Conspiracy theories surround Ken Lay's untimely death - 07/13/06 - The Detroit News Online

Conspiracy theories surround Ken Lay's untimely death - 07/13/06 - The Detroit News Online: "(Lay's sentencing for his role in the corporate fraud was scheduled for Sept. 11.), coupled with his disregard for all those retirees' lost life savings and broken dreams, makes it difficult, as Tom Zeller Jr. wrote in the New York Times, 'to expect that ordinary Americans would trust much of anything involving Mr. Lay unless they could poke it with a stick.'

Think about it: A coroner could be bought.

It was reported that Lay had requested cremation. The site -- a small, rented house in the idyllic mountain resort town of Aspen where friends remained loyal -- was aptly chosen over the family home in Houston where he'd become quite a spectacle of derision.

And, too, Lay was no dummy. He had a Ph.D. in economics and orchestrated the rise of the seventh largest company in the nation.

After such a steep fall from grace and likely facing the rest of his life behind bars, why wouldn't he consider his life already over?"