ABSTRACT
During the night of January 25, 2002, Cliff Baxter, the 43-year-old vice chairman of Enron, slipped carefully out of bed to keep from disturbing his sleeping wife. He climbed into his new black Mercedes-Benz S500 and drove to Palm Royale Boulevard, about a mile from his home. With the motor still running and the headlights burning, he lifted a silver .357 Magnum to his right temple and blew away most of his head. At the subsequent services were photos of Cliff with his loving family-sailing, playing the guitar. His wife Carol, his 16-year-old son, and his 11-year-old daughter were heartbroken (McLean and Elkind 2003, xxii).
