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only two people know what happened in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2012 and unfortunately one of them
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is dead so we contacted Scott rer who's a forensic animator to take a look at the existing evidence to try to
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determine did Ashley fallis commit suicide or was she shot by her husband and we went with Scott rer to the fallis
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house in Evans Colorado to get a better sense of the scene where are we now well we're in in
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the bedroom of Ashley and Tom well we've marked off their bed uh We've also marked off the
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headboard uh and then you can see here there was a nightstand uh and then this is the the
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the the extremely important parts uh particularly on this part of the bed this is where Ash Ashley was shot
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correct yeah this is where the gun was found in an approximate location here is uh obviously the most important piece of
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evidence which is the um bullet uh the bullet uh uh strike on the uh interior wall we've got an angle here of about
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14° in an upward slope from zero is this telling me that the gun had to be here shooting off correct so if if I'm look
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at this trajectory doesn't that mean that she couldn't have been standing up when she was shot she had to be at least
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down like this right right right she could be crouched she could be in a position where she uh could have been
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struck and been on the way down and then I'm I'm in that position now right here
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too right okay but it does make sense also that she could have been down like this okay now Tom in his statement had
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indicated that Ashley was on her knees and he said she shot herself is this though trajectory consistent with that
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it is right and is it though also consistent if in fact someone had been holding a gun to
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her head it is consistent with that as well would the blood spatter end up here if she is either crouching or on her
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knees around here well you're in a perfect position right now okay so the Bullet entered on the right side of her
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head just behind her ear behind her ear back here on the right side of the head okay and exited at an upward angle this
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way this way now there would have been a lot of velocity and a lot of force when
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that bullet passed through her which would have caused her head to turn and then exit wound would have made these
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high velocity spatters uh pattern on the wall and then she would have collapsed at some point there was a large a
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smaller blood stain here several droplets of blood all throughout here and then right right about there was
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that large blood pooling