Re: Winkler: Did he hear shotgun being cocked?


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Ink-Stained Wretch, salwar_kam...@xxxxxxxxxxx,
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I read somewhere that Matthew Winkler was shot in the middle of the
back with no discernible angle of entry, from two or three feet
away.
His kids were in the house. My question is: How do you get a man
to
stand still to be shot in the back with a shotgun with his kids in
the
house at that? Wouldn't he have heard the sound of the shotgun being
cocked, at least? That unmistakable sound was famously depicted in
"Roger and Me" as sending burglars running. How would it be possible
for Mary to sneak up behind him and shoot him in the back with a
shotgun? Would he be still while a shotgun was being cocked with his
kids in the house? Was he listening to his ipod really loud? Did he
freeze and stammer "D-d-don't sh-sh-shoot?"

This is the only newspaper that has reported this, don't know if it's
true or not.
He was walking the dog around 3:30, wasn't he. So he could have come
home
and taken a nap before bible class.


http://www.djournal.com/pages/story.asp?ID=215926&pub=1&div=News

Residents were hoping Monday to learn why 32-year-old Mary Carol
Winkler shot her minister husband in the back while he was sleeping
last week.

http://blogs.knoxnews.com/knx/silence/archives/2006/03/statewide_alert.shtml

Winkler's body was found when he didn't appear for a worship
service Wednesday night and members of the church went to the parsonage
and used a key to enter the home, Burks said.

"They went in and found him dead laying by the bed," the chief said.

From Larry King Live:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0603/30/lkl.01.html

KING: We're back on "LARRY KING LIVE," with our guests. Added now in
this segment in Nashville, Tennessee, is Dr. Bruce Levy, the Tennessee
state medical examiner. He did not do the autopsy himself, but he has
reviewed the report. What are the general findings, Dr. Levy?

DR. BRUCE LEVY, MEDICAL EXAMINER, TENNESSEE: Well Mr. Winkler died as a
result of a single shotgun wound to his back.

KING: Simple as that.

LEVY: It is as simple as that.

KING: Damage to internal organs? What, did he bleed to death in
essence?

LEVY: That's basically what happens. A shotgun is full of many small
metallic pellets. When they strike the body, it's like a billiard ball
effect. They go in every direction and they strike pretty much all the
internal organs and cause lots and lots of bleeding, both internally
and externally.

KING: Would you say death was immediate?

LEVY: No. What you're dealing with is a period of time where the person
actually needs to bleed to death and while we never know in any one
person how long that's going to be, we do know it takes a certain
finite amount time.

KING: Do you know the distance from which the shot was fired?

LEVY: Well, we can speculate about that. We know based on the
appearance of the wound that we're dealing with a general range of
somewhere from a couple to a few feet, but the only way to really know
for sure is to test fire the weapon and match the pattern with the
actual injury that we see.

KING: Do we know if he was standing or sitting?

LEVY: We don't and there's really no way to know from a gunshot wound
what position the person was in at the time that they were shot. Every
once in a rare while there may be evidence that will help you put a
piece of that puzzle together, but in this case, like most of the
cases, there's just no way to know.

KING: Any sign of a struggle?

LEVY: There were just no other findings at the autopsy.

KING: A toxicology report is pending?

LEVY: That's right. We do a routine toxicology screen on all of the
cases that come through our office and we do not have those results
yet.

KING: Thanks very much. Dr. Bruce Levy, the Tennessee state medical
examiner, getting up to date on that aspect.

Yeah, I heard that and thought it was odd. I'd say he *was* in bed
(how else does a tiny woman do something like this?)....

Kris


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