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4th Financial Services Executive Found Dead; "From Self-Inflicted Nail-Gun Wounds"
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.
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After reading the "background", ties to Chicago and exclusive agent for all USDHUD foreclosures in Colorado.
hmmmmm.
that's awesome, lol...
It would suck to be the one to die from the polishing wheel. That would take years!
How about death by Dental Drill?!
Oh! Do the sanding flap wheel!
"Is it safe?"
You know the drill.
suicide by drill press?
Fucker looked pretty good for 57.
Must mean they'll find a whole bunch of little childrens' clothes somewhere.
7 or 8 nail gun wounds to the torso and head....
Right......
wow, Single engine aircraft, Heart attacks, 10th floor swan dives and Hot tubs are getting suspicious, Better go with a more plausible method.
Multiple Nail Gun wounds.... Ya that's the ticket.
Ok, I've cleaned up a suicide from someone who shot themselves in the torso with a 22 rifle about 5 times, but he was high as a kite on a dozen morphine patches when he did it.
Someone using a nail gun to shoot themselves in the torso, then the head???? in the garage. WTF. I have a pretty decent tolerance for pain, but after round 2 I'd probably be screaming like a bitch. I think it would be a pretty rare occurrence to find anyone in banking with those sort of balls. I'd peg them as the take a nap in your running car with the tailpipe stuck inside. Then again, he was in Colorado, couldn't he find a mountain to jump off???
He would have had to disable all the safeties, even then, it seems pretty far out there. Still, that would take 15-20 seconds and would hurt like none other.
Legal dope is good out there
He should have just kept going with the morphine patches...
You are in so much pain after the 1st nail that you would not be able to shoot the 2nd.
maybe he wzs playing Nail Gun Roulette and lost 8 times?
Let that be a lesson boys and girls - never play Russian Roulette with a magazine loaded weapon.
Two headless bodies were found in a local suburban garage this morning...
Police say the men were playing Russian roulette with a chainsaw...
It's unclear who won...
Its just me and my liddle ole beginner witch and lifelike doll set-up I got in the other day from Amazon (haiti div). And this book, "Voodoo for Dummies" (really, that's the name).
Dam, works like a charm.
You get credit for imaginative response.
Talley-whacked?
dude had to have been serious to do that....
Damn. I wasn't able to get a single photo of a dead banker while walking the streets of NYC yesterday. I haven't given up hope yet. Still have a few days here.
It would be inappropriate for me to make a comment like:
"You can't just wait for opportunity to fall into your lap from a roof or something."
So I won't make a comment like that.
If they start guillotining themselves then maybe I'll believe it.
I bet it was a finishing nail.
Instead of getting his nails done, his nails did him.
"Sicilian manicure"
You're on a roll today, Ms!
At least his name wasn't Brad. That would've been weird.
... or Penny.
Weird? I'd say tacky.
Is this the 'last nail' in the banksters coffin??!!!
Nope. Just the first 7 (or 8).
Must have been one of those black evil full auto assault nail guns. Joking aside, what size nails were they? Could have been a finish nailer or a brad nailer so yes they would hurt like hell but make a very little hole. Now if it was a 16p nailer that would do the job with one shot in the right place.
"Nail gun", eh? Yeah that's what I would pick if I was going to check out, mmm hmm..
7 or 8 "self-inflicted nail gun wounds to his head and neck?
Right…suicide again.
He gets by with a little help from his friends…wonder who was with him in his last few minutes…
He probably bet all his savings on Denver to win the Superbowl.
Was it an assault nailgun?
butterfingers!
http://rt.com/business/russell-investments-chief-economist-dead-564/
People ought to be careful with their health!
LOL : http://youtu.be/v1_yL9dZ8uk
My finger got hit with a pressure washer and I was wearing heavy gloves - when I pulled my hand off, I expected to see a severed finger - it was intact, swollen at least twice in size and pure white, HEY - that hurt like hell and I sure didn't say, Do It Again, please...
Yeah, totally. Thing is that if one were to do this all the exit gasses ALSO would go sailing in to the entrance wound at 100's of PSI and would, essentially, filet the inner flesh, fat and musculature. Once would put you into deep shock immediately. People who are psychotic, either mentally ill or drug induced, might be able to do this. He ain't one. Sociopath, yes. Psychotic, no.
