Reply #72: A Republican county judge/Iraq war veteran killed himself recently near here.

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"Soon after Lawrence Circuit Judge Richard D. McIntyre was found dead in his garage last week from carbon monoxide poisoning the coroner ruled suicide, rumors swirled about an investigation into possible improprieties involving the highly respected judge and former state representative, who also was a colonel in the U.S. Army National Guard.

Then on Saturday morning, those attending McIntyre’s funeral in the auditorium at Bedford Middle School heard about the investigation from McIntyre’s children, who spoke of it and read excerpts referring to the investigation from a suicide note their father left behind.

They defended their father from what his oldest son, Richard D. McIntyre Jr., called an overzealous investigation into the purchase or use of furniture obtained through military contracts...

McIntyre was among 3,400 Indiana National Guard members from the 76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team preparing to deploy to Iraq early next year. He was scheduled to serve as a judicial advocate."...

http://www.tmnews.com/stories/2007/11/05/news.nw-305187.tms

He had already been to Iraq once - was about to go back. Though it's hard to know what all was going on - he may have been on the verge of being exposed for something he didn't want his family/friends to know about.