Just for the record, here's one person we can take off the list. Remember Richard Hamilton, the Herndon, VA Dept. of Defense contractor who killed himself and his family in Nov, 2000? We thought at one time he may have been Arkancided because of his DOD connections. His own father is convinced otherwise.
The Washington PostThis one happened during 2000, that period of time when people connected with Clinton were dying left and right. (Charles Ruff, John Millis, Robert Damus, etc.).
November 19, 2000
In Herndon, Smoldering Nuclear Family Explodes; Tormented Father Could See No Way Out
By Tom Jackman(snip)
At 7:15 a.m., Hamilton called his employer to say he would not be coming in that day. He and Svitavsky (his wife) had just had another "knock-down drag-out," the employer later told Hamilton's father, and Hamilton had said he was leaving this time.
Instead of leaving, though, Hamilton took a Colt .45-caliber pistol and fatally shot his wife and two daughters in the head. Then he splashed kerosene and gasoline around the house, mostly in the room where he kept his prized model train collection.
At 7:50 a.m., he called his parents in central Illinois one last time. He seemed different, somehow "euphoric," his father, Richard W. Hamilton Sr., recalled.
"I just wanted you to know things are bad here," Hamilton told his parents. He told them that he, Bene and the children would not be able to make his parents' 50th wedding anniversary party. He also said the arguing with his wife, in front of their small children, "tore him up." Then he told his parents they might be getting a "bizarre call" from Virginia.
"He was saying goodbye," his father says he knows now.
Then Rick Hamilton ignited the house, walked into the garage and shot himself in the head.(snip)
Gelles said that those of the latter type often "put out a certain notice that this was all unfolding." And sure enough, two days before the shootings, Hamilton despairingly told a longtime friend, "I might as well just shoot everybody and burn the house down." The friend had heard such talk before and gently shifted the conversation.
Hamilton's friends think it was a combination of those factors: a quiet, uncommunicative man who, though intelligent, couldn't picture any other escape. His parents think anti-depressant medication pushed him over the edge.
"Knowing the pain which his little girls would endure, the anxiety of separation, the almost impossible financial hurdle, his chemically altered brain seemed to find the perfect solution and in minutes, destroyed everything that was precious in his life," Richard Hamilton Sr. said.
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BTW, let this be a heads-up to everyone to pay attention when a friend is throwing out overt or covert clues of an upcoming suicide. Sometimes we blow them off because we don't feel comfortable talking about it.
Thank you so much for the additional information on Hamilton! I'm glad the tidbits on Millis were helpful!
In February 2001, Ms. Linda Millis joined Business Executives for National Security as Vice President for New Tools, New Teams for New Threats. Ms. Millis brings over 18 years of experience in intelligence and national security affairs to her position at the helm of BENSs newest term. In her role as Vice President, Ms. Millis leads BENS action in the areas of domestic preparedness for bioterrorism, critical infrastructure protection, financial tracking, intelligence reform, and US/Russian non-proliferation programs.Jamie S. Gorelick is also a member of BENS.