Madoff Family Tragedy on Second Anniversary of Arrest

Dec. 11: A member of the NYC Office of Chief Medical Examiner speaks to officers of the New York Police Department in front of the apartment where Mark Madoff lived in New York. Madoff, the son of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff, was found dead of an apparent suicide, according to a law enforcement official. Madoff, 46, was found hanged in his apartment in Manhattan's SoHo section, according to the official. A family member notified police around 7:30 a.m. (AP)

In this undated photograph provided by Security Traders Association of New York, Mark Madoff is shown. (AP)

Dec. 11: Medical examiner staff remove the body of Mark Madoff from the apartment building in which he lived in the Soho neighborhood of New York. (AP)

Bernard L. Madoff, a middle-class kid from Queens, N.Y., had spent 30 years building a stock trading business based on the once unthinkable concept that stocks could be traded faster, more efficiently and -- most importantly -- cheaper via computers.<br> His brother Peter and his two sons, Mark and Andrew, joined the family business housed in the iconic Lipstick Building in Midtown Manhattan.

Bernard Madoff walks back to his apartment in New York. (REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton)

Media and onlookers crowd the doorway outside the home of accused swindler Bernard Madoff on New York City's upper East Side. (REUTERS/Mike Segar )

The living room is pictured during U.S. Marshals' media tour of imprisoned fraudster Bernard Madoff's penthouse apartment in New York. (REUTERS/US Marshals)

Bernard Madoff is escorted from Federal Court in New York January 5, 2009. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson)

Defrauded investors and their supporters hold signs during a rally near the United States Courthouse in lower Manhattan. (REUTERS/Mike Segar)

Bernard L. Madoff pleaded guilty March 12, 2009, to orchestrating the biggest investment fraud in Wall Street history and was jailed to await a sentence that could keep him in prison for the rest of his life. (REUTERS/UNITED STATES MARSHALS SERVICE/FOIA/Handout (UNITED STATES))