Retired Los Alamos lab deputy director dead from gunshot

Kobtv.com ^ | January 24, 2003

[aristeides]

If this guy was able to work until last year, I think it's most unlikely the prostate cancer was anywhere near terminal stage.

[philman_36]

DOE Reprimands LANL for Nearly 50 Pounds of Unprotected Plutonium on Property
Snip...In the wake of the tragedy of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, security at LANL is under severe inspection by both LANL and local activist groups. Greg Mello, of the Los Alamos Study Group, criticizes the waste stored outside of PF-185 as a threat to New Mexico¹s security saying that if a jet had flown into such a stack of waste, "you could have a plume of (radiation) going across New Mexico in a short time."
Dick Burick, chief of security at LANL, assures that there were "absolutely no threats whatsoever to the lab," but nevertheless said, "these are very hardened facilities. It would take a large aircraft to do significant damage."
Deputy director?

[Semaphore Heathcliffe]

innerestin', huh? Seems like the logical place to off yourself with handgun. not.

[philman_36]

Some more interesting comments by Dick/Richard...
LANL shuts down amid terrorist acts on East Coast

[Willie Green]

uh, this guy shot himself in the parking lot of a ski area??

Maybe he was just upset that the lift lines were too long.

[philman_36]

He should've known firearms, he had a ranch, ROCKING SIGMA RANCH, 1600 CAMINO REDONDO LOS ALAMOS, NM 87544 for elk hunting.
http://www.gmfsh.state.nm.us/PageMill_Images/Hunting/Landowner/eLOu21a.pdf
He ain't gonna hunt no more.

[Typelouder]

He was getting ready to "talk"....

http://www.geocities.com/onlatime/failsafe.jpg

[Gritty]

Dead men tell no tales!

[fella]

Vince foster was also the frist thing I thought.

[woofie]

Thanks for the post

[Typelouder]

The Silencer

[Dan Day]

Just FYI: While Sarah Brady and her ilk like to give the impression that the most common firearm suicide is a despondent teen, in truth the demographic group most likely for firearm suicide is the elderly, *by far*, especially elderly men.

All the talk about "doctor assisted suicide" tends to distract people from the fact that most of the folks who are looking at an endless slide into terminal illness, failing health, failing finances, failing mental conditions, etc., are able to get the job done themselves without a doctor's help. After a long successful life, many people would rather choose a quick finish than whatever unpleasant end they've been dealt. Actor Brian Keith, for example, chose to shoot himself rather than letting his cancer play itself out.

A large fraction of the teen suicides are connected with terminal or chronic illnesses as well.

[Eva]

Not to be smart, but a self-inflicted gun shot wound or prostrate cancer? How old was your Dad? This guy was relatively young to die of prostrate cancer. You can live a long time with that type of cancer.

[Calvin Locke]

... how much detail ...

I think in the "old" days of journalism school, it was a required course on how to plant "evidence" in order to keep
the story going in the paper for a few more days or weeks.

So, if the story was some murder in an uptight community, a reporter would "drop" a matchbook from a gay bar near the
body. Or in a mostly black one, a KKK hood (with or w/o the initials "RB"). Hint of a sex and murder? Drop a bra. On the grave of the victim.

[nicmarlo]

You can make that three of us!

[PhiKapMom]

LOL!!! Glad to know I am in good company!

[nicmarlo]

How's that go? "Great minds think alike?" : )

[PhiKapMom]

Absolutely! Tin foil and all!

[Thinkin' Gal]

Richard Burick, has died from what police say is an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Like Admiral Boorda?

[Lion's Cub]

Thanks for those links. Still don't know which side got him, though. I bet that audit was interesting.