How some ever, important to note that Real Estate transactions ARE INDEED conduits for laundering large monetary sums. HE would know names. HE had spun up multiple companies which certainly were conduits for same. Often times Investigators will start circling the fish and get confessions in exchange for bargains if they rat out their superiors. Then they tighten the circle and repeat. This guy was a weak link in the higher levels of the apparatus. Apparently, he had to be silenced. But not only that. He had to be made a very public example to others of their pending fate should they make the same mistakes as him ...
So does mean that somebody is going to Nail Blythe???
Pulled my glove off...
One of the specialties at American Title, in fact a big specialty, is making forged documents to be used by banks in illegal foreclosure ala Doc X, aka Lender Processing Services, Inc. Doc X forged over ONE MILLION documents. See DOJ V Lender Processing Services. So this fucking scumbag ran a company that DOES the same thing? Need a forged Note? No problem? Fake Assignment of Mortgage? Easily done. ALL of the major title companies are in on it. Yes, I know you are shocked but someone has to provide the fake documents to foreclose on "deadbeat" homeowers, right? FUCKING wrong.
They tried it with me and now they, scumbag banks, are going to substitute a new plaintiff....Nationstar Mortgage, LLC., a piece of shit company owned by...yep...a hedge fund, Fortress Investment group formally run by Mr. Mudd after he ran Fannie Mae into the ground. Hedge fund? Fuck you. Dead banker? Not enough of them for my taste.
Living in my house for taxes, insurance and mainteance for over two years and no trail...gee wonder why? Good luck to the new plaintiff...they will be shown to lying fucking scumbags. I do use different language for the judge, don't worry.
I hope his family suffers too as they can taste what his company has done to thouands and thousands.
i guess the 1% do work harder than the rest of us, after the 3rd nail i would have probably given up thinking"this just isn't working" not a banker though.
i guess it took this task seriously.
Very short sighted. I am sure he could have afforded a real gun with all that TARP money.
"They said Talley died from seven or eight self-inflicted wounds from a nail gun fired into his torso and head."
Guys, this is murder. Someone so stressed or depressed to commit suicide is unlikely to start with self-torture. Putting a nail gun to your head an pulling the trigger is simple and easy. I am surprised they printed this information.
"I am surprised they printed this information."
Unlike the Unemployments figures
Hell.. do YOU know any CEO level exec who has ANY tools around the house - much less something like a nail gun? Most of these guys have NEVER touched a hammer much less a nail gun.
Remember W's lame photo op in New Orleasn with him choked up on a hammer
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bush-hammers-rebuilding-message/
Very good point. Most of these fuckers couldn't hang a picture on a wall, let alone have the need for a framing nailer.
I'm thinking it was probably a finish nailer
A message is being sent. I agree with you otherwise.
"Guys, this is murder."
No shit.
Sniff. Somebody bring Me the Lipinski Strad and lower the flag to half mast...
The most memorable parades have small beginnings.
Jumping off of syscrapers,stepping out in front of freight trains...but I'd never would have guessed that anyone would choose death by nail-gun.
He was a Banker. It's tough to kill yourself with an ink pen.
http://www.cartier.us/collections/accessories/mens-accessories/writing-i...
Then again, he was a banker WTF was he doing with a nail gun.
I don't think anyone could do themselves in with a nail gun without getting completely hammered first.
A nail gun means you don't need a hammer.
If all you have is a nail gun, everything's a hammer.
Q: What do you call a week with 4 suicided financial execs?
Ans: A good start................
executions.
If ya like your nail gun, you can keep your nail gun..
I heard he was attached to his...
garage floor, Range Rover, the wall and the ceiling at the same time. Not only did he shoot himself 8 times with that nailgun, he filleted and stretched his open carcass across the entire span of his 3 car garage.
He simply stretched himself too thin and got nailed for it.
Hope he put it on his credit card
PERIOD!
Somebody call Me when Joey Cassano is found to have committed suicide by stuffing himself feet-first into a woodchipper.
And DC Madam hung herself, too.
Michael Hastings, Aron Swartz, Andrew Brietbart, Burce Ivins, David Kelly and many more.
