On Day of Suicide, Blogger Launches Site About His Life and Death

A sports blogger from Kansas committed suicide on his 60th birthday Thursday and prepared a website explaining, among other things, his reasons for doing so. The site also sparked a treasure hunt, as the man posted coordinates to what he said was a stash of gold and silver worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Martin Manley was a sports blogger who maintained his own website, "Sports In Review," wrote three books about sports and worked as the sports statistics editor at the Kansas City Star. On his 60th birthday — Aug. 15 — Manley announced his own suicide by activating a website, titled "Martin Manley: My Life and Death," into which he clearly invested a great deal of time and thought. The site's homepage begins: Read more...