Anthony Bourdain hung himself in June 2018 and so did Kate Spade. Other recent celebrity hangings include Chris Cornell (2017), Chester Bennington (2017), Mark Sailing (2018), August Ames (2017) a Canadian pornography actress, and no doubt more I've missed.
The suicides listed above were all relatively controversial. Like the Epstein "suicide" many have speculated that these people were murdered by forces associated with human trafficking rings and/or despicable acts involving children, etc, all under the authority, or at the insistence of very powerful people (aka, the Deep State.)
That the deaths by hanging seemed to be a common denominator, the idea that the method was a "calling card" by the Deep State did not take long to take hold in every media venue except the mainstream. We generally subscribe to the theory that the deaths above, and others, were at the hands of Deep State operators. The death by hanging method, especially with the belt of a bathrobe might be a calling card, but we would argue it is just a more practical murder method when the goal is to make the murder look like a suicide.As the chart shows, suicide by firearm is the most popular method, followed by hanging, poisoning, falling and cutting. If the plan is to commit a murder and try to pass it off as a suicide, then hanging/suffocating seems the most efficient and practical. A gun to the head is definitely going attract immediate attention, plus, it is apparently to technical to get just right as far as how the gun should be held, the position the body should be in, whether or not the victim had a gun. The "suicide" of Vince Foster is still causing problems for the Clintons because of all those factors.
Aside from hanging, the other "popular" suicide methods are not always practical if you want the murder to look like a suicide. Those of us with dogs know how difficult it is to get "Rover" to take a single heart worm pill. Imagine trying to shove a bottle full of Oxycontin into the mouth of someone who does not want it. There is going to be a struggle, and even if successful, a long wait.
- Fall - You need a high place.
- Cut/Piece - Who has time to wait for the victim to bleed out.
- Drowning - You need a pool or a pond; etc.
The point should be clear. Strangling someone with a rope is quieter than using a firearm, and making it look like a suicide by hanging, is just more practical than the other methods. If there is symbolism in a bathrobe rope, so be it, but it is probably just quick, practical, and does not leave a mess.
Ethel du Pont (January 30, 1916 – May 25, 1965)
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| Robert Mueller Jr. (l) Dupont (c) Donald Sherwood (r) 1937 |
Ethel du Pont was the eldest child of Eugene du Pont, Jr. and Ethel du Pont (nee Pyle) and granddaughter of Eugene du Pont Sr., the first head of the modern DuPont Corporation.
Ethel is most famous for two things, her marriage in 1937 to Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt and her eventual suicide in 1965. She divorced Frank Jr. in 1949, and married Benjamin S. Warren Jr. in 1950.
From Wikipedia: Ethel du Pont was forty-nine years old when she committed suicide on May 25, 1965. She had been under psychiatric care several times in the years preceding her death and spent time at the Silver Hill Foundation, a hospital in New Canaan, Connecticut. Her death took place a few months before her son Christopher's wedding in June 1965 and while her son with Warren, then 10 years old, was away at boarding school.
In typical Wikipedia fashion, there is no mention about the method Ethel used to kill herself. As the clipping shows though, Ethel hung herself
"...by a braided bathroom belt from a shower curtain rod in a locked second-floor bathroom."
Ethel was probably upset about something
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| 1937 |
The clipping above showing Robert Mueller Jr. (father of Robert Swan Mueller III) Eugene du Pont Jr. (Ethel's father) and Donald Sherwood. They were definitely powerful. There are other posts in this blog that highlight some of the connections between these members of the Gibson Island Club and nefarious historical events that have occurred, possibly because of their influence and power, over the past 100 years.
Who knows what Ethel was upset about. It probably had nothing to do with Cold War intrigue, illicit weapons transfers, third world coups, or first world assassinations. Nevertheless, her suicide must have been the talk of the Gibson Island cocktail parties in the summer of 1965.
Only the previous Fall (October 12, 1964), another face very familiar to the Gibson Island Set had been shot to death on the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal towpath in Georgetown, where many of the Gibson Islanders had their full year residences.
Mary Pinchot Meyer was not "Suicided"
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| Mary Pinchot and Cord Meyer Married '45 - Divorced '58 |
There were only about 100 families on Gibson Island back in the 1960s. Whether or not Mary Pinchot spent much time on Gibson, either as a child, or later in life, we are not sure. We tend to believe she was at the very least familiar with the place and Ethel du Pont.
Mary Pinchot's uncle Gifford (Gifford Pinchot - 28th Governor of Pennsylvania) was an early buyer of a Gibson Island lot (1920s or 1930s) along with Ethel's grandfather Eugene du Pont. In those early days, there were probably less than 50 families on Gibson Island. Ethel was four years older than Mary Pinchot. It is probably not a stretch to speculate they knew each other.
We'll take a closer look at Ethel and Mary and see if they had more in common than their association with Gibson Island, for now though, the gang at Gibson Island sure must have had a lot to talk about with the tragic deaths of Ethel and Mary within eight months of each other.
More information about the Pinchots and Gibson Island
- Ahoy! Mary Pinchot Meyer's Cousin, Gifford Pinchot II, was a Gibson Island Yachtsmen
- Our Fascination with Gibson Island, Maryland
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