Sunday, September 9, 2018

Murder Mystery

A 71 year old man in good health with no financial concerns and described by friends and family as always fun to be around planned his own murder. Inspired by a 2003 CSI episode he slowly collected the materials he needed. He took off for his morning walk/coffee at 5:53 a.m. and a gun shot was heard around 6:30,the body was found near his country club around 7. He had taken a gun,tied it to a weather balloon and shot himself. The only telltale clue was a line of blood across his sweatshirt that looked like it had been made by a string. After searching his computer and seeing recent purchases the detectives were able to piece  together the crime,of course the gun was never recovered as according to calculations it would have burst somewhere over open ocean. Oh,did I mention this happened in Florida?
Authorities closed the case for 71-year-old Alan Jay Abrahamson, who was found dead near his BallenIsles Country Club home on January 25
Police had ruled his death a murder but found no leads, turning to suicide as a possibility
Scouring the internet, they soon stumbled upon a episode of 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation' from 2003 where a person tied a gun to a weather balloon in an effort to make suicide look like murder
In October 2017, officers learned that Abrahamson bought a 350-gram weather balloon for $127.72 from a store in Tampa, Florida. On Christmas Day, he purchased a second one for $62.51 that was 600grams

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