Howdy All,
Remember yesterday I was picking your brains about broken teeth? I was trying to figure out if there were broken teeth, and if so if they were consistent with a gun being shoved into the mouth, or consistent with the recoil of a gun (I used the word backfire, DOH! Lisa gave me the right word - recoil.
Well, my point was... A person committing suicide would not jam a gun through their teeth and then shoot. The object of a suicide would be quick and painless death, so I don't think it is at all likely someone would jam a gun "through" their teeth OR shoot through their teeth. Could be wrong...but I just don't think it is likely.
AT anyrate... Maybe you all knew it and resolved it in your head, but the penny just dropped for me. I was just listening to the KTLA video from May 29, with Pena (Coroner Disputes Suicide in Phil Spector Murder Trial.) In that video, Pena mentioned that Lana had a large bruise on her tongue that would be consistent with blunt force trauma and not caused by the bullet as it was fired into her mouth. He said, "It is clearly before death, in my opinion."
So...it seems apparent that the gun was jammed into Lana's mouth, and my guess is someone on the way to suicide wouldn't do that.
Oh... Hmmm... Do you suppose the DNA that was mentioned to be on Spector's thangs was brought up to try to make people think that the blunt force trauma to Lana's tongue was due to...ummm...well you know. AND if that is why they brought that up, WHO runs around with a bruise on their tongue from that? Additionally, that is not "blunt force trauma" is it?
I think that a bruise from a gun hitting the tongue would be distinctly different from one made by frolicking (if that could even occur.)
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