Missouri woman's family believes her death in motel, ruled suicide, was murder: 'Most horrible case'
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Libby Caswell's family is still searching for answers six years after the 21-year-old was found dead in a Missouri motel bathroom and police ruled her death a suicide.
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"The Independence Police Department failed her, and their investigation was zero on this case, and they just continued to try to prove suicide instead of trying to open their minds and doing the actual, proper investigation," Cindy Caswell, Libby's mother, said during a Dec. 11 press conference with Alliance for HOPE International.
Libby, 21, was found dead in a motel bathroom with her body positioned so that her face was turned toward a wall, according to Dr. William "Bill" Smock of the Louisville Metro Police Department, the only police surgeon in the United States and the co-founder of the Training Institute on Strangulation Prevention. He oversaw the independent investigation into Caswell's death.