. >> mick fletcher told police his wife accidentally shot herself in their bedroom shortly after a tripthe firing range as she tried to reload their pistol. leann's mother suspected that an accidental shooting in the head was a little too convenient. >> this was a terrible accident, she would have been shot in her hand, her arm, her foot, in the wall. i said, it wouldn't be in her head. >> in the couple's bedroom, police noticed bloodstains on the carpet under leann's body as well as under the gun and clip. and there was blood spatter on the computer stand by the bed. there was more blood spatter on the edge of the bedspread. the medical examiner performed leann's autopsy. there was no gun powder residue in the bullet wound, but there were some tiny dots of gun powder called stippling embedded in the skin around the wound. >> the stippling is a phenomena that occurs when partly burnt particles land on the surface of the skin. >> the density of this stippling pattern indicated that the mussel of the firearm was 12 to 18 inches away from the head when the gun went off and the trajectory o