Snack Heir's Suicide, Letters Mystify Family
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (March 25) -- Days after Major Bashinsky disappeared from his law office earlier this month, a letter turned up in his abandoned car that angrily accused his prosperous family of mistreating workers at the snack food company it founded.
When his body was later found in a Birmingham golf course pond, it had all the markings of a sinister slaying: The 63-year-old father and husband had been shot in the head and bound loosely with a rope. The label from a Golden Flake chips bag was stuffed in his mouth like a cruel joke.
But this was no abduction and murder.
He had staged it all, authorities said Thursday, an elaborate ruse aimed at putting investigators on the trail of a homicide, not a suicide.
"He tried to make it appear he did not kill himself," Chief Deputy Jefferson County Coroner Pat Curry said.
A darker question remains unanswered: Why?
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