Horrific Suicide on Camera - R. Budd Dwyer In the early 1980s, Pennsylvania discovered its state workers had overpaid federal taxes due to errors in state withholding. Many accounting firms competed for a multimillion-dollar contract to determine compensation to each employee. In 1986, Dwyer was convicted of receiving a bribe from the California firm that ultimately won the contract. He was scheduled to be sentenced on those charges on January 23, 1987. On January 22, 1987, Dwyer called a news conference in the Pennsylvania state capital of Harrisburg where he killed himself in front of the gathered reporters, by shooting himself in the mouth with a .357 Magnum revolver. Dwyer's suicide was broadcast later that day to a wide television audience across Pennsylvania. Throughout Dwyer's trial and after his conviction, he maintained that he was not guilty of the charges levied against him, and that he had been framed. Decades later, the prosecution's primary witness, William Trickett Smith, whose testimony was largely used to obtain Dwyer's conviction, stated in the documentary Honest Man: The Life of R. Budd Dwyer, as he did at Dwyer's trial, that he offered Dwyer a bribe and that Dwyer accepted it. He expressed regret for the decision to offer Dwyer a bribe and for the role it played in Dwyer's death. James J. West, the former acting United States Attorney who prosecuted Dwyer, affirmed Dwyer's guilt in 2010. Share this link with friends to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/DarknGrim?sub_confirmation=1 Recommended playlist link to share with friends: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvoB8DWl87kd1nYN3ROK3eJvaY4p7khId Share this playlist with friends from my other channel Lost Case about missing people cases: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiMuOU9BfuV48LLpLisgydlM99A5JabPc

• published: 11 Sep 2019
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