Archive for the 'Assassination' Category
Bernard Madoff’s Son Mark Found Hanged
December 11th, 2010Update Via: Gothamist: Yesterday morning, the body of Mark Madoff was found hanging from a dog leash in his Soho apartment, while his two-year-old son was sleeping in another room. While no note was found, it’s believed the 46-year-old son of infamous Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff committed suicide, based on desperate e-mails he sent to […]
Iran: Nuclear Physicist Killed in Bomb Blast
November 29th, 2010Via: Reuters: A university teacher was killed in a car bomb blast in Tehran and three people were wounded in another explosion on Monday, Iran’s al Alam Arabic language television reported. Al Alam said the dead person and one of the wounded were nuclear physics teachers. State radio said the attackers planted a bomb on […]
Director of Operations for BP’s Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Recovery Efforts and Former Texas Solicitor General Die in Plane Crash
November 25th, 2010Via: AP: An executive helping to guide BP’s recovery from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a top Texas lawyer and his mother-in-law were killed in a small plane crash in waters off northern Florida, officials said Wednesday. James Patrick Black, 58, died about a mile from the Destin airport in the Florida Panhandle on […]
Russia Frees Israeli Mercenary
November 20th, 2010Via: BBC: Russia has released Israeli mercenary Yair Klein, who was sought by Colombia for his involvement in the training of paramilitary squads, reports say. Klein, a former Israeli army soldier, is on his way to Israel, Interfax news agency reports. In 2001, a Colombian court convicted him in absentia of training right-wing guerrilla groups. […]
Scientist Who Studied How Mosquitoes Transmit Diseases Dies After Ingesting Cyanide
November 17th, 2010Via: The Tampa Tribune: A University of South Florida researcher stumbled out of her hotel room Monday night and told two guests she had ingested cyanide, police said. Chitra Chauhan, 33, wife and mother of a 3-year-old, was pronounced dead at a hospital about two hours later, victim of an apparent suicide. A small amount […]
Drug Expert Claims David Kelly Was Murdered
November 14th, 2010Via: Daily Mail: Police have been urged to start a murder inquiry into Dr David Kelly’s death following further allegations that he did not commit suicide. Officers have been told the government scientist could not have taken an overdose of painkillers. This overdose was found by the original pathologist to be one of the causes […]
Russia Hunts Double Agent Who Betrayed U.S. Cell
November 11th, 2010Via: MSNBC: The head of Moscow’s deep cover spying operations in the United States was a double agent who had betrayed at least 10 compatriots in a major blow to Russian intelligence, a Russian newspaper said on Thursday. Kommersant reported that Colonel Shcherbakov, head of the Foreign Intelligence Service’s department for “illegal” spying operations in […]
George Hickenlooper, Director of ‘Casino Jack,’ a Film About Jack Abramoff, Found Dead
November 1st, 2010Natural causes… Via: New York Times: George Hickenlooper, a director whose credits include an Emmy-winning documentary about the making of “Apocalypse Now” and a film starring Kevin Spacey as the disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff that is scheduled to open in December, died on Saturday in Denver. He was 47. He was in Denver to spend […]
Randy Quaid Speaks Directly to Press
November 1st, 2010I avoided posting this story, initially, but it has become somewhat interesting, from a Beware-Of-Crooked-Lawyers perspective, and maybe other perspectives.
Second Autopsy Shows Banker Had Gunshot Wound to Head
October 21st, 2010Oh sure, “It could be either a homicide or a suicide.” And how did the first autopsy miss a gunshot wound to the head and call it drowning?! Spitz has said previously that his examination on Monday found no evidence of trauma or assault, and some evidence from the body is consistent with a death […]
