Dead men tell no tales

Christopher Kelly, the person who knew the most damaging information about former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is dead. The investigators have decided that his death was either murder or suicide.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-christopher-kelly-dead-13sep13,0,6335509,full.story

The facts of this case:

• Kelly's death ended a tumultuous year in his life. He twice pleaded guilty to federal charges. He was estranged from his wife. And he faced serious financial problems, partly due to gambling debts. But Kelly indicated he was not going to turn on Blagojevich despite pressure from prosecutors.
  
• The chief Blagojevich fundraiser -- who also was one of Blagojevich's closest advisers -- had been indicted three times by federal authorities in recent years, the last time in April in the sweeping conspiracy case against the ex-governor.
  
• The Cook County medical examiner's office said Stroger Hospital officials told them that Kelly apparently died of an overintoxication of salicylate, a drug used in anti-inflammatory and pain relief medications such as aspirin.Authorities said Kelly was in his 2007 Cadillac Escalade in the parking lot of a lumber yard at 173rd Street and Cicero Avenue in Country Club Hills -- a few miles from his Markham office -- Friday night when he began vomiting. Sources said a girlfriend of Kelly's drove him to nearby Oak Forest Hospital of Cook County.

In my opinion there are 2 possible explanations for Kelly’s death:

1. Kelly chooses to end his own life by taking an overdose of aspirin while in the company of his girlfriend in the parking lot of an abandoned lumberyard.

2. Kelly was poisoned and fell ill from the poison while in a clandestine encounter with a woman in the parking lot of an abandoned lumberyard.

I find scenario number 2 to be more realistic. This leads to the interesting question, who poisoned Kelly?

Kelly had intimate knowledge of the inner workings of Illinois and Chicago politics. This knowledge would give Kelly the ability to negotiate a reduction in jail time with the Justice Department. In return Kelly would have to testify against someone higher up in political office. If we can find who Kelly was about to testify against we will find the killer.