How devious, this guy managed to hide the weapon after killing himself!
He tied it to a helium filled balloon and it sailed away after he killed himself.
“How devious, this guy managed to hide the weapon after killing himself!”
I also wonder how many times he shot himself in the head?
How devious, this guy managed to hide the weapon after killing himself!
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Was an ‘old’ TV show on called ‘Homicide’ about Baltimore MD.
One show opened with a balloon drifting over the city/county with a pistol attached to it and it came down in a back yard where a kid found it.
The story faded back to how it got there and apparently a ‘disgraced bounty hunter’ tied his pistol to the balloon and then shot himself —so it wouldn’t appear he offed himself.
I believe he is the character that had...
“IF found return to ??????, Deepwoods Montana” tattoed on his chest or belly.....
This kind of thing has played out before. Back in the 1950’s there was a protege of LBJ, Billy Sol Estes, of Pecos, Texas, who was running a huge scam with cotton-growing allotments, and pretending to be “storing” the surplus cotton produced.
In 1960 Henry Marshall a USDA official, was asked to investigate the activities of Billie Sol Estes. Marshall discovered that over a two year period, Estes had purchased 3,200 acres of cotton allotments from 116 different farmers. Marshall wrote to his superiors in Washington on 31st August, 1960, that: “The regulations should be strengthened to support our disapproval of every case (of allotment transfers)”.
Marshall was disturbed that as a result of sending a report of his meeting to Washington, he was offered a new post at headquarters. He assumed that Billie Sol Estes had friends in high places and that they wanted him removed from the field office in Robertson County. Marshall refused what he considered to be a bribe.
On 3rd June, 1961, Marshall was found dead on his farm by the side of his Chevy Fleetside pickup truck. His rifle lay beside him. He had been shot five times with his own rifle. County Sheriff Howard Stegall decreed that Marshall had committed suicide. No pictures were taken of the crime scene, no blood samples were taken of the stains on the truck (the truck was washed and waxed the following day), and no check for fingerprints were made on the rifle or pickup.
When tales of this duplicity began to leak out, and Billie Sol Estes was tied to LBJ, the reply was supposedly “Billie Sol who?”
When you are caught red-handed, brazen it out.