No worries, I understand it takes time to write these.
Thank you for the detailed response. I do have some follow-up questions.
~ 1.) Let's say I hide my laptop(s) and any other electronics that I don't take with me really well, either in the residence or underground somewhere in the woods away from my residence and the police are unable to physically find it. Would they attempt to geo-locate it somehow? And if they do find laptops etc would they return it to next of kin or hold onto it as evidence indefinitely?
Related to this - If I drain my debit card by withdrawing all the cash either the day of or perhaps a few days prior (and leaving it in the house along with the note), would that be cause for some sort of extra investigation or sweep into the finances of my family even if by the time LE arrives the cash is gone so it's not obvious I'm the one who left it? Or if they find the cash before it was moved (and they figured it was mine due to the proximity to the suicide notes) would they seize it and keep it?
When LE searches the address, would they search all the bedrooms or just what belonged to the decedent? Are the other residents allowed to move things first for privacy reasons? If let's say they found money in a closet (not mine) would they take it for some reason?
~ 2.) Just to be clear, are you referring to mounted hotel camera footage here? I realized didn't clearly specify that, so I'm clarifying that now in case you may have read it as cell phone's camera footage.
Let's say someone enters my room (after I've paid for the room) who isn't a hotel employee. If the camera footage is reviewed and the investigator sees this, will that person definitely be tried to be identified and contacted in person? Do you know if they could be identified just by camera footage?
Have you or your colleagues ever found anything of interest from hotel camera footage?
~ 4.) I just wanna make sure I'm understanding the timeline of events correctly. From the point that local police are first contacted by someone who discovers my note, to the point that the police of the city I attempt in are made aware of my phone's last location (not including the time it takes for them to reach my physical location as this can vary), it would likely take how long exactly? 5-10 minutes?
~ 5.) I was specifically interested in people I texted and emailed, since you mentioned
"Pretty much everyone you have associated with will be contacted. Family, friends, work mates, neighbors, everyone recent in your phone, sometimes even people you have emailed." If let's say I text 20 people that day, would all of those 20 people be visited and interviewed in person?
Would contact only be made if there was reason to suspect they may have been involved in the suicide somehow? Or are they always contacted as a matter of policy regardless?
~ 9.)
Was this a typo - did you mean to say decedent or descendants? If it wasn't a typo and you really meant descendant, you're saying that the judge could hold the parents or other heirs of the
decedent financially responsible for any damages caused by their relative's suicide (even if no connection to the suicide is found)? I assume it was a typo because in the same paragraph you say that the family is not held financially responsible.
But at any rate, if the hotel files a claim and I don't have any obvious targets of value (like property or significant remaining digital assets), would they still somehow find a way to get my family to pay for the damages? Would my random possessions like laptops and such be forced to be sold? Or at that point and if the damages cannot be fully covered from my end, would the hotel or the city/state foot the bill, if the family indeed cannot be held financially responsible?
~ 10.) The conventional wisdom that I've seen here in discussion of suicide by gun is that bullet contact with the brainstem means guaranteed instant death, and in gun guides (
here,
here) it's commonly advised to aim for the brainstem.
By any chance, do you know if this is accurate? For your investigations that involved death by gun, do you happen to remember where the shot was when it was fatal vs when it failed? Or would that info be impossible to determine after the fact / it wasn't something you were made aware of as part of your job?
If a GSW death occurs in let's say a small enclosed room, such as a bathroom, and I tarp up the whole bathroom, would that be enough to mitigate the massive cleanup fee you think?
~ 11.)
For this reason, I am thinking to bring a door brace so it requires a little extra effort.
~ 12.)
Just wondering, how did you make your will? Did you write it by hand with pen and paper in prison? Or did you print out a template, or something else? I've only started to research writing a will recently, and it seems like for many people they get it done professionally and it's a whole long process. I read that notarization of will may be important to validate the will in court or something like that, so I'm wondering if that may be valid enough over having to wait ideally several months beforehand for it to count in court like you said.
May I also ask why you wrote a will (what you intend to pass on)? I'm asking to see if perhaps it would apply to me or not.
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I don't see how this could happen at least in my case, because the door will be locked for one, I'll have the do not disturb sign on, and leave no obvious indications from outside the room that an attempted suicide is about to occur or has occurred in that room specifically. Am I missing something?
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Some unrelated, more personal questions I'm curious about if you don't mind sharing:
1.) How is the food? I've heard horror stories that prisons, specifically private prisons, try to cut costs to remain profitable in all kinds of crazy ways such as using non-human-grade food. Do you smuggle food? Since you were able to sneak a phone in there successfully and kept it secret for this long, I'd imagine you could also sneak food in.
2.) Are the guards dumb-dumb? I remember listening to a podcast that featured someone who did prison time, and he said that many of the guards couldn't even read and had to have the inmates do mail call for them. Idk if this is normal in the US or if it was specific to that part of the US where he was in prison, so I'm curious what your experience with the guards has been.
3.) How do you get along with the other inmates? Do you get threatened a lot? I'd imagine that ex-cops are generally not viewed favorably in the prison hierarchy, but hopefully not as bad as chomos and rats.
4.) How did you discover sasu?
I don't have a lot of belongings and feel my fam will help with whatever.
