Saturday, August 18, 2007

MIT professor, angry at his son, shoots self

This is absolutely bizarre: a former MIT professor staged an elaborate hoax to frame his own son. From the Boston Globe: "Ex-professor found guilty of staging own shooting"

Donovan asserted he was targeted by Russian hit men as he sat in the Vassar Street parking lot of his Cambridge business office.

Sitting in the front seat of his minivan, Donovan said, he called police on his cellphone and accused his son James of laundering $180 million, of hiring two Russians to murder him, and of launching a simultaneous attack on his wife, Linda, at their home in Hamilton.

But, according to Attorney General Martha Coakley and testimony at Donovan's trial, Donovan shot himself in the abdomen, shot up his own minivan, kept a spent bullet in his mouth, rearranged a surveillance camera to prevent the taping of his hoax, and laid out the entire plan in a form of shorthand on the dinner menu of the Algonquin Club to which he belonged. Police found the "to-do" list in his pocket.
Foiled by the old "to-do list in the pocket"! You know those scientific types: always have to get everything in order.

3 comments:

commoncents said...

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TOTWTYTR said...

Several years ago my wife had a student who murdered her grandparents and then set the house on fire to cover up the crime.

The girl was a straight A student and had a great plan. She might have got away with it, except for one thing. She wrote out her entire plan as a "To Do" list.

She forgot to carry out the last item on the list. Which was "burn note".

The Sanity Inspector said...

Guess the old codger just couldn't stomach his son anymore!

*koff*...um, is this browser on...?