[PotatoChop]

” . . . Upshaw is the fifth Mississippi lawmaker to die in the last few months . . .”

While I don't like “conspiracy theories” this one does not smell right. First, most women don't use a gun to kill themselves; second, she is the fifth legislator to die in the last few months; third, she is in the home of another attorney friend who is married and not her own home.

I hold a masters degree in criminal justice, specialty is crime scene investigations. I can't make a determination or make any conclusions since I have not seen the crime scene or any pictures personally. The reported facts just seems really odd to me. It may be prudent to check on what legislation she was working on and compare that with any other legislator who has died recently to see if their is a connection.

Tragic, very tragic.

[wideawake]

See post 16.

[drjimmy]

While I don't like “conspiracy theories” this one does not smell right... I hold a masters degree in criminal justice, specialty is crime scene investigations. I can't make a determination or make any conclusions since I have not seen the crime scene or any pictures personally. The reported facts just seems really odd to me. It may be prudent to check on what legislation she was working on and compare that with any other legislator who has died recently to see if their is a connection.

David Gibbs (D), 76, cancer
Joe Gardner (D), 68, heart attack
Bennie Turner (D), 64, brain tumor
Alice Harden (D), 64, lengthy illness

I don't have any criminal justice degrees, but my theory is that the killer bumped off all those black Democrats first just to throw people off the scent, when the real target is white Republicans.

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... First, most women don't use a gun to kill themselves ...

That's if it's from despair. She may have been angry and determined to send a message to a specific person. Assuming she was going to go to somebody's house to do that she probably wasn't going to down sleeping pills and wait to drift off. If she actually was going to show up at his house, she'd want to do something sudden, violent, and potent emotionally to get the message through.