Mark Madoff (right), photographed with his parents, Bernie and Ruth, in November 2001 in Long Island.
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Members of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner use a stretcher remove Mark Madoff's body from his SoHo apartment building
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A police officer stops traffic as the coroner's van departs.
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EMS personnel leaving Mark Madoff's apartment building at 158 Mercer Street. They arrived at approximately 7:45 a.m. the morning of December 11, where Mark was found hanging.
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A larger picture of Mark Madoff's apartment building in Soho.
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Mark Madoff walks his dog in this photo from November 24, 2009. Eerily, he was found hanging from a dog leash attached to a pipe in his apartment ceiling.
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Police crime scene investigators outside Madoff's apartment building later that day. Mark's 2-year-old son was sleeping in the next room when his father killed himself.
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Police at the scene. Mark Madoff's attorney confirmed it was a suicide. "It’s a terrible and unnecessary tragedy," said lawyer Martin Flumenbaum. "Mark was an innocent victim of his father’s monstrous crime who succumbed to two years of unrelenting pressure from false accusations and innuendo."
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Mark Madoff killed himself on the two-year anniversary of his father's arrest. Bernard Madoff is serving a 150-year sentence in North Carolina.