RELATED: Did Nathan Carman Kill His Mother & Grandfather? Unraveling the Harrowing Family Tragedies<\/a><\/p>\nThe night before he died, investigators also learned he drove to the exact spot where he\u2019d later die and spent 55 minutes there, before going home.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was very unusual. What was he doing in the field the night before his death?\u201d Anderson remarked. \u201cAnd there’s nothing there. It’s in the middle of nowhere. It’s in an open field.\u201d<\/p>\n
The morning of Jan. 25, Abrahamson was captured on surveillance footage leaving out the gate of Ballen Isles at 5:53 a.m., carrying something in his left hand. Then, 37 minutes later, investigators could hear the sound of a gunshot go off, although the shooting itself was not captured in the footage.<\/p>\n
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Alan Abrahamson<\/p>\n
When investigators walked the same path themselves, it took them only 4 minutes to get to the spot where Abrahamson\u2019s body was discovered, leading them to question what he did for the extra minutes before the shot went off.<\/p>\n
They also learned that Abrahamson had purchased a weather balloon about a month before his death, something that was an unusual purchase for him.<\/p>\n
How did Alan Abrahamson Die?<\/p>\n
Investigators developed a \u201cwild theory\u201d that maybe Abrahamson had committed suicide by tying a string to the weather balloon and attaching the gun to the string, so that when he shot himself the weapon would then be carried up into the air with the balloon. The theory would explain the string and rubber bands found at the scene, along with the small blood trail on Abrahamson\u2019s sweatshirt near the gunshot wound, but there wasn\u2019t nothing definitive to confirm their suspicions.<\/p>\n
Then, Machado did a deeper dive into Abrahamson\u2019s phone and discovered that he had conducted searches related to suicide, dating back to 2009.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was contemplating this, not for a week, not for a month. He was contemplating this for 10 years,\u201d Moretti said. \u201cAnd then we learned many of the searches were in his own voice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Abrahamson made voice command searches on the phone, asking \u201cDo life insurance policies pay for suicide?,\u201d the \u201clifting capacity of a 3-foot balloon,\u201d and \u201cshot in the heart. Do you die instantly?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOh my god,\u201d Anderson said of hearing the messages. \u201cIt was like he was leaving evidence from beyond the grave.\u201d<\/p>\n
Investigators concluded that the outwardly jovial Abrahamson had been hiding his mental health struggle from his family for years and didn\u2019t want them to know he\u2019d taken his own life.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wanted everybody to believe that he left happy,\u201d Anderson said. \u201cHe didn\u2019t want to reveal to his family and his wife that he was sad.\u201d<\/p>\n
Detectives believed he filled the weather balloon with the helium tanks and then disposed of them in a nearby dumpster, before firing the fatal shot and having the balloon carry away the evidence. They believed the balloon likely burst somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean about 40 miles north of the Bahamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The morning of Jan. 25, 2018, Palm Beach Gardens Police arrived at the scene of 71-year-old Alan Abrahamson\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35704,35706,28,30,29,7861,35705],"class_list":["post-58437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-alan-abrahamson","tag-bullet-wound","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-palm-beach-gardens","tag-randall-anderson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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