European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Motor vehicles homicide suicide disease new York times the unmarried Taylor lived at his mothers according to his he was a laughing a really Nice Guy who seemed to thoroughly enjoy play ing with her two Young to her she he was not using perhaps one of the two women with whom Mcneil and Taylor spent their last evening was involved in As has been alleged by people in the neighbourhood perhaps and perhaps the two men were just casual acas Curry or were tight As Mcneil whatever the it was a and Mcneil had come Home from his latest As a with More than for a the four Young persons stayed in Taylors they were later seen at a nearby but ended the night across town at a Small apartment apparently by one of the for the purposes of this she will be called when the police arrived at the apartment just before they said they found Taylor sprawled on his Back across the foot of the his feet on the his left Arm Flung straight out from his body and a pistol near his right there was a knife wound in his he was Mcneil was lying on his stomach in the his head next to the a Bullet had pierced his was according to what Ginger and the second woman told the Mcneil had Given Ginger some Money and wanted her to have sex with him expected in when she he blamed the presence of her for her according to the witnesses Mcneil seized a Steak went into the bed room and stabbed Taylor then got pulled his followed Mcneil into the shot him and staggered Back to the according to the Ginger rushed to a neighbor ing apartment and asked to use the phone to Call the the occupant of that apartment told investigators that Ginger was screaming and hollering that it was my they killed each other Over neither Mcneils nor Taylors relatives Are Happy with this explanation of what went both and say they have heard on the that the men were set up for the police report and the police say the Case is Alice Mcneil said she was adjusting to although she added sometimes ill see him in my mind and ill Start you know i loved seeing him with the loved being in bed next to but i guess Ive just got to keep on 1 think what it said Bobby Joe Clarkes older is we never had no authorities on such As Calvin Frederick of the National Institute of mental might the primary underlying cause of the rising suicide rate among american youth seems to be a breakdown of the nuclear family Frederick and for the major Factor is Lack of a suitable relationship with a Bobby Joe Clarke is a it was Given him at his family for purposes of this to protect the family details about the Young Man his his problems and the Circum stances of his death Are an account of his life and what led to his suicide was provided for the most part by his with whom he was living at the time of his when the two boys were much their father went to shortly after he got he was killed on a Bobby Joe became a High spirited Young boy who was dismissed by a number of and finally would not go to school at All in his Broth ers he didst like being caged he left school when he was about he was and As a teenager at the Beach or at Rock he stood he had a comical Way of putting things that won him Many in warm he was always Barefoot and Bare when challenged he would fight he had a real  just like my said the he Learned to do a number of skilled and Semi skilled and for a time seemed to be settling Down and thinking seriously about his but in recent his brother he had begun to View himself As a drag on when youre leaving the House and youve got to get out and make it on your said Bobby Joes that what really gets to people he told me that he was a Burden to me and my i told him that was just crazy he with people having to take care of him like he was a he Bobby Joe Sank into what his brother terms adolescent i think what it says the he never did have nobody guiding him showing him How to do id but he always kind of resented me show ing him i think it was just his coming up through All those not having any real person you could look up to and Trust and talk to and respect what they say to february 1981 Frederick says this is a classic illustration of the de scent to the boy has no suitable figure to identify he and he then becomes extremely then he just begins to go downhill until he cant stand the pressure experts a Young Man in that condition will turn to his particularly to a for a Bobby Joe had a a pretty redhead to whom he Clung he had her name tattooed on his upper but according to the in the weeks before the suicide he had been tormented by her false assertions to others that she was pregnant arts that she had an older a few Days before he killed himself Bobby in a fit of apparent rage and Drew a Hunt ing knife Lengthwise across the girlfriends name on his cutting the flesh so deeply that it peeled Back and obscured the letters of the thens when we should have tried to get help for the brother the Day of the Bobby Joe told his brother he was having suicidal i just laughed it you his brother that the older brother and his wife left the House to go to his mothers House for Bobby Joe did not want to when his brother and sister inlaw returned that the television set and lights were he called to Bobby Joe and got no in the bedroom was Bobby lying on the Edge of the bed with both feet on the the Rifle Between his a Bullet Hole in his a suicide note was found on the Kitchen it read i love you both very much so dont forget about me Tell Mother i love her and the rest of the family very in sorry if i scratched your gun and in sorry i had to use but it was All i could find for a i would like you to do me a i know you dont like but for Tell her i love her very i love you goodbye although Bobby Joe Clarke came from the Blu Collar part of he could As easily have been from the suburbs or the suicide is no respecter of socioeconomic Frederick its a very democratic Bobby Joes brother says he Hopes others will pay attention to what happened in his family and per haps learn from there Are a lot of mixed up kids out he and As a kind of epitaph he was i dont think he understood what he was that it would be the stars and stripes Page 11