A world-renowned crime scene reconstruction professional has sensationally concluded there isn’t a means younger WA mum Amy Wensley may have killed herself — ten years after WA Police detective took minutes to conclude she had.
This week, and for a lot of weeks to come back, Seven West Media will launch a significant new podcast — The Reality About Amy — which is able to revisit the demise of devoted mother-of-two Amy Wensley in Serpentine in 2014.
Amy’s physique was discovered slumped behind the door of her bed room, with a deadly head wound from a shotgun spherical which had been inflicted at shut vary.
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Her necessary belongings have been in a automobile, alongside along with her two daughters — in an obvious signal she was about depart the home she shared along with her associate David Simmons.
However regardless of this, the awkward place of her physique, and the grave suspicions of the very first police on the scene, detectives who arrived quickly determined the demise was a suicide — and lifted the forensic shutters across the room.
After Amy’s physique had been eliminated, that room was deep-cleaned.
However her household have believed ever since that the reason for the 24 year-old’s demise was not as clear lower because the police insisted.
In 2021, following a harrowing inquest, a coroner mentioned she couldn’t rule out foul play was concerned — and declined to report a discovering of suicide.
And now, award-winning journalists Liam Bartlett and Alison Sandy have undergone their very own intense re-investigation of all of the info, for the multi-part podcast which is able to launch on Sunday night.
As a part of that investigation, they enlisted the providers of Scott Roder, the boss of US-based forensic agency Proof Room.
Such is his agency’s experience, trials the place they’ve been consulted have included the homicide allegations in opposition to Paralympian Oscar Pistorious and Derek Chauvin — the police officer convicted of killing George Floyd.
Mr Roder was requested to deliver that experience to an in depth recreation of the room which Amy Wensley died in, which even together with a physique double with bodily attributes nearly equivalent to Amy’s.
And his conclusion — which may also air on a particular Highlight episode on Seven tonight — was emphatic.
“This isn’t a suicide, I’m telling you. 100% not a suicide,” Mr Roder mentioned.
Through the inquest, that small room and the state it was present in was described intimately.
It informed how Amy was present in a seated place along with her left foot in opposition to the door. She was sitting on her proper hand, along with her left hand was seen on her lap.
Two firearms have been instantly seen, a shotgun on the ground — splattered with blood — and a pink .22 rifle leaning in opposition to a wall.
The very first police officer who noticed that tableau thought it will require two arms to shoot a shotgun just like the one on the scene, and it will be “very uncommon and unconventional” for somebody to shoot themselves with that weapon with one hand.
“There’s so many issues that bother me about this. The primary factor is the place wherein she’s positioned,” Mr Roder now says.
“The left hand can’t pull the set off, the appropriate hand can’t pull the set off. And as an investigator … it’s changing into fairly apparent. She didn’t pull the set off.
“Not within the method that’s in keeping with the wound and the opposite proof.”
Mr Roder mentioned it was not solely the place of Amy’s physique elevating a purple flag.
The inquest was informed the blood-covered shotgun was up round 1.5 metres away from Amy, by the facet of the mattress — whereas Amy was sitting upright behind the door.
It was additionally acknowledged that the blood on the shotgun barrel indicated the firearm was near Amy’s head when fired.
“Nicely, the reply’s quite simple. The gun didn’t find yourself like that. The gun was positioned like that. Or if someone simply mentioned the gun was like that,” Mr Roder mentioned.
“There’s a purpose why I received on a airplane from america and got here to Australia for this case and never every other case. It’s as a result of this case is so inexplicably fallacious.”
Mr Roder’s enter is simply one of many astonishing revelations uncovered by the workforce behind “The Reality About Amy”.
The workforce interviews Amy’s family and friends, together with her two daughters. It quizzes police who attended the scene, and questions the actions of others.
It interrogates attorneys and advocates concerning the proof which was gathered, and which wasn’t.
It confronts the family and friends of David Simmons — one who was there that evening, and one who wasn’t, and challenges them on discrepancies of their tales.
And Liam Bartlett tracks down David Simmons himself — who has all the time denied he was the one who pulled the set off.
*7NEWS Highlight: The Reality About Amy airs tonight on Channel 7 and 7plus
