Freddie Mills Documentry

Mills' depression is well documented.

 

Agree - often the simplest and least exciting explanation is the most likely...the only reason I question suicide is because the documentary gave the impression that had he shot himself the gun wouldn’t have been where it was found...

 

Saw that documentary, it was really interesting.
Guess we'll never know but sounded a bit suspicious to me.

 

I think this is a very salient point.

Apparently Mills' body was found in the back of the car with the gun perfectly upright resting against the back of the front seat; Mills' hands were apparently perfectly placed on his knees. Surely not a position the gun & hands would finish if Mills had shot himself?

Further, Mills was shot in his right eye which was open when the bullet entered; according to the documentary this is most unusual for the eyes to be open in a scenario where somebody has shot themselves (added to which, most self-inflicted shotgun wounds tend to be in the forehead or through the roof of the mouth according to the documentary).

When Mills' body was discovered, police did not arrive for more than an hour; the ambulance crew arrived & moved Mills' body to the hospital, disturbing the crime scene and leaving no opportunity for the crime scene to be assessed. It's a mystery why a) the police took so long to arrive & b) why did the ambulance crew disturb the crime scene?

 

Exactly. Bloke with history of depression is found dead in apparent suicide. Police decide not to investigate as murder. Coroner's inquest rules the death a suicide. On the Occam's Razor principle, it's the most likely explanation.

There are anomalies and curious details with the case that are not fully explained. However, the same could be said of Albert DeSalvo being the Boston Strangler, or James Hanratty being the A6 Murderer, both of which have (apparently) been proven by DNA evidence.

Conspiracies involving a police cover-up and/or links to unsolved serial murders are extraordinary claims that should really be backed by extraordinary evidence. All that we really have are unsubstantiated claims by people with supposed inside information. It's actually bizarrely common for people to insert themselves into famous crime cases, and it's rare that there is actually any substance behind it.

I don't think murder can be ruled out, but I haven't seen or read anything that strongly supports this in the positive, rather than in the negative (ie the "it can't have been suicide so it must have been murder" argument)

 

I think we have to go with what we know.
1. Mills was in financial difficulty
2.His premises was haemorrhaging £££'s
3.His fame had waned,he had recently put his name forward to TV as a commentator for a big upcoming fight only to be told," they had enough boxers already".
4.His TV work had dried up.
5.He was periodically plagued with severe headaches that left him helpless.
6 He had a long history of depression.

 

Yeah more questions than answers.