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laboratory tests the prosecution decided, with the support of the police, not to initiate legal proceedings against Afuta's brother and he was released. According to the findings of the renewed police investigation, in the last years of her life
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Preliminary investigations of the crime scene revealed that
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Elimelech and then killed himself. It was also discovered that Afuta's brother arrived on the scene of the crime first, before the police, and in order to obscure the evidence, he moved the gun from Afuta's hand to Elimelech's hand. Although this fact was verified in
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Shortly before the murder, Elimelech's father requested the police to confiscate Afuta's personal weapon, for fear that he might use it against
Elimelech, although the weapon was never taken from Afuta because Elimelech demanded that the complaint be canceled.
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The findings of the second investigation were published three weeks after the murder. Elimelech's remains were only moved from the suicide plot of the
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