Man who jumped to death at Disneyland was principal accused of child endangerment

I would only do it if it could be from the tallest tower of Cinderella's Castle.

What? How could a man with such a sincere smile do such horrible things?

Damn, in a couple of those non-snapchat filtered photos, he looks a LOT older than 51.

Well, obviously he was guilty.

Yeah, he was clearly guilty or, at the very least, unhinged. No one responds to something like that with suicide.

[quote]What? How could a man with such a sincere smile do such horrible things?

He shows his teeth in every photo because he's American. They all do that.

He drove to Disneyland and paid $40 to park, then killed himself?

Genius way for the parks to make money.

Why was he married in secret? That seems weird to me. She does look quite younger than him. Would she have been a former student?

I suspect he might actually have been significantly older than 51, r3, because if the story posted at OP is true, then he would have been principal of a school since the age of 29. That doesn't seem plausible to me, unless it was some kind of specialized school where he had particular expertise.

[quote]Yeah, he was clearly guilty or, at the very least, unhinged. No one responds to something like that with suicide.

Exactly. He was deeply unwell. He claimed it was just an argument, has proof his wife regrets that she got the police involved and is merely suspended while the investigation is done but he decides to kill himself instead of seeing what will happen. His wife just escaped an eventual murder-suicide because likely this impulsive idiot would have gone off the rails about something else

Yep, the age/appearance discrepancy added to the other things.....something stinks here.

Never mind -- I just read in the original article that he'd only been principal at that school for 11 years, so the age might be accurate.

But that maudlin poor-me FB screed is screaming red-flag warning. Unhinged, indeed.

[quote] something stinks here.

namely, his rotting corpse

Terrible, just terrible.

Why kill yourself if you are indeed, truly innocent and that will come out.

I also don't like that he went to Disneyland and did this at a "happy place" and ruined others' days.

Child endangerment charges and then you kill yourself at Disneyland?

He could have just thrown himself in front of a bus instead. Not a school bus, of course, but a regular commuter bus.

[quote] I also don't like that he went to Disneyland and did this at a "happy place" and ruined others' days.

Actually, for that very reason he was brilliant.

He was VERY passive-aggressive and self-centered. BPD, maybe?

If you can't do child endangerment correctly you should kill yourself.

It's not like it hasn't been thought of before.

Committing a gruesome public suicide at a park full of children enjoying "the happiest place on earth" is fucked up.

If I killed myself at Disneyland I would be sure to do it in "It's a Small World."

He didn't jump to his death inside Disneyland, he did it from the gigantic Mickey & Friends parking structure, which is across the street from the park and is actually owned by the City of Anaheim, not Disney. Anaheim built it for $500 million and Disney leases it from the city for $1 a year.

Parking fee there for a car is currently $30, not $40.

Cinderella's Castle is not at Disneyland, it is at Walt Disney World in Florida. The castle in Disneyland is Sleeping Beauty Castle.

He had a great ass but couldn’t live forever. Much to the children’s relief!

[quote] Why kill yourself if you are indeed, truly innocent and that will come out.

Innocent people are found guilty all the time.

[quote] He was VERY passive-aggressive and self-centered. BPD, maybe?

Borderlines usually threaten suicide to get what they want. They’re manipulative.

[quote]But that maudlin poor-me FB screed is screaming red-flag warning. Unhinged, indeed.

Yeah, the entire tone of that letter was, "Look what you all — but particularly my wife — made this wonderful, wonderful man do."

For a misdemeanor?! She was obviously a mess.

R23 is the Eighth dwarf. Bitchy.

Seems to me he killed himself because he saw his whole career being destroyed and probably assumed his future career prospects were destroyed as well. Destroying a man's career to many men is destroying their life. They feel there's nothing left to live for.

If it happened the way he said it did and no violence happened during the argument then his wife is to blame for blowing it all out of proportion. She'll have to live with that for the rest of her life.

If this happened to me the way he told it I would go to war with that fucking bitch. However, if I was instead living a double life as a monster that I feared being exposed for I'd kill myself. But who knows?

[quote] If I killed myself at Disneyland I would be sure to do it in "It's a Small World."

