Los Angeles County, Cal. (1939)
Before 12/13/1939: Police refused to believe that the driver
“leaped from the auto, not even breaking his eyeglasses, before it plunged end-over-end
down the mountainside [a thousand foot drop] and crushed the other occupants to
death.” The dead were his wife, three
children, a boarder in their home. He
had $27,000 in life insurance on his family.
Category: family
Suicide: no
Cause: greed
Weapon: blunt injury[1]
Nowadays when people claim mutilation at the hands of a stranger to collect on an insurance policy, it is amazing how often when it is a hand mutilated, it is the non-dominant hand, or they remove a valuable wristwatch before steeling themselves to self-inflicted pain.
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