7NEWS Spotlight – The truth about Amy: Crime scene detail blows open investigation into WA mum’s Amy Wensley’s death

A world-renowned crime scene reconstruction expert has sensationally concluded there was no way young WA mother Amy Wensley could have killed herself – ten years after a WA Police detective took minutes to conclude she did.

This week and for many weeks, Seven West Media will launch an important new podcast – The Truth About Amy – which will revisit the death of devoted mother-of-two Amy Wensley at the Serpentine in 2014.

Amy’s body was found slumped behind her bedroom door with a fatal head wound from a close-range shotgun blast.

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Her important belongings were in a car, along with her two daughters – in a clear sign she was about to leave the house she shared with partner David Simmons.

But despite the uncomfortable position of her body and the serious suspicions of the first police on the scene, the detectives who arrived quickly decided that the death was a suicide – and raised the forensic blinds in the room.

After Amy’s body was removed, this room was deep cleaned.

But her family has since believed the cause of the 24-year-old’s death was not as clear-cut as police had insisted.

In 2021, after a harrowing investigation, an investigator said he could not rule out foul play – and refused to record a finding of suicide.

And now, award-winning journalists Liam Bartlett and Alison Sandy have undergone their own intensive re-investigation of all the facts for the multi-part podcast, which will launch on Sunday night.

As part of this investigation, they enlisted the services of Scott Roeder, head of US-based forensics firm Evidence Room.

Such is his firm’s expertise, trials in which they have consulted include the murder charges against Paralympian Oscar Pistorius and Derek Chauvin, the police officer convicted of killing George Floyd.

Mr. Roeder was asked to use this expertise to recreate in detail the room in which Amy Wensley died, which even included a body double with physical characteristics almost identical to Amy’s.

And his conclusion – which will also air in a special episode of Seven’s Spotlight tonight – was emphatic.

“It’s not suicide, I tell you. It’s 100% not suicide,” Mr Roeder said.

During the inspection, this small room and the condition in which it was found were described in detail.

It tells how Amy was found in a sitting position with her left leg resting on the door. She sat on her right hand with her left hand visible in her lap.

Two firearms were immediately visible, a shotgun on the floor — spattered with blood — and a pink .22 rifle leaning against the wall.

The first police officer who saw this painting believed that two hands would be needed to fire a rifle like the one in the scene, and that it would be “very rare and unusual” for someone to shoot themselves with this weapon one-handed.

“There are so many things that bother me about it. The number one thing is the position it’s in,” Mr Roeder says now.

“The left hand can’t pull the trigger, the right hand can’t pull the trigger. And as an investigator… it becomes pretty obvious. She didn’t pull the trigger.

“Not in the way consistent with the wound and the other evidence.”

Mr Roeder said it wasn’t just the position of Amy’s body that raised a red flag.

The inquest was told the bloodstained shotgun was about 1.5 meters away from Amy, next to the bed – while Amy was sitting upright behind the door.

It was also stated that the blood on the barrel of the shotgun indicated that the firearm was close to Amy’s head when it was fired.

“Well, the answer is very simple. The gun didn’t end up like that. The gun was set up like this. Or if someone just said the gun was like that,” Mr Roeder said.

“There is a reason why I got on a plane from the United States and came to Australia for this case and not for any other.” That’s because this case is so inexplicably flawed.

Mr. Roeder’s contribution is just one of the astonishing revelations revealed by the team behind The Truth About Amy.

The team interviewed Amy’s friends and family, including her two daughters. He questions the police present at the scene and questions the actions of others.

He questions lawyers and attorneys about what evidence was collected and what was not.

He confronts David Simmons’ friends and family – one who was there that night and one who wasn’t – and challenges them on the inconsistencies in their stories.

And Liam Bartlett finds David Simmons himself – who has always denied that he pulled the trigger.

*7NEWS Spotlight: The Truth About Amy airs tonight on Channel 7 and 7plus