After an anonymous information, the corpse has been found near the east side dump.
The door of the victim’s house was open, no signs of breaking were on the lock, nothing had been stolen. The journalist’s notes were in their places and there were no signs of scuffle on the corpse nor in the apartment. The scene of the crime seems to be the living room, where bloodstains, clumsily covered by several layers of polish, have been found. An early ballistic test suggests the possibility that the victim killed himself with a firearm, possibility supported by the gun powder found on the armchair. Although the probabilities that the victim committed suicide are more than 90%, no signals of depression or emotional imbalances were found. No drugs, alcohol or cigarettes. Moreover, marks of four different shoes have been found; two of them marked more than once the floor leading from the door to the living room. An accurate analysis of the apartment and the furniture and the total absence of any phoning devices suggest the profile of an isolated and unemotional personality, a pragmatic person of fixed habits. According to the autopsy the corpse has been moved only some hours after the decease, and despite the high probabilities that it’s about suicide, the foremost question concerns the reason why someone moved the corpse and tried to hide the evidences away from the crime scene.
Det. Jason Minardi.