If I did it, it would be on a Doom Buggy midway thru Haunted Mansion right after I screamed, “NUMBER ONE THOUSAND, MOTHERFUCKERS!” 💥

“There is too much anger in the world and people need to start treating each other better. What I’ve shared with you above is a prime example of how ‘anger’ can really have long-lasting and extremely damaging effects on a person’s life,” he ended the tragic note.

And then he goes and commits suicide in such a spectacular fashion intentionally traumatizing many children. No wonder his wife called the police. What a fucked up abusive nasty piece of work.

That grimace of a smile reveals someone with enormous anger.

Do these means I gets the house??

How does anyone know he traumatized many children? He did it at a parking structure on the other side of the street from Disneyland, not in the park.

Look at me, Iger! It’s ALL for you!!!

The wife called the cops on him so he showed her who’s boss.

SMDH

I would like to fly from Tinkerbell's wire and fall on the crowd. All because people don't believe in fairies, anymore.

There are children with their families all over the place and news of it would have spread quickly. It's not terrific either for the adults. It was a very very stupid thing to do in such a place when you claim to be concerned about people's feelings. He could have done the decent and considerate thing and killed himself in his bathroom.

[quote] Court records show that he was due in court for a pre-trial conference hearing Monday for the two misdemeanor charges

Two misdemeanors?

Aside from everything else, we are most likely talking probation/a month or so in city jail at the worst. These were not life-ending charges where there could be (morbid I know) an argument that it was not worth going on (life in prison/execution/sex offender list).

Had to be more to this. Maybe felonies coming down the line.

Why the secret marriage?

[quote]Anaheim built it for $500 million and Disney leases it from the city for $1 a year.

I don't understand why municipalities and states bend over for corporations so eagerly. I guess Anaheim's economically dependent and doesn't want to piss off Disney or the sports teams, but they probably give them sweetheart tax deals, too.

And the corporations and sports' teams pay off the politicians who make these decisions as well.

Is that a green card bitch ? Why would a pretty young woman marry that old fossil ? 51 my ass. I dont doubt it went down exactly as he said. All women have to do is claim the guy hit them and off to jail you go. Theres no repercussion for those false accusations either. He knew that his career was over even if she screamed from the roof tops that he never laid a hand on her. She gets the last laugh if he didnt have a will.

He killed himself to take revenge on his wife and destroy her life - very NPD with a hint of BPD.

I would have made allowances for the overwrought nature of the post because he was about to kill himself, so probably wasn't thinking all that clearly, UNTIL he went on his MRA rant.

That little tidbit tells me that there is a LOT more to his actions and the story behind her calling the police. Sure, she might be a crazy, vengeful bitch. But, the MRA rant really makes me question his version of events also.

He has major creep vibes and his emphasis in his suicide note that he would NEVER hurt her girls makes me think something sinister was going on.

Obviously there's more to this story, but I will say this: anyone in education who goes through this is finished regardless of his guilt. The school system where he works will never look at him the same, and this kind of thing (whether true, heat-of-the-moment or an extreme over-reaction on the wife's part) follows you no matter what. He clearly had problems far greater than a shouting match in front of the kids (killing yourself at Disneyland?), but it probably was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.

Very sad.

I don’t think he is gay, but he has eldergay face.

Don’t principals get paid pretty well…?

[quote]I need you all to know that a gentle, kind, loving and sincerely good man has been destroyed by one unfortunate night.

The people who speak about themselves this way tend to be the worst kind of people.

🦅 🦅 🦅 🦅

R49 agree. Looks like a bottom I know in Miami Beach who's always posting about how everything *GIVES HIM LIFE* ... anyway, maybe the closet case issues made him an eggshell suicide case.

He is a principal behind the Orange curtain after all.

[quote] The people who speak about themselves this way tend to be the worst kind of people.

Way to generalize. My experience has been different.

gentle, kind, loving and sincerely good man

You know people who would say this about themselves? I have never met one person man or woman in my life who described themselves as such.

The biggest winner in DL's campaign to eradicate DM links is the New York Post.

R23, how do you know he didn't spring for preferred parking? That would be $50.

Well considering how high up he'd have to have been to have killed himself preferred parking would have been a waste of money.

Man, that five head is FULL of Botox.

