“In retrospect, it has become clear to me that it was a suicide note. He was saying he was not going to be on the planet,” Mark Singel says of Dwyer.
Former Pa. Lt. Gov. Mark Singel was a friend of former Pennsylvania treasturer Budd Dwyer, and received a note from Dwyer two days before Dwyer killed himself on June 22, 1987. He says he's come to see the note as a veiled suicide note. Daniel Wagner | Special to PennLiveFreshly sworn-in Pa. Lt. Gov. Mark Singel was shifting through correspondence behind the desk of his new office in January 1987 when he came upon a hand-delivered letter from an old friend, R. Budd Dwyer.
It begins as a congratulatory note, thanking Singel for his friendship in the state Senate and wishing him and Gov. Bob Casey well in their new roles leading the Commonwealth. Then, Singel says the letter turns into what he now believes is a thinly veiled suicide note, foreshadowing the tragic events two days later.
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