POT,BRAIN CYST MIGHT EXPLAIN VATICAN KILLING

Marijuana smoking and a brain cyst might have impaired the reasoning of a
disgruntled Swiss Guard who killed his commander and the man's wife in May,
the Vatican said Monday in Vatican City.

Closing the books on the first murders in the Vatican in 150 years, the
Vatican said 23-year-old Cedric Tornay shot the couple with his service
revolver before killing himself.

The nine-month investigation reached the same conclusion expressed
immediately after the shocking slayings of Col. Alois Estermann and his
wife, dismissing the possibility of other suspects and leaving no room for
conspiracy theories.

The report was based on a series of ballistic and other technical tests,
autopsies and .38 interviews.