As indigenous people of Australia can track footprints on dry rocks, but can an early death, be it suicide or homicide, leave tracks too that might provide answers to a crime? YES!
- Peter Vaughan
- Apr 21
- 2 min read
Philip John Polkinghorne V's Pauline Kay Hanna - Murder or Suicide? A Lettrology Opinion.
A very public trial in 2024 to determine if suicide or homicide, was the finding of a woman who allegedly took her own life on 4/5th April 2021. A trial by jury established the accused, her husband, was not guilty of murder due to reasonable doubt.
The saying "Occam's Razor" applies here, meaning that if there are two opposing sets of factors presented and the simplest one seems to fit best, and it's usually the right one.
Facts: A depressed woman apparently hung herself but was found on the floor by police after her husband cut the rope she allegedly used but the marks on her neck were consistent with a belt. Her body had bruises claimed by investigators caused after she was 'cut down' (no body mentioned the fact dead people cannot bruise at all!), the husband had been having an affair for years with a woman, Madison Ashton.
The lover went public after the case saying he was guilty of murder. They were caught together by police in a resort with 5 weeks after his 'loving wife's death.' and to top it off he was found to have 7 times beyond the limit of methamphetamine, enough to consider him a drug dealer. But he got convicted and was sentenced to 150 hours community work.

Lettrology suggests it was no suicide. Pauline's chart does show emotional patterns consistent with the fact her mother died 6 weeks before her own death, but suicide has a common patters leading up to the event, like footprints over rocks that can be seen by people who know what to look for.
If Pauline did suicide, she had no indicators to support that finding. However, specific patterns ahead in her widowed husband's Lettrology chart indicate he may be suicidal himself between the first quarter of 2026 but no longer than October 2027. Maybe potential guilt grinds him down enough to self-exit. The stage and conditions are on their way. Again, only my opinion based on 45 years research and testing such matters.
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