A convicted steroids dealer who met with the NFL to release names of alleged users was found shot to death in his home this morning.
According to sources at ESPN.com, 35-year-old David Jacobs and his girlfriend were found by police making a welfare check of the residence. The Plano Police Dept. says they're treating it as a homicide investigation, obviously.
Before this morning, Jacobs was quoted by ESPN writer Shaun Assael as saying "the kinds of people I know about could put a bullet in the back of my head." Jacobs was apparently nervous and very hesitant to go public with any of the information in his possession, and his fears turned out to be nothing short of prophetic.
It doesn't take a lot of critical thought about this to put some pieces together and realize who would probably want Jacobs dead the most. The last thing I want to do is point any fingers, but I have to wonder how deep the rabbit hole goes on this one.
For now, the only person revealed to be a client of Jacobs' was Falcons offensive lineman Matt Lehr. I imagine Lehr is probably under fierce questioning by federal authorities by now, and I'm going to continue to monitor this story as more facts reveal themselves.
Keywords: corruption, crime, tangents
