What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

[Rev. Rye]

As long as I’ve known Elliott Smith, I’ve assumed that when he died in 2003, he did so by his own hand. He certainly seemed like he was suicidally depressed. However, I just went down a rabbit hole and found out there’s a strong and very convincing argument that he was actually murdered by his girlfriend.

https://rocknyc.live/five-reasons-why-el...icide.html

Given the method of his death, that he died from two stab wounds to the chest, is very unusual for a suicide, especially when, unlike most every other case:
A) there’s no hesitation wounds (plus one of the wounds was an unusually deep 5-7 inches)
B) he apparently did so through his shirt (something which is otherwise almost unheard of in cases of self-stabbing)
C) the only other wounds were cuts on his right arm, which (especially given that Elliott was a rightie) seem more consistent with defensive wounds than the typical wrist-cutting.
D) he did so in the middle of the day during a long fight loud enough that other neighbors heard it
The fact that Jennifer Chiba’s a free woman is legitimately shocking, to be honest.

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There’s also the fact that Elliott apparently misspelled his own name in his suicide note, and that Chiba was dumb enough to pull out the knife and seal his fate, but it’s theoretically possible that in the heat of the moment, Elliott forgot he spelled his name unusually, with two Ts, and it’s possible that Chiba never had the sort of medical training that stresses that, in situations like this, you never remove the weapon and leave that to the professionals who can keep the blood from flowing.

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On a lighter note, I wonder how many productions of Romeo and Juliet have Juliet killing herself while topless or in just a bra.