It's that time of the year here in Maryland (or 'Merlin', as the locals say it). According to these excerpts, the crabs should be heavy this year with all the extra food.
Posted on 06/21/2006 5:06:02 AM PDT by 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.
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Or a very long anchor rope.
I would think that the Washington Compost would know enough to leave that one alone.
Don't some of these antidepressant drugs have the documented side effect of causing suicidal thoughts?
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?
Reminds me of another 'suicide' from the LBJ years. (Bobby Baker case?)
The victim "shot himself" several times with a lever action rifle. I remember an interview where a local LEO demonstrated how this was accomplished and, when asked if he had any doubts as to whether this was a suicide, replied, "No dopubts whatever."
It's that time of the year here in Maryland (or 'Merlin', as the locals say it). According to these excerpts, the crabs should be heavy this year with all the extra food.
Ok, yall have convinced me this morning that it was a very good idea for me to become vegetarian (permanently) almost 10 years ago. Yeecchh!
As a former CCU RN, I remember very well the depression resulting in patients that had to spend much time on the heart-lung machine. It may have been as high as 30-40%.
Anyone?
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?
LOL!
Yeah, yeah, but what was his backup plan?
Chesapeake Bay tends to be very shallow.
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.
ICU psychosis?
Supposedly it is an aftereffect of the blood cells being manipulated through the tubing of the actual machine. (Please all, feel free to correct me for I am working from memory only here)
Then again, I was the NURSE, and I got a heavy dose of ICU psychosis (sp), lol
I agree, it sounds a bit weird. I suppose you could shoot yourself and then throw yourself overboard, but with an anchor tied to you? Hmmmm...
susie
Being a vegetarian would depress me.....
susie
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