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For their roles in his death. instead it appeared to be dwindling. and so now two men are dead. the party chairman still has his job, katherine hanoway's campaign continues. joining us now is a political reporter and columnist with the kansas city star. is there anything more to add tonight in terms of what we know about this investigation. are the please treating this has a related matter? >> they believe it may be related, but i can tell you that everyone else in missouri republicans, democrats, other people you talk with think that

"he shot himself." police have not said whether he wrote a note before he pulled the trigger and killed himself. but there is an unusual amount of evidence there is an unusual amount of evidence about why he did it. about what had so upset him. what had so upset him was his belief of the chairman of the republican committee was falsely telling people he was jewish. mr. hancock did not deny that he had been telling people that tom schweich was jewish. only denied that he said it in a bad way. in that e-mail he said, quote --

The two suicides are directly linked and that spence jackson was upset that john hancock had not steps down, and that they were not punished by other members of the party and that consultant continued to get work. the word that we got today service that spence jackson was upset over those developments and took his life over the weekend. >> in terms of what is happening over missouri republican politics right now, it is a story about politics families human beings lost and there is no been to put more politics in there but it is interesting to see what the appropriate response would be from the

Campaign. this is a loyal party donor swearing in a notorized letter saying it happened. and tom's friend and spokesperson spence jackson came out and said it before anybody else would. he said john hancock should resign as state chairman of the republican party because of his whisper campaign not reflecting the values of the majority of missouri republicans. he said you can't have a chairman that's been out conducted and coordinating this whisper campaign.

Office. does our party stand for what happened to tom schweich. don't allow him to quit fire him because it will say more about us. for awhile it really seemed like he was going to have to go. the whole state republican party sort of went quiet after tom killed himself, after the funeral. the over candidate running for governor suspended her campaign for awhile. but apparently by friday this past friday, his soul had been searched and he decided to keep his job. so just check out this very brief timeline. thursdays, this past thursday was the one-month anniversary.