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De Blasio’s father committed suicide while suffering from cancer
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Sep 30, 2013 02:05pm |
| Category | News |
| News Date | Sep 30, 2013 01:20pm |
| Description | Mayoral hopeful Bill de Blasio has said relatively little about his absent father – a Yale graduate whose life went into a tailspin after his brutal military service in World War II sparked heavy drinking.
But public records uncovered by The Post show that his dad’s life didn’t just turn tragic in the decades after he lost part of his leg in the Battle of Okinawa – it ended tragically as well.
On a July morning in 1979, Warren Wilhelm was found with a self-inflicted gun wound in a parked car outside the Rocky River Motel in New Milford, Conn.
The 61-year-old, who lived 35 miles away in New Haven after having split from de Blasio’s mother in Massachusetts a decade earlier, was suffering from late-stage terminal cancer at the time, according to public records.
“The local police received a call at 8:24 a.m. from a subject stating that he or she had found a man dead in vehicle,” reads a brief Aug. 2, 1979 article in the New Milford Times. “The police said their investigation revealed that the wound had been self-inflicted with a rifle.” |
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