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derram ago

https://archive.fo/ptkp4 :

Canadian police probe 'suspicious' death of billionaire | Daily Mail Online

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Are_we__sure ago

The family has pushed back on the cop's talk of a "murder suicide."

Homicide detectives have taken over the case.

Autopsy says death by "ligature neck compression." https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/death-toronto-billionaire-barry-sherman-his-wife-investigated-homicide-detectives-n830686

The Sherman family issued a statement Saturday urging police to conduct a "thorough, intensive and objective criminal investigation" into the deaths and calling on the media to avoid speculating on the cause of the deaths.

The Washington Post uses the term strangled when describing ligature neck compression.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2017/12/18/billionaire-couple-found-dead-in-their-basement-had-been-strangled-canadian-police-say/?utm_term=.aef87b797210

I was wondering if Strangling meant murder, but it appears it could be a result of hanging

Fatal strangling typically occurs in cases of violence, accidents, and as the auxiliary lethal mechanism in hangings in the event the neck does not break.

RagingShieldMaiden ago

I'm thinking garrotted being covered by hanging.

Are_we__sure ago

Do you mean using the same implement as the ligature? Garrote to me usually means a thin ligature. Or do you just mean strangled by ligature and then posed as hanging.

If you mean the later, that is possible, if you mean the former, that would have two different imprints on the neck and would look suspicious.

A thin ligature is used in garroting someone because you generate much pressure per inch by using something thin, giving them less possibility to fight back. These are old folks though.

There was a scene in the The Wire, when someone was killed in prison by being choked with a belt. After he was killed the belt was tied around a doorknob to make it look like a suicide.