Merrill Apparently Shot Himself On the Bay

Washington Post ^ | 6-21-06 | Eric Rich

[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.

[Protagoras]

Way! Cool pic! I'm changing my hair to look more like the figure with the good taste!

[Axenolith]

I think there'd be an enormous difference in taste between eating a crustacean that feeds on whale crap and one that feeds on over the hill Washington bureaucrats...

Give me the ones that eat the crap...

[null and void]

You never watched Alf???

Dude!

[Protagoras]

No, I don't watch much tv. But I have sen him around.

He tried to drive me off my cat road kill once. :^}

[RetiredArmy]

THINK about it.

[Renfield]

Southern Maryland IS (or at least WAS) the south.

[null and void]

I got nuthin'

[RetiredArmy]

Why am I not surprised.

[null and void]

The screen name, perhaps?