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TV pitchman Billy Mays found dead at home – Los Angeles Times

Wow! What is happening to celebrities! Not my beloved Oxi-clean and mighty putty! RIP Billy

TV pitchman Billy Mays found dead at home

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From the Associated Press
9:46 AM PDT, June 28, 2009

Tampa police say Billy Mays, the television pitchman known for his boisterous hawking of products such as Orange Glo and OxiClean, has died. He was 50.
Authorities say Mays was pronounced dead this morning after being found by his wife at home. There were no signs of a break-in, and investigators do not suspect foul play. The coroner’s office expects to have an autopsy done by Monday afternoon.

TV pitchman Billy Mays found dead at home – Los Angeles Times

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Woman who missed Flight 447 is killed in car crash – Times Online

Talk about crazy stuff!

Woman who missed Flight 447 is killed in car crash

officers recover debris belonging to the Air France Flight 447 in the Atlantic Ocean

    (Brazil Air Force/AP)

    The remains of Flight 447 is still being recovered

    Philippe Naughton

    An Italian woman who arrived late for the Air France plane flight that crashed in the Atlantic last week has been killed in a car accident, it has been reported.

    Johanna Ganthaler, a pensioner from Bolzano-Bozen province, had been on holiday in Brazil with her husband Kurt and missed Air France Flight 447 after turning up late at Rio de Janeiro airport on May 31.

    All 228 people aboard lost their lives after the plane crashed into the Atlantic four hours into its flight to Paris.

    The ANSA news agency reported that the couple had managed to pick up a flight from Rio the following day.

    Ganthaler died when their car veered across a road in Kufstein, Austria, and swerved into an oncoming truck. Her husband was seriously injured.

    Woman who missed Flight 447 is killed in car crash – Times Online

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