Suicide came first to my mind.
Somebody is sending an underground telegraph message for people to shut up about something.
Can't be; he wasn't in Arkansas.
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Yes. Suicide. First he slit his throat, then he pumped 12 rounds into his own body, then he took his mangled body and hung it from a rafter on a rope, then in a final act of desperation, tied a plastic bag over his head.
I hate when that happens.