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"It is our belief that it was
not Mike's intent to harm Jennifer."
- Green Bay police spokesman Gregory R. Urban .
On the
night of June 13, 1999, Mike Gilbert, 27, and his wife of
three years Jennifer, 25, decided that they needed to spice
up there lovemaking. Obviously they had become bored with
simple sex and decided it was time to add some danger to the
experience. So they came to a decision to try erotic
asphyxia.
What is erotic asphyxia?
Well, one boffin described it as "the practice involves one
partner depriving the other of oxygen close to or at
orgasm." He also said it is "a little-known technique for
heightening the intensity of an orgasm." As someone who has
tried this I would back up this guys claim that it heightens
ones orgasm.
But for poor Mike and Jennifer, it went horribly wrong. Mike
must have really gotten carried away with the whole orgasm
thing because he forgot to release the pressure to his young
brides neck causing her to die. Bummer.
I'm sure that some of you people reading this probably don't
think it was an accident. In fact I reckon most of you think
Mike did it on purpose. Well, if you did, you're wrong. As
police said when Jennifer's body was discovered, "There were
no signs of her struggling or marks or injuries to her to
indicate a struggle or resistance." The coroner (or state
medical officer) followed this up with, "Jennifer's death
would probably be classified as second-degree reckless
homicide. Because of the facts surrounding her death,
Michael most likely would not have faced charges."
So, Mike was safe from prosecution. It was an accident, not
his fault, well not completely his fault, but unfortunately
when faced with his dead wife filled with his semen, he
couldn't see that. He felt a whole load of guilt, and I
guess he could only see one way out of the trouble he
perceived. But before following the only course of action he
could see, he had a nap.
The next day he put his plan into action, he went to the
bedrooms of the couples two kiddies and strangled
Evangeline, 1, and Ivan, 2 months. I guess he didn’t want
them growing up knowing the old man was into weird sex. OR
maybe he was embarrassed that he screwed up, or, yeah,
perhaps it was the whole accidental murder of their mother
thing.
So, the kids were dead, the wife was
dead, what did Mike have left?
Nothing worth living for it would seem. But he wasn't really
sure how he was going to go about killing himself, so he
tried pretty much everything. Over the next 24 hours he
drank all the alcohol in the house, took almost all the
drugs in the house, then, just to make certain he wasn't
going to be breathing the next time someone saw him he went
into the garage and started the car, but not before slitting
his wrist. So, according to police he died from "a
combination of carbon monoxide poisoning and large doses of
drugs and alcohol." At least he didn't screw that up.
The next day, Jennifer’s dad, upon hearing that Mike hadn't
been into work for two days went out to see what was wrong.
Finding all the door locked he grabbed a ladder and climbed
in through an open upstairs window. I guess he didn't like
what he saw because within minutes police were all over the
place. And that's pretty much where this story ends folks.
Some Interesting Bits & Quotes
"If the children were alive and Michael were alive, I do not
believe he would be facing intentional homicide charges in
the case of Jennifer's death." - The head investigator
speaks.
"We wish it hadn't happened," an unnamed relative said. "If
only Michael had called for help after he realised Jenny was
dead. He obviously lost it. But we don't feel any anger
toward him."
Based on accounts of police, neighbours and co-workers, the
Gilberts had no record of domestic violence and lived
quietly in their two-story home.
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