Straight from the source, News 7 in Australia, we’ve gathered this info about the death of Amy Wensley together for you here on the Evidence Room so that you can follow along with the case.
“A world-renowned crime scene reconstruction expert has sensationally concluded there is no way young WA mum Amy Wensley could have killed herself — 10 years after WA Police detectives took minutes to conclude she had.
This week, and for many weeks to come, Seven West Media will release a major new podcast — The Truth About Amy — which will revisit the death of devoted mother-of-two Amy Wensley in Serpentine in 2014.
Her important belongings were in a car, along with her two daughters — in an apparent sign she was about leave the house she shared with her partner David Simmons.
But despite this, the awkward position of her body, and the grave suspicions of the very first police on the scene, detectives who arrived rapidly decided the death was a suicide — and lifted the forensic shutters around the room.
After Amy’s body had been removed, that room was deep-cleaned.
But her family have believed ever since that the cause of the 24-year-old’s death was not as clean cut as the police insisted.
And now, award-winning journalists Liam Bartlett and Alison Sandy have undergone their own intense re-investigation of all the facts — as part of that investigation, they enlisted the services of Scott Roder, the boss of US-based forensic firm Evidence Room.
Such is his firm’s expertise, trials where they have been consulted have included the murder allegations against Paralympian Oscar Pistorious and Derek Chauvin — the police officer convicted of killing George Floyd.
Mr Roder was asked to bring that expertise to a detailed recreation of the room which Amy Wensley died in, which even including a body double with physical attributes almost identical to Amy’s.
And his conclusion — which will also air on a special Spotlight episode on Seven tonight — was emphatic.
“This is not a suicide, I’m telling you — 100 per cent not a suicide,” Mr Roder said.
During the inquest, that small room and the state it was found in was described in detail. It told how Amy was found in a seated position with her left foot against the door. She was sitting on her right hand, with her left hand visible on her lap.
Two firearms were immediately visible, a shotgun on the floor — splattered with blood — and a pink .22 rifle leaning against a wall. The very first police officer who saw that tableau thought it would require two hands to shoot a shotgun like the one at the scene, and it would be “very rare and unconventional” for someone to shoot themselves with that weapon with one hand.
“There’s so many things that trouble me about this. The number one thing is the position in which she’s located,” Roder now says.
“The left hand can’t pull the trigger, the right hand can’t pull the trigger. And as an investigator … it’s becoming pretty obvious. She didn’t pull the trigger.
“Not in the manner that is consistent with the wound and the other evidence.”
Roder said it was not only the position of Amy’s body raising a red flag.
The inquest was told the blood-covered shotgun was up around 1.5 metres away from Amy, by the side of the bed — while Amy was sitting upright behind the door.
It was also stated that the blood on the shotgun barrel indicated the firearm was close to Amy’s head when fired.
“Well, the answer’s very simple. The gun did not end up like that. The gun was placed like that. Or if somebody just said the gun was like that,” Roder said.
“There’s a reason why I got on a plane from the United States and came to Australia for this case and not any other case. It’s because this case is so inexplicably wrong.”
Roder’s input is just one of the astonishing revelations uncovered by the team behind The Truth About Amy.”
We encourage you to dive deeper by listening to The Truth About Amy wherever you get your podcasts.
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