And too, recently Baxter was looking to buy a new larger yacht. I used to read true crime and Texas had murders that never seemed to get solved. Seems suspicious.
article from Houston Chronicle:
SUGAR LAND -- Suburban Houston neighbors of J. Clifford Baxter, the former Enron Corp. vice chairman found dead in his car today in an apparent suicide, said his family enjoyed their privacy and planned to live on a yacht some day.
The family of four, who one next-door neighbor said were boating enthusiasts, has spent the months since Baxter's resignation last May searching for a larger yacht. So far, they had not found "the perfect one."
"I feel so terrible for that family," said the neighbor, who declined to give her name. "I woke up (early this morning) and I had neighbors calling, asking why I had a police car parked in front of my home."
Police found Baxter, 43, dead in his car, which was parked on a nearby street, with a bullet wound to the head. His car was parked in the turnaround of a median in view of two $1 million-plus homes and less than a half-mile from a law enforcement substation.
Four Sugar Land police officers guarded the Baxter home today, whose brown wooden front door is adorned with an American flag, checking well-wishers as they streamed in during the day and keeping a crush of reporters and photographers prowling the southwest Houston city.
Baxter, along with his wife, Carol, and son and daughter, J.C. and Lauren, lived in a reddish brick home with black shuttered windows valued at more than $700,000, comparable to other homes in the golf course community and several times more than the median price in the Houston area.
The family's nearly 2-year-old home was among the first built on the block, neighbors said. They moved there in 2000 from another Sugar Land neighborhood, where a former neighbor had fond memories of Baxter.
"Cliff was a good guy, and his family was good people," said the man, who also declined to give his name. He said Baxter enjoyed playing the piano and guitar, and his son often played basketball outside.
Records indicate the family's charitable foundation gave $5,000 to help expand the school at nearby St. Laurence Catholic Church, although a receptionist at the parish disavowed any knowledge of the Baxters.
"We don't know those people," the woman said. |
