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99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
Fri Nov 21, 2014, 01:13 AM Nov 2014

Yet ANOTHER major bank executive found dead in NYC apartment bathtub

Most other news outlets are saying this is an "apparent suicide", yet the last sentence below seems to indicate that Police are still investigating as possible homicide ... the "no weapon was found" is quite puzzling. Not sure if that means that no knife or razor blade was found, in which case it would HAVE to be a homicide ... wouldn't it?

US BANKER FOUND DEAD IN BATHTUB WITH THROAT SLIT
Reuters * Nov. 19, 2014

New York police are investigating the death of a man found with his throat slashed in a bathtub and identified by local media as a prominent banker, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.

Police responding to a 911 call discovered the lifeless body in an apartment in Manhattan's downtown financial district on Tuesday afternoon. The 42-year-old victim was declared dead at the scene. Police did not reveal his identity.

The New York Post said the victim was Shawn Miller, a managing director at Citigroup
Citigroup said Miller was the managing director of its environment and social risk management team.

"We are deeply saddened by this news and our thoughts are with Shawn's family at this time," Citigroup said in a statement.
There were no signs of forced entry, no weapon was found and the motive remains unknown, police said.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-rt-us-usa-crime-banker-20141119-story.html

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Yet ANOTHER major bank executive found dead in NYC apartment bathtub (Original Post) 99th_Monkey Nov 2014 OP
Is this a 2nd dead guy in a bathtub, or the same guy who hired an escort and was alive MADem Nov 2014 #1
Unless there were two 42 year old guys named Shawn Miller found in bathtubs with slit throats Electric Monk Nov 2014 #2
Phew....if there were two, it would be the start of a cheesy crime film! nt MADem Nov 2014 #3
They found a knife...ruled apparent suicide. Historic NY Nov 2014 #4
Yes, I saw that Post story too 99th_Monkey Nov 2014 #5
Its in the Daily News too. Historic NY Nov 2014 #6
Still not convinced 99th_Monkey Nov 2014 #7

MADem

(135,425 posts)
1. Is this a 2nd dead guy in a bathtub, or the same guy who hired an escort and was alive
Fri Nov 21, 2014, 01:23 AM
Nov 2014

(per the doorman) when the escort left, and did a shitload of crytal meth...?

If so, they found the weapon under the guy in the bathtub...

Historic NY

(37,449 posts)
4. They found a knife...ruled apparent suicide.
Fri Nov 21, 2014, 02:02 AM
Nov 2014

Shawn D. Miller, 42, who traveled the world for Citigroup as one of its top environmental policy experts, sliced his neck and wrists with a knife inside his home at 120 Greenwich St, the sources said.

http://nypost.com/2014/11/19/man-found-dead-with-his-throat-slashed-in-apartment/

 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
5. Yes, I saw that Post story too
Fri Nov 21, 2014, 02:39 AM
Nov 2014

but I don't buy for a minute that it was truly a suicide.

Especially when other more credible news outfits are saying "no weapon was found"

 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
7. Still not convinced
Fri Nov 21, 2014, 04:10 AM
Nov 2014

it was truly suicide.

So this guy slashed his wrists, cut his own throat and then put the knife under his own dead body?

From Daily News, it reports that a "man who Miller was arguing with in the elevator apparently left
the banker’s apartment late Sunday or early Monday, sources. Miller called down to the lobby and
asked the doorman not to allow the man back into the building, according to sources."

Nope. Nothing suspicious here.

Oh, and did I mention that Mr. Miller just happened to be Citibank's "managing director of
environmental and social risk management"? .. also from the Daily News.

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