[Netizen]

I was about to say the same thing. They should be taken out to a wall and shot immediately...its quite possible right now as reported on ESPN that his family doesn't even know yet and this filth is already playing a possible suicide angle?

Authorities don't usually release the name until the family has been notified.

[Breyean]

On the Mark Levin show, he just had a sports guy on who said the wife and kid were on a commercial flight to California and didn't know what had happened yet.

Let's hope the first sight they see when they land is NOT a horde of reporters and cameras looking for an instant reaction shot.

[Alberta's Child]

Authorities don't usually release the name until the family has been notified.

True, but in this case "the authorities" may not have had any control over the story. From what I read earlier today, Lidle's identity was learned when someone found his passport on the sidewalk in the vicinity of the wreckage.