Some important corrections to your list. Dr. Ivins "suicide" was not by hanging, but was attributed to a drug overdose...of Tylenol. And many of his colleagues at USAMRID insist that he would never have taken his own life, and was the least likely biological terrorist they could imagine. Many of them suspect his murder was a way to identify a scapegoat for the unsolved anthrax attacks, but keep him from going to trial to expose the truth.
One that you may have missed was former White House contract webmaster and Karl Rove's chief IT strategist Michael Connell, who may have been responsible not only for "losing" several weeks of crucial White House email archives, but also for managing the computer re-counts of the 2004 Ohio election results. An experienced pilot, Connell died in a mysterious December 2008 plane crash just as he was attempting a landing at the Akron, Ohio airport where he had earlier been deposed by attorneys investigating allegations of vote fraud. He was scheduled to provide further testimony, but died instantly in the crash and many secrets died with him.
Terry
Terry:
Thanks for the correction on Ivans' suicide. It's important to note that (adulterated)over-the-counter drugs, like ropes, are impossible for investigators to trace. Of course, in plane crashes---well, who does the investigating? Bush-era bureaucrats in TSA, FAA, DHS &c.
The same thing said about Ivans was said about Deborah Palfrey, the so-called 'DC Madam'. She was convicted in a kangaroo court, but had just won an appeal. She was living at her mother's home; her mother went to the supermarket and found her hanging in the garage. She'd been interviewed on the radio a week before and flatly said she had no intention of committing suicide. This is similar to how Kellerman died. He was the former CFO at Freddie Mac, exercising in the gym-room at his mansion; his wife returned from the mall to find him hanging in a noose made of exercise-ropes.
I actually did miss the Connell story---thanks for the update on that one. I've always had a suspicion too that Bernard Madoff's sudden confession had a lot more to do with warding off the same 'suicidal tendencies' than healing his guilty conscience. After he turned himself in, the investigation more or less stopped, though no one can account for where 49.5 billion dollars of the 50 billion he laundered actually went.