This is not satire or a Clinton-inspired meme... this is real life and yet, here we are. It's no wonder that the running joke about suicide that centers around former President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary. But again, this is real life, not a joke, and a man lost his life in what was ruled as a suicide.
So the question remains, how did a man tied to a tree with an electrical cord shoot himself in the chest but no weapon was recovered at the scene?
Mark Middleton, 59, was found hanging from a tree with an electrical cord around his neck suffering from a "self-inflicted" gunshot wound to the chest on May 7, 2022. Middleton was a top Bill Clinton advisor who personally signed Jeffery Epstein into the White House numerous times.
Daily Mail previously revealed Epstein visited the White House on 14 separate days and stopped by twice in one day on three occasions during Bill Clinton's first term. Middleton admitted him at least seven times.
The Daily Mail in an exclusive article on Wednesday revealed that the grisly scene where a top Bill Clinton adviser was found hanging from a tree with a gunshot wound to his chest has finally been revealed nine months after he died.
Sheriff Scott Montgomery gave an interview early in the case to an online publication in which he said Middleton apparently shot himself in the chest with a shotgun and also hung himself from a tree with an extension cord.
“I don’t know the man, and I don’t why he picked our county or picked that location to commit suicide. To our knowledge, he had never been there before, and we have no record of him being there before,” the sheriff told Daily Mail previously.
“He died from a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the chest. He found a tree and he pulled a table over there, and he got on that table, and he took an extension cord and put it around a limb, put it around his neck and he shot himself in the chest with a shotgun.”
The sheriff added: “It was very evident that the shotgun worked because there was not a lot of blood or anything on the scene. You can tell the shotgun blast was on his chest, you can tell that because there is a hole in the chest and pellets came out the back of his back. It was definitely self-inflicted in our opinion.”
In June of last year, Circuit Judge Alice Gray Tuesday granted a request from the family of Mark Middleton to seal photos, video, and other visual content in the investigation of his apparent suicide.
The lawsuit was filed in Perry County Circuit Court by Middleton’s wife, Rhea and brother, Larry, on May 23 by attorney Paul Parnell, of the Rose Law Firm... the same legal firm where Hillary Clinton worked before becoming First Lady.
It’s also the same firm ensnarled in the notorious Whitewater scandal that the Clintons faced in the 1990s. One of the firm's former partners, Vince Foster, then Bill’s deputy White House counsel, allegedly committed suicide with a .38 Colt revolver in a Washington D.C. park.
“Since Mr. Middleton’s death, Mr. Middleton’s family, including the Middletons, has been harassed by outlandish, hurtful, unsupported, and offensive online articles regarding Mr. Middleton, his death, and his family,” states the lawsuit.
“The same individuals who created the online articles will attempt to obtain details of the File.”
Middleton’s brother Larry Middleton wrote in an affidavit with the family’s lawsuit, “My brother died by suicide in Perry County, Arkansas on May 7, 2022, at the age of 59 years of age. Since his death, I, and other members of the family, have received intimidating, threatening, hurtful, and offensive inquiries from individuals regarding Mark and his death based on an unsupported, offensive, and unsubstantiated conspiracies.”
The judge eventually ruled that details could be released but photographs could not.
The report, written by Perry County Sheriff's Deputy Jeremy Lawson, says he was called to the ranch by worker Samantha McElroy who had found Middleton's abandoned black BMW SUV.
McElroy, 46, then walked around a cottage on the ranch. She asked that the Sheriff's Department to call for a wrecker service to tow the vehicle as she was not familiar with towing companies in the area.
A second deputy and a towing company arrived on the scene and Lawson turned the vehicle over to the towing company to remove the vehicle from the property. As the tow service was attempting to hook onto the vehicle, McAlroy decided to walk around the cottage that the vehicle was parked in front of.
"Almost immediately after stepping around the corner of the cottage she started yelling," wrote Lawson. "asking for myself and Deputy Brewer to come with her."
"Upon reaching the back of the cottage she pointed towards the rear of the property and asked if that was a person," he wrote. Adding, "I could see what at first appeared to be a man sitting near a tree, as my eyes focused better, I could see a rope of some type going from the tree limb to the male."
Lawson said it was clear that Middleton was dead.
"I could see that he had a gunshot wound to the chest and that he had a knot tied in an extension cord that was around his neck and it was attached to the limb directly above him," Lawson wrote.
It was at this point that he secured the scene.
The deputy said a search of Middleton's vehicle turned up three boxes of buckshot and a gun case, but no weapon.
As a matter of fact, no mention of a weapon being found was made in his report. So where did the shotgun go?
Middleton was a married father to young adult daughters.
Middleton also flew on Epstein's jet, nicknamed the "Lolita Express." More recently he had been working for his family's HVAC business in Little Rock and it was noted that items from his vehicle made mention of his ties to Middleton Heat and Air.
According to the Arkansas Times, Middleton's family said he was suffering from depression, and that the speculation surrounding his death and the conspiracy theories have further traumatized their family.
Middleton's life in recent years was a world away from the power he enjoyed in the 1990s.
In addition to being a special assistant to the President, Middleton was also assistant to the chief of staff, Thomas 'Mack' McLarty.
Middleton left the White House in February 1995 and was accused of setting himself up as an international deal-maker and his ties to Chinese companies were a hot topic in congress. His testimony was requested on numerous occasions to no avail.
In 1996 an investigation by the White House found that Middleton had abused his access to impress business clients and was barred from the executive mansion without senior approval.
Middleton denied the claims.
A number of Clinton's former associates have died over the years in unexpected circumstances, including deputy White House counsel Vince Foster mentioned earlier. His 1993 death was also ruled as a suicide.
Others whose deaths have been linked to the Clintons without foundation have been Seth Rich, the Democratic National Committee staffer who was murdered in 2016 with no culprit having been found.
It is alleged that Middleton was actively engaged in financial investments with the same Little Rock executives who allegedly worked with John Glasgow, the chief financial officer of CDI Contractors Inc., the lead firm that constructed the Clinton library.
Glasgow vanished without a trace in 2008 after reporting financial irregularities with the Clinton library construction costs and his skeletal remains, along with a driver's license and credit card, were found at Petit Jean State Park in 2015.
The medical examiner's office stated that Glasgrow's cause and manner of death are listed as undetermined. Since his death has been ruled undetermined, the case will remain open.
