Apparently, he was a coward.
IMO, he staged his suicide to look like a boating accident. Think of all the time and money spent on trying to find this louse.
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.
Bodies decompose and release the rope and anchor (see Lacy Peterson).
This is no mystery. It's just a bad attempt at covering up a cowardly suicide.
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?
Bodies decompose and release the rope and anchor (see Lacy Peterson).
That's my point, the body would surface, but be beyond recognition.
The guy was one of the most generous public benefactors in Maryland and DC. He was hardly a louse, and had certainly made up for whatever was spent in his family's behalf looking for him.
Phillip Merrill of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Phillip Merrill Center at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Philip Merrill (neo-con)
Center for Security Policy: Adviser
U.S. Export-Import Bank: President
Capital Gazette Communications: Chairman
Phillip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland
Washington Post editorial June 14 about Merrill
Phillip Merrill sworn in as President of the Import-Export Bank of the United States (EX-IM)
Phillip Merrill, owner of the Annapolis, MD newspaper Capital Gazette (he was also owner of the DC paper Washingtonian)
Statement of Cornell University on loss of alumnus Phillip Merrill
Phillip Merrill, benefactor of the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University, located in Washington, DC
Phillip Merrill Fellowship, the American Academy of Diplomacy
or dastardly murder...