[Shaun]

way too good to be true.

Ronald Opus was the suicidal subject of a fictional murder case often misreported as a true story.

The story was originally told by Don Harper Mills, then president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, in a speech at a banquet in 1987. After it began to circulate on the Internet as a factual story and attained the status of urban legend, Mills stated that he made it up as an illustrative anecdote[1] "to show how different legal consequences can follow each twist in a homicide inquiry".