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Murder or Suicide?
Was Ronald Opus murdered - or did he commit suicide?
Cracking the Case
On March 23, 1994 a medical examiner looked at the body of Ronald Opus and concluded that he had died from a shotgun wound to the head. Ronald had jumped from the top of a 10-storey building with the intention of committing suicide.

He had left a note behind before he jumped and as he fell past the ninth floor, a bullet was fired through the window, killing him instantly. Unknown to everyone, a safety net had been put up just below the eighth floor for some building workers so Ronald would never have been able to kill himself. Usually, when someone succeeds at committing suicide, regardless of changing circumstances, their death is still defined as suicide. Because Ronald was shot during a suicide attempt, and probably would have been saved by the safety net, the medical examiner felt he had a murder on his hands.

An old man and his wife lived on the ninth floor where the gun had been fired. The man had been threatening his wife during an argument. He was so mad, he pulled the trigger but missed his wife and hit Ronald instead. Even though he tried to kill his wife, he still killed someone else in the attempt so he's guilty of murdering Ronald. The man and his wife insisted they thought the gun was unloaded. It was a habit to threaten his wife with the gun and he had no intention of murdering her. If the gun was accidentally loaded, then the killing was an accident.

More investigating turned up a witness who saw the couple's son load the shotgun several weeks before the accident. Apparently, the old lady had cut off her son's money. So the son, who knew about his dad's bad habit of threatening Mom with the gun, loaded the gun so his dad would shoot her. He was guilty of murdering Ronald even though he didn't pull the trigger.

But get this...

The son was actually Ronald Opus. He had become depressed cuz his attempt to cause his mom's murder wasn't working out. When he jumped off the 10-storey building, Ronald had actually murdered himself. The medical examiner considered the death a suicide and closed the case.

This will get interesting
Also that is ironic. He basically shot himself, never heard that one, lol.

Edit that is probably an urban legende, but somewhere that may have happend.

I vote that's one fat urban legend.

(anyway, just because it's a "Habit" to threaten your wife with a shotgun makes it not murder? )

Wow, that's a good one.

thats a very good one.

that's a strange one, but I don't believe it . The odds that he would be falling past the window the millisecond that the bullet was there are way, way to far out to even be plausible .

Well I doubt this certain story but It more likely than not something around this area has happened before. Remember there are so many people alive these days and so many of them pass every day be it natural or be it murder.

Nice one,

My favorite urban legend:

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This was a fabricated story told by a guy at a Forensic Science meeting. It was used to demonstrate how changing a few facts can cause huge consequences.

A few years later, somebody posted it on the internet and the rest is history.