How Convenient!
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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Weird...
His family doesn't think so, said he'd been depressed for weeks and had recently gone to a doctor for help.
Friend of the Clintons?
At his age, with all his success...
What could possibly be depressing enough to bring him to suicide?
The answer would provide an interesting insight into the workings of a fascinating mind.
Remember that when you have blue crab for dinner.
".....Sounds like Chesapeake Bay may have as many bodies as Marine Park in Brooklyn....."
I've often fished for stripers off a place called "Bloody Point". It takes its name from the number of murders that have taken place there.
Local lore has it that unscrupulous oystermen in the 1800's would find unemployed black men looking for work around the docks, take them on as hands, work them hard, and after the boat was loaded with oysters, instead of paying them, the captains would knock them in the head, and push them overboard into the freezing water off bloody point.
Lobsters eat whale crap. They still taste good!
Interesting that one could get to 72 years of age and finally decide "I can't take it anymore." One would think that proclivity would have been acted out many years ago.
Perhaps we can conclude he was very indecisive..??..
Did he have anything to do with Hillary Clinton?
I think in hindsight, they realized its much better to put the body in a boat than in Ft. Marcy Park.
Blue claws.....MMMmmmmmm!
Take boat out, tie anchor to leg, shoot self with shotgun.
How Convenient!
Must have been a really small anchor...
What could possibly be depressing enough to bring him to suicide?
I know someone who is an acquiantance of one of his family...it was said he had a recent heart problem and was taking medications. They observed his spirits were low, but didnt think it was this bad.
According to today's Baltimore Sun, he underwent serious heart surgery in the past year and was on several medications. Discouragement over the physical limitations that can come with heart disease (though he went single sailing) or side effects of the meds may have had something to do with it.
Pirates of the Chesapeake?
He was fixin' to talk..................or publeesh
If he had an anchor tied around his ankle(s), how did he float?
If he tied the anchor around his ankle(s) first, he sunk and how did he shoot himself?
If he shot himself first, how did he tie an anchor around his ankle(s)?
Make up my mind.
I'd guess somebody is scared poopless about whoever did this and is playing it real safe.
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