TEMPE, AZ-Police are investigating a possible suicide that occurred Tuesday night in an Arizona State campus apartment. Police said Michelle Johnson, 22, hanged herself from the rafters of her bedroom with a thick rope.

Roommates Tatum Cunningham, 21, and Bailey Downey, 21, discovered Johnson’s body early Thursday morning when they arrived home from a party and entered Johnson’s room to search for cigarettes. Although police at present are not releasing the details of Johnson’s suicide note, roommate Downey, who claims to have read the note, told reporters it included an odd reference to actor and comedian Bernie Mac.

“It said something about not being able to live with Bernie Mac. That made me suspicious of foul play right away. I’m a Crim. J major, you know.”

Cunningham and Downey said that Johnson had been suffering from depression over the loss of her lover, Clyde Barker, who stopped seeing Johnson last month for “personal” reasons. Downey said that she heard rumors Barker left Johnson because of her eclectic tattoos of major Hollywood actors such as Kevin Costner and Nick Nolte. She said she was not aware of a new, lower-back tattoo of comedian and actor Bernie Mac.

“I don’t think she would have killed herself 'cause of a tat of Bernie Mac, if that’s what we’re to infer from the note. I think it must be foul play,” Downey said. Cunningham agreed. “Michelle was a super original person--you could tell by her tattoos. I mean, who would have the guts to get a huge tattoo of Nick Nolte on her lower back? She's a strong, independent spirit--not one who would off herself for a guy like Barker or Bernie Mac. It must have been a ritualized murder by Satanists.”

Although police are not taking the aspiring detectives Downey and Cunningham seriously and still consider the death to be a suicide, they would like to know more about the Bernie Mac tattoo.

“What’s a 21-year-old white girl doing with a tattoo like that on her back,” asked Tempe detective Raymond Schmidt. “I’m sure that Mr. Mac can get a bunch of them high-powered Hollywood lawyers to get out of this one like that OJ Simpson, so there’s not much we can do, but it just don’t seem right to me.”