Suicide with flintlock?

[hanshi]

Like most famous/infamous deaths of celebrities, this one will be debated forever. Where were the CSI when they were really needed? :cursing:

 

[junkman_01]

For any and all that would like to see this episode....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TUXvxsP6KA

 

[rabjr]

Thank you Junkman, I didn't realize youtube had the episode. :thumbsup:

 

[bowkill]

thanks junkman, you are the man...

 

[CoyoteJoe]

I didn't see that episode, didn't even know there was such a program before this discussion but I did see the one on John Wilkes Booth and I am now convinced Booth is alive and well living with his 17th wife on a pineapple plantation in Norway. :haha:
The program reminds me a lot of Jessie Ventura's "Conspiracy Theory" program. They bring up a lot of things which might have happened with no proof at all that any of those scenarios ever DID happen.

 

[Trot]

I agree, and they pretty much ignore all the evidence on the other side of the "mystery". I still like to watch it though.

 

[Rhett Griffith]

They make some interesting statements, but what can be proved? Both suicide or murder seem to be plausible. I don't know how you would ever tell at this stage.

 

[rabjr]

It will never be solved but it was a very interesting show that makes you think and it shouldn't be judged by any previous shows you may have watched.

 

[oldarmy]

Lewis was broke, did drugs and wasn't a good businessman.
He was also Jefferson's personal secretary and a key member of the Lewis and Clark expedition to the "end of the world"
That was very successful and expanded the size of the USA by half.
After watching the show. I think his body should be ex-hummed and examined.
There are plenty of direct decedents to get DNA from.Like they say "dead-men do tell tails"

 

[zampilot]

Please dont remind us of what Jesse Ventura has become........

 

[Dphar]

A few years ago a person I know shot himself in the head with a .50cal muzzleloading pistol, he survived and you would never know he had been shot in the head, unless you had known him before the act.

Shot placement is everything.
I have shot a lot of things in the head, Beaver mostly, and one was enough for all of them so far as I can recall.
But someone did shoot a Buffalo bull with a 54 side to side through the brain and it got back up...
A friend shot a cow elk in the forehead with a short barreled 50 cal flintlock pistol and she did not survive. But shot placement was perfect.

Dan