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I'm Sruti, I'm Hannah and welcome to Redhanded, intelligence agencies by which I mean the government.

Definitely assassinate, slash murder people who know too much. That is a fact. So the question this week is not, could they have?

But simply did they murder? 44-year-old investigative journalist Danny Casolaro? Or did Danny kill himself?

After he realized that the story he had been following for the last year of his life, a story that he thought would blow open a scandal that stretched to the highest levels of government.

A story that's pursued had consumed him completely was amounting to absolutely nothing.

What really happened to Danny Casolaro? On August 10, 1991 in the Martinsburg West Virginia Sheraton and made entered room 517 for daily housekeeping.

There she found Danny Casolaro's body lying in a bathtub full of bloody water. There was blood everywhere, sprayed on the walls and all over the floor.

The maid ran screaming and within minutes the Martinsburg police were called.

A lot of people killed themselves in hotels. It's actually a play that's been written about made finding dead bodies called breathing corpses.

It's such a phenomenon. The hotel made finding dead bodies. A lot of people kill themselves in hotels. It's really, really common.

I guess it's just because if you kill yourself in a hotel room, it's just much less likely that someone you love is going to find you and go through that.

Information from those who were at the scene is pretty unreliable and you will see why later on so hold on to it.

But we have done our absolute best to find as many sources as we can to try and piece together this part of the story.

When the police arrived, they almost immediately decided that this was a suicide.

And at this point, I can't really blame them. You find a man in a hotel bathtub, his wrists are cut, he's bled out, there's no sign of a struggle,

and there's even a suicide note. So of course you judge it to be a suicide because it definitely looks like a suicide.

In the bathtub with Danny's body, they found a single razor blade and an empty can of Milwaukee beer and two plastic bin bags.

So when I was like looking at this and what they found at the scene, they just keep calling it everywhere you read it.

Milwaukee beer. And I was like, is that a brand? What is that?

I don't find one. I'm obsessed with details and I wanted to know what type of beer it was that Danny was drinking.

But all I could find was that it just says Milwaukee beer. So I assume they mean it's a beer from Milwaukee.

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