By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

I would call a rash of 36 deaths – grizzly murders, accidents and questionable suicides – in one year… suspicious. And that’s just this year. If you look back, this has been going on since at least 2011. So far, 36 bankers have died this year. The latest is 52-year-old Belgian Geert Tack – a private banker for ING. He has been missing for a month and they just found his body with no signs of violence visible. He managed portfolios for wealthy individuals, was successful, upbeat and had everything to live for. As most of the victims did, by the way. His body was found floating off the coast of Ostend.

In a string of deaths that makes coincidence highly improbable, the media is eerily silent on the subject. Many of these individuals were in the prime of their life and at the height of their careers. As The Economic Collapse blog has pointed out, a number of these people were involved in foreign exchange trading and derivatives.

I’ll be honest, it looks to me like someone is taking these individuals out and making them look like suicides and accidents. Or possibly random murders. There are just too many of them in high positions. I’ll leave it to you to decide. Perhaps some journalist out there should thoroughly do some research on this. Some of them look plausible, but way too many of them are very suspicious.

This is the 36th Dead Banker of the year (via Beforeitsnews):

  • David Bird, 55, long-time reporter for the Wall Street Journal working at the Dow Jones news room — Still missing, but his credit card has been used in Mexico.
  • Tim Dickenson, a U.K.-based communications director at Swiss Re AG — Unknown circumstances.
  • William Broeksmit, 58, former senior manager for Deutsche Bank — He was found hung at a house.
  • Ryan Henry Crane, age 37, JP Morgan — Unknown circumstances.
  • Li Junjie, 33, Hong Kong JP Morgan — He jumped to his death from a 30 story building.
  • Gabriel Magee, 39, age JP Morgan employee — He jumped 500 ft from the top of the bank’s headquarters in central London. Magee had made plans earlier that day for dinner.
  • Mike Dueker, 50, who had worked for Russell Investments — He fell down a 50 foot embankment in what police are describing as a suicide.
  • Richard Talley, 57, was the founder and CEO of American Title (real estate titles) — Said to have committed suicide by shooting himself with a nail gun. Talley was found “with eight nail gun wounds to his torso and head” in his own garage.
  • James Stuart Jr. 70, Former National Bank of Commerce CEO was found dead in Scottsdale, AZ — Unknown cause of death.
  • Jason Alan Salais, 34 year old IT Specialist at JP Morgan since 2008 — Died from a heart attack.
  • Autumn Radtke, 28, CEO of First Meta, a Singapore-based virtual currency trading platform — Jumped from a 25 story building.
  • Eddie Reilly, 47, investment banker, Vertical Group, NY — Jumped in front of a LIRR train.
  • Kenneth Ballando, 28, investment banker, Levy Capital, NY — Jumped from the 6th story of his apartment building.
  • Joseph A. Giampapa, 55, corporate bankruptcy lawyer, JP Morgan Chase — Run over by a van.
  • Jan Peter Schmittmann, 57, voormalig topbestuurder ANB/AMRO, Laren, Nederland — Suspected murder/suicide.
  • Juergen Frick, 48, CEO Bank Frick & Co AG, Liechtenstein — He was shot to death.
  • Benoît Philippens, 37, directeur BNP Parisbas Fortis Bank, Ans, Belgium — She was shot to death.
  • Lydia…, 52, banker Bred-Banque-Populaire, Paris — Jumped from the 14th floor of her office’s Paris Headquarters.
  • Andrew Jarzyk, 27, banker, PNC Bank, NY — Found floating in the Hudson River, drowned.
  • Carlos Six, 61, Hoofd Belastingdienst en lid CREDAF, België — Unknown cause of death.
  • Jan Winkelhuijzen, 75, Commissaris en Fiscalist (voormalig Deloitte), Nederland — Murder/suicide suspected.
  • Richard Rockefeller, 66, John D. Rockefeller, America — Plane crash.
  • Mahafarid Amir Khosravi (Amir Mansour Aria), 45, bankeigenaar, zakenman en derivatenhandelaar, Iran — Khosravi was executed by hanging in Evin Prison in Tehran on May 24, 2014.
  • Lewis Katz, 76, banker, America — Plane crash.
  • Julian Knott, Directer Global Operations Center JP Morgan, 45, America — Unknown circumstances, but he and his wife were found unconscious before both passed away.
  • Richard Gravino, IT Specialist JP Morgan, 49, America — Cause of death unknown.
  • Thomas James Schenkman, Managing Director Global Infrastructure JP Morgan, 42, America — Cause of death unknown.
  • Nicholas Valtz, 39, Managing Director Goldman Sachs, NY, America — He was found floating with his kite board.
  • Therese Brouwer, 50, Managing Director ING, Nederland — She died in the downing of Malaysian Air Flight MH17.
  • Tod Robert Edward, 51, Vice President M & T Bank, America — Ruled accidental death.
  • Thierry Leyne, 48, investor banker Anatevka S.A., Israël — Suicide.
  • Calogero Gambino, 41, Managing Director Deutsche Bank, America — Suicide.
  • Shawn D. Miller, 42, Managing Director Citigroup, NY, America — He was found dead with his throat slashed in the bathtub.
  • Melissa Millian, 54, Senior Vice President Mass Mutual, America — Stabbed to death.
  • Thieu Leenen, 64, Relatiemanager ABN/AMRO, Eindhoven, Nederland — Unknown cause of death.
  • Geert Tack, 52, Private Banker ING, Haaltert, Belgium — Drowning.