Ted Koppel's Son Found Dead After Drinking Binge

[Nordic]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/0 ... 95744.html

NEW YORK — A son of former ABC News anchor Ted Koppel was found dead in an apartment after a day of bar hopping with a man he'd just met, a law enforcement official said Tuesday.

A drunken Andrew Koppel, 40, had been placed in a back bedroom of the Manhattan apartment to sleep it off and apparently had been dead at least four hours before anyone realized, said Belinda Caban, who lives in the apartment.

Does this set off anyone's spidey sense?

I mean, you've got a prominent journalist. Who suddenly loses his 40 year old son to a "drinking binge?"

How many 40 year olds die from partying too much? The only people I've known to actually do this are high school kids, a few college kids, and people with mental health problems.

And he was drinking with "a man he'd just met"?

Somebody sending a strong clear message to Koppel?

[82_28]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/01/andrew-koppel-dead-ted-ko_n_595744.html

NEW YORK — A son of former ABC News anchor Ted Koppel was found dead in an apartment after a day of bar hopping with a man he'd just met, a law enforcement official said Tuesday.

A drunken Andrew Koppel, 40, had been placed in a back bedroom of the Manhattan apartment to sleep it off and apparently had been dead at least four hours before anyone realized, said Belinda Caban, who lives in the apartment.

Does this set off anyone's spidey sense?

I mean, you've got a prominent journalist. Who suddenly loses his 40 year old son to a "drinking binge?"

How many 40 year olds die from partying too much? The only people I've known to actually do this are high school kids, a few college kids, and people with mental health problems.

And he was drinking with "a man he'd just met"?

Somebody sending a strong clear message to Koppel?

Since I'm not allowed a spidey sense around now and around here. I'm gonna come out of my spider hole and say, yes. He was 40. The story being told is absurd true or no. Anybody have any other angles on this?

[norton ash]

You can choke on your vomit. That's killed lots of pass-out artists.

[Jeff]

What's Ted Koppel done, ever, that could possibly incite corpse messaging?

[chiggerbit]

http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/st ... /boystown/

...The Times reported that Spence, a former ABC reporter, was said to have been running a CIA blackmail operation: Spence's Victorian Mansion on Wyoming Avenue, where he often threw parties for Washington's power elite, was "planted with electronic bugs and video recording equipment that, according to homosexual call-boys and others who routinely visited the house, was used to make incriminating tapes to blackmail guests." The parties were attended by the likes of William Casey, Ted Koppel, John Mitchell and Eric Severeid. A political tempest threatened when Spence's credit card receipts implicated Reagan and Bush appointees, but few names reached the public print...

[Laodicean]

What's Ted Koppel done, ever, that could possible incite corpse messaging?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB5WrjvFnRI#t=6m00s

[The Consul]

There are countless interpretations of the Falcon & the Snowman.



Our only hope is that somehow we can be saved as a species by indigenous peoples who have never seen the internets.

[Nordic]

What's Ted Koppel done, ever, that could possibly incite corpse messaging?

Well, I would imagine that in a case like this, it's not what you've done, but what you're planning on doing, that would result in such a thing.

I mean, once you've done it, it's over. But if you're thinking about doing something, and somebody gives you a really good reason not to, well ....

Of course, it could be argued once you've killed somebody's son, then the somebody's got nothing to lose. Unless they have more kids. Or loved ones.

Wasn't Michael Jordan's dad supposedly killed because of an extreme gambling debt that Michael Jordan had? And what about Bill Cosby? Didn't it turn out there was something fishy about that?

[DeltaDawn]

An observation that is only that....but it's been mentioned what has Ted Koppel done to deserve corpse message etc.....Wellll maybe it was actually what the son might or might not do or say. And I only say this here, because it's supposed to be a site of intuitive people. One thing I've been blessed with, and only because of a horrendous childhood is the ability to recognize what I call a 'creep' meaning someone who looks at children in a way that should not be done. Always, always I've looked at Ted Koppel as a real 'creep'.....I don't Know a thing, it's only the intuition God has blessed me with but maybe, just maybe this new buddy he went drinking with discussed things with him that they may have decided on a binge, they might need to talk openly about????? Who was this buddy? a journalist's son or friend? (lots of them in that creepy world, I can say from experience) a politician's kid maybe?? What I do agree with everyone on, is that it's highly unusual for a 40 year old to die from drinking overdose, usually at that age we know limits, and more importantly when we've crossed those lines and when to get help. Just saying......it might not be all about Ted Koppel, as much as about the deceased and what he may have known. I truly believe that if my father could catch me in a drinking period, he'd figure a way to kill me and have it look like my own fault for being an alcoholic, what a perfect way to protect your past and blame it on the victim?????

