Found Deceased FL - Jim Johnson, 39, Orlando, 6 December 2013

[AzPistonsGirl]

diabetic - injected with too much insulin perhaps? Intentionally?

 

[TravelingBug]

Very strange for this to start out as a presumed kidnapping (whatever started it out that way by LE) and now look like not finding what you'd expect then in the autopsy.

Strange.

 

[dewey decimal]

Badly decomposed? In just a few days? How could a body decompose so 'badly' that they could not determine any trauma, in less than a week?

There is no nice way to say this: I have read in forensic science books that the wounded areas of a body attract flies, maggots, etc. more quickly. Sometimes areas of rapid decomposition indicate the individual suffered trauma/wounding there.

 

[Blue Bottle]

diabetic - injected with too much insulin perhaps? Intentionally?

Very strange for this to start out as a presumed kidnapping (whatever started it out that way by LE) and now look like not finding what you'd expect then in the autopsy.

Strange.

To what I gather police are still treating this as a homicide investigation so they may have information not yet publically released.... but it brings to mind of a recent experience a close friend had early this year.

Speculating here... Firstly it could have been that he did have a diabetic attack and was staggering and thrashing about. It could have been that someone tried to help him, holding him up or something and that could have looked like, from a distance, like he was being 'man handled' against his will. (though there is nothing that confirms anything like this happened).

My friends daughter (late 30's) was a diabetic and earlier this year she was found dead alone in her home. After the autopsy her death was listed as 'Undertermined' which opened up a huge can of worms. Was it a drug overdose, intentional or unintensional or at the hands of someone else? Was it the diabetes? Was it a murder? Was it natural death from some other unknown causes?

It wasn't until 3 months had passed and all the toxiology tests were finalised that it was deterined that she went into a diabetic coma and died. But in the meantime her mother, my friend, had police contacting her, obviously conducting an investigation asking her all sorts of questions about her daughter, her daughter's friends and her daughter's lifestyle.

 

[killarney rose]

If his diabetes did cause this though, how would you explain him being found at least an hour away from his car in Daytona?

 

[Advocate1]

Has the cause of death been released yet? I read somewhere that his GF thought he had been kidnapped and possibly shot after his friend was shot. Was there any reports of shooting at the apts or barbershop the day he went missing? This case is so unusual because there was no obvious signs of trauma to the body. I think the missing clothes is not that unusual and they probably stripped him after the fact and got rid of the clothes for DNA testing purposes. It would be easy for someone to leave DNA or a piece of hair behind if you were in close contact with someone. Someone had to of restrained him and could of easily left traces of something on clothing. So they most likely just were covering their tracks with taking the clothing. Im very interested to know how Mr. Johnson was killed without leaving any physical trauma to his body. It seems there was a physical confrontation and he was taken against his will by unknown suspects yet when his body is found there is no stab wounds or gunshot wounds. Very peculiar.

Also according to the article below LE was at residences belonging to Jim Jr. searching them the day he was reported missing so it does seem that there was some type of reason for LE to act immediately in this case and start searching for the victim.

http://www.mynews13.com/content/new...cles/cfn/2013/12/12/missing_man_clermont.html

 

[CluelessWonder]

Apparently, Mr. Johnson was a drug dealer.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...caine-marijuana-bust-20140522,0,2403029.story

 

[sophiebelle]

What a shame.