ever hear about the guy who commited suicide... with a hammer?

[minnesmoker]

I saw the other thread about the murder/suicide investigation, and remembered a case from the early 80's of a guy the PD ruled a suicide. It was in Indiana... He supposedly smashed his head 32 times with a hammer. It was later decided that it may have been a homicide...
Here's a link to the story.

 

[RainbowBrite86]

How do you not throw yourself into unconsciousness before you kill yourself with a hammer?

 

[Winter Woman]

How can anyone be that stupid? I know every town has a gomer but this is beyond belief.

 

[RainbowBrite86]

Besides if you're going to commit suicide, why would you choose that method? That doesn't make sense.

 

[Bonzo Mendoza]

It's kind of like the guy that cut off his own head with a butcher knife.

 

[Winter Woman]

Men use a gun. Women take pills. Well, for the most part.

It'd be one hell of a headache before you go.

 

[minnesmoker]

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-10-24/news/8503120786_1_juzwicki-detective-daniel-topper-police

He was an ex-cop, apparently... And, the police department are the only ones that said it was suicide...

EDIT: Worked with the cops or something, he was a railroad conductor. I think it was finally ruled a murder.

 

[minnesmoker]

It's kind of like the guy that cut off his own head with a butcher knife.

Yep... Better a butcher knife than a bread knife though!

 

[Winter Woman]

Someone is being protected that's for sure.

 

[Shannon Alexander]

Maybe he was known to the police as being a sexual predator or something like that, they couldn't prove it and so when they found him dead they just tried to sweep it under the rug...

 

[cannabineer]

Maybe he was a literalist who simply wanted to "get completely hammered" ... and ODed. cn