---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 15:11:24 -0000 From: dogmonsterboy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [InTheShadows] TOO MANY COINCIDENCES WE DEMAND A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR
TOO MANY COINCIDENCES WE DEMAND A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR TO DEFEAT EVIL REGIMES AND EVIL GANGS ABROAD WE NEED AN HONEST GOVERNMENT AT HOME. "Cliff Baxter's Medical Examiner Has Questionable Past" "The death of Cliff Baxter was declared a suicide by Dr. Joye M. Carter, Chief Medical Examiner for Harris County, Texas. But questions are being raised about Dr. Carter, whose career includes alleged cover-ups. Recently, Harris County paid Dr. Elizabeth Johnson $375,000 to settle a whistleblower lawsuit against Dr. Carter. Every way you turn, the Enron investigation reeks of conflicts of interest and cover-ups. We demand a Special Prosecutor!" http://www.democrats.com/ please read about Dubya's FBI choice Robert S. Mueller Bush FBI Choice Has Interesting Background http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BushBusters/message/1431 Part Two Bush FBI Choice Has Interesting Background http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BushBusters/message/1449 Part Three Bush FBI Choice Has Interesting Background http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BushBusters/message/1461 Dubya's FBI choice Robert S. Mueller was the "director of the homicide division in the Washington, D.C. U.S. attorney's office " http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BushBusters/message/1431 SAME M.E.( Dr. Joye M. Carter) IN BAXTER (ENRON) DEATH AS IN WILCHER DEATH http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BushBusters/message/3021 "FROM: Garby Leon Columbia Pictures Culver City, CA July 14, 1993 TO: The Honorable Janet Reno Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice - Room 4400 Tenth and Constitution Ave N.E. Washington, DC 20530 Dear Madame Attorney General, I am writing because I feel the death of Paul Wilcher deserves your most serious attention, and should be investigated by your most trusted officials in the Department of Justice. Paul Wilcher, like Danny Casolaro, was investigating possible government involvement in a variety of questionable activities, including the controversial October Surprise allegations and the INSLAW case, his researches leading him into areas that Casolaro had covered earlier. In his quest Wilcher made himself known in and around Capitol Hill as a persistent gadfly, trying to spur inquiries into possible government malfeasance in several areas. He had contacts with, among others, Lee Hamilton, William Webster, Elliot Richardson and Ross Perot. By late May, Wilcher said his information had gone beyond Casolaro's and he felt this made him a da"danger signal.U In three weeks, he was dead. I feel that the two deaths, Casolaro's and Wilcher's, offer disturbing parallels, outlined below. On the 23rd of June, 1993, the body of Paul Wilcher was discovered in his Washington DC apartment. This is not a certainty, since to my knowledge no evidentially identification-no fingerprint or dental x- ray matching-was made before the body's reported cremation two weeks ago. Present at the scene after Wilcher's death was noted White House correspondent Sarah McClendon, who knew Wilcher well and who had alerted authorities that he was missing. McClendon was unable to identify the body as Wilcher after viewing the remains. McClendon has been told that preliminary autopsy results have found "no natural cause of death, and no other cause of death to explain Wilcher's demise. Given that Wilcher, in his 40s, was in apparent good health, this seems fairly astonishing. A much larger issue is also implied here: if critics of our government are found dead in their bathrooms from obscure causes, and the government itself doesn't take steps to find out why, then our freedoms themselves are threatened-as well as the activities that protect those freedoms. If individual investigation and criticism of government activities is chilled or intimidated into silence, then democracy loses its most important protection. To put it another way, if Danny Casolaro's death was a message of some kind, then Wilcher's death is an even grimmer message-it suggests that Casolaro's death was not a fluke. Anyone inspired to follow Casolaro or Wilcher's path now has a strong added reason to fear doing so. And a real investigation into Wilcher's death might not be an academic exercise. One person who is extremely close to and knowledgeable about the Casolaro case has said in private that the mystery of Casolaro's death could be resolved by a Grand Jury investigation, with sworn testimony, subpoena power, etc. This suggests Paul Wilcher's death may not have to remain a mystery either. Paul Wilcher was an acquaintance of mine. He was not a perfect person; he made mistakes like anyone else but he was also, at times, a man of unusual energy and altruism. A seminary student who considered becoming a priest, he later became an attorney is his efforts to accomplish some good in this world. Overall, I fell he was a good man. He didn't deserve to die. Personally, I don't believe he died of natural causes. * In the following pages are brief remarks regarding A) disturbing parallels between the Casolaro and Wilcher cases; B) Police, FBI and CIA presence at the scene; C) other information about Wilcher's death; and D) possible further forensic investigation. Mme. Attorney General, I feel the death of Paul Wilcher offers too many questions and inconsistencies to be ignored. I am writing because I feel this matter deserves your most serious attention,and hope this letter will bring some action on your part to answer some of the many, very troubling questions raised by Paul Wilcher's death. Sincerely, Garby Leon (PhD, Harvard University) DISTURBING PARALLELS BETWEEN THE WILCHER AND CASOLARO CASES: Both were investigating possible government involvement in illegal activities. Each was acting on his own, with dogged persistence, over a long time period. Both Casolaro and Wilcher expressed fears, shortly before their deaths, that their lives were in danger because their investigations had led into sensitive territory. Casolaro was known to have