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Re:John Barnett before death "if anything happens, it's not ... by whimsicalism on Friday March 15, 2024 @05:39AM (#39713726)
I am more skeptical of the perfect staging to make it look like a suicide theory.

Both of those killings were in pseudo-mafioso states. Both were also immediately recognized as murder. State-sanctioned murder of your own citizens on your own soil is a lot less commmon in a country like the US, although there are well as Mafia and organized crime murders. But I think successful staging as a suicide is uncommon outside of Hollywood and repressive governments.

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Re:John Barnett before death "if anything happens, it's not ... by squigz on Friday March 15, 2024 @02:50PM (#39719321)
I'm confused - has there been any implication that (if this was a murder) it was "state-sanctioned"?
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Re:John Barnett before death "if anything happens, it's not ... by dinkblam on Saturday March 16, 2024 @10:22AM (#39726193)
> Both of those killings were in pseudo-mafioso states

ugh? there is more law & order in Malta than in the US.

been there for nearly a decade and according to Wikipedia [1] the homicide rate in the US is 6.4 while it is 0.4 in Malta.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...

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