“He would have put a bag over his head, put on handcuffs, hit himself a few times - lots of things to make it look like a lynching “
Many suicides try to make a good looking corpse. Women, for example, almost never do anything to their face. Some people clean up, shave, comb their hair, etc. Suicide is often a failed communications technique. I’m so desperate...or, now look what you made me do...
I think they should charge the tree with obstruction if it doesn’t start talking.