– 4th Financial Services Executive Found Dead; “From Self-Inflicted Nail-Gun Wounds” (ZeroHedge, Feb 7, 2014):
The ugly rash of financial services executive suicides appears to have spread once again. Following the jumping deaths of 2 London bankers and a former-Fed economist in the US, The Denver Post reports Richard Talley, founder and CEO of American Title, was found dead in his home from self-inflicted wounds – from a nail-gun. Talley’s company was under investigation from insurance regulators.
Richard Talley, 57, and the company he founded in 2001 were under investigation by state insurance regulators at the time of his death late Tuesday, an agency spokesman confirmed Thursday.
It was unclear how long the investigation had been ongoing or its primary focus.
A coroner’s spokeswoman Thursday said Talley was found in his garage by a family member who called authorities. They said Talley died from seven or eight self-inflicted wounds from a nail gun fired into his torso and head.
Also unclear is whether Talley’s suicide was related to the investigation by the Colorado Division of Insurance, which regulates title companies.
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A checkered past?
Before coming to Colorado, Talley was a former regional financial officer at Drexel Burnham Lambert in Chicago, where he met his wife, Cheryl, a vice president at the company. The two married in 1989.
Talley had formed a number of companies, some now defunct, according to the Colorado secretary of state’s office. Among them: American Escrow, Clear Title, Clear Creek Financial Holdings, Swift Basin, Sumar, American Real Estate Services, and the American Alliance of Real Estate Professionals.
It would appear, unfortunately, that Mr. Talley was not an entirely honest man…
Talley’s 1989 wedding announcement in the Chicago Tribune noted he was “a member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic swimming team.”
A spokeswoman for USA Swimming on Thursday said Talley was not on the team.
I’m reminded of a cartoon in which the victim(in this case a lawyer) lies in a pool of blood with ten knives in his back, and the policeman says “This is the worst case of suicide I’ve ever come across”.
Nobody would kill themselves with a nail gun…..it is murder. That has to be a horribly painful way to die….not something anyone could inflict upon themselves……I don’t believe it for an instant. It would be easier to turn a gun on oneself…..and that is damn hard to do.
I am with Squodgy………..his analogy is excellent.
Not only does he decide to kill himself by somehow shooting himself 7-8 times with a nail gun, but he decides not just to shoot himself in the head but also the torso? Wake up people, this is the 5th “suicide” in the financial world in the past two weeks.
I agree with both other posts. However, this was murder, not suicide……nobody would kill themselves with a nail gun……..it is a poorly covered up homicide.