He may have been a 'genius'

Posted on: October 30, 2017 at 14:11:00 CT

13 years after winning Olympic Gold, at the age of 37, he took his own life. Pippin mailed a letter to his wife letting her know where to find his body, in a parked automobile 8 miles from his home in a vacant garage. He had placed a hose from the exhaust through the car window, and died from the carbon monoxide fumes on April 1st, 1965.