IMDB: Assault on Wall Street
Just throwin' it out there, spreading seeds...
To spin a quote from Special Agent Smecker in the Boondock Saints..........Nobody does this James Bond nail gun suicide shit in real life.
Damn, I bet that hurt like a mofo. Did he deserve it ? Prolly.
Does your average bankers or finance executive even have the upper body strength to lift and use a nail gun, or even the technical know-how to opperate one?
My guess is, no, not many do.
Or maybe Mr. Talley always wanted to be a working stiff, but found himself to instead be not only completely useless to society, but also a parasite and drain upon society; and with age creeping up on him found it too late to switch career tracks.
"Or maybe Mr. Talley always wanted to be a working stiff, "
Well he got half of it. He is now a stiff
Let's face it.
Dead men tell no lies!
When you can either get the following list destitute enough, (or with assistance like Mr. Talley had) with pangs of guilt for all the harm they have caused the world with their financial misdeeds all of the "ZH" community needs to have a party to celebrate. Tyler will select the city of choice.
Given how severe the collapse is going to wind up being I'd like to see the obits for each one of them before they finish the destruction they already have underway!
Please hurry!
Lloyd Blanfein
Jamie Dimon
Stuart Gulliver
Brian Porter
Gordon Nixon
Brian Moynihan
Mike Corbat
John Stumpf
Anshu Jain and Jurgen Fitschen
Tony Jenkins
(Please feel free to add to this list) If we see the "retirement" of just these this is one hell of a good start!
tsk tsk tsk.....Don't forget John Corzine has ordered two nail guns I hear!
shit.....now I'm gonna have to get a safe for my nail guns.
Goddamn. NAIL GUN. That's some fucking next level shit. Sounds like anger. Was this cat connected to nefarious $$ shennaigans, or was he found balls deep in some floozy and his wife had just about an assful of it?
Suicide? Nyet.
Homicide? Aye.
Just a DIY project gone bad. Nothing to see here. Could happen to anyone.
Clinton's tying up some loose ends before primary season?
The police apparently didn't bother to investigate. They sent a clerk and a guy with a polaroid. The spokesman said, "Yes it certainly was a suicide there was a piece of Ikea furniture and instructions. The cause of death was the last nail."
Seriously? Is anybody really expected to buy this story? What's the next banker "suicide" going to be? That some banker chewed himself to death one bite at a time?
It's like the assassins aren't even trying to make these killings look plausible and they've only killed 4 so far!!! Fuck, they've got like 250,000 more bankers to kill off...they can't be running out of suicide stories already!
I can just see some other "suicides" in the next few days ahead:
- fed own body through a wood chipper after freezing self solid in meat locker
- backed over own head with his own Porsche Cayenne
- tied self up with hands behind back then ate a 12 gauge shotgun blast
I mean, what the fuck??? Maybe we need to help these killers out with a "suicide" story contest so that they've got some ideas to work with.
You'd almost think they want the story to be unbelievable, send out a message to the others.
Absolutely. There's no need for secrecy when you own the cops, the courts, the media, and the entire political establishment.
if thats the case, why worry about whistleblowers?
"Became entangled in Christmas lights and strangled by them while removing them from roof"... In April...
Oh shhit, that reminds me........
Don't laugh! Here in SW Minn., I leave the XMas lights up until the first good thaw (in April!)
- Wrapped himself in chains and jumped in the creek
- Hit himself in the head and fell into newly-poured concrete foundation
- Shot himself in the head 3 times with a 30-06
- Jumped in front of a __________. (bus, truck, train, etc)
- Buried himself up to the neck in front of a buffalo stampede
- Tied himself down on top a fire-ant nest
This is kinda fun.
"- Buried himself up to the neck in front of a buffalo stampede"
Fell of my chair
Sorry, sometimes I go kinda old-school. Hope you didn't hurt yourself.
--locked himself in washing machine
--fell asleep while walking down stairs
--consumed 1 lbs baking soda, 1 gallon vinegar, and 3 drops red food coloring
Maybe he was building a birdhouse and failed to read the safety instructions.
The coroner was Fahmy Malek.
Think Arkancide
My... what an interesting, uh...surprise.
Methinks that even most ZH'ers- cynical though they may be- are truly unaware of just how deeply embedded is the evil that surrounds us.
