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| From | garymaher@juno.com |
| Subject | Elliott Smith - Coroner's Report |
| Date | Fri, 9 Jan 2004 03:49:39 -0500 |
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The Smoking Gun does it again:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/esmithaut1.html
The whole report's there. Sure looks suspicious. There's a lot of new
information, including defensive wounds, girlfriend was home at the time
and apparently removed the knife herself.
I wonder if there is any way to find out if girlfriend happened to see
the episode of Law and Order that aired that week or the prior week, in
which somebody killed someone else by stabbing them in the chest and made
it look like a suicide . . .
g
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JANUARY 8--Los Angeles investigators probing the recent stabbing death
of alt rocker Elliott Smith could not classify the incident as a suicide
because several aspects of the knifing were not consistent with suicide
and "raise the possibility of homicide." According to the below autopsy
report, police discovered what appeared to be a suicide note--written on
a Post-it note--when they responded to his home on October 21. "I'm so
sorry-love, Elliot God forgive me," the note read, according to the
report (a coroner's official told TSG that Smith's first name was
misspelled in the report). And, the report concludes, Smith's history of
depression and the "location and direction" of two stab wounds "are
consistent with self-infliction." However, other aspects of Smith's death
have caused investigators to wonder whether the performer was killed. The
autopsy report cited the absence of "hesitation wounds," the presence of
"possible defensive wounds," and "stabbing through clothing" as atypical
of suicide. In addition, the actions of Smith's live-in girlfriend,
musician Jennifer Chiba, were of concern to investigators. Chiba
initially told cops that she had argued with Smith, 34, in their home
and, at one point, locked herself in the bathroom. Chiba emerged when she
heard Smith scream, and saw him standing with "a knife sticking out of
his chest." The medical examiner noted that Chiba's "reported removal of
the knife and subsequent refusal to speak with detectives are all of
concern."
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