A suspected murder victim has been found to have committed suicide in an elaborate attempt to make his death look unintentional. Now, police who initially thought Texas man Thomas Hickman, 55, was killed in New Mexico, his mouth duct taped before he was shot in the back of head, are saying the Red Lobster executive re-enacted an episode of CSI in which a man tied helium balloons to the gun he used to kill himself with so that the gun would float away, leading crime scene investigators to believe a murder was committed.

For Ronald Luri, getting fired for not firing employees was worth it after a jury in Cuyahoga County, Ohio awarded him nearly $47 million in compensation for lost income and punitive damage. The 55-year-old former general manager for trash hauler Republic Services Inc. said he was vindicated upon learning of the award, the largest ever in Ohio's history, issued by a Common Pleas Court jury on Thursday.

Six-time champion Takeru Kobayashi had to swallow his pride as well as frankfurters Friday when he failed to topple Joey Chestnut as the reigning hot dog-eating champ. Chestnut retained the title he won in last year's hot dog eating contest by gulping down five dogs in an eat-off. He beat out 20 other contestants in the Nathan's Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest held in the Coney Island section of this New York borough.

An 18-year-old boy found by his father after being lost in the Amazon rain forest for six weeks died in his father's arms moments later. Jonathan dos Santos Alves went missing after becoming separated from friends. One report said the boys were hunting, another said they were looking for waterfalls while camping on May 11, the last day they saw their friend alive.

A teen was decapitated after jumping two fences to get into a restricted area around a Six-Flags roller coaster on Saturday. According to reports, witnesses could only speculate why the boy went to such lengths to gain access to the area that was clearly marked "off limits. " Some say he was trying to retrieve something he'd lost. Another friend entered the prohibited area but was unharmed. The boys were there with a church group from South Carolina, which included the 17-year-old victim's parents.