Convicted School Founder Commits Suicide
posted 10:31 pm Wed January 16, 2008 - Person Co., NC
Investigators say he killed himself, instead of reporting to prison. Deputies in Person County, North Carolina, found the body of Robert Gluhareff in the woods, dead from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. Gluhareff founded the Wellspring Academy in Halifax County, a Christian school for troubled boys. Last year, he was convicted of bank, tax and mail fraud, for stealing money from the parents he promised to help.
Gluhareff was scheduled to report to prison last week, to serve a 212-year sentence.
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