Look I am just pulling your chain, Williams could have folded over the flat end of the belt and put it in the door jam, and it would have held him, but the point is NO One should ever assume that a suicide has happened until all the evidence is in, evaluated, and double checked.
How much life insurance did he have? We don’t know that yet.
He was in financial trouble, and they may have been facing bankruptcy, so that is motive for both options.
I think it is an oddity that he was hanged in a seated position with a belt wedged only in a door. In other words, he could have stood up at any time. The superficial cuts (as they called them) from a pocket knife suggest a few possibilities to me.
1. That this was intended as a suicide gesture, but no one found him in time to ‘rescue’ him. Perhaps the TV was too loud. Perhaps he waited too long to stand up and passed out from lack of oxygen, thereby completing an act that wasn’t certain to result in a hanging given the position of the belt and the sitting position.
2. Perhaps they might find another cause, such as a heart attack or stroke while he was in the middle of a suicide gesture. Perhaps a crushed larynx?
3. It takes an awful lot of determination to choke yourself when you could easily stand up and relieve the pressure. It takes overcoming the self-preservation instinct not to stand up and relieve the pressure.