Police Involvement after Death

[midnight.moon]

Hi!

I'm 18, in the US. I do have siblings who are quite young. Perfect home, but I have to can't cuz of personal screwups.

If I leave a behind a suicide letter, will police get warrant to search my emails, laptop, social media, etc?

 

[futurecorpse]

if there's no suspicion of foul play, there's no need for a warrant. Why not wipe all your data before ctb?

 

[midnight.moon]

I wanna but like I'm not super techy, I feel like they can still access email and stuff

 

[soonnotkoei]

it doesnt take that much techyness to wipe your data if you do it right. also i dont think the authorities will go to very great lengths to search your data if your death looks like a voluntary suicide to them which it will most probably.

 

[Unspoken7612]

A suicide letter makes it less likely they will investigate.

They still might - they'll want to be sure you weren't murdered.

 

[Forveleth]

From what I have seen they will treat it as a murder first until it becomes obvious it is a suicide. Just FYI they may take your note as evidence. I have heard families say they did not get a chance to read the note until weeks later.