01/28/2004: 
Criminally Absurd
Questions Raised Over Suicide Reported in 1979
from the "What Tipped You Off" Department
reported by Associated Press
Authorities have opened an investigation into a 1979 death originally reported as the suicide of a man whose body was found under the floor, wrapped in sheets and burned.
A second autopsy performed on James J. Silver of New Paris raised enough questions to warrant an investigation, said Dave Lindloff, an investigator for the Preble County prosecutor.
The autopsy, completed by the Montgomery County coroner's staff, concurred with the original cause of death as a shotgun wound to the head, but provided new information on the wound entrance and path and direction of the buckshot.
It took a second autopsy? I think they had it right in the first place. It just seems more logical that he shot himself, rapped himself in sheets, lit himself on fire, and then crawled beneath the floorboards.
