Thursday, May 2, 2013

Blaming Alcohol for Suicide on Bering Sea Gold

The last season of Bering Sea Gold spent parts of several episodes covering the suicide of one of the workers on one of the featured gold dregs.  Emily Reidel and Zeke Tenhoff are a featured team running two barges, and one of their workers was Zeke's "brother from a different mother" John Bunce.  During the last season, John Bunce committed suicide by spinning a revolver's cylinder, then pulling the trigger, which shot himself in the head.

In an interview with a blogger online radio show, Zeke revealed that he blamed the alcohol situation in Nome, Alaska, for the suicide.  He especially railed against the

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