Ready-made For a Law & Order Script: A Mysterious Letter Surfaces in Major Bashinsky Missing Persons Case
Major Bashinsky
Missing Houston exec Douglas Schantz was found floating in the Mississippi River yesterday, apparently bringing the mystery of his disappearance late last week to an end. Mountain Brook, Alabama Attorney Major Bashinsky, however, is still among the missing, and today The Birmingham News is reporting an odd wrinkle in the case, the kind of detail that could surely put Bashinsky’s disappearance on a fast-track to be ripped from the headlines by Law & Order script doctors.
Anonymous letters critical of the way Bashinsky’s family has handled its ownership of millions of dollars of stock in the Golden Flake Snack Food Co., Golden Enterprises have surfaced. A copy of one of the letters was found in Major Bashinsky’s car, which was found abandoned on the south side of Birmingham earlier this week. In an interview with the Birmingham paper, Golden Enterprises CE Mark McCutcheon said the letter(s) called the Bashinskys “vampires.” Bashinsky’s father Sloan was a co-founder of the company in the 1940s, but Bashinsky had no hand in running Golden Enterprises. His family is the largest shareholder and his stepmother Joann Bashinsky controls dividends via SYB, an investment company. The mysterious typewritten letter criticized the dividend policy, which can grant some shareholders more than a half-million dollars a year.
Mountain Brook police chief Johnny Stanley told the News that the letter was under investigation. “It is a disturbing situation,” said Stanley, “and we want to locate Mr. Bashinsky.”
Major Bashinsky is 63 years old. He’s been missing since the middle of last week. Contact the Mountain Brook police if you have information about his disappearance. [al.com]
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Ready-made For a Law & Order Script: A Mysterious Letter Surfaces in Major Bashinsky Missing Persons Case
Major Bashinsky
Missing Houston exec Douglas Schantz was found floating in the Mississippi River yesterday, apparently bringing the mystery of his disappearance late last week to an end. Mountain Brook, Alabama Attorney Major Bashinsky, however, is still among the missing, and today The Birmingham News is reporting an odd wrinkle in the case, the kind of detail that could surely put Bashinsky’s disappearance on a fast-track to be ripped from the headlines by Law & Order script doctors.
Anonymous letters critical of the way Bashinsky’s family has handled its ownership of millions of dollars of stock in the Golden Flake Snack Food Co., Golden Enterprises have surfaced. A copy of one of the letters was found in Major Bashinsky’s car, which was found abandoned on the south side of Birmingham earlier this week. In an interview with the Birmingham paper, Golden Enterprises CE Mark McCutcheon said the letter(s) called the Bashinskys “vampires.” Bashinsky’s father Sloan was a co-founder of the company in the 1940s, but Bashinsky had no hand in running Golden Enterprises. His family is the largest shareholder and his stepmother Joann Bashinsky controls dividends via SYB, an investment company. The mysterious typewritten letter criticized the dividend policy, which can grant some shareholders more than a half-million dollars a year.
Mountain Brook police chief Johnny Stanley told the News that the letter was under investigation. “It is a disturbing situation,” said Stanley, “and we want to locate Mr. Bashinsky.”
Major Bashinsky is 63 years old. He’s been missing since the middle of last week. Contact the Mountain Brook police if you have information about his disappearance. [al.com]