What's even more amazing, is that the dumbed down sheeple will go.. "Oh, that's so sad he killed himself with 8 gun nails to his head and torso" without even thinking about the implausibility of it.
NO FRIGGIN way this could ever happen by suicide, period. What is wrong with people?
"without even thinking about the implausibility of it.
NO FRIGGIN way this could ever happen by suicide, period. What is wrong with people?"
THey believe the unemployment figures and the economy is getting better. Don't they?
It's not that implausible. Nailgun accidents are common, and the things come with full-auto modes. Here's a poor bastard who accidentally fired six nails into his head (and then miraculously survived). That was a professional construction worker too, not a retired banker messing around with DIY and power tools.
Occam's Nail Gun.
"Here's a poor bastard who accidentally fired six nails into his head (and then miraculously survived). "
Lookiing at the picture I notice all those nail went in through the back of his head. suspects someone gave him up for dead or just gave up.
akarc: True story that was on the news a few years back (sorry, no link, too lazy). A site foreman got a nail shot to the skull that didn't affect him much. As he was driving himself to the hospital he was pulled over for speeding but despite telling the cop what happened and showing him the injury the idiot cop took the time to write him a ticket before sending him on his way.
This happened in Victoria, BC (just north in Sydney, BC)
okay...I guess I'm just going to keep drinking this bottle of Southern Comfort tonight until all this shit starts to become believable.
If I wake up dead tomorrow I hope the story is that 2...just 2...really fucking hot, hot, hot, hot bitchez, fucked me to death and that they call it suicide by pussy overdose.
Goooooooooooooooooooooooood night! LOL ;-)
"Coroner" I think he fucked himself to death. Very common natural cause of death.
"Coroner" I think he fucked himself to death. Very common natural cause of death."
Thank God for reincarnation.
This case is as plain as it gets... however, for the sake of argument I do recall a news piece about a construction worker who accidentally cut off his hand with a mechanical saw and to numb the pain fired a few shots into his head with a pneumatic nail gun.
The main difference is that I actually felt sorry for that guy.
Conditioned to believe anything from a presumed authority.
Or in layman terms for being way beyond gullible, 'their fucking stupid..............'
Also, where do I sign up for this gig as an independant contractor? Will do it for half price if the assignment is jewish. No muss no fuss.
Maybe the Mexican Mob or the Columbian's are finally sick & tried of seeing Silver Bullion & Gold naked-shorted to death... I guess someone is sick & tried of waiting for the SEC or CFTC to act.
Name was Richard Talley…I.E. Dick Talley…
I’d say the dick tally is now at 4.
MWAHAHHAHAHA
Dick Talley-Wacker
So many commenters have nailed this one right on the head.
If I was a banker I'd be keeping my mouth shut no matter what. This ritual killing sure sent a strong message.
"So many commenters have nailed this one right on the head."
One of the few ZH posts where everyone seems to be in agreement. Yepper, should be one hell of a strong message. Hope they are reading.
I didn't make the swim team either. But I'm looking to pound a cold one, not pound a nail through my temple.
Bottoms up, all. We get one chance, let's enjoy it, starting immediately.
He was framed.
YOU nailed it !!
Maybe the government should look at limiting the number of nails these gun's clips can hold to a maximum of 5, or ban all automatic nail guns - to prevent these tpyes of tragedies from happening.
OMG, it was a ghost gun!
The bio, under "President" says ...
"We succeed by making our company a great place to work and prove [sic] employees with the tools and freedom to succeed."
Oops-a daisy.
As they say 'out with a bang' or seven
Check to see if he spelled his own name wrong in the suicide letter
Sounds like Snoop needs to head back to Home Depot again...
http://youtu.be/4JK8j0KNLl0
"Talley died from seven or eight self-inflicted wounds from a nail gun fired into his torso and head."
With so many nails fired, it must have been a suicide.
Must have been finish nails.
The finishing touch, no doubt.
Wow, he fell down an elevator shaft, onto some bullets.
It will not surprise me that the story failed to mention that the investigating Detectives previously lost their paid off homes to FORECLOSURE. /sarc
What is Title Insurance when Banks can do that?
"What is Title Insurance when Banks can do that?"
