Subprime Murder/Suicide Not Related to Finances, But Personal Issues

An executive at a subprime loan company that was financially circling the drain stated that the murder of his wife and consequent suicide was not related to money worries, but personal problems. Walter Buczynski was a 59-year-old vice president of Fieldstone Mortgage Corp., a mortgage lending company sinking into bankrupty. He'd told neighbors that he would soon be looking for a new job, but they didn't sense an irregular level of distress.

Nonetheless, Buczynski broke his wife's neck Friday in their New Jersey home through blunt force trauma. He then drove to the Delaware Memorial Bridge, where he exited his car and jumped to his death, leaving a suicide note. En route, he called police to report the death of his wife at their home. Walter and Marcie Buczynski had a nine-year-old son together and a 16-year-old son from a prior marriage. Marcie's father had recently died from cancer and her mother had moved in with the family. In the wake of their parents' deaths, the two boys are staying with the 16-year-old son's father.

The Baltimore Sun has a detailed account of a prosperous family sinking into what must have seemed like an inescapable pit of despair, one that ultimately drove Walter Buczynski to murder and suicide.

Delaware Memorial Bridge

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By Dave Hogarty in News on January 20, 2008 12:50 PM

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Dave Hogarty

Commonly used? Yes. Perhaps more so in the medical and financial fields. I don't think there would be a reason for its etymology to be specifically Midwestern though. Specifically it means a condition of impending death or termination. Picture a draining bathtub and the spiraling motion of the water.

circling the drain

dooWOP

financially circling the drain?

That's just plain awkward man. Is that a commonly used Midwest idiom?

JacqueMehoff

aren't money worries personal problems?

Rocknrope

I agree Kane, very odd sentence structure. This would work better:

An executive at a failing subprime loan company who murdered his wife and then committed suicide stated in his suicide note that both acts were not related to money worries, but personal problems.

kane

How did this man state that the murder of his wife and his own suicide was not related to his money but his own personal life? Did he hold a press conference from his grave?

I'm assuming that it was in the suicide note, but the article does not make this clear.