On Edit: Don't come back on me, I am in no way suggesting Ted killed his son, just wondering what info son may have had that many, not just dad, people didn't want him to ever talk about.

[82_28]

What's Ted Koppel done, ever, that could possibly incite corpse messaging?

Well, I would imagine that in a case like this, it's not what you've done, but what you're planning on doing, that would result in such a thing.

I mean, once you've done it, it's over. But if you're thinking about doing something, and somebody gives you a really good reason not to, well ....

Of course, it could be argued once you've killed somebody's son, then the somebody's got nothing to lose. Unless they have more kids. Or loved ones.

Wasn't Michael Jordan's dad supposedly killed because of an extreme gambling debt that Michael Jordan had? And what about Bill Cosby? Didn't it turn out there was something fishy about that?

The oddity of all this has been a topic amongst my WOO traveling friends and I for years. Time it up with the LA riots and an OJ Simpson circus. Who knows on this one though. It seems fishy, but maybe he did just drink too much. Is there a known history of Koppel's son's drinking at all?

[Cordelia]

What's Ted Koppel done, ever, that could possible incite corpse messaging?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB5WrjvFnRI#t=6m00s

Thanks Laodicean. That's worth watching for Jeremy Iron's 6 second soft shoe at the 7:30 mark.

[Cordelia]

http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/archive/oldnews2/boystown/

...The Times reported that Spence, a former ABC reporter, was said to have been running a CIA blackmail operation: Spence's Victorian Mansion on Wyoming Avenue, where he often threw parties for Washington's power elite, was "planted with electronic bugs and video recording equipment that, according to homosexual call-boys and others who routinely visited the house, was used to make incriminating tapes to blackmail guests." The parties were attended by the likes of William Casey, Ted Koppel, John Mitchell and Eric Severeid. A political tempest threatened when Spence's credit card receipts implicated Reagan and Bush appointees, but few names reached the public print...

If that's true, it's a very important bit of information about Koppel. He was/is a major media front man. If it was a 'message' to him (or others) we'll never know, but he and his sure will.

Interesting thoughts Delta; following along those lines, regardless of a possible intentional accident, if Andrew Koppel was a heavy drinker with a long history, someone who engaged in risky behavior by picking up strangers and binging, what does that say about his childhood, especially if it could point back to the accusations of Koppel's participation at Craig Spence's parties? Because the kind of dark pathology and peccadilloes that would lead a 'family' man to participate in Capital Hill after-after parties couldn't not leave a deep impression, to put it mildly, on his children. Even if the child wasn't 'involved', he'd be involved.

[chiggerbit]

If that's true...

Well, I don't know that it is, even doubt that it is. But I certainly did a double-take as soon as I saw that Koppel's son had died that way.

[bks]

Not saying there's anything to this, but here's an excerpt from page 304 of The Franklin Scandal:

The Washington Times wrote a salacious June 29, 1989 story that highlighted Spence's astonishing ability to play the puppeteer and pull strings: "Homosexual Prostituition Inquiry Ensnares VIPs with Reagan, Bush." The Headline read: "Call Boys Took Midnight Tour of White House". . .

The article also revealed that Spence stopped by DC's ABC studios shortly before the midnight tour and introduced a fifteen-year-old boy to his old firend Ted Koppel. The Washington Post quizzed Koppel about his friendship with Spence, but Koppel declined to speak "in-depth" about Spence, because Koppel said that he planned to write a story about him - two decades later I'm [Nick Bryant]not aware of Koppel ever writing anything about Spence.

[ninakat]

Always, always I've looked at Ted Koppel as a real 'creep'.....

Me too, even though I always felt good about Alfred E. Newman.