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Meyer and his wife Mary divorced in 1958. On 12 October 1964, his former wife Mary was shot dead by an unknown assailant alongside the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.

Even money on it being Meyer who killed her (or had her killed).

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It might have been the CIA or somebody else in government, but there’s a chance that her ex-husband had been able to get over it and move on.

FWIW, on his mother’s side, Cord Meyer was related to Harry Thaw who did kill out of jealousy in a famous early 20th century case.