curiouser and curiouser...
Why was the wife so quick to say it was a suicide?
Because the gremilins that convinced her husband to step into the rope were effective at their job?
It has been suggested that the “suicide” was to prevent his family from being taken out. Chicago-style politics.
Maybe that's how she found him, as in hanging, but on further investigation authorities discovered he was shot. There's no way she could have made it look like a hanging. Wonder what the going rate is for a cover up these days?