How Convenient!
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?
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.
Take boat out, tie anchor to leg, shoot self with shotgun.
How Convenient!
Must have been a really small anchor...
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.
I would think that the Washington Compost would know enough to leave that one alone.
From the article:
"They said he had undergone heart surgery a year ago and was on several medications as a result."
When I hear things like this I wonder what effect his cocktail of drugs had on his mental state. No matter how much testing drugs undergo, we don't know specifically how a drug will affect an individual, nor is there testing done on the synergestic effect of each drug combined with every other drug a doctor may prescribe to one individual. A drug by itself may be ok, but combined with another drug or multiple other drugs, or with the specific chemistry of an individual, may have distrastrous results.
Drugs, whether on the street or in the doctor's office, are potentially dangerous.
>>>>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,
Well no wonder he had a heart attack. Walking around dragging anchors has to be a strain.
Would that be on his bay window?
(.....a bay window is a pot tummy, for those of you in Rio Linda)
Leni
Arkancide?
How could he be sure he would fall into the water after he shot himself? What was the purpose of going into the water in the first place? Was he afraid the shotgun wouldn't finish him off? And why would he use an anchor that apparently was not big enough to keep him from floating? Keep the body in the water long enough so it wouldn't be recognizable? Family seems awfully eager to accept a suicide. Spooky?
from "Analyze That"
Dr. Ben Sobel: I thought you were in prison?
Jelly: It would appear not.
Dr. Ben Sobel: How'd you get out?
Jelly: I had a new trial. Turns out that the evidence in the first trial was tainted.
Dr. Ben Sobel: O, I see
Jelly: Anyway, two of the witnesses decided not to testify and the third guy, well, he commited suicide.
Dr. Ben Sobel: How?
Jelly: He stabbed himself in the back four times and threw himself off a bridge.
wait, did he shoot himself in the head with a shotgun before or after the threw himself overboard with the anchor wrapped around his body?
What kind of arm length would this man have to be able to shoot himself in the head with a shotgun?
This is not a suicide. Can't be.
I remember hearing that the engine was running when the empty boat was found. It is hard for me to understand how even a suicidally depressed person would leave his beloved yacht to be an unattended obstacle to everyone else on the Bay that day. Unless he left the boat aimed at a beach, knowing that it would be out of harm's way. But he was found farther away than the search area so it does not seem like he fell overboard (with an anchor around his ankle) near a beachy shore.
Maybe the blast of the shotgun blew him backward, and his feet entangled the anchor line accidentally.