Singapore begins coroner’s inquiry into US scientist’s death with evidence indicating suicide
Source: Associated Press
Singapore begins coroner’s inquiry into US scientist’s death with evidence indicating suicide
By Associated Press,
Updated: Monday, May 13, 3:24 AM
SINGAPORE — Evidence presented Monday in a Singapore investigation revealed a U.S. software engineer was unhappy at work and had written suicide notes before he died last year in what his parents insist was a murder.
Software engineer Shane Truman Todd, 31, was found hanging from a black strap secured to a door and had no visible signs of injury on his body except redness on his forearms and legs, the state counsel’s opening statement said. The strap was fashioned into a noose, and a white towel also was around his neck.
Police found no signs of forced entry into the apartment, but they did find links to suicide websites on his laptop and suicide letters written to Todd’s family members and loved ones.
Parents Rick and Mary Todd, who attended the inquest, told The Associated Press in March they consider the evidence fake. They believe he may have been murdered over his research in the U.S. into material used to make heat-resistant semiconductors, a technology with both civilian and military applications.
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