This woman was found dead in bed, fully dressed. The upper front of her shirt was heavily blood-stained with around six bullet holes. The bullet holes in the shirt, bullet holes in the brassiere, and six gunshot wounds on the left side of the chest were associated with heavy soot deposition, consistent with contact gunshot wounds. A revolver was loosely grasped in the left hand. Six rounds had been chambered in the cylinder of the revolver, and all six had been fired.
Fig.1 This woman was found dead in bed, fully dressed.
Fig.2 The upper front of her shirt was heavily blood-stained with around six bullet holes.
Fig.3 The bullet holes in the shirt, bullet holes in the brassiere, and six gunshot wounds on the left side of the chest.
Analysis of the blood spatter on the wall to the left of the bed was consistent with the woman sitting up in bed as she fired the first shot. She dropped backward onto the bed as she fired the next three shots. Once supine, and realizing that she was not dead, she repositioned the muzzle of the revolver to below the left nipple and fired the last two shots. This explained the similar pathways of the first four bullets that remained in the body, and the parallel pathways of the last two bullets, which were oriented in a different direction to exit the left side of the back and embed in the mattress. The cause of death was suicide from gunshot wounds.
Fig.4 A revolver was loosely grasped in the left hand.
Fig.5 Bullet holes on the chest.
Fig.6 The last 2 bullets exited her back and got embed in the mattress.
Fig.7 The first four bullets that remained in the body.
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