GUILTY MI - Paul DeWolf, 25, fatally shot in Ann Arbor frat house, 23 July 2013

[bourne]

I think that by now the Police will have interviewed everyone close to Paul, his family, his fellow students at the frternity,
his girlfriends etc. Possibly they have a suspect. But my impression is that they do not. I think it is not going to be an easy
scenario. But perhaps someone close to Paul could have been involved, even if he or she did not pull the trigger.

I agree, unfortunately it doesn't appear that LE has any suspects on their radar...I hope it's not because some misguided people out of love and filial piety may be giving false alibis for the perp.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Audio interview with Paul DeWolf's parents (WWJ Radio, Detroit):

October 5, 2013

The parents of a University of Michigan Medical student who was found dead in his Ann Arbor apartment in July, are speaking out about their son's murder. As WWJ's Chrystal Knight reports, although police have given polygraphs, interviews and executed search warrants, the tragic death of Paul DeWolf, still remains unsolved.

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/audio-on-demand/wwj-plus/#

 

[black_squirrel]

Audio interview with Paul DeWolf's parents (WWJ Radio, Detroit):

October 5, 2013

The parents of a University of Michigan Medical student who was found dead in his Ann Arbor apartment in July, are speaking out about their son's murder. As WWJ's Chrystal Knight reports, although police have given polygraphs, interviews and executed search warrants, the tragic death of Paul DeWolf, still remains unsolved.

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/audio-on-demand/wwj-plus/#

Thanks for posting it. Paul was supposed to show up at 5am to assist
in a surgery, but he never showed up. That means that he was probably
killed before 4:30am.

Here is yet another interview:

http://www.wjr.com/common/page.php?pt=Weekend+Experts+-+Warren+Pierce+Podcast&id=522&is_corp=0#

Look under podcasts and "Thom and Kris DeWolf"

 

[bourne]

Thanks for posting it. Paul was supposed to show up at 5am to assist
in a surgery, but he never showed up. That means that he was probably
killed before 4:30am.

Here is yet another interview:

http://www.wjr.com/common/page.php?pt=Weekend+Experts+-+Warren+Pierce+Podcast&id=522&is_corp=0#

Look under podcasts and "Thom and Kris DeWolf"

Hmm, 5am surgery. I wonder why the hospital didn't send someone to check up on Paul earlier than 11:30am on 7/24?

Also, I was comparing Fb profile pic changes from some significant people in Paul's life. Looks like there was ONLY one individual who changed their profile pic to one of them and Paul from their childhood on 7/24/2013. This individual does not live at the frat house or on the school campus, and had not posted any pics of him and Paul or even of Paul alone on his Fb before.

Everyone else didn't change their Fb profile pics to include Paul until 7/25 or later. I think this would be significant, depending on the *time* the individual changed the profile pic. We know, at the very earliest, Paul's body was found by a colleague at 11:30am 7/24. I would think no one was allowed to notify Paul's family until the ME makes his declaration about whether or not Paul was officially deceased. So that would have taken a few hours longer. Let's say 1-2pm 7/24.

If the individual changed his profile pic to include Paul before 1-2pm 7/24, I'd call that highly suspicious.

 

[black_squirrel]

Hmm, 5am surgery. I wonder why the hospital didn't send someone to check up on Paul earlier than 11:30am on 7/24?

Also, I was comparing Fb profile pic changes from some significant people in Paul's life. Looks like there was ONLY one individual who changed their profile pic to one of them and Paul from their childhood on 7/24/2013. This individual does not live at the frat house or on the school campus, and had not posted any pics of him and Paul or even of Paul alone on his Fb before.

Everyone else didn't change their Fb profile pics to include Paul until 7/25 or later. I think this would be significant, depending on the *time* the individual changed the profile pic. We know, at the very earliest, Paul's body was found by a colleague at 11:30am 7/24. I would think no one was allowed to notify Paul's family until the ME makes his declaration about whether or not Paul was officially deceased. So that would have taken a few hours longer. Let's say 1-2pm 7/24.

