Colorado CEO, under investigation, commits suicide with a nail gun

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Raw Story

Colorado CEO, under investigation, commits suicide with a nail gun
By Tom Boggioni
Saturday, February 8, 2014 14:44 EST

The CEO of American Title Services in Centennial, Colorado was found dead in his home by a family member this past week, the result of self-inflicted wounds from a nail gun.

According to the Denver Post, Richard Talley, 57, and the company he founded in 2001 was under investigation by state insurance regulators at the time of his death late Tuesday.

An Arapahoe County coroner spokeswoman said on Thursday that Talley was found in his garage by a family member who called authorities. The coroner determined that Talley died from seven or eight self-inflicted wounds from a nail gun fired into his torso and head.

It is unclear whether Talley’s suicide was related to the investigation by the Colorado Division of Insurance, a part of the Department of Regulatory Agencies, which regulates title companies.


Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/08/colorado-ceo-under-investigation-commits-suicide-with-a-nail-gun/

[MrModerate]

1. That's got to be one of the worst ways . . .

To kill yourself that I can think of.

[davidpdx]

7. I totally agree

How utterly gruesome. A few years ago a former president of South Korea jumped off a cliff as he was being investigated. The person (or persons) who found the body will be scarred for life.

[blackspade]

2. Not to go all CT

But that doesn't sound like a suicide....

[defacto7]

3. Sure isn't typical.

[2pooped2pop]

12. nope and very co inky dinky with the bankers all

supposedly committing suicide lately.

[Herself]

4. Bank ceo's, missing reporter, State rep family members murdered, now this guy?

Is there a new development or am I just now noticing this?

[snort]

5. Looks like the regulators

had this guy nailed.

[Theyletmeeatcake2]

6. Maybe he was being framed, or just skirting the law!!!

I do find it hard to believe he shot 7 or 8 nails into himself...as a builder I know how much punch those guns have....I feel sorry for his family actually...

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. Seven or eight wounds from a nail gun?

Yep, sounds like suicide to me.

[rurallib]

9. yeah - after that first one I'd think the pain might

be so bad ...........

when I was younger I remember hearing on Chicago radio that a guy found with 8 hammer blows to the back of the head was ruled a suicide........

[marble falls]

11. Actually it was more like 58 and when the cop in charge asked how 58 blows was a suicide.....

the cop said the guy was determined to die. This was in the seventies. There was a photo of the skull and it was unbelievable the damage a hammer makes.

I found this article from another case in Indiana: http://articles.latimes.com/1986-04-03/news/mn-2660_1_hammer-blows

[titaniumsalute]

10. Either determined or not a suicide

I own and use a Passlode Nail gun. I, for my life, can not figure howd you shoot yourself 7 to 8 times with it. Maybe twice...but MAN.

[Wernothelpless]

15. Exactly ... I'd guess he had help ...

someone accidentally helped him hold the nail gun ...

[valerief]

13. More evidence removal. nt

[awoke_in_2003]

14. Not buying it. nt

[sofa king]

16. What if it was a "brad gun"?

This story would make a lot more sense if the type of "nail gun" was better defined. I've seen and used nail guns of all sorts, from breech-loading gun-lets that use .22 charges to heavy construction nail guns to home use versions that are much, much lighter duty. And then there's that sweet-ass Super Nail Gun from Quake, but I date myself.

In fact, most home use nail guns that I have seen are actually what we used to call "brad guns." "Brad" is an 18 gauge size, very small in diameter--about 1 milimeter--and they don't have a pronounced flat head like roofing nails. It's the kind of nail you use to fix wood treatments indoors.

A person would have to shoot one's self seven or eight times with a brad nailer, and one of those shots would have to get pretty lucky itself, perhaps bouncing off of the opposite side of the skull or something. There are stories of people who walked around with much larger nails than that in their heads.

What, you think I'm kidding? Here's an NIH abstract of a guy who shot himself in the head with a nail gun twelve times. And he was a walk-in patient! to the hospital, complaining of--unsurprisingly--a headache.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16703892

[mike dub]

21. I own an air compressor, a brad nailer gun and a big framing nailer gun

Using a brad (finishing) nailer for suicide would be like death by a thousand paper cuts. Suicide by a large framing nailer gun would be a gruesomely quicker and Less painful way to go.

[mn9driver]

17. Sounds a lot more like a torture execution to me.

Move along, nothing to see here...

[sofa king]

18. Could be.

I think the tell for that would be whether or not the fellow's hand was pinned to his work desk. That would require a much larger nail gun than the one I guess about in my post above. One hand might leave the suicide explanation open.

But, as Neil from the Young Ones observed, one can't crucify one's self because "there is no way you can drive in the last nail." So if both hands are pinned, it's a "suicide."

[eggplant]

19. Murder by Death

Dick Charleston: Died of what?
Butler: She murdered herself in her sleep, sir.
Dick Charleston: You mean suicide?
Butler: Oh, no. It was murder, all right. Mrs. Twain hated herself.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Murder_by_Death

[bemildred]

20. Right. nt