:02:01
volunteer firefighter,
estranged father of four...
:02:05
and a poor tendency to drink.
:02:07
Mr. Hansen was the pilot of
the plane that accidentally...
:02:10
lifted Delmer Darion
out of the water.
:02:13
Added to this,
Mr. Hansen's tortured life...
:02:16
met before with Delmer Darion
just two nights previous.
:02:20
All I need is a two.
:02:21
All you need is a deuce.
All right.
:02:24
That is an eight.
:02:26
Glad you like my work.
Moment of truth.
:02:29
The weight of the guilt...
:02:31
and the measure
of coincidence so large...
:02:34
Craig Hansen took his life.
:02:38
And I am trying to think...
:02:40
this was all only
a matter of chance.
:02:43
The tale told
at a 1961 awards dinner...
:02:47
for the American Association
of Forensic Science...
:02:50
by Dr. John Harper,
president of the association...
:02:53
began with
a simple suicide attempt.
:02:56
Seventeen-year-old
Sydney Barringer...
:03:00
in the city of Los Angeles
on March 23, 1958.
:03:21
The coroner ruled that
the unsuccessful suicide...
:03:23
had suddenly become
a successful homicide.
:03:26
To explain -- the suicide
was confirmed by a note...
:03:30
in the right hip pocket
of Sydney Barringer.
:03:33
At the same time young Sydney
stood on the ledge...
:03:38
an argument swelled
three stories below.
:03:40
The neighbors heard,
as they usually did...
:03:44
the arguing of the tenants...
:03:45
and it was not uncommon
for them...
:03:47
to threaten each other
with a shotgun...
:03:49
or one of the many handguns
kept in the house.
:03:51
I'm going to put you down!
:03:53
And when the shotgun
accidentally went off...
:03:55
You asshole!
:03:58
Sydney just happened to pass.