>Hi All,
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> I found this today in my paper. I am sorry they say this.
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>http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2007/01/12/bnews/br09.txt

I found this link no longer valid because of the way this website numbers the news.
I was able to locate it under different link (at the moment it's http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2007/01/12/bnews/br83.txt ), so to save others the trouble, here is the full text.

For the record, having met Drew, Brent and Irene several times, I do not believe for a second to what's concluded there.

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2005 deaths of man, son in Yellowstone ruled murder-suicide
Posted on Jan. 12
By the Associated Press



BILLINGS - The deaths of an Arizona man and his 13-year-old son in Yellowstone National Park in September 2005 have been classified as murder-suicide.

National Park Service investigators believe Drew W. Speedie, 50, a computer software designer from Scottsdale, Ariz., pushed his son, Brent, off a bridge 200 feet above the Gardner River and then jumped to his death.

Investigators will never know for sure what happened, but several factors - physical evidence, the position of the bodies and the fact that Drew Speedie had talked about suicide - allowed park officials to classify it as murder-suicide and close the case.


''There's enough evidence to lead us to one conclusion,'' said Brian Smith, special agent in charge for the intermountain region, who led the investigation.

''We'll never absolutely know because we weren't there,'' Smith said. ''Anything is possible, but that's the most probable.''

Speedie, his wife, Irene, and Brent were on the last day of a Yellowstone vacation when Drew and Brent decided to go to the Gardner Bridge while Irene stayed at a hotel in Gardiner.

Hours later their bodies were found below the bridge at the bottom of the canyon.

Smith said piecing together what happened was difficult. Investigators said there was nothing to indicate the victims had been struck by a vehicle or that a third party had somehow been involved. They were never able to find a man, who did not speak much English, who had reported an incident.

Images recovered from a digital camera show Drew and Brent taking turns posing at the bridge railing. The final photo showed Brent sitting on the top rail of the bridge, facing the canyon away from the road, Smith said.

''There was no evidence that this 13-year-old boy was the kind of kid that would (jump) on his own,'' Smith said.

Both victims appeared to land feet first, which Smith said was an indication that both probably left the bridge feet first and supported the theory that Brent was pushed and Drew then jumped. Had either tumbled off the bridge, the positions of the bodies probably would have been different, he said.

Though there was no note or evidence that the incident was planned, investigators learned that Drew Speedie had discussed suicide, Smith said.

Park officials would have been willing to classify the cause of the deaths as ''unknown,'' Smith said, but the evidence simply didn't point in that direction.

Drew Speedie's father, Murray Speedie of Honolulu, said Thursday he still doesn't have a clear idea of what happened to his son and grandson that morning.

''This is an unpleasant thing,'' Smith said. ''Regardless of what we think happened, it's a tragedy to everyone involved.'' "