Weird News Stories: A Murder Suicide

In 1992, a man __________ (jump) off the roof of a 26-storey high-rise apartment building in Chicago. As he _________ (fall) past the fourteenth floor, a gunshot from one of the apartments caught him in the head and __________ (kill) him instantly. Police investigating the shooting had an interesting problem: was the crime suicide or murder? It wasnt easy to decide. There were a lot of complications. The first was that, unknown to the man, a firm of window cleaners __________ (set up) safety netting at the level of the twelfth floor. This netting was designed to catch anybody who ___________ (fall) from a ledge while cleaning the windows. However, it was wide enough to catch anyone falling from the roof so the man would not have died from the fall. Since he did die from the gunshot wound, it looked as if the case __________ (must/be) murder. The question was who did it? When the police investigated, they found that the apartment from which the gunshot ___________ (come) belonged to an elderly couple. On the afternoon in question they ___________ (fight). In the course of this fight, the husband had taken a gun from the desk drawer, aimed it at his wife and fired. The shot missed the woman but passed through the window and killed the man attempting to commit suicide outside. The police thought they ____________ (find) the murderer but had they? The old man who pulled the trigger claimed he ____________ (think) the gun was empty. He said he often ____________ (fight) with his wife and was in the habit of threatening her with an empty gun. The police _____________ (not believe) this. However, when they talked to the old mans wife, she said it was true. The gun was never loaded. The police decided to investigate the next important question: who had loaded the gun? The answer seemed to be the couples son. The young man ___________ (go) to inherit a lot of money if his mother died. He knew about his fathers habit of firing the empty gun at his mother when they argued. So he secretly loaded the gun. However, his parents _____________ (not fight) for several weeks. The son ____________ (become) depressed about money and eventually decided to commit suicide.