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Potato chip heir kills self, fakes own murder

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The mysterious case of the missing heir to an Alabama potato chip fortune took another bizarre turn after investigators determined that the man found floating in a golf course pond, bound, gagged and shot in the head had committed suicide and tried to make it look like a murder.

The Jefferson County coroner determined that Major Bashinsky, a 63-year-old lawyer from Mountain Brook, Ala., had loosely bound his hands and taped his mouth shut, before wading into a pond at the Highland Park Golf Course in Brimingham and shooting himself in the head last month.

Inside Bashinsky’s mouth the coroner found a label off a Golden Flake chip bag, and attached to his body was a bottle that contained a “disjointed and threatening note,” said Jefferson County Chief Deputy Coroner Pat Curry.

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