A waste of money.
To broke to buy a real gun ?
To depresssed for the 3 day waiting period (in FLorida anyway)
Any fatality of this nature would have to be rulled as a suspicious death and would have further investigation. The fact it appears to be quickly labeled a suicide seems to require political or other pressure, or unreasonably low police death investigation skills. These strange banker deaths seem to have little in common except that they are strange in their exicution. Remember the banker jumping over the fence and falling down a ravine suicide?
"Any fatality of this nature would have to be rulled as a suspicious death and would have further investigation. The fact it appears to be quickly labeled a suicide seems to require political or other pressure, or unreasonably low police death investigation skills. "
/sarc right?
There was pressure alright. Bigtime palm pressure.
There was pressure alright. Bigtime palm pressure.
Title insurance is a classic white-shoe, low pressure, high profit racket, I can't imagine what the problem was. Gotta feel sorry for his family who understands nothing but a huge hole in their hearts now. Lesson here is never apply a long term solution toa short term problem, if it was a suicide.
High profit? From the looks of his ordinary house, he was not high net worth. His wife is not a flashy model either. Perhaps he just knew too much about someting much bigger than his title and morgage business.
Being made aware today by Catherine Englebrecht's testimony that O'BamaBoy has WEAPONIZED the IRS so as to destroy his political opponents, I look first to see if each new victim has been 'suicided', or by Hillaryious' method, 'Fosterized'.
Yep - suicide Vince Foster style. Wonder who the suicide assistant was.
mort gage=death pledge (french translation), lovely business...
See Lorraine Brown and Doc X. That will put you on point...
Title companies are facilitators for the Banksters.
You want to play in pit of vipers.
"Authorities ruled the death a suicide even though Talie was nowhere near a construction site."
"We think he was previously at a card game," said Det. Marl Boro. "An Ace of Spades was found on his chest."
Everybody's checking their title insurance as we speak
Do you realize how badly you would have to want to die, and the kind of determination you would have to have to shoot yourslef repeatedly with a nailgun? That shit hurts bad. I don't think a human being could actually do that more than two times before trying something else. Even if you wnated to die, as human being, you could not do that.
did you look into richards eyes.
did you look real close he was a runnin man even back in the id foto times.
tony gilroy is cia
paul greengrass is queer mi5 one has killed the other one the queer likes to watch.
both worked on all the bourne film shit nice real cool.
flight 93 the movie greengrass in deep making up fake tales doin folks a favour so he can be a hollywood big shot.
anyways the writer tony gilroy had a text book mossad kidron sas featherman hit in his film michael clayton.
phillip seymour or michel hutchinson or heath ,britney murphy into fucking infinity,hotels,homes bathrooms.
this new bankers thing just for sport or clean up the rothschild trail.
george clooney is a nato war lovin cunt but it is a good movie.
they usually do not use nail guns i assume that was a message.
below is the more classical style.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1_yL9dZ8uk
OMG, do not tell MSNBC.....Does NRA protect Nail Gun rights?
How much force? Well those things are adjustible but it takes two or three full force 16oz hammer swings, each enough to fracture a skull, to sink even an 8 penny nail in a new spruce--a nail gun does it in one pull of the trigger. Of course if we're talking about 16d nails in the gun, that much more. Very nasty.
I've worked with nail guns, you have to press the gun against the skin hard to fire it but before that you have to hook it into a compressor and let the compressor fill for a few minutes, quite a ritual, and after 4-5 nails the compressor has to refill again.
Denver HUD, Obama's base.
Some nail guns use .22 cardriges to propel the nails. They can be fired more rapidly.
I thought the .22 nail 'guns' were single shot. The ones I've used require a hammer to strike the firing pin which, if placed against either head or chest, would drive the entire device into the banker.
I'm not familiar with any models that require a hammer to 'do the deed'-- the ones that I've used had a self-contained striker mechanism.
But... that being said, the fastest I have personally been able to operate powder-actuated nail guns is at a rate of about 3-4 shots per minute.
The idea of even a highly skilled and experienced contractor committing suicide via 7-8 shots with such a device truly boggles the mind... that such an act is supposedly attributed to a damp-handed bankster....well, let's just say my bullshit meter just blew a fuse.