A building inspector in Philadelphia committed suicide a week after a downtown building collapsed, just a short time after he had examined it. The accident killed six people. The inspector's body was discovered with a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his chest on Wednesday. Ronald Wagenhoffer was 52.
Don Lapre — the boyish infomercial shyster who lulled millions of insomniacs into pants-wetting states of catatonia via the relentless repetition of the phrase "tiny classified ads!" — has committed suicide inside an Arizona prison cell. Lapre, 47, was facing 41 counts of conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud and…
Sadly, tall things will always attract jumpers. The world's tallest building, Dubai's Burj Khalifa, got its first suicide today after a man jumped from 147th floor and landed on a terrace at the 108th floor. The 163-floor Burj Khalifa was completed last January.
Jonathan Martis of Omaha was shot by police on Thursday after calling them to his house. His mother says he had been feeling depressed and telling people he wanted to die. But this fact doesn't fully explain why he was dressed up as a pirate.
FoxNews.com has, without comment, removed the odd article "GWU Suicide Tragically Coincides with Obama Speech" from its website. Here's a summary: "A student committed suicide while Obama was giving a speech on campus. Hmmm..." [National Journal]
Fox News' "America's Election HQ" website published one of those "wacky coincidence" stories yesterday that will make you want to take a cold shower or seven after reading: A student at George Washington University committed suicide yesterday, just as President Obama was giving his major deficit-reduction speech at…
Clifford "T.I." Harris may be going to jail after he was caught with drugs. Hopefully the judge will take into consideration the fact that Tip just talked some guy down from the roof of a building in Atlanta.
35-year-old Somerville, MA resident Mitchell Heisman shot himself in Harvard Yard last Saturday in front of a tour group. Turns out he left a sprawling, deeply-researched suicide note, conveniently located at suicidenote.info
NYU computer science professor Sam Roweis killed himself last night after arguing with his wife about child care. "[All] of a sudden, in the middle of the argument, he jumped over the 16th-floor balcony." NYU's bizarre suicide trend persists. [NYP]
Cornell University is training its janitors in the fine art of spotting suicidal college students! "These kids are looking to us to provide care," one such eagle-eyed custodian tells the Wall Street Journal today. "But they don't see administrators every day, they see me." The maintenance worker noticed she was…
John Berg, a character actor you may recognize (we didn't) from shows like House M.D., NCIS, and Monk, has been found dead at his home in Van Nuys, from what authorities are saying was self-administered carbon monoxide poisoning. "'Life was treating him well,' said Liz Hanley, Berg's agent. Along with acting, Berg…
