Wherever she went — California, Asia; board meetings, sales calls — Autumn Radtke took a little bit of home with her.
“She had that quality from Wisconsin, an approachability and a warmth,” said Carey Radtke, her aunt. “It’s the truth. People who are from the Midwest, who are from Wisconsin, are like that and they don’t even know it, and that’s what drew people to her.”
She didn’t have prestigious educational credentials, but she impressed people who did. She believed strongly in personal responsibility and urged friends to do the same.
She grew up in Waukesha County, Wis., but wasn’t about to stay there. By 18, she was gone. A Facebook post shortly after her 27th birthday chronicled some of her travels: “I turned 23 in Los Angeles, 24 in San Francisco, 25 in Bali, 26 in Las Vegas and finally 27 in Singapore!”
Just a few months ago, she was brimming with optimism. “The feeling that I have right now,” she told a friend during a Skype conversation she included on her Facebook page, “is that I can go anywhere and do whatever I want.”
Then, on Feb. 26, she was dead. Her body was found about 7 a.m. near the foot of a high-rise apartment building in Singapore. Widely reported as an apparent suicide — something that remains unconfirmed — her death became a global story because of her connections to Bitcoin, the much discussed and controversial digital currency. Full story...
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“She had that quality from Wisconsin, an approachability and a warmth,” said Carey Radtke, her aunt. “It’s the truth. People who are from the Midwest, who are from Wisconsin, are like that and they don’t even know it, and that’s what drew people to her.”
She didn’t have prestigious educational credentials, but she impressed people who did. She believed strongly in personal responsibility and urged friends to do the same.
She grew up in Waukesha County, Wis., but wasn’t about to stay there. By 18, she was gone. A Facebook post shortly after her 27th birthday chronicled some of her travels: “I turned 23 in Los Angeles, 24 in San Francisco, 25 in Bali, 26 in Las Vegas and finally 27 in Singapore!”
Just a few months ago, she was brimming with optimism. “The feeling that I have right now,” she told a friend during a Skype conversation she included on her Facebook page, “is that I can go anywhere and do whatever I want.”
Then, on Feb. 26, she was dead. Her body was found about 7 a.m. near the foot of a high-rise apartment building in Singapore. Widely reported as an apparent suicide — something that remains unconfirmed — her death became a global story because of her connections to Bitcoin, the much discussed and controversial digital currency. Full story...
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