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Or what better way to consign someone to obscurity by engineering a "how pathetic... he was so obsessed with Scaife that he killed himself in one of his propert

• anigbrowl 13y ago
  No, I don't think it does. If I want to kill someone and consign them to obscurity as well, I'd do it in a way that didn't maximize the potential for gossip involving a famous person. For example, staging the suicide somewhere else and just scattering blackmail-type evidence around, like some particularly skeevy kind of porn which would reflect badly on the victim. I mean, if you're going to go down that route why not stage the suicide in the lobby or even the inner sanctum of the putative megalomaniac's office, which would be even more dramatic and damning? The obvious answer is 'because that would be suspicious,' which invites the rejoinder 'and doing it 25 feet down the corridor isn't?' If you have a wicked plan to destroy someone's reputation, you might as well pick the least ambiguous way of doing it.