Reply #10: All fine points. Intelligently put forward and a nice conclusion (even a suicide does not prove his

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guilt).

And maybe he could have thought of a better chemical method, but since time was short, etc.

But shouldn't an investigative reporter be asking these questions of the authorities (FBI, hospital, etc.)???

Had he had any attempts previously?

(I have had some experience in this field as an attendant in a mental hospital in the 1970s. Saw a young man who slit both wrists and his jugulars with the broken glass of a light bulb who then came to the nurses' station asking for a cigarette. Took 4 attendants to put pressure on the 4 cuttings and walk hims to the medical ward. I was one. Yikes.)

Seriously, these are good answers. Not definitive, of course, but good.

How long had he known he was under investigation? Couldn't he have planned a different method if he foresaw the possibility of having to do this?