U.S. Mogul Steven Good Found Dead In Apparent Suicide

January 7, 2009 7:25 a.m. EST

Chicago, Il. (AHN) - An executive of one of the largest real estate companies in the U.S. was found dead Tuesday in an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound inside his Jaguar in a forest reserve near Chicago, authorities say.

The 52-year-old Steven L. Good, was found by a maintenance worker behind the wheel of his Jaguar parked in a lot at the McGraw Wildlife Refuge near East Dundee.

The Kane County Sheriff's Department said they did not find any suicide note inside the car, and they are still trying to determine if the suicide is connected with Good's job.

In the web site of Good's company, Sheldon Good, it described the executive as selling over "45,000 U.S. and international properties in more than 100 different classes and produced more than $10 billion in sales."

Hours earlier, German billionaire Adolf Merckle also killed himself by throwing himself under a train after his company suffered financial losses brought by the current global economic crisis.

Thierry de la Villehuchet, a French investment manager who lost more than a billion dollars in the alleged pyramid scheme of Wall Street finance adviser Bernard Madoff, also committed suicide in December.