received direct phone call threats, and told his brother shortly before he died, "If something happens to me, it won't be an accident." As stated, Wilcher told at least one other person at the end of May that he feared he'd become a "danger signal" because his information on government malfeasance had gone beyond Casolaro's. In three weeks he was dead. Both decedents' bodies were found in bathrooms, in bizarre circumstances (Casolaro a supposed suicide though forensic evidence cast substantial doubt on this; Wilcher, a man in good health, propped up on a toilet but showing no discernible cause of death). In both cases, the scene of death was sealed off and made inaccessible, then cleaned, preventing any further official or independent investigation (the motel room where Casolaro was found was industrially cleaned the next day; Wilcher's apartment was sealed off and no one was allowed to enter; it was also cleaned the next day. I am unaware of any subsequent, serious investigation or crime report released to the public in either case). In both cases, personal records, documents, computer files and/or other information belonging to the decedents are apparently not officially accounted for. Casolaro's briefcase and personal records were not found at the scene of his death. While Wilcher's family reportedly has taken possession of some personal belongings, the location of Wilcher's complete files, the result of years of hard work, is not publicly known. In both cases, rapid alterations were made to the corpse making further forensic study difficult or impossible. Casolaro was embalmed shortly after death without family consent; Wilcher was cremated, as remarked above, without fingerprint or other evidential identification of the body, and without complete forensic examination to determine cause of death. In both cases, forensic evidence relating to the corpses is scant. In neither case was any kind of inquest held, no official testimony taken under oath, nor was any thoroughgoing official investigation undertaken (at least publicly). Nor has any official report been released in either case. POLICE, FBI & CIA PRESENCE AT THE SCENE, JUNE 23, 1993: According to Mr. MASON O. LIDELL JR. (637 Third St. NE, Apt. B-03, DC 20002) superintendent of Wilcher's building, a Lieutenant and a Sergeant from the D. C. Police (with the help of firemen to force the door) entered Wilcher's apartment at about 11:30 AM on June 23rd. Three detectives from DC Police entered and found Wilcher's computer was turned on. When they read what was on the computer screen, they summoned the FBI. There is no further information on what the screen actually said. After entering the apartment and getting a brief glance at the body and the apartment, Lidell was ordered to leave. The apartment was sealed off for the rest of the day, except for official personnel. The body was removed at about 12:30 according to Lidell (who didn't witness this), though he did mention that when he entered the apartment later, there was blood on the floor and on the commode which wasn't present earlier. He was told that this was because of measures taken to move the body. At about 4:30 in the afternoon FBI Agents arrived. Sarah McClendon was also present, though not allowed in the apartment itself. She says two groups of four FBI Agents - eight FBI Agents in all - arrived and asked questions. McClendon checked their identification, which seemed convincing. According to Lidell at least three FBI Agents entered the apartment during the 4:30 to 7:30 time period. Then, according to Lidell, one man appeared and said he was CIA (without offering identification). He joined the FBI agents in the Wilcher apartment during the 4:30 to 7:30 time period. More people could have entered during this time Lidell says "he returned to his own apartment and didn't keep track." Lidell says that an NBC camera crew was prevented from entering the apartment. Aside from firemen, medical personnel to remove the body and the above Government agents, no one was allowed in the apartment for the entire day - no reporters, friends, media crews, etc. This raises a question: why no other observers, since police okayed cleaning of the apartment the very next day? Ms. McClendon phoned the FBI to ask about the presence of FBI Agents; later MR. JAMES V. DESARNO JR., Assistant Special Agent in Charge from the D. C. Metropolitan Office, arrived. Mr. Desarno also asked questions, but strongly denied that the FBI was interested in or involved in the case. "We are not interested in this case," he told McClendon, Lidell and others repeatedly. This seems curious. If Wilcher was a "nobody" why the official presence and vehement expression of non-involvement "ironic" with so many agents present? How could Desarno know the FBI would or wouldn't be involved without an investigation or known cause of death? Why all the secrecy and denial? Why the presence of the CIA? OTHER INFORMATION ABOUT WILCHER'S DEATH Only a few slight pieces of information have filtered down about public officials and others involved in the Wilcher matter: Two FBI Agents present at the scene were JAMES V. DESARNO, as remarked, and CRAIG OLSON, both of the D. C. Metropolitan Office: 1900 Half Street SW, Washington DC 20535. (202) 252-7801, both at same address and office. The DC police officer in charge of investigating the Wilcher death is named BRIAN HENRY, (202) 727-4347. Coroner for the government is a DR. KIM, who performed the autopsy, the results of which have not been released. Building superintendent MASON LIDELL (202-543-2751) was questioned by Desarno and others, and has kindly provided information in this letter. One friend of Wilcher's phoned apartment 302 in Wilcher's building (across from his) and got a taped answer message on the telephone intercom. The message said (paraphrasing) "This is a government telephone line, no longer in service" or words to that effect. Phone records, occupancy etc. from this address should be investigated. POSSIBLE FURTHER FORENSIC INVESTIGATION: Given the inconclusive autopsy results, further testing of the forensic evidence would seem to be crucial. Wilcher's body fluids, sent by the D. C. Medical Examiner to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology at Walter Reed Hospital, haven't yielded any clