by 8:00 p.m. the police had already killed dozens of thompson s animals. with many large cats and bears still on the loose, detectives approached thompson s body to do their forensics. the sheriff told me to take charge of the investigation of the body. here s terry lying away from the path. we could see a drag mark in the grass where a cat or cats had drug terry away tr the bloodstain. there was a head wound, a head gunshot wound. his hands were filled with gun powder residue. those factors combined leads us to believe that this is a suicide.