[the younger Madoff, 46, hanging fully clothed from a black dog leash attached to a pipe in the apartment ceiling.
His 2-year-old son was sleeping in a nearby bedroom and was unharmed, as was their labradoodle.]
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I think the labradoodle has some explaining to do.
This reminds me of the ‘suicide’ of Amschel Rothschild, in 1996.
from http://www.beyondweird.com/conspiracy/cn08-68.html
A *Spotlight* inquiry has established that Rothschild, 41, a
billionaire investment banker and a noted sportsman in excellent
health, was discovered lifeless on the floor of the bathroom of
his suite at the luxurious Bristol Hotel in Paris on July 8 at
7:32 pm.
Police found that he had been strangled with the heavy cord of
his own bathrobe. One end of the cord was attached to a towel
rack, as if to suggest that Rothschild’s violent death was
self-inflicted.
“The [French] crime scene investigators never called it
‘suicide,’” reporter Theirry de Segonzac told *The Spotlight* in
a telephone interview from Paris. “After photographing the body,
one of the detectives gave the towel rack tied to the body a
strong tug. It came right out of the wall.”
Had Rothschild really attempted to hang himself from that rack,
he would have ended up with nothing worse than a couple of holes
in the wall, de Segonzac said.
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I doubt that any NYC apartment pipe could hold up a 200 lb man by a dog leash.