Based on the author's investigative procedure and findings in the case study, as well as a critique of the flawed police investigation in the case, an investigative protocol in death cases is recommended. The author advises that any death investigation should be conducted with a thoroughness that presumes it is a homicide. This involves assessing the injuries and/or wounds of the victim in relation to the type of weapon determined to have been used to produce death. The weapon should be tested for latent fingerprints, and any firearm at the scene should undergo ballistic testing to determine whether it was used in the killing. Investigators must also obtain information from witnesses (friends and relatives of the victim) to determine the victim's behavior as close as possible to the time of death. Profiles of any suspects should also be developed. Based on a thorough collection and analysis of all the evidence, investigators must then reconstruct a scenario for the death that accords with the evidence. Following this procedure in the case study presented enabled the author to determine that the crime scene had been staged to make a murder appear to be a suicide.