If the individual changed his profile pic to include Paul before 1-2pm 7/24, I'd call that highly suspicious.

That particular person posted the picture of Paul and him at 6:08pm.
(In FB, put your arrow over the date "July 24" and wait 1 or 2 seconds,
and it will give you the time as well.)

Their were several people who posted pictures with Paul on 7/24, either
on their own facebook page or on Paul's facebook page.

 

[bourne]

That particular person posted the picture of Paul and him at 6:08pm.
(In FB, put your arrow over the date "July 24" and wait 1 or 2 seconds,
and it will give you the time as well.)

Their were several people who posted pictures with Paul on 7/24, either
on their own facebook page or on Paul's facebook page.

Thanks! You're obviously more Fb-savvy than I am.

Who were the others who posted buddy Paul pics on 7/24? Were they frat brothers who reside at the frat house and hospital colleagues or people external to the med school/hospital?

By the by, Kalamazoo to Ann Arbor is only 1 hour 35 mins by car, according to google map.

 

[bourne]

Audio interview with Paul DeWolf's parents (WWJ Radio, Detroit):

October 5, 2013

The parents of a University of Michigan Medical student who was found dead in his Ann Arbor apartment in July, are speaking out about their son's murder. As WWJ's Chrystal Knight reports, although police have given polygraphs, interviews and executed search warrants, the tragic death of Paul DeWolf, still remains unsolved.

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/audio-on-demand/wwj-plus/#

This audio has great info! Thank you so much for finding and sharing it.

I find the following statements made by the family intriguing and helpful:

"We really don't know [who found Paul]"

"When he [Paul] didn't show up for surgery at 5 o'clock in the morning
they send another medical student to Phi Rho, and another member of Phi Rho and that other medical student found him..."

"He [Paul] had been working with his sister to glean more information from an anatomy book that she had here at home..." [on the night Paul was killed]

"The newspapers are reporting that it was with a single gunshot wound." [When interviewer asked how Paul was killed]

"He was a week away from being shipped off to CA, to Travis Air Force Space to do a rotation in ER unit out there, and then follow that up with flight surgery... He did not get his chance to fly a jet, but now he's got his angel wings."

So family is uncertain who exactly found Paul, but Thom the dad seems to be saying that it was a med student at the frat house who either accompanied Paul's hospital colleague to Paul's room or the frat brother/sister went by him/herself and discovered Paul's body.

We know that according to Thom, on 7/23/2013, Paul's sister was at the family home in Kalamazoo, MI discussing anatomy with Paul -- I assume they were conversing by either phone or Skype. This begs the question, when LE checked Paul's phone/online records, with whom and when was the last time Paul communicated with anyone? And who else was present at the family home besides the sister?

Thom also said "the newspapers are reporting" that it was a single gunshot wound that killed Paul when asked how Paul died. From the way Thom worded it, it suggest to me that perhaps LE is concealing some info from the media and the public... That maybe there is something else about the shot to Paul's neck that we don't know about. Perhaps as another poster had suggested, Paul was not shot with an actual gun, but another type of weapon such as a bb-gun, etc.?

We also now know that Paul was going to go on his first flight surgical rotation the following week. This may be critical info as this may be another trigger for the perp to kill/maim Paul on 7/23 so as to prevent Paul from achieving his "dream goal" of flying a jet and performing flight surgery.

All JMHO

 

[black_squirrel]

This audio has great info! Thank you so much for finding and sharing it.

I find the following statements made by the family intriguing and helpful:

"We really don't know [who found Paul]"

"When he [Paul] didn't show up for surgery at 5 o'clock in the morning
they send another medical student to Phi Rho, and another member of Phi Rho and that other medical student found him..."

"He [Paul] had been working with his sister to glean more information from an anatomy book that she had here at home..." [on the night Paul was killed]

"The newspapers are reporting that it was with a single gunshot wound." [When interviewer asked how Paul was killed]

"He was a week away from being shipped off to CA, to Travis Air Force Space to do a rotation in ER unit out there, and then follow that up with flight surgery... He did not get his chance to fly a jet, but now he's got his angel wings."

