Wall Street Biggie Found Dead

I'm intrigued.

James S. McDonald, president and chief executive of investment management firm Rockefeller & Co., has died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, Massachusetts authorities said Tuesday.

McDonald, 56, was found in his vehicle at about 3 p.m. Sunday behind a car dealership in Dartmouth, about 50 miles south of Boston, said Gregg Miliote, a spokesman for the Bristol district attorney's office.

There was no note, but McDonald "made a phone call to his wife earlier in the day," Miliote said Tuesday, without getting into specifics of the call. The death is still under investigation.

It's always curious to me when the ultra-rich die unexpectedly. Of course, there's always the chance he lost everything to Bernie Madoff and couldn't accept living dead broke. I hope there are followup reports on the death.