Does art really imitate life? So it would eerily seem in the case of the death of a Texas man that was eerily similar to an episode of TV’s CSI. Read on for the mysterious details.
When Thomas Hickman, a fifty-five year old man from Texas, was found dead in a remote section of New Mexico his death bore all the earmarks of an execution-style murder.
According to news sources, he had a gunshot wound in the back of his head and duct tape covering his mouth. The Daily Telegraph reported that the police also oddly found a bunch of balloons tangled in a nearby cactus with a gun tied to the ribbons.
Enter fans of TV’s CSI who urged the police to probe deeper as they recalled a scenario from a 2003 episode of the series in which balloons were used to make a gun float away after a suicide.
Lt. Rick Anglada of the New Mexico state police said:
We weren't aware of the CSI episode, but the lead investigator continually heard stories that there was an episode similar to that and about a month later he actually rented the episode and viewed it. That night was very windy and we believe the wind kept the balloons down, dragging across the ground, and they began popping. Eventually, the ribbons became tangled up in a cactus
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The police began to suspect that Mr. Hickman had committed suicide but tried to make it look like murder by letting the gun float away. There were other clues that his death had been a suicide as well. Besides notes to his family and no signs of struggle in the field where he was found, police also found a life insurance policy that would pay his wife around $400,000 dollars or double if his death was accidental.
Your plan failed, Thomas.
No chance to try again.
CSI Helps Police Solve A Mysterious Death
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