This is a delightful gem I came across a few years back and saw again recently...
I will point out from the outset that whilst the story was in fact presented by Don Harper Mills at the 1994 AAFS dinner, the story itself is not true. It was made up by him "to illustrate how if you alter a few small facts you greatly alter the legal consequences..."
At the 1994 annual awards dinner given for Forensic Science, AAFS President Dr. Don Harper Mills astounded his audience with the legal complications of a bizarre death. Here is the story:
On March 23, 1994 the medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald Opus and concluded that he died from a shotgun wound to the head. Mr. Opus had jumped from the top of a ten-story building intending to commit suicide. He left a note to the effect indicating his despondency.
