Merrill Investigation Continues

In the wake of publisher Philip Merrill’s apparent suicide, friends and family are grappling with the unanswered question of why. Former CIA director R. James Woolsey told the Washington Post that “It still doesn’t seem real to me.” When he last saw Merrill on Memorial Day, Woolsey said “he seemed his normal, happy, exuberant, engaging self.”

Tom Marquardt, executive editor of the Capital, commented that his conversations with Merrill “did not indicate that there was anything amiss,” although Merrill had recently said “he didn’t really know what to do with the rest of his life, as he would say.”

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