Let's not even mention the fact that he had a secret wife and had been married for for 3 1/2 years or that said wife looks to be in her early 30s while he's in his 50s.

Secret much younger wife. MRA nutjob. Suicide over a misdemeanor.

I'm betting there is a lot of very dark stuff that would have come to light had they investigated and THAT is why he jumped.

[quote]No one responds to something like that with suicide.

Apparently, one did.

His FB post reads like one of the MRA troll's ESTs.

[quote]“Unfortunately, Marlena’s anger got the best of her that night and she called the police, which landed me in jail that night. Yes, me! A man who has never hit or harmed ANYONE in his life!”

R62 Your post made me laugh - thank you

No, your honor, I said she was fucking goofy!

As it was the top headline on the Daily Mail: you know this guy is sleaze

I want R23 at my Christmas party!

BPD sufferers 'decision making' is always "emotional" and "impulsive". Clearly, he was in a manic state.

He was probably in a manic state of rage, while not touching anyone in his house, but terrorizing everyone in his family, that warranted the charge of "Child Endangerment". (Which is a career killer for a principle of an elementary school !)

The facebook post was lucid and not erratic, which is odd. But his actions were the opposite. The fact that he drove all the way to Disneyland (30 miles away), while passing a hundred parking structures along the way, says he was not thinking rationally. Hell, there's multiple parking structures in Huntington, which he could have jumped off of.

I guess we know he's guilty then. I mean killing yourself in front of a bunch of children is practically child endangerment too. He's going to leave any who witnessed it traumatized.

Yes, r68 , another sign of not thinking rationally, and being in a manic state.

It’s actually sad

I thought it was sad when I read the headline. And then I read the story and came to the exact same conclusions as R46:

1. Severely personality disordered

2. He did it to punish the wife/ruin her life.

And I agree she could be just as much of a nutjob as him but that note has an extremely high density of red flags. Also agree with the person who commented that no one normal describes themselves the way he did: a truly good and kind man etc. I don't know if his wife or the kids (which don't sound like they are his bio kids?) know it, but it's entirely possible he just did them a big favour. Especially if she gets his assets. People like this destroy lives.

Y’all got this figured.

Next!

Old Dude. Young Wife. Creepy.

Won't someone think of the children?

This will be long forgotten in about.... 3 days.

RIP, internet trolls interested in this obscure mentally ill elementary school principal!

LET'S VERE BACK INTO THE "HEIL, YE-DOLF" area!!!!!

R15, "I also don't like that he went to Disneyland and did this at a "happy place" and ruined others' days."

Oh, come on. It's FUN!

🇺🇸 😬

Rumor has it that he planned to jump from the Tower of Terror, until he learned that it’s no longer Twilight Zone themed.

[quote]I also don't like that he went to Disneyland and did this at a "happy place" and ruined others' days.

Seriously, I was so looking forward to taking the kids to see jungle savages selling shrunken heads, a man being water-tortured by drunken pirates, and the rotting corpse hanging from a noose in the Haunted Mansion. It’s going to be so anti-climatic for them now!

[quote]From note: [italic]” However, the legal system is extremely flawed (especially against men/fathers)…” [italic]

Okay. Loony.

R66: r23 is rather detail-oriented

So he isn't close enough to his Facebook friends to have told them he fucking was MARRIED years ago, but he is close enough to them to share his rambling, self-praising suicide note?

Every photo of him shows a cookie smeller with immense repressed rage. I agree with others who've said this guy had some really dark secrets he knew would come out.

[quote]He shows his teeth in every photo because he's American. They all do that.

Yes, like hyenas baring their teeth.

And some people say that it's women who are hysterical. This "GENTLE man" seems completely unhinged, from his appearance to self-assessment of character to his secret 3.5 year marriage... Who would care that he is married? He puts it forth as such a shocker that we're left to assume he was mistaken for a homosexual and a secret marriage to a woman would be proof to the contrary?

If it had not been this then, it would have been some crazy dramatic and deadly gesture later (sooner rather than later, I'd say.) What a fucking time bomb.

That wacko rictus grin of his in the OP calls to mind Donna Karan's smiley-hostile defense of Harvey Weinstein.

I don’t blame the British for not showing their teeth when they smile. And thank you!

