text: Suicide or Murder? Cops Investigate Mysterious Death of North Carolina Woman 
   
   Sarah Catherine Long was found dead on July 23, lying in her bed with a single gunshot wound above her left ear. In her hand was a .357 Taurus revolver.Police in Davidson, North Carolina, initially classified the death as a suicide. But soon, they began to notice inconsistencies surrounding her death. Among the most troubling: the gun was found in her left hand, and Long was right-handed. The medical examiner couldn't definitively determine whether Long died of the gunshot wound, and he found no blood on the hand Long would have fired with.Nearly four months later, authorities are still investigating whether there was foul play in the death of the 41-year-old woman."This is an ongoing death investigation and it is considered 'suspicious,' " Cristina Shaul, a spokeswoman for the town of Davidson, tells PEOPLE.Although Long was married at the time of her death, she was having an affair with a married man. Just days after Long's body was found, her lover, William Becker, came forward and produced documents showing that she had left her $1 million fortune to him.According to a search warrant obtained by PEOPLE, neighbors saw Becker at Long's home on July 19, the last time she was seen alive. One neighbor reported hearing a loud bang.The warrant, written by Davidson police Sgt. Stephen Ingram, says Becker told authorities that Long had been diagnosed with cervical cancer and became depressed. Authorities, however, interviewed Long's doctor, who said she only had abnormal cells on her cervix – a diagnosis she had dealt with before and could cure with a minor outpatient procedure.Police also interviewed Long's estranged husband, Christopher Reeves, who said he talked with her on the day of her death and she seemed "fine."In separate documents obtained by The Charlotte Observer , police say Becker's wife told them that he had given her a smoothie that tasted funny."She asked if it contained medicine," Ingram wrote. She said Becker took the drink from her and flushed it down the toilet. According to the documents, Becker later told his wife that he had added a sleep aid to the drink to help her rest.On Nov. 3, police seized Long's computer, router and Yahoo Mail account in hopes of recreating the last days of her life.Investigators are awaiting forensic results that will tell them if Long was drugged and whether gunpowder residue was found on her hands. A police spokeswoman told CBS's 48 Hours that authorities have identified a person of interest, but they could not divulge any additional details. ||||| WCNC Sarah Catherine Long, 41, was found dead inside of her Davidson, N.C. townhouse on July 23 in what was initially ruled a suicide from a self-inflicted gunshot. 
   
   A secret lover, a $1 million fortune, and a potentially planted handgun have led to authorities reexamining the death of a married North Carolina woman whose cause was initially ruled suicide. 
   
   Authorities in Davidson have launched a suspicious death investigation into Sarah Catherine Long's July demise after a number of oddities arose including a handgun found in the right-handed woman's left hand, the Charlotte Observer reported. 
   
   Only days after her body was found, authorities say a married man, who claimed to have been having a seven-month affair with the 41-year-old, produced documents showing that she left him everything in her will — a fortune totaling nearly $1 million. 
   
   That man, William Becker, was incidentally also the first to tip police off to her death after calling authorities under the claim that he hadn't seen her in days, according to a search warrant obtained by the Observer. 
   
   When authorities responded to his call by checking on her at her townhouse on July 23 she was found on her bed with a bullet through her left temple, according to the warrant. 
   
   But investigators now believe someone was with her when she died. 
   
   After speaking with Becker, police say he told them that Long had been depressed and had been recently diagnosed with cervical cancer — a claim Long's doctor later argued as untrue. 
   
   "Mr. Becker began crying as he said that he should have taken her to the hospital. I noticed that there were no tears as Mr. Becker cried," the search warrant read. 
   
   WCNC Just days after Long's body was found, a man who claimed to have been her secret boyfriend for the last seven months told authorities that she left him everything in her will — a $1 million fortune. 
   
   When police interviewed Becker's wife, more red flags apparently popped up. 
   
   The woman allegedly told police that her husband may have tried to poison her with a smoothie on May 8, WCNC reported. 
   
   After complaining that the drink tasted funny, and apparently asking more questions than his liking, she said her husband flushed the beverage down the toilet. 
   
   No arrests have been made in the case but search warrants filed last month by police show detectives are actively investigating who, if anyone, was in her home on the night she died. 
   
   On Oct. 13, a search warrant for Long's AT&T wireless router, four laptops, a thumb drive, memory card and two Barnes & Noble Nooks were requested by a Davidson detective, the Observer reported. 
   
   As cited in the request, authorities hope the router may have picked up a cellphone or any other electronic device belonging to someone who was inside of Long's residence on the night she died. 
   
   If that's the case, that information could be extracted and matched to its owner. 
   
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   New search warrants are revealing more details about the days leading up to the mysterious death of Sarah Catherine Long. Long was found with a single gunshot wound to the left side of her head at her Davidson home in July. 
   
   At first, her death was considered a suicide, but several factors led police to reclassify the case as a homicide. 
   
