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Gambling911.com can report exclusively that a story about Ken "The Shrink" Weitzner appearing Sunday in a Virginia newspaper will reveal his suicide was not his idea--it was his wife's!
The shocking story, set to run in the July 4 edition of the Virginian-Pilot (www.pilotonline.com), a newspaper in Norfolk, Virginia, USA, will also confirm what many have suspected--"The Shrink" killed himself because of financial pressures.
Weitzner, 54, who founded gambling portal Eye on Gambling (www.eog.com), and his wife, Jackie, killed themselves last April in their Chesapeake, Virginia home.
Authorities ruled the incident a double suicide.
Since the tragedy, speculation has run rampant as to what really happened and why.
The Virginian-Pilot story, written by crime reporter Kristin Grace Davis, will reveal startling new details about the suicides and what led up to them.
The most explosive revelation is that "The Shrink" had recently suffered very heavy losses gambling on sporting events on credit and couldn't afford to pay his bookies.
That, combined with some earlier major losses in the stock market, plus the fact that EOG.com wasn't earning nearly as much as it used to, put severe financial stresses on him.
The Weitzners feared losing their house and having to move in with one of their kids.
Jackie couldn't accept the fact that the couple's lavish lifestyle--fueled in part by the earlier sale of Ken's first portal, The Prescription (www.therx.com), for $2.4 million--was going to end.
Shockingly, the story reports, it was not Ken who suggested the couple kill themselves, but Jackie.
Ken was not in favor of the idea at first and Jackie had to talk him into it.
Two days before the double suicide, the Weitzners visited an attorney and rewrote their wills, leaving everything to Jackie's two sons from a previous marriage, as the couple had no children together.
Reporter Davis pieced the story together from an 18-page suicide note the Weitzners left the sons as well as from interviews with local police sources familiar with the details of the deaths.
By Tom Somach
Gambling 911.com Staff Writer
