The evidence at the scene, including the lack of blood spatter and the physical difficulty of the reported act, makes the suicide theory logically and scientifically impossible.

“there was no blood in the boat. Given that kind of wound, I mean, buckshot to the head is going to have completely I mean, there's going to be blood, brain matter, bone fragments all over the place, and there was none of that in the boat or on Pat from what we could tell.”

Derek Levasseur maintains that even before modern DNA testing, investigators were supposed to be swabbing evidence, but often failed to store it properly.

“they were swabbing and taking in evidence, but they weren't preserving it correctly. So even though they had something of value at the time, because they stored it in a way that wasn't conducive to the DNA staying on that item, by the time you get to it much later, when you analyze it, there's nothi”