Linking to the other discussion that led to this trope being made NLREP two years later:
- https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13350380440A15238800&page=593#comment-14806
- https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/crowner.php?crowner_id=2ujsc3s5
So I don’t know if there’s been any discussion of this in the forums, but should Real Life examples really be allowed on this page? Because the overwhelming majority of the “real” examples on here are at best unconfirmed, at worst speculation. Like, this page is full on accusing real people of murder.
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Hey, does anyone know which CSI episodes are discussed in the "Suicide" part of the trope? I kinda like the show (even for how ridiculous it can get at times), so i'd like to see the episodes. Especially the framing one. It was like, what, sevenfold covering...
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I believe that the second one is "Who Shot Sherlock?"
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And the first one is "Kill Me If You Can"
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If this is split it ought to be along the lines of "Alice killed Bob, made it look like something else and is now being smug about it" and the more snarky "Bob got shot 16 times, obviously he fell onto a box of bullets". Accident/murder/suicide shouldn't matter within that context.
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A lot of the examples here (including two from Real Life) are of the "hunting accident" variety. Is this common enough to be a subtrope?
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These removed by Man Called True:
- The JFK assassination was rife with strange suicides.
- Hank Killam, a husband of one of Ruby's dancers, committed suicide by throwing himself through a plate glass window face first off the street in Miami.
- Betty Mooney, one of Ruby's girls, hung herself in her jail cell by using her leopard-skin tights.
- Lt. William Pitzer, who took the original autopsy photos of JFK's head wound (that were later doctored) was found dead of a gunshot wound which was ruled "self-inflicted", with a .45 pistol is his right hand. He was left handed.
- Meanwhile, former CIA agent Gary Underhill was found shot through the left side of his head. He was right handed.
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Are RealLife Coroner Doth Protests really a good idea?
, started by RobinZimm on Feb 22nd 2011 at 10:18:25 PM
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