Oh, behave, they’re not that bad!

That photo of him as an administrator of the year was 2017, when he was allegedly 46. He looks elderly, not 46. And it's so filtered that his arms are basically smudges! Was he lying about his age or just really hideous?

Matthew Perry body double?

I don’t know what’s worse: witnessing a suicide at Disneyland, or seeing this guy behind you in line.

Closet case was the first thing that came to mind to me as well.

I’m guessing the wife was a former student, hence the secret marriage. And he was probably being creepy with the daughters.

His wife looks to be in her forties, so not a significant age difference.

There is life after being a school principal. I have an old friend whose late brother in law was a high school principal with a doctorate. But, something happened that was kept a deep dark secret while he & his wife were alive. He left the teaching profession and eventually went to work in a factory that made metal buckets. My friend didn't like him much and always called him Dr. Buckethead.

He may be innocent. The spectre of public shame a court case would kill his career in its tracks.

No sane person would read that FB post and think he was completely innocent.

He was charged with two misdemeanors. If he's telling the truth and has never done anything like this before in his life, and his wife was already saying that he shouldn't have been arrested and she spoke lies out of anger, then he'd have almost certainly received diversion instead of a conviction. He'd have gone to therapy and met with a diversion officer for a year or so, then the charges would be dropped.

He'd then go to counseling on his own or latch on to a church or something for some PR-friendly rehabilitation, then go on with his life, putting this incident behind him.

Instead, he chose to kill himself at Disneyland for the publicity, knowing the long FB post he wrote blaming his wife would be published all over the place.

Those are not the actions of an innocent man.

Read his suicide note and get back to us, R94.

Now come on you would jump off a parking pile in Huntington rather than in Disneyland? How plebian.

I did read it.

He was bitter and frightened, which does not preclude him from being innocent.

He was bitter, angry, full of arrogant shit and chose to kill himself in a place full of children. He was a sick fuck.

Secret marriage = secretive man

This is what Angelina was hoping for when she called in the FBI after some marital disturbance but Brad was made from stronger stuff than this guy.

R57 - I just assume he didn't need to remember where his car was parked.

R102, I mean right- take an Uber...

The story made it on Reddit where, unsurprisingly, they are taking the man’s side.

As soon as I read he was a school administrator who killed himself my first thought was, child molester.

Childish adult strikes again!

r83 I'm wondering if this guy is the type that looked for single mothers with daughters and he didn't tell anyone because he didn't want his friends and ex's to know he had targeted another one.

"I'm such a great guy! So wonderful! She MADE ME hit her/them/lose my temper/become a monster!"

Sure, buddy.

Kiddie diddler. Abuser. Or, abusive kiddie diddler. Doesn't matter, everyone is better off now that his bones and guts have been power washed off the concrete.

Did he at least get a $15 churro first?

[quote] He shows his teeth in every photo because he's American. They all do that.

I feel like an outlier because I never do this, it just feels so fake.

[quote] He shows his teeth in every photo because he's American. They all do that.

The way he does it though is so weird to see in pictures.

Agree R111. Rage face.

The secret marriage that he kept hidden is likely because the relationship is one of those mail ordered bride scenarios. This would explain the age difference and the fact that she called the cops on him because they were not happy..

I have worked on film crews with a couple of straight guys who married "mail order brides". They didn't keep it secret but they did pretend, whenever they spoke about their wives, like they met and fell in love.

If you met these guys you would know that was not the case.

It's like keeping a young man.

[quote]R113 The secret marriage that he kept hidden is likely because the relationship is one of those mail ordered bride scenarios.

Yes. And she probably brought her kids along with her.

Aren’t police reports public record? Someone needs to go read it and report back! I want to know exactly what the cops were told, and why he was hauled off. (I bet he deserved it.)

His choice of venue for his last act may not be so random after all... his father (deceased in 2020) had a long career as musical director of the theme park and was one of the musical arrangers of the "Main Street Electrical Parade" theme.

[quote]If I killed myself at Disneyland I would be sure to do it in "It's a Small World."

I'm genuinely surprised more people don't. Chinese Water Torture has nothing on that little boat trip. It takes two weeks to get the fucking tune out of your head.