These sorts of cases - in which families accuse the police of complicity or incompetence during suicide investigations - are not exactly unknown. I recall read

These sorts of cases - in which families accuse the police of complicity or incompetence during suicide investigations - are not exactly unknown. I recall reading accounts of a similarly "suspicious suicide" several years ago. It also included sympathetic interviews with a grieving family in denial. Read for yourself how that turned out: Initial suspicion report, 2007: http://www.sfweekly.com/2007-07-18/news/who-killed-hugues-de-la-plaza/ http://www.sfweekly.com/2007-07-18/news/who-killed-hugues-de... Example of another suspicion report: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18559_162-6599236.html?pageNum=1 http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18559_162-6599236.html?pageNum=1 Whelp, "independent" (kinda) investigation says probably a suicide (2009): http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/san_francisco&id=7020354 http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/san_fran... Some continue to push the murder theory (there are many more recent news articles too): http://huguesdelaplaza.blogspot.com/ http://huguesdelaplaza.blogspot.com/ The fact is, no one really knows. Once you hear the other side of the story, things get more convoluted. It seems that the police have a decent reason to classify it as a suicide, but it also seems that the case may have been a murder. So it's weird. These sorts of cases seem to pop up from time to time. Most likely some are murders, and most likely some are suicides. I'm not confident in my own ability to determine which is which by simply reading a highly biased account in a newspaper.