hand, but by the time they bothered to check into things, like the wound, his body was too far decayed for any examination to yield anything.
As for his career going nowhere, pigeoned holed in his role as Superman; while he had felt he was scrapping the bottom of a barrel working in a kids series, Reeves was actually on the cusp of a career renaissance. Reeves was becoming a director. He had directed several episodes of The Adventures of Superman the previous season and was actually slated to direct many of the new episodes that had been ordered. On top of that, he was in the works to director several movies, one of which, the news was left on his answering machine (he was one of the first to have one, becomes of his ex stalking him) within a day or so his death, that one of the movies he was looking to direct was given the green light.
And he was doing his exhibition wrestling, something he had an infatuation with since his childhood. His career was on an upswing.
Don't question Seor Chang!
