Mark L Coles

Personal

Passions

Vocation

Traits

American suicide, a client administrator at the firm Fidelity Investments. He had a big smile, lots of friends, a new car and a bright future, doing well on his job. On the night of 5/15/1997, Mark made a mistake in judgment that was so devastating that he felt his life irrevocably ruined. He met a woman at the Oliver Tavern, a divorced mother, age 33 and they sat drinking and flirting. Shortly before 2:00 AM, they left the bar and went into the alley around the corner. Utility workers on an emergency call saw the couple in the dark alley, the man on top of the woman on the ground and they called the cops. The woman was drunk and told the police that he had attempted to rape her; he was taken to the station and booked on a rape charge. The case was weak and the woman disappeared; it would never have led to a conviction, but Mark spent five days in agony, waiting for someone to find out at work. On 5/20/1997, Watertown, MA, he taped a small explosive device to his neck and committed suicide by blowing himself up.