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Florida Man Tied Gun to Balloon to Make His Suicide Look Like a Murder: Police


What Florida police first classified as a murder case actually turned out to be an elaborately planned suicide.

Alan Jay Abrahamson, 72, was found dead with a bullet in his chest near his Palm Beach Gardens home in January. Initially, police thought it was a murder because they did not find a weapon or shell casings, but months later, authorities have announced that wasn't the case.

Cops believe Abrahamson tried to stage his suicide as a homicide by tying a string to a gun, which was attached to a weather balloon, and then shooting himself before letting go. Investigators believe the gun then floated away from the crime scene.

The balloon could have taken the gun 105,000 feet up and then exploded somewhere out over the Atlantic Ocean, north of the Bahamas, a police report said.

"To be honest with you, it's just a bizarre situation," clinical psychologist Dr. Raphi Wald told WPEC. "I can honestly say that in my practice, I've never had anyone fake a homicide and commit suicide."

Police said surveillance of Abrahamson on the morning of Jan. 25 shows him walking from BallenIsles Country Club near his home. At 6:30 a.m., the sound of a gunshot can be heard.

A $3,000 reward was previously offered for Abrahamson's killer, but no tips were offered.

Police later found Abrahamson had searched suicide methods online as well.

They also reportedly found receipts and emails for weather balloons, helium tanks and rubber bands on his phone. The same rubber bands were reportedly found near the 72-year-old's body.

A 2003 plot from "CSI" also depicted a person who tied a gun to a weather balloon to make a suicide look like murder. It is not clear whether Abrahamson was influenced by the show.

 

[bigj75]

bullet in his chest

That's bold. Less chance of success with gun to the chest.

 

[Duqu]

I saw something like this in a CSI-like tv show...maybe NCIS? A long time ago so he must've gotten the idea from that. Nice try!

ETA nevermind I saw it was in the article. CSI.

 

[Justanotherconsumer]

Maybe he had life ins. That wouldn't pay out if it were suicide. Most ins. Has 2 year waiting for suicide coverage.

 

[sumbumedguy]

danm that is...... a nice middle finger to the world I guess or a good prank. I herd of someone tying a gun trigger to a brick then leaning it over the rails so it would pull and both would fall into the ocean. sadly there was a ledge and the gun got caught there

 

[Pastdue]

This is interesting,

It reminds me of an article I once read about a middle aged man who lived with his elderly mother. He was found decapitated in bed by a homemade guillotine. He had rigged it to fall after he had gone to sleep which was quite ingenious. His elderly mother said he spent a lot of time doing diy in the garden shed.

The reminds me of an article I read about a scientist sent to the guillotine in France during the revolution. The scientist asked his assistant who wasn't condemned to count how many times he could blink after his head got severed. When I think of that scientist, how he had guts. Imagine being lined up for the chop and not wetting your pants but asking your assistant to count how many times you could blink after the act. Amazing.

 

[bigj75]

This is interesting,

It reminds me of an article I once read about a middle aged man who lived with his elderly mother. He was found decapitated in bed by a homemade guillotine. He had rigged it to fall after he had gone to sleep which was quite ingenious. His elderly mother said he spent a lot of time doing diy in the garden shed.

The reminds me of an article I read about a scientist sent to the guillotine in France during the revolution. The scientist asked his assistant who wasn't condemned to count how many times he could blink after his head got severed. When I think of that scientist, how he had guts. Imagine being lined up for the chop and not wetting your pants but asking your assistant to count how many times you could blink after the act. Amazing.

Wtf!

 

[bigj75]

This is interesting,

It reminds me of an article I once read about a middle aged man who lived with his elderly mother. He was found decapitated in bed by a homemade guillotine. He had rigged it to fall after he had gone to sleep which was quite ingenious. His elderly mother said he spent a lot of time doing diy in the garden shed.

The reminds me of an article I read about a scientist sent to the guillotine in France during the revolution. The scientist asked his assistant who wasn't condemned to count how many times he could blink after his head got severed. When I think of that scientist, how he had guts. Imagine being lined up for the chop and not wetting your pants but asking your assistant to count how many times you could blink after the act. Amazing.

Wtf!

 

[bigj75]

This is interesting,

It reminds me of an article I once read about a middle aged man who lived with his elderly mother. He was found decapitated in bed by a homemade guillotine. He had rigged it to fall after he had gone to sleep which was quite ingenious. His elderly mother said he spent a lot of time doing diy in the garden shed.

The reminds me of an article I read about a scientist sent to the guillotine in France during the revolution. The scientist asked his assistant who wasn't condemned to count how many times he could blink after his head got severed. When I think of that scientist, how he had guts. Imagine being lined up for the chop and not wetting your pants but asking your assistant to count how many times you could blink after the act. Amazing.

Wtf!

 

[ctoan]

absolutely legend

 

[TAW122]

That is quite the elaborate planning and really creative way to go. I like how he managed to orchestrate all of it as well as misleading authorities to assume a homicide, which buys time for him and will initially lessen the blow for his family and loved ones (no offense or trying to discount anyone, but I believe some families and loved ones will still be sad over any death, but less sad when it was "initially" reported as a murder instead of a suicide.). Of course, when the authorities found the real cause of death, there has already been significant time passed and the grief mulled a little bit (less than the initial shock).

Sorry if my opinion or speculation was unpopular, but that's just my way of seeing things.