Mystery

[John Doe Jr]

 

A man was found dead in a Manistee apartment, now police say they're investigating his death as a homicide.

Police got the call around nine Saturday morning.

When they got to the apartment on Hancock Street they found a 45 year old man dead.

9&10's Taylor Jones was in Manistee talking to investigators.

“There’s a reason to believe it can be a suspicious death and reason to believe it can be emergency, so there's nothing to point us in one direction or the other,” says Chief Dave Bachman, Manistee Police Department.

A man was found dead inside his apartment. Police say they found blood inside and outside of the apartment, along with a broken door and window. But they aren't sure how the man died.

“It’s always suspicious when you have blood on the scene inside and outside and you have forced entry into the house, so that in it of itself, and a dead person lends you to believe it’s suspicious. We don't find out why those facts occur, but there is a lot of explanation for that as well. There is also a medical explanation for some of the stuff we are seeing,” says Bachman.

Now police will wait on an autopsy to determine an exact cause of death, but are investigating the death as a homicide. They also called in the State Police Crime Lab.

“There’s a lot of conflicting information. There's a lot of evidence that suggests it was a medical emergency and there's no evidence suggesting specifically that it was a violent death, but there is some evidence suggesting maybe it was a violent death. Till we know for sure, we are investigating it as a homicide, a violent death,” says Bachman.

Word about the investigation spread quickly to people living nearby.

“Shocked if its murder. It’s never happened around here, we don't know. It’s kind of upsetting you know? It doesn't happen around here, it’s a small town,” says Pete Garcia, a neighbor.

http://www.9and10news.com/story/34207932/police-investigating-man-f...

[XLFD]

"... there's no evidence suggesting specifically that it was a violent death, but there is some evidence suggesting maybe it was a violent death." 

Glad to see we're not the only city with a confused police chief. 

Research says that the address is 122 Hancock Street.

[Willy]

The Chief has either been misquoted or he himself is confused or maybe is not confused as to what the crime scene reveals or the crime scene and evidence has been misinterpreted or misquoted and the revealing of the evidence is Chiefly confused as regards to the Chief's belief that a violent type of non violent crime has been not committed at a possible non murder scene or maybe not but it still could be an accidental murder of a non violent nature which could possibly be a suicide that resembles a violent murder that looks like a crime scene at a Jeffrey Dahmer's seminar self help clinic.

[XLFD]

I can understand a little bit of confusion in such situations, because a police chief is likely not willing to give up all of the information he knows too early in the investigation.  It may be prudent not to give some information out, but it is definitely imprudent not to divulge that foul play is the cause if that seems reasonable to be the case. 

After all, it would mean that a violent murderer is running around on the loose.  Time will tell whether the chief made the right decision not to divulge more info.

[XLFD]

The Manistee police chief has gotten a little less confused:

“There are a number of possible scenarios that could explain the death of this individual,” Bachman stated Saturday. “Some are criminal; some are medical; and some are accidental. Until we have the results of the medical examination, we will not know for sure which way the investigation will go. Until we know for sure, we are investigating the death as a homicide.”

When you think about it, it would be a rare case indeed where an investigating unit would hold so much weight to the results of an autopsy in differentiating between an accidental, medical or criminal act.  I'm going to check this with a FOIA to see whether it's another one of those local deaths that the authorities want to portray as an accident or medical problem, when the evidence points other places (such as in Ling Yan Zou's drowning, and Robert E. Ford's 'naturally caused death')

[John Doe Jr]

I'm thinking if they ever charge a person for the death that their case would be tough to win after those public statements.