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It has been over a month now since Joel Hinrichs III self-detonated and I had kind of been hoping that perhaps his father would have recovered a little bit from his initial shock and started thinking this over.

I remember commenting on the forum to those who were quoting The Triangle frat brothers of Joel III's that said there was "no way" he would have done that to himself, maybe they should consider asking the authorities to investigate the death as a homicide. I was being facetious to make a point, but I was also kind of hoping that his family might want to take that on, a little further down the road. Maybe we'll hear from one of them some of these days.

"maybe they should consider asking the authorities to investigate the death as a homicide."

Might be a good idea... The one thing that might lead to a suspicion of homicide would be the bus driver's statment that it appeared he was "sleeping" and "not moving" when the driver passed shortly before the explosion. That, and as you pointed out the obvious disbelief of Hinrichs friends (yes, he apparently did have friends) within his fraternity that he would commit suicide. His fraternity brothers' statements don't jive with the "deeply troubled" image put on Hinrichs by Boren, IMHO.