Former Chesapeake Energy CEO dies in blazing crash the day after feds indict him

Everyone please don your tinfoil hats in earnest now, because this story has all the elements of a really strange murder mystery. Aubrey McClendon is a wildcatter and the former CEO of Chesapeake Energy. He’s also a rabid right-wing funder of all sorts of causes for the oil industry, according to PolluterWatch. McClendon has been a…

4 thoughts on “Former Chesapeake Energy CEO dies in blazing crash the day after feds indict him

  1. The technology exists to take control of any automobile from outside the vehicle and make it go exactly where you would like it to go.
    Any computer can be hacked and reprogramed for good or for crashes.

  2. The charges that we know about certainly do not suggest a motive for suicide. White collar conspiracies are notoriously hard to prove and in most cases result in non-jail pleas. It’s not like you have a hapless victim. Nor would it appear to rise to the level where co-conspirators would risk a homicide charge. We don’t know a material fact, I am guessing.

  3. Yep, that happened to a noted investigative reporter in L.A. a few years back. Tearing down a residential street in the small hours of the morning, hit a tree, died instantly.

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