Death of Reporter Who Broke Clinton/Lynch Tarmac Story is 'Apparent Suicide' | The Stream
By Mike Huckabee
Published on June 15, 2021
...Sign said he'd received death threats for telling this story. He was then working in Phoenix, for the ABC affiliate KNXT-TV. "Credit cards hacked," he said. "You know, my children, we have code words. We have secret code words that they know what to do." It was in 2017 that he and his family decided to move for their safety from Phoenix to the Birmingham area for him to take the job he held until his death. One post about him said, "His family was the single most important thing in his life, which is why he ended up returning to ABC 33/40 four years ago."
A week before he died, he posted a happy selfie in the park, with the caption, "Enjoying a beautiful morning."....
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What Happened to Chris Sign?
At least one report, that of Britain's
The Sun, leaves open the possibility that Sign was still clinging to life when the police were contacted or when they first arrived on the scene. Their wording: "Local police chief Keith Czeskleba said the death is being investigated as a suicide after the reporter was found unresponsive in his home." No details have been given about how Sign allegedly did this, either, or whether a note was found.
It's interesting that a British publication would offer the most thorough and humanizing coverage of this story. We learn a lot about the life of this journalist —
a real journalist, part of that rare, endangered species — from reading the posts and pictures they include.
The Sun also covers what Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert said about this in a tweet:
"Why is it that so many who cross the Clinton Crime Syndicate end up dead?" They mention, without elaborating, that Boebert has "been linked to QAnon conspiracies in the past." Well, I guess that's all it takes to dismiss her concerns about foul play! (I know Stephen Colbert has called her a "gun fetishist," a title that, coming from him, should be worn as a badge of honor.)
The Sun ran the video clip Boebert had included with her tweet, featuring Sign being interviewed on
Fox & Friends and expressing his concerns about "significant death threats," bad enough to make him leave Phoenix and return to Birmingham, where his friends and colleagues rallied around him and made him feel safer.
It's not always possible to know when someone is depressed enough to commit suicide. And perhaps he was that desperate. There might have been something very wrong that even his family and close friends didn't know about.
But looking at this man's accomplishments in life, his obviously bright future, the respect he'd earned as a journalist, and the happy pictures of his beautiful wife and three boys so shortly before his death (with Father's Day coming up this Sunday), it's hard to fathom he would do such a thing.
Chris Sign's Death Deserves a Thorough Investigation
Chris was obviously beloved by his friends and colleagues. The
New York Post ran a story that quoted Jamie Hale, the network's sports anchor: "I can't believe we have an article with this title. It doesn't feel real. Last night, we were in the office together cutting up the way we always do."
In none of the accounts we've turned up so far has there been even one word about any problem in this man's life, other than the threats that had been made on it. I'm not saying it didn't happen that way. But will this tremendous loss quickly be chalked up to suicide when it deserves a thorough investigation?
Ironically, it's Hillary's email case that shows us how easily an investigation can be blown off.