   According to search warrants, a neighbor told police the last time she saw Long was on Friday, July 18. She said Long was walking with a man, later identified as William Drew Becker. 
   
   The warrants say Becker showed police documents that the 41-year-old victim left him everything in her will. It totaled about $1.5 million dollars. Becker claimed they were lovers and she was sick with cervical cancer. 
   
   Another neighbor told officers that she saw Long on July 19 wearing a long dress and standing outside her home with a man. 
   
   That same day, another neighbor who lives next door, told police she heard a heavy slam coming from Long's bedroom. That's the day police believe Long died. 
   
   Her body was found four days later after police received a call from a concerned citizen, later identified as Becker. 
   
   A week after Long's death, on Tuesday, July 29, the Mecklenburg County medical examiner told police he could not detect any blood on Long's left hand, the hand she was suspected of using to take her own life. 
   
   In the warrants, both police and the examiner agreed that the gun was found in an odd position. After talking with family, police also learned Sarah Long was right-handed. 
   
   On August 6, Long's OBGYN told detectives that Long did not have cervical cancer. 
   
   Davidson Police say they are examining electronic evidence collected at Long's home, as well as reviewing Long's financial information. 
   
   The search warrant states that investigators believe Long's financial records could determine who long was with the evening she died. At this time no arrests have been made in this case. 
   
   A spokesperson for Davidson Police says they are looking into a person of interest, but are not releasing their name. 
   
   Copyright 2014 WBTV. All rights reserved. ||||| DAVIDSON In hopes of identifying her killer, police have seized the Yahoo! Internet accounts of a woman found dead in her townhouse in July. 
   
   Davidson police Detective Vernon Siders Jr. seized Sarah Catherine Long’s accounts by court order late last week, including text messages and saved, opened, unopened and deleted emails, according to a search warrant. 
   
   Siders also seized information on financial transactions done through Long’s Yahoo! accounts, the search warrant said. The warrant doesn’t disclose what he found. 
   
   A Superior Court judge issued the warrant on Thursday, and Siders seized the emails, text messages and other information through Yahoo! Inc.’s compliance team in Sunnyvale, Calif., according to the warrant. 
   
   Siders didn’t return a voicemail message left by the Observer on Tuesday. 
   
   Long was found dead in her bedroom on July 23 with a gun in her hand, according to previous search warrants. 
   
   She died of a single gunshot wound to the left side of her head, Dr. Michael Sullivan, Mecklenburg County’s chief medical examiner at the time, wrote in an autopsy report obtained by the Observer. 
   
   Police said Long’s death initially appeared to be from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to a previous search warrant returned. 
   
   But based on witness statements, police said, they believe someone else was inside Long’s house on Old Meeting Way the night she died, according to other search warrants. Police are now treating the death as a homicide. 
   
   Responding officers found Long in her upstairs bedroom, clutching a .357 Taurus revolver in her left hand. Police said Long was right-handed, according to the warrants. 
   
   Siders said in the previous warrants that he was approached by William Becker, who told the detective he was a friend of Long and that she was depressed and had recently been diagnosed with cervical cancer. Long’s doctor told police three weeks after Long was found dead that she did not have cervical cancer, according to the warrants. 
   
   One search warrant said Becker told a detective about his relationship with Long. They’d met in December and began dating in April. Both were married, and the relationship was a secret, Becker told investigators, according to the warrant. 
   
   The warrant indicates that Long’s will left Becker all of her assets – nearly $1 million. 
   
   Attempts by the Observer to reach Becker in recent months have been unsuccessful.
target: – A gun found in the left hand of a right-handed suicide victim. A secret married lover. And a $1 million inheritance. These are all clues in the mysterious July death of Sarah Catherine Long, 41, who police in Davidson, NC, at first believed killed herself, People reports. But now, they say she was murdered. Long's married lover, William Becker, tipped off police, claiming not to have seen her in four days, the New York Daily News reports. She was found dead in her condo on July 23 with a gun in her left hand and a gunshot wound above her left ear. But Long was right-handed and that hand wasn't bloody. Days after her death, Becker came forward claiming Long left him a $1 million fortune in her will. He also said she was depressed because she had cervical cancer, which her doctor refutes, WBTV reports. Meanwhile, Becker's wife told police he gave her a smoothie in May that tasted of medicine, which she says he dumped in the toilet when confronted; she thinks he was trying to poison her. Investigators are awaiting results that will determine if Long was drugged. Neighbors saw Long enter her house with a man at about 10:20pm on July 19, the night police think she died. Police are now analyzing Long's texts, four laptops, wireless router, Yahoo account, and financials, the Charlotte Observer reports. They're hoping that the router might have linked to the cellphone of the man she was with the night of her death. (In North Carolina, a sinister mystery surrounds the hanging death of a teen whose family says he didn't kill himself.)