Okay, I may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but exactly how was this originally ruled a suicide?
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Questions Raised Over Reported Suicide In 1979
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1/28/04 11:03:07 AM
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.
Steven Clapp, Silver's cousin, asked authorities in May to exhume the body.
"The family's main concern is that a thorough investigation is done," said Clapp, who retired last year as an investigator with the Ohio Department of Public Safety.
Silver is believed to have died April 11, 1979, in his home located 32 miles west of Dayton, near the Indiana state line. Authorities found the body, wrapped in sheets and partially burned, beneath the utility room floor one week later.
Lindloff said authorities should have interviewed more family members.
Maybe not suicide? Hmmmm....Ya think?
