Melinda Superville’s death treated as a suicide
Police are treating the death of chiropractor Melinda Superville as an apparent suicide as a hard amount of pills were found where her body was discovered.
Though police said Saturday that they are treating chiropractor Melinda Superville’s death as an “apparent suicide,” the medical examiner’s office has not yet ruled how she died.
A “large quantity” of assorted pills was discovered at the scene, and physical evidence indicated that Superville, 43, had ingested a large number of them, Houston police Sgt. Nate McDuell said Saturday.
It was also reported that the keys to her car, house and office were found hanging from the lock in the door of the business at 2601 Antoine.
The odd thing about the reference to a suicide is the reporting that when the body was initially found with a head wound.
“The body is in a back bedroom laying on the floor, and that’s about all I’m prepared to say at this point,” said Sgt. David Crain, with the Houston Police Department. “There is a wound to the body about the head, but I can’t tell specifically where or from what.”
Yet in todays reports we see that there was no sign of physical trauma and also no suicide note.
A pistol was also found at the scene, but it had not been fired, and there was no sign of physical trauma to the body, police reported Friday.
McDuell did not know whether a suicide note was found.
All wait for the medical examiners report that is due out at the earliest next Monday.
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