I assisted in a homicide investigation where the so called victim was shot twice with a .25. Once in the finger and once in the chest. He was deader than a door nail.
Yep. A .25 works fine if you have a clue.
A close-up shot through the eye or in the throat will normally stop anybody.
What killed him? /sarc
Seriously, what kills some people never ceases to amaze.
My favorite was an Army NCO who suddenly developed severe and lethal esophageal cancer. Nobody had ever seen anything like it, but knew that a cancer like that had to be caused by something, it was too dramatic to have happened naturally, and they were desperate to find out what had done that.
It turned out that he had innovated a unique way to kill himself with what had been assumed to be a harmless substance. In his case, an inert, but radioactive gas inside a source stick used to calibrate Geiger counters. They figured if someone broke open the stick, the gas would just float away. Even if it was inhaled, it would come right back out.
He used the source stick to stir his coffee. It was perfect. The hot coffee made the metal expand, creating micro fissures through which the expanding gas would bubble, to be mixed into his coffee and swallowed.
Likely no human being had ever, or will ever, die that same way again.