REPORT ON THE DEATH OF  GISELLE IANURE
        OCT. 1ST 2005

1- Victim    The victim was a 43 year old white female. Unmarried, with no nearby family.  She was hired as a stand in for another actress while certain scenes were being shot in a movie about the French revolution. She had a background as a magician’s assistant and as an actress herself. The magician she used to work with used as part of his act a guillotine which he used to apparently behead Miss Ianure.  Because of this she quite used to being around and working with guillotines and with acting out the part of a condemned woman. 
2- Scene      When  I arrived on the scene I found a typical movie sound stage with lights, cameras, background scenery, and the like. In the center of the set was what appeared to be a fully functional guillotine with the corpse of the victim still strapped onto the table. Her head was laying on the floor just in front of the device and there was an amount of blood that I estimate to be approximately five quarts pooled on the floor under her body. The blade was still in the position where it landed after severing the neck of the victim. There were many people around and most had witnessed the death. 
3-  Statements and other evidence gathered at the scene.    The death was captured on digital videotape by two cameras  and there was another two and a half hours of tape showing Miss Ianure’s involvement with the guillotine just before her death. Statements and the tapes agree on all basic facts with only minor differences. The victim was being used to act the part of a French noblewoman being executed and the scene being filmed was the execution. She was led in bound and was strapped onto the table of the guillotine. Then the table was lowered and her head placed in the lunette under the raised blade. The guillotine had built into it a stop pin designed to stop the fall of the blade about two inches before it could strike the neck of anyone in the path of the blade’s fall. during the filming the blade was dropped twenty three [23] times with the stop pin working perfectly each time. On the twenty fourth [24th] time the pin failed and the blade beheaded Miss Ianure. Death occurred within seconds. 
4-   Examination of the guillotine and its use     The device was a fully functional guillotine with the only change to the basic classical design was the inclusion of a brass pin that was installed in the left slide rail. This pin’s function was to stop the fall of the blade. Brass was chosen for three major reasons, the first of which was it matched the brass rivets used in the construction on the device, second brass would not harm or deform the steel blade, and last it was much quieter that a steel pin would have been on impact. That the pin might fail had been considered and several new pins were on hand. There was a standing requirement for the person responsible for maintaining the device to examine it before each use and to replace the pin if it showed any  signs of damage or deformation. It had been replaced that morning and since there had never been any problems with it during a day’s shooting it was not checked again. There were somewhere between thirty [30] and thirty three [33]  uses of the stop pin before it failed. No one present could remember any time where there had been so many drops in one day before. 
5-   Post Mortem findings   The body  was clad in a dirty sleeveless shift that was about knee length. There were no other clothes on the body.  At first glance it appeared to be dirty and bruised but upon closer examination both the dirt and the bruises were makeup. 
The body was as one would expect of a female of her age but in perhaps better physical condition. There were no remarkable defects nor abnormalities. She was healthy, well fed but slender, not a virgin and not pregnant. In fact the only thing notable about the body was signs of extreme engorgement of the vaginal lips and a large amount of wetting of the type caused by sexual arousal. In my opinion at the time of her death Miss Ianure was very much sexually aroused.   The cut line was very clean and straight and there were no signs of struggle or force. The body was almost completely drained of blood. 
6-  Possible reasons and causes    The underlying cause seems to be almost certainly the number of times the stop pin was struck by the blade. The reasons for the number of strikes is harder to ascertain. Speaking with the director reveled that he had scheduled several different camera angles and to get all of them in it required several drops of the blade. His notes showed six [6] different shots and with a single exception all had to be reshot several times because in his words “ There was something that just didn’t look right with the shot.’ although just what that something was he was unable to explain at the time. When I examined the films later I noticed that one shot required eight [8] retakes and at first I could see what the director was referring to but I was also unable to decide just what was wrong. Using slow motion and stop frame it became clearer. Miss Ianure’s facial expression and body language were wrong for a woman going to her death. She looked excited and in one shot I could see her pelvis moving in ways that suggested lovemaking. This would agree with the medical findings of sexual arousal I found. It also agrees with some things I heard from friends about Miss Ianure’s sexual proclivities. 
7- Findings    The death of Giselle Ianure was caused by beheading. Her death was an accident with no indication whatsoever of foul play. Proximate causes are 1] Poor design of the guillotine with special attention focused on the stop pin. 2] Failure to inspect the stop pin often enough to detect any early signs of failure. 3] A failure of anybody on the set to count the number of uses the pin had been subjected to and to realize that there was a possibility of failure. 4] The evidence suggests rather strongly that Miss Ianure was sexually aroused by the idea of being beheaded and that she let her sexual arousal interfere with her acting and with the filming. This interference was perhaps a major if not the major reason for the extreme number of drops the pin was subjected to before the ultimate failure that lead to her decapitation and death. In short I believe that Miss Ianure caused her own death due to her intense arousal which necessitated the large number of drops which in turn led to the failure  of the stop pin. In short her sexual fantasies killed her.