A crime scene reconstruction expert claims a mother who was found dead in her bedroom could not have committed suicide even though police concluded her death was a suicide.
Amy Wensley, 24, a mother of two from Western Australia, was found slumped behind her bedroom door at her home in the Serpentine, about 55 kilometers south of Perth, in 2014.
Ms Wensley’s body was found with a fatal gunshot wound to the head, inflicted at close range.
Her belongings and her two daughters were found inside a car in an apparent sign that she was leaving the house she shared with her partner David Simmons.
However, despite the position of his body and the suspicions of the police, who were the first to arrive at the scene, investigators ruled his death a suicide.
Western Australian mother-of-two Amy Wensley (pictured) was found slumped behind her bedroom door with a fatal close-range shotgun wound to the head in 2014.
Following an inquest in 2021, a coroner found he could not rule out foul play and refused to record the 24-year-old’s death as a suicide.
Journalists Liam Bartlett and Alison Sandy launched their own intense investigation into the case in their multi-part podcast The Truth About Amy.
In the first episode of the podcast, which aired on Sunday, the team was helped by the head of forensic firm Evidence Room, Scott Roder.
The US-based firm has consulted on high-profile trials, including the case of Derek Chauvin, the officer convicted of killing George Floyd, and murder allegations against Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorious.
Roder used his experience to recreate the room where Ms Wensley was found dead and employed a double with physical features almost identical to those of the 24-year-old.
Based on his findings, Roder claimed that Wensley’s death was “100 percent not a suicide.”
Roder recreated the scene from information shared at the 2021 inquest into Wensley’s death, which described the room and the position of his body in detail.
Ms Wensley’s body was found sitting on her right hand, with her left foot against the door and her left hand in her lap.
Police immediately saw two firearms: a blood-spattered shotgun on the floor and a pink .22-caliber rifle leaning against the wall.
The police officer who first arrived at the scene stated that it was “very rare and unconventional” for a person to shoot shotgun style with one hand.
The multi-part The Truth About Amy podcast featured help from world-renowned crime scene reconstruction expert Scott Roder. He, along with his team, reconstructed the room in which Mrs Wensley was found dead and the exact details of her location (pictured).
Roder said the case had a number of things that concerned him, including the position of Wensley’s body and the location of the weapons.
‘The left hand cannot pull the trigger, the right hand cannot pull the trigger. And as a researcher… he’s becoming pretty obvious,” Mr. Roder said. 7Featured news.
‘She didn’t pull the trigger. Not in a way that is consistent with the injury and the other evidence.
Roder said another troubling aspect of the case was the position where the shotgun was found.
According to the investigation, the blood-stained shotgun was found next to the bed, approximately 1.5 meters from Ms Wensley’s upright body.
The evidence also found that blood on the barrel of the shotgun indicated the gun was near Ms Wensley’s head when it was fired.
‘Well, the answer is very simple. The gun didn’t end like that. The gun was positioned like this. Or if someone just said the gun was like that,” Mr. Roder said.
Roder added that he traveled to Australia solely to recreate the Wensley case, as he believes the findings were “inexplicably wrong.”
Roder (pictured) claimed the case was “inexplicably wrong” and that evidence suggested Wensley’s death was “not 100 per cent a suicide”.
The team behind the podcast claim to have uncovered astonishing revelations in their investigation into Ms Wensley’s death.
Episodes include interviews with Ms Wensley’s friends, her family, her two daughters and the police who responded to the scene.
Lawyers and defense attorneys are also questioned about evidence collected at the scene and evidence not collected.
David Simmons’ friends and family are also interviewed, and the team questions discrepancies in recollections provided by one person who was in the house the night of his death and another who was not.
Bartlett also tracks down David Simmons, who has steadfastly denied being involved or pulling the trigger.
