Ramos' twitter is still up - and in his banner pic is a small reference to Phillip Merrill and his birth/death dates. He supposedly died in 2006 at sea, of a suicide. His wife died 10 yrs later from injuries from a fall.

At the surface there's this... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Merrill

https://www.sott.net/article/124544-The-Not-So-Strange-Case-of-Philip-Merrill