So family is uncertain who exactly found Paul, but Thom the dad seems to be saying that it was a med student at the frat house who either accompanied Paul's hospital colleague to Paul's room or the frat brother/sister went by him/herself and discovered Paul's body.

I find it confusing exactly what the the father is saying. If it was a phi rho sigma resident who found Paul, wouldn't he know about it? They spend
a lot of time talking to the students at phi rho. The day after Paul was found dead, they spoke to the phi rho residents for 4 hours, but also in the days after that they spend a lot of time with the residents at phi rho.

I had some guess of who might have found the body, but that person
is a resident, no longer a medical student, and no longer a resident at phi rho. But I could be wrong.

Well, either the parents don't know, or do not want to tell us who found the body.

We know that according to Thom, on 7/23/2013, Paul's sister was at the family home in Kalamazoo, MI discussing anatomy with Paul -- I assume they were conversing by either phone or Skype. This begs the question, when LE checked Paul's phone/online records, with whom and when was the last time Paul communicated with anyone? And who else was present at the family home besides the sister?

They were texting.

Thom also said "the newspapers are reporting" that it was a single gunshot wound that killed Paul when asked how Paul died. From the way Thom worded it, it suggest to me that perhaps LE is concealing some info from the media and the public... That maybe there is something else about the shot to Paul's neck that we don't know about. Perhaps as another poster had suggested, Paul was not shot with an actual gun, but another type of weapon such as a bb-gun, etc.?

I heard that and found Thom's phrasing also strange. Surely, LE would have told the family about the cause of death. I presume they did not get
this information just from the media.

We also now know that Paul was going to go on his first flight surgical rotation the following week. This may be critical info as this may be another trigger for the perp to kill/maim Paul on 7/23 so as to prevent Paul from achieving his "dream goal" of flying a jet and performing flight surgery.

All JMHO

My impression is that LE have asked the family not to release certain information. Probably the family knows who found the body, and certain details about the crime scene etc. that have not been released to the public. The parents praise the police, but yet they say that the police hasn't given them any information other than that given to the public.

 

[SapphireSteel]

This is the third attempt at a post that hopefully won't get deleted.

After reading more about this case, I have a new idea or two.

I believe the perp was very, very close to Paul...not a random or a serial as I had suspected earlier.

The same old motives - money, sex, envy.

I'm picking envy for this one. Paul was the sort of successful person we'd all like to be.

Look for someone very close to Paul who envied him and everything about him...someone who knew he was going away and took the last chance to kill him before he left. Someone who had been thinking about doing this for a long, long time, and finally gathered up the courage/anger needed to go through with the murder.

:twocents:

 

[bourne]

This is the third attempt at a post that hopefully won't get deleted.

After reading more about this case, I have a new idea or two.

I believe the perp was very, very close to Paul...not a random or a serial as I had suspected earlier.

The same old motives - money, sex, envy.

I'm picking envy for this one. Paul was the sort of successful person we'd all like to be.

Look for someone very close to Paul who envied him and everything about him...someone who knew he was going away and took the last chance to kill him before he left. Someone who had been thinking about doing this for a long, long time, and finally gathered up the courage/anger needed to go through with the murder.

:twocents:

BBM Why were your posts deleted?

This sounds exactly like my #1 theory since the beginning. A person close to Paul with long-standing jealousy and rivalry shot Paul, knowing full well Paul would achieve his ideal dream the following week. Glad you've turned around to hypothesize similarly.

 

[bourne]

I find it confusing exactly what the the father is saying. If it was a phi rho sigma resident who found Paul, wouldn't he know about it? They spend
a lot of time talking to the students at phi rho. The day after Paul was found dead, they spoke to the phi rho residents for 4 hours, but also in the days after that they spend a lot of time with the residents at phi rho.

I had some guess of who might have found the body, but that person
is a resident, no longer a medical student, and no longer a resident at phi rho. But I could be wrong.

Well, either the parents don't know, or do not want to tell us who found the body.

They were texting.

I heard that and found Thom's phrasing also strange. Surely, LE would have told the family about the cause of death. I presume they did not get
this information just from the media.


My impression is that LE have asked the family not to release certain information. Probably the family knows who found the body, and certain details about the crime scene etc. that have not been released to the public. The parents praise the police, but yet they say that the police hasn't given them any information other than that given to the public.

The parents were likely instructed by LE to keep critically relevant details about the case close to their vest so that when the murderer reveals specific personal knowledge of the crime, LE can easily identify and arrest the perp. The father seems very careful in how he states things...

Re: why dad was vague about who exactly found his son. Perhaps he didn't want to divulge the person's name or identity so as to protect the person from possible incriminations by the public. We know how sometimes we all get caught up in trying to ID a perp and mistakenly point fingers at the wrong person. LOL

In this case, I think most of us are on the right path.

 

[jjenny]

Paul was obviously very successful with a bright future ahead of him. A "golden boy." Wouldn't surprise me if that made some person jealous of him.

 

[Katana]

Paul was obviously very successful with a bright future ahead of him. A "golden boy." Wouldn't surprise me if that made some person jealous of him.

Jealousy and/or anger. I can see someone with a volatile personality going off the deep end on someone outspoken and opinionated. Maybe someone that was told or felt they were not living up to certain standards. Paul's father described him as a person that would strongly argue his opinion, but able to make up after a disagreement. However, maybe the other person was not able to reconcile their own differing feelings and could not control their outrage.

 

[SapphireSteel]

BBM Why were your posts deleted?

This sounds exactly like my #1 theory since the beginning. A person close to Paul with long-standing jealousy and rivalry shot Paul, knowing full well Paul would achieve his ideal dream the following week. Glad you've turned around to hypothesize similarly.

I'm fairly sure our theories aren't a 100% match.

Or maybe they are...:waitasec:

Funnily enough my opinion completely changed based on an article which was mainly posted as "nothing new but I'll share it anyway" - there sure was new stuff in there for me.

:seeya:

 

[Katana]

Thom also said "the newspapers are reporting" that it was a single gunshot wound that killed Paul when asked how Paul died. From the way Thom worded it, it suggest to me that perhaps LE is concealing some info from the media and the public... That maybe there is something else about the shot to Paul's neck that we don't know about. Perhaps as another poster had suggested, Paul was not shot with an actual gun, but another type of weapon such as a bb-gun, etc.?

Or LE has not released the full extent of the injuries and is holding back information such as contusions. Is it possible the COD was listed as single gunshot, but there is more in the ME report? It would make sense on why the ME report has not been released. The family may have more information than reported.

 

[jjenny]

From what's been reported, there was no sign of a struggle. If he was fighting with someone and had other injuries, I presume there would be signs of struggle.

 

[ATasteOfHoney]

I'm fairly sure our theories aren't a 100% match.

Or maybe they are...:waitasec:

Funnily enough my opinion completely changed based on an article which was mainly posted as "nothing new but I'll share it anyway" - there sure was new stuff in there for me.

:seeya:

Would you be able to relink that, SS?

I'm curious.....

 

[Katana]

http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2013/10/paul_dewolfs_family_still_comi.html

Nothing really new, but a nice interview with the family and how they are coping.

One of the recent interviews.

 

[Katana]

Thanks for posting it. Paul was supposed to show up at 5am to assist
in a surgery, but he never showed up. That means that he was probably
killed before 4:30am.

Here is yet another interview:

http://www.wjr.com/common/page.php?pt=Weekend+Experts+-+Warren+Pierce+Podcast&id=522&is_corp=0#

Look under podcasts and "Thom and Kris DeWolf"

This is the other recent podcast by Thom and Kris.

 

[Katana]

From what's been reported, there was no sign of a struggle. If he was fighting with someone and had other injuries, I presume there would be signs of struggle.

It was reported "no signs of forced entry." It was never reported as "no signs of a struggle."