Posted on 06/21/2006 5:06:02 AM PDT by Renfield
Philip Merrill, the prominent publisher and former diplomat whose body was found floating in the Chesapeake Bay on Monday, suffered from a heart condition and apparently took his own life, his family said last night.
Merrill, 72, was found with a shotgun wound to the head and a small anchor tied around one or both ankles, according to a source familiar with the investigation.
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In 1996, former CIA director William E. Colby died from drowning and exposure after falling from a canoe off Charles County.
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In 1978, another former high-level CIA employee, John A. Paisley, disappeared while sailing across the Chesapeake Bay. His body was found a week later near Solomons Island with a fatal gunshot wound in an apparent suicide.
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Could it be murder made to look like suicide?
jm
You're an idiot.
...and a jerk.
I'm with OmahaFields here...IamConservative MEANT to be a jerk.
IMO, he staged his suicide to look like a boating accident.
Why? I don't think his family needs money. They aren't disputing that it's a suicide.
He wanted his family to think he died in an accident.
He sits on the side of the boat with an anchor loosely attached to the boat via rope. He shoots himself in the head and falls backward in the water pulling the rope free.
Again, why the overkill? (no pun intended) Why the need to go into the water?
He wanted his family to think he died in an accident.
Bodies decompose and release the rope and anchor (see Lacy Peterson).
That's my point, the body would surface, but be beyond recognition.
DNA makes your point moot.
Again, he wanted to die but was ashamed to commit suicide. Thus, he set up an 'accident".
Good piece. I believe LBJ was capable of all that and worse.
Seems to me like you might be projecting.
Was a DNA test done?
Is there a reason to suspect Arkancide?
There can be only 3 explanations. Suicide, murder or faked suicide. From what I've read, there hasn't been a real investigation, just an automatic assumption of suicide.
He shot himself and tied an anchor to his ankles doesn't add up to an accident or suicide.
I tried googling to find a connection to the Clintons. He was a NATO rep circa 1990-1992. That puts him in Germany at the same time Wilson was in Iraq. That's 1!!
He may have wanted to spare his family the trauma of finding damaged body. I know people who have been traumatized for life due to discovering a loved one that had committed suicide.
He was giving money to the Libby defense fund. That's "2".
I meant no disrespect. I love a good conspiracy theory. In JFK's case, the idea of that particular lone gunman has always seemed off-base. I hope we do find out someday. About Princess Diana, as well.
It's interesting how frequently in recent years that I've read that very statement involved in a tragic suicide, and in some instances made even more tragic because the person had taken the lives of loved ones before either attempting suicide, being arrested before they could carry out their plan, or succeeding in killing themselves.
Since many of these cases have been so shocking to loved ones and friends, it makes me wonder what type of drug was prescribed, and about the different reactions that drug could possibly cause from person to person that may need more research.
I found a PhilipMerrill family blog site. Apparently, Lynne Cheney worked with Merrill at one time. That's "3".
The guy was on meds. More likely that he would OD than shoot himself. Someone was trying to say something via the method that his life was taken. I just can't see suicide as fitting quite right to what we know right now.
I had that thought as to the method used as well.
Perhaps the family knows more too, so they are just going along with the (?) obvious suicide.
A very barbaric way to choose to go, in my humble opinion....
(Emphasis on CHOOSE)
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