I’ve been studying corporate whistleblowers for more than 20 years. You never know for sure which ones are real suicides and which are disappearings, but TPTB always do shitty things beforehand to make the inevitable killing look like a suicide. Even if people figure out that it’s not a suicide, it fucks up the investigation in the first 24 hours if the police think it’s a suicide. A case of this “prepping” that did not end in death was Michael O. Church in 2015-16, but they ended up being so incompetent about it that they called it off. Still damaged his career, though. On the flip side, that guy was never going to make it as a tech bro and is one hell of a novelist, so…?

The “prepping” aspect is truly sickening. Imagine someone who spends six months trying to ruin someone’s life so a fake suicide won’t be investigated. This happens to all whistleblowers, even the ones who live.

By the way, “hit men” don’t really exist, not in the way you think, but that’s a lesson for another time.