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Forensic Files

Freeze Framed

Forensic Files

HLN

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The man suffered a slow, agonizing death over a period of days.  His wife maintained he killed himself, but police were skeptical... especially when they learned her first husband died when he was only 38-years-old, and she refused to consent to an autopsy.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Up next.

0:01.0

Three of them is watching, developing our bedroom.

0:04.7

Did this man kill himself?

0:06.8

That that certificate came back as a suicide?

0:10.2

Or was it murder?

0:12.5

What in the name of heaven is he doing committing suicide by turkey paste?

0:16.8

The evidence of the scene confounds investigators.

0:19.7

There was something more going on with this.

0:21.7

It just wasn't right.

0:22.7

I mean, it's creepy, it's chilly.

0:25.0

And it would take years before the forensics could figure it all out.

0:30.1

This case was a forensic bananza for me.

0:42.8

The heating and air conditioning business was a lucrative one for David Castor.

0:48.1

His perfectionism and attention to detail were well suited to the job.

0:53.6

My dad was a very particular guy.

0:56.0

He liked everything a certain way.

0:58.6

Whenever we worked on something, if something was like a quarter in a shot,

1:03.1

it wasn't perfectly level.

1:04.5

He started right from scratch.

1:05.7

Do it again.

1:07.4

Things were going well for David Castor until his father died.

1:13.0

The two had been very close and David was having a hard time dealing with the loss.

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