Posted on 06/12/2021 8:31:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Veteran TV newsman and former University of Alabama football player Christopher Sign died Saturday morning in an apparent suicide, according to police.
At 8:13 a.m. Saturday, the Hoover 911 center received a call of a person down at a residence on Scout Trace. Hoover police and fire personnel arrived to find the 45-year-old Sign dead.
Hoover police Lt. Keith Czeskleba said the death is being investigated as a suicide.
ABC 33/40 in 2017 announced Sign was returning to Birmingham from Phoenix as the evening anchor, replacing Dave Baird after he retired.
Sign co-anchored broadcasts with Brenda Ladun and Pam Huff.
“Our deepest sympathy is shared with Chris’s loving family and close friends,” said Sinclair Broadcast Group Vice President and General Manager Eric S. Land.
“We have lost a revered colleague whose indelible imprint will serve forever as a hallmark of decency, honesty and journalist integrity. We can only hope to carry on Chris’s legacy. May his memory be for blessing,” Land said.
Sign, who grew up near Dallas, previously worked as a reporter for ABC 33/40 from 2000 to 2005, where he covered the 2001 Brookwood mine disaster and hurricanes Charlie, Frances and Ivan.
While a reporter and morning anchor at ABC affiliate KNXV-TV in Phoenix, Sign broke the story of the June 2016 secret tarmac meeting between former President Bill Clinton and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
Sign wrote a book about his experience called Secret on the Tarmac.
Sign also won a 2014 Emmy Award for breaking news for his coverage of the shooting of two Phoenix police officers, as well as an Edward R. Murrow Award for spot news, for his coverage of the search for the “Baseline Killer” and “Serial Shooter” who terrorized Phoenix in the summer of 2016.
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Serial killers
I wonder what story he was about to run with?
Or was this a decade’s worth of sour apples?
Suicided.
“While at Alabama, he met his wife, Laura, an All-SEC volleyball player. The couple has three sons.”
WTF??!? He was a husband and father too. I just don’t understand suicide.
When he exposed the tarmac meeting, he became suicidal. Even if he had no depression or other suicidal tendencies.
I do not believe he killed himself.
If the scene looks clean, then my next guess was that he was threatened, with the death of people he cared about...
Did Vince Foster commit suicide?
Did Jeffrey Epstein kill himself?
Did Seth Rich die from a street robbery with his smart phone still with him?
Epstein was a Sign.
This is sad. The guy had a wife and three kids, and what looks to be like a very successful career.
Arkancide until proven otherwise beyond a reasonable doubt.
Another one added to the Clintons’ long list.
ping
Yep.
Arkancide?
Wow. Gotta be Arkancide.
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