The Mysterious Death of Florence: Accident or Murder?

It is October 24, 2003, Michigan. 37-year-old Florence and Mark couple, with their 9 and 7-year-old two young children, are going on vacation to a place called Watervale in Lake Michigan. They usually go on vacation like this every year.

They went the same way this year. They checked into their cabin and started spending their time. That night, Mark was spending time with his two young children.

His wife, Florence, went to the deck outside the cabin to get some fresh air. He told the story to his two young children in the cabin, made them sleep by saying good night, and then came out of the cabin and looked at the deck. But his wife, Florence, was not there.

He thought that the light was on in the next cabin, so he might have gone to talk to the neighbor there. As the children were sleeping alone in the cabin, he started watching TV, saying not to leave them. While watching TV, he fell asleep in a short time.

The next morning, he woke up. The time was around 7.30 am. But his wife, Florence, had not yet come to the cabin.

He got scared and called the owners of the resort, asking if they had seen his wife, Florence. When they started looking for her, they saw the dead body of Florence floating in the blood of the lake outside the cabin.

Florence was a 37-year-old bank officer.

Her husband Mark Unger was a radio host. So he was a celebrity among his friends and family. Their life was going very well like this.

This family used to go on vacation to Lake Michigan every year. Likewise, this year they went on vacation with their family. Just like I said in the intro, Florence's death shocked not only her family but also everyone who worked with her.

When we come to the crime scene, Florence's body was floating near Lake's boat launch. Actually, this boat launch was opposite to the cabin where she stayed. There was a deck 12 feet above the boat launch.

The deck was like a viewpoint. So, she could stand there and view the lake. When the police went to see the deck, the deck was surrounded by a deck railing.

When she looked at the railing, it looked like it was broken in a specific place. So, how did it look like? Florence came to the deck to get some fresh air. She sat on the wooden deck railing.

At that time, it looked like it was broken and fell down. When the investigators measured the height of the railing, it was very low. Which means, if someone tried to sit on it, they would easily fall down without balance.

That's why the railing was broken. Not only that, the wooden railing was broken in the same place. It looked like it was waiting for someone to get angry.

Now, Florence's body was sent for an autopsy. It was found that there was no drugs or alcohol in her body. But it was found that there was a severe bruise on her head.

The reason for her death was not the cause of death. The reason for her death was drowning. She drowned in the lake and couldn't breathe.

Now, how did Florence fall down from the deck? Did she try to kill herself? Or did she come to get fresh air? Was it an accident when she sat on the railing? Or is there any other reason for this? The police are now investigating this case. Florence's parents said that she wouldn't have tried to kill herself. She loved her children very much.

She wouldn't leave them alone. The wooden railing on the deck was very fresh. Which means, it must have been broken when the accident happened.

So, how did she fall down from the railing? Florence must have sat on the railing. So, she must have fallen down from the railing. But how did her body fall into the water? To find this out, Florence's husband Mark appointed an independent forensic officer.

They checked the crime scene and made a computer animation in 5 different scenarios. The conclusion is that Florence fell down from the deck at a height of 12 feet. When she fell down, she carried the momentum of the fall from the point of impact and fell into the water.

The forensic team concluded that it was an accident. But the medical examiner who did an autopsy on Florence completely denied it. The chief medical examiner LJ Dragovic said that

1. The human body won't bounce

2. Those who were severely injured in the head must have lost their memory.

3. Those who lost their memory and fainted can't get up and fall into the water. There is another important reason to say that they wouldn't have fallen into the water. The reason is that the cement floor where Florence fell down had a shoe-sized blood stain.

So, when she fell down from the railing, she fell on the floor and fell into the water at the same height. How could there be so much blood on the cement floor? So, if there was so much blood on the cement floor, it means that Florence's body must have been there for a long time. Now, how long would Florence have been on the cement floor? For this, forensic medical examiner Dr. Dragovic found a new way.

He focused on the neurons that control the movement, memory, and emotions from the brain tissue of Florence who came for the autopsy. He found that there were repair proteins released in Florence's brain. That is, after her head was hit and the brain was injured, her brain sent these proteins to repair it automatically.

So, until then, she was unconsciously alive and breathing. So, according to his conclusion, it took 90 minutes for Florence to fall from the deck to the cement floor. That is, she was unconscious for an hour and a half in the same place.

How did those who were unconscious drown in the water? Now, the police note another important thing. That is, the place where there were blood stains on the cement floor and the place where the railing of the deck was broken was not straight. That is, suppose she accidentally sat on the railing of the deck and it broke and fell down, it should have fallen straight down.

But they note that the place where it was broken and the place where there were blood stains were pushed back. Now, what the police are doing is, first they wanted to find out if the deck rails were broken because she sat on them. For that, they used a machine called a load cell.

With this machine, you can find out how much a thing can withstand. That is, you can find out how much a thing can withstand by applying weight and pressure on it. Florence's weight is 49 kgs.

So, using that machine, they choose another place next to the broken rail and apply 49 kgs of Florence's weight. But those rails did not break the log. Okay, they are trying to apply more weight.

But that log still did not break. Finally, they try to apply Florence's double weight, that is, 100 kgs. Even then, that log did not break.

So, from this experiment, Florence is sitting on that deck rail. So, that log may have broken and fallen down. So, this could have been an accident.

This is the question. But Florence's husband Mark has denied this. So, the police are now paying attention to him.

But Mark and those who know about Florence will definitely not have been involved in this. The police have said that it is wrong to suspect him. Even so, the police are checking Mark's background.

But there is no criminal history on him. Likewise, when they inquired his children, they said that there was no fight between the parents on the night of the incident. Mark has continued to tell the police that this must have been an accident.

But then, what did Florence's parents say? Definitely, our daughter has been murdered. There is no one else who committed that murder. Definitely, her husband should be Mark.

What did Florence's father say to the police about this? What is the reason for a murder? Motive, no alibi, method, opportunity and last person to see them alive. He says that Mark had all these things that day. Moreover, even though it seems that Mark and Florence are very happy as husband and wife, they are not like that.

They had a lot of problems. Actually, only two months before Florence's death, it was found that they had applied for a divorce. Therefore, it is known to the police that Florence has entered into another relationship and that it is Mark's close friend.

Not only that, it is also known that Mark has taken $ 7,000 worth of life insurance on Florence. When Florence's neighbors and close friends inquired, they said that they did not want to go on this lake trip. It is also known that they were afraid to go with Mark.

Moreover, the owner of the resort told the police an important evidence. When the owner of the resort told Mark outside the cabin that he had found Florence's body on the morning of the incident, Mark did not ask the owner of the resort where he found it, but immediately ran to the place where the boat launch was. It is already known where Mark's dead body would be.

So far, all the police have got is circumstantial evidence. There are two types of evidence. One is direct evidence and the other is circumstantial evidence.

Direct evidence is the evidence that links the killer to the crime scene. Circumstantial evidence is the evidence that the killer was at the place where the murder took place. I have not seen one person killing another person, but the killer was at the place where the murder took place.

There was no one there except him. So, it is circumstantial evidence that he must have killed. But with this circumstantial evidence, it is not easy for a criminal to be punished.

When the police were looking for other direct evidence, they found a direct evidence that could link Mark to the crime scene. The police found a small paint on Mark's shoe in white color. They took it and tested six different paint samples from the resort.

The paint on Mark's shoe matched the paint sample from the resort. That is the paint on the rails of the deck. There can be no logical explanation other than the fact that Mark broke the railings of the deck with his shoes.

So, why did Mark break the railings of the deck? According to the evidence that the police have got so far, the railings of the deck did not break because Florence sat on it. For the first time in history, this immunohistochemistry called Repair Proteins was used in a criminal case. It was found that the people who fell down were in a coma for more than 90 minutes on the cement floor.

But according to their autopsy report, they drowned and died. It was Mark who used the paint on Mark's shoe and other evidence. So, seven months after Florence's death, Mark is going to be arrested in this case.

What the prosecutors say is that the day the incident happened, when Mark and Florence were standing on the deck and talking, they had an argument about their divorce. In that, Mark got angry and pushed Florence off the railings of the deck. Florence, who fell from a height of 12 feet, her head was badly hit by the cement floor below and blood began to come out.

According to the evidence, Florence was in a coma for more than an hour and a half. Then, Mark went to the cabin and put the children to sleep. After an hour and a half, he came back to the boat launch thinking that Florence would have died.

Florence was shocked to see him alive. So, he pushed her into the water nearby. After that, he went to the deck above and damaged the deck railings with his shoe legs.

He staged the crime scene where Florence accidentally fell down. In this, the paint on the railing has been transferred to his shoe. The man who thought so much, did not damage the deck railings where Florence's body was, and did not damage the deck railings above, but damaged them a little further.

Also, he did not know that the excess blood from the place where Florence's body was lying, the repair proteins sent by Florence's brain, we’re all going to show him. Even if he had pushed Florence off the railing without knowing, she had been alive for hours. Maybe he did it in anger.

He had every opportunity to save her. But when Florence was alive, he pushed her into the water and made her drown again. He said that he was innocent till the end.

But the court proved that he was the killer without any doubt. First degree murder charges were filed and life sentence without parole was given. In this case, the investigators did not think properly.

If it was not for the help of the forensic team, the killer would have escaped from this murder easily. Especially, medical examiner Dragovic would have said that this can't be an accident. Personally, I found the investigation of the forensic team very interesting and surprising.

There was a lot of respect for every small piece of evidence. So dear investigators, what do you think about this case? Don't forget to comment your opinions below.

it is October 24, 2003, Michigan. 37-year-old Florence and Mark couple, with their 9 and 7-year-old two young children, are going on vacation to a place called Watervale in Lake Michigan. They usually go on vacation like this every year.

They went the same way this year. They checked into their cabin and started spending their time. That night, Mark was spending time with his two young children.

His wife, Florence, went to the deck outside the cabin to get some fresh air. He told the story to his two young children in the cabin, made them sleep by saying good night, and then came out of the cabin and looked at the deck. But his wife, Florence, was not there.

He thought that the light was on in the next cabin, so he might have gone to talk to the neighbor there. As the children were sleeping alone in the cabin, he started watching TV, saying not to leave them. While watching TV, he fell asleep in a short time.

The next morning, he woke up. The time was around 7.30 am. But his wife, Florence, had not yet come to the cabin.

He got scared and called the owners of the resort, asking if they had seen his wife, Florence. When they started looking for her, they saw the dead body of Florence floating in the blood of the lake outside the cabin.

Florence was a 37-year-old bank officer.

Her husband Mark Unger was a radio host. So he was a celebrity among his friends and family. Their life was going very well like this.

This family used to go on vacation to Lake Michigan every year. Likewise, this year they went on vacation with their family. Just like I said in the intro, Florence's death shocked not only her family but also everyone who worked with her.

When we come to the crime scene, Florence's body was floating near Lake's boat launch. Actually, this boat launch was opposite to the cabin where she stayed. There was a deck 12 feet above the boat launch.

The deck was like a viewpoint. So, she could stand there and view the lake. When the police went to see the deck, the deck was surrounded by a deck railing.

When she looked at the railing, it looked like it was broken in a specific place. So, how did it look like? Florence came to the deck to get some fresh air. She sat on the wooden deck railing.

At that time, it looked like it was broken and fell down. When the investigators measured the height of the railing, it was very low. Which means, if someone tried to sit on it, they would easily fall down without balance.

That's why the railing was broken. Not only that, the wooden railing was broken in the same place. It looked like it was waiting for someone to get angry.

Now, Florence's body was sent for an autopsy. It was found that there was no drugs or alcohol in her body. But it was found that there was a severe bruise on her head.

The reason for her death was not the cause of death. The reason for her death was drowning. She drowned in the lake and couldn't breathe.

Now, how did Florence fall down from the deck? Did she try to kill herself? Or did she come to get fresh air? Was it an accident when she sat on the railing? Or is there any other reason for this? The police are now investigating this case. Florence's parents said that she wouldn't have tried to kill herself. She loved her children very much.

She wouldn't leave them alone. The wooden railing on the deck was very fresh. Which means, it must have been broken when the accident happened.

So, how did she fall down from the railing? Florence must have sat on the railing. So, she must have fallen down from the railing. But how did her body fall into the water? To find this out, Florence's husband Mark appointed an independent forensic officer.

They checked the crime scene and made a computer animation in 5 different scenarios. The conclusion is that Florence fell down from the deck at a height of 12 feet. When she fell down, she carried the momentum of the fall from the point of impact and fell into the water.

The forensic team concluded that it was an accident. But the medical examiner who did an autopsy on Florence completely denied it. The chief medical examiner LJ Dragovic said that

1. The human body won't bounce

2. Those who were severely injured in the head must have lost their memory.

3. Those who lost their memory and fainted can't get up and fall into the water. There is another important reason to say that they wouldn't have fallen into the water. The reason is that the cement floor where Florence fell down had a shoe-sized blood stain.

So, when she fell down from the railing, she fell on the floor and fell into the water at the same height. How could there be so much blood on the cement floor? So, if there was so much blood on the cement floor, it means that Florence's body must have been there for a long time. Now, how long would Florence have been on the cement floor? For this, forensic medical examiner Dr. Dragovic found a new way.

He focused on the neurons that control the movement, memory, and emotions from the brain tissue of Florence who came for the autopsy. He found that there were repair proteins released in Florence's brain. That is, after her head was hit and the brain was injured, her brain sent these proteins to repair it automatically.

So, until then, she was unconsciously alive and breathing. So, according to his conclusion, it took 90 minutes for Florence to fall from the deck to the cement floor. That is, she was unconscious for an hour and a half in the same place.

How did those who were unconscious drown in the water? Now, the police note another important thing. That is, the place where there were blood stains on the cement floor and the place where the railing of the deck was broken was not straight. That is, suppose she accidentally sat on the railing of the deck and it broke and fell down, it should have fallen straight down.

But they note that the place where it was broken and the place where there were blood stains were pushed back. Now, what the police are doing is, first they wanted to find out if the deck rails were broken because she sat on them. For that, they used a machine called a load cell.

With this machine, you can find out how much a thing can withstand. That is, you can find out how much a thing can withstand by applying weight and pressure on it. Florence's weight is 49 kgs.

So, using that machine, they choose another place next to the broken rail and apply 49 kgs of Florence's weight. But those rails did not break the log. Okay, they are trying to apply more weight.

But that log still did not break. Finally, they try to apply Florence's double weight, that is, 100 kgs. Even then, that log did not break.

So, from this experiment, Florence is sitting on that deck rail. So, that log may have broken and fallen down. So, this could have been an accident.

This is the question. But Florence's husband Mark has denied this. So, the police are now paying attention to him.

But Mark and those who know about Florence will definitely not have been involved in this. The police have said that it is wrong to suspect him. Even so, the police are checking Mark's background.

But there is no criminal history on him. Likewise, when they inquired his children, they said that there was no fight between the parents on the night of the incident. Mark has continued to tell the police that this must have been an accident.

But then, what did Florence's parents say? Definitely, our daughter has been murdered. There is no one else who committed that murder. Definitely, her husband should be Mark.

What did Florence's father say to the police about this? What is the reason for a murder? Motive, no alibi, method, opportunity and last person to see them alive. He says that Mark had all these things that day. Moreover, even though it seems that Mark and Florence are very happy as husband and wife, they are not like that.

They had a lot of problems. Actually, only two months before Florence's death, it was found that they had applied for a divorce. Therefore, it is known to the police that Florence has entered into another relationship and that it is Mark's close friend.

Not only that, it is also known that Mark has taken $ 7,000 worth of life insurance on Florence. When Florence's neighbors and close friends inquired, they said that they did not want to go on this lake trip. It is also known that they were afraid to go with Mark.

Moreover, the owner of the resort told the police an important evidence. When the owner of the resort told Mark outside the cabin that he had found Florence's body on the morning of the incident, Mark did not ask the owner of the resort where he found it, but immediately ran to the place where the boat launch was. It is already known where Mark's dead body would be.

So far, all the police have got is circumstantial evidence. There are two types of evidence. One is direct evidence and the other is circumstantial evidence.

Direct evidence is the evidence that links the killer to the crime scene. Circumstantial evidence is the evidence that the killer was at the place where the murder took place. I have not seen one person killing another person, but the killer was at the place where the murder took place.

There was no one there except him. So, it is circumstantial evidence that he must have killed. But with this circumstantial evidence, it is not easy for a criminal to be punished.

When the police were looking for other direct evidence, they found a direct evidence that could link Mark to the crime scene. The police found a small paint on Mark's shoe in white color. They took it and tested six different paint samples from the resort.

The paint on Mark's shoe matched the paint sample from the resort. That is the paint on the rails of the deck. There can be no logical explanation other than the fact that Mark broke the railings of the deck with his shoes.

So, why did Mark break the railings of the deck? According to the evidence that the police have got so far, the railings of the deck did not break because Florence sat on it. For the first time in history, this immunohistochemistry called Repair Proteins was used in a criminal case. It was found that the people who fell down were in a coma for more than 90 minutes on the cement floor.

But according to their autopsy report, they drowned and died. It was Mark who used the paint on Mark's shoe and other evidence. So, seven months after Florence's death, Mark is going to be arrested in this case.

What the prosecutors say is that the day the incident happened, when Mark and Florence were standing on the deck and talking, they had an argument about their divorce. In that, Mark got angry and pushed Florence off the railings of the deck. Florence, who fell from a height of 12 feet, her head was badly hit by the cement floor below and blood began to come out.

According to the evidence, Florence was in a coma for more than an hour and a half. Then, Mark went to the cabin and put the children to sleep. After an hour and a half, he came back to the boat launch thinking that Florence would have died.

Florence was shocked to see him alive. So, he pushed her into the water nearby. After that, he went to the deck above and damaged the deck railings with his shoe legs.

He staged the crime scene where Florence accidentally fell down. In this, the paint on the railing has been transferred to his shoe. The man who thought so much, did not damage the deck railings where Florence's body was, and did not damage the deck railings above, but damaged them a little further.

Also, he did not know that the excess blood from the place where Florence's body was lying, the repair proteins sent by Florence's brain, we’re all going to show him. Even if he had pushed Florence off the railing without knowing, she had been alive for hours. Maybe he did it in anger.

He had every opportunity to save her. But when Florence was alive, he pushed her into the water and made her drown again. He said that he was innocent till the end.

But the court proved that he was the killer without any doubt. First degree murder charges were filed and life sentence without parole was given. In this case, the investigators did not think properly.

If it was not for the help of the forensic team, the killer would have escaped from this murder easily. Especially, medical examiner Dragovic would have said that this can't be an accident. Personally, I found the investigation of the forensic team very interesting and surprising.

There was a lot of respect for every small piece of evidence. So dear friends, what do you think about this case? Don't forget to comment your opinions below.