Police try to determine if heir to Ala. snack food company was killed or killed himself
By APWednesday, March 17, 2010
Cause of death sought for Ala. snack food heir
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Authorities are trying to determine if an heir to one of Alabama’s best-known companies was killed or took his own life.
Mountain Brook Police Chief Johnny Stanley said Wednesday that is the main question after the body of 63-year-old Major Bashinsky was found in a golf course pond.
Stanley says he hopes a coroner’s report will provide answers.
Bashinksy, a prominent estate lawyer in Birmingham, disappeared two weeks ago. He is a son of the late Sloan Bashinsky, longtime head of Golden Flake Snack Foods. Major Bashinsky’s car was found four days after he disappeared, and a letter critical of the company was taped inside it along with a bag of chips.
The letter was one of a series sent to members of the Bashinsky family.
