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JP Morgan Director Julian Knott Killed Wife With Shotgun in Murder-Suicide

It is thought at least eight finance professionals have taken their lives so far this year. They are:

Autumn Radtke, 28, the CEO Bitcoin exchange First Meta, was found dead on 28 February outside her Singapore apartment. She had jumped from a 25-story building, authorities said.

Li Junjie, 33, a JP Morgan employee, leaped to his death from the roof of the company’s 30-story Hong Kong office tower, authorities said. Photos showed Junjie on the building’s roof moments before he jumped.

Li Junjie is thought to have leapt to his death soon after this photo was taken.

Gabriel Magee, 39, an IT vice president at JP Morgan fell to his death from the roof of the bank’s 33-storey office in Canary Wharf on 28 January.

Mike Dueker, 50, a chief economist at Russell Investments, was found dead at the side of a road in Washington State on 31 January.

William Broeksmit, 58, was found hanged at a house in South Kensington, London on 26 January. He was a former senior risk manager at Deutsche Bank.

Richard Talley, the 57-year-old founder of American Title Services in Centennial, Colorado, was found dead earlier this month after apparently shooting himself with a nail gun.

Edmund Reilly, 47, a New York trader at Midtown’s Vertical Group, commited suicide by jumping in front of commuter train on 11 March.

‘Lydia’, who leapt to her death from the from a 14-storey window at French bank Bred-Banque-Populaire’s Paris office on 22 April, did so after clashing with bosses.
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JP Morgan director kills his wife, then himself

A bank executive from London shot his wife dead before turning the gun on himself.

Julian Knott, 45, an executive director for JP Morgan, shot 47-year-old Alita repeatedly, police said.

The father-of-three was found dead alongside her in their home in Jefferson Township, New Jersey, on Sunday. He had worked in the City for almost 20 years before moving to the US in December 2012.

In a tribute posted online soon after the bodies were found, their daughter Kayleigh said that the couple were: “now stress-free”.

The university student wrote on her Instagram page: “Although I am heartbroken that they will never see me graduate college … get married or to be grandparents for my children, I can still have inner peace knowing that they are now stress-free in a much better place.”

Referring to her two teenage brothers, Tom and Luke, she wrote: “We will be just fine with our angels watching over us. Rest in peace mummy and daddy, stay close.”

Today Mr Knott’s relatives in Britain said they were still waiting for information about the tragedy.

JP Morgan Julian Knott Alita

Murder suicide: Bank executive Julian Knott and wife Alita

Police said they were called to the couple’s home at 1.12am on Sunday and found the bodies. Initial investigations showed the deaths were a result of murder-suicide. The couple met in London 20 years, ago when Philippines-born Mrs Knott was a personal assistant to a Bahraini sheik. They married and settling in Southwick, West Sussex, where Mrs Knott opened nursery school Quayside Tots.

Mr Knott joined JP Morgan as a network services manager in 2001. He moved to New Jersey when he was promoted to be executive director of the global network operations centre. In a biography posted online, Mrs Knott wrote: “After meeting my husband while working in London, I married, had three children and started my own pre-school nursery business, which I still own.”

Alongside a 2012 photo of Mr Knott carrying his wife on a beach, she wrote: “Been married for almost 18 years and love him more now. He is not just my husband, he is my best friend who understands the scatty Filipina I am.”

In a statement, police said: “Preliminary investigation has revealed that the two adults died as a result of gunshot wounds and the incident has been determined to be a murder/suicide. Julian Knott, age 45, shot his wife Alita Knott, age 47, multiple times and then took his own life with the same weapon.”

On Facebook, friend of the couple Reyes Cham Ortega wrote: “I worked with him for only two years but that was enough to know a lot about him and his family. I am still shocked and cannot believe it.”

JP Morgan declined to comment.

Source: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-bank-executive-who-moved-to-us-shot-his-wife-dead-before-killing-himself-9596515.html

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Persnickety
Persnickety
July 10, 2014 10:32 am

Just curious if the “suicide” shot himself three times too.

Eddie
Eddie
July 10, 2014 10:52 am

I hope his employer had him well insured.

Stucky
Stucky
July 10, 2014 10:57 am

What a BEAUTIFUL day of news today!

A high-end prostitute (Alix Tichelman, 26, below) murdered a senior Google executive by injecting him with a fatal dose of heroin on board his luxury yacht before stepping over his body to finish her glass of wine and leaving him to die, police allege.

You, go, girl!!!
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GilbertS
GilbertS
July 10, 2014 10:58 am

To quote the great Nelson Muntz, “HA-HA!”

Eddie
Eddie
July 10, 2014 11:08 am

Yeah, she boarded his yacht, overpowered him, tied him up and murdered him with a deft shot of Black Tar, to hear the press tell it.

I say when you pick up the phone and order hookers and blow (or smack), you’re buying a ticket and taking a chance. Would you really expect a call girl to call 911? What planet are you on?

Stucky
Stucky
July 10, 2014 11:15 am

All I can say is Alix Tichelman would have made a wonderful TBP poster.

Reminds me of SAH.
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flash
flash
July 10, 2014 1:14 pm

…must’a heard bonuses were going to be little short this quarter.

TE
TE
July 10, 2014 1:24 pm

Murder/Suicides have been increasing in occurrence in this country. It isn’t just the banksters, it is also the people they helped financially ruin (all of us).

Throw in the FACT that the pharms have been hiding the REAL chance of killing yourself after going on their “helpful” mind meds, especially depression meds, and just what do we think is going to happen?

This is what happens to people in a country that has decided Mega-Corporate profits are the only important things in the world.

And the majority continue to volunteer for it.

Sorry for the family’s loss. Really sorry for all the future losses and devastated families.

overthecliff
overthecliff
July 10, 2014 2:12 pm

We should help more of them and their captive media and regulators become stress free.

ragman
ragman
July 10, 2014 3:12 pm

Too fuckin’ bad! Two less that we have to round up when we reach judgment day.

Spinolator
Spinolator
July 10, 2014 5:50 pm

OMG!…WTF!….oh!.. (stock price ok)…Sad, very sad…. Seriously though, I agree with TE.

Chicago999444
Chicago999444
July 10, 2014 8:03 pm

This banker, like his brethren in death, clearly didn’t give a thought to what would become of his children. How narcissistic, spiritually empty, and morally bankrupt he was to deprive them not only of a father but of their mother, too.

No matter how much or how little money he left behind, his children most likely have tragic destinies before them. People who lose their parents while still children are greatly more prone to catastrophic depression in later life, and much more likely to commit suicide. To lose your parents under such ugly circumstances is still worse. These kids are not only not likely to attain anything like the worldly success of their parents, but are very likely to fall to the bottom completely, becoming prey to substance abuse and psychosis.

Joseph E Fasciani
Joseph E Fasciani
July 10, 2014 11:22 pm

Maybe he was a lousy tipper….