Defense says it was suicide, prosecutors call it murder

[Champ]

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. -- When Wendy Rose was found in her bed with a gunshot wound to her head, police initially had no reason to doubt her husband's story that the woman, despondent and hallucinating, had tried to commit suicide.

But after she died the following day at Stony Brook University Hospital _ without ever regaining consciousness _ an autopsy found Rose not only had a gunshot wound to her head, but appeared to have what prosecutors said was a "graze wound" on the other side of her head, as well as a bullet wound in her back.

Eric Rose, 46, of Hauppauge, was then charged with two counts of second-degree murder in the death of his 53-year-old wife.

During opening statements at his trial Monday in Suffolk County Court, Assistant District Attorney Kerriann Kelly described the wound on Wendy Rose's back as "perhaps the most damning wound for this defendant."
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--suicidemurdertria0510may10,0,6656228.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire

[hippiechick]

1. Sounds fishy to me ...

I mean, maybe she DID try to shoot herself in the back and couldn't aim right ... you know, like when one tries to scratch their own back and just can't reach ? ... so then she decided to shoot herself in the head.

</sarcasm>

:hippie:

[WillParkinson]

2. Sounds like that one suicide case...

Where they said the guy killed himself with 27 hammer blows to the head.