Former Coal Executive Bennett Hatfield Gunned Down In Cemetery, Suspect In Custody

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Mark Melin
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An Ohio man has been arrested after stalking former coal company executive Bennett Hatfield while he visited his wife’s grave site.   Bennett Hatfield – Former CEO of Patriot Coal shot dead while mourning wife Bennett Hatfield, 59, who resigned as CEO of Patriot Coal in 2015 one month before the firm declared bankruptcy, was CEO of International Coal Group in 2006 when an explosion at the Sago Mine in northern West Virginia killed 12 miners. He was shot dead at Monday while at Mountain View Memory Gardens, a cemetery in southern West Virginia where is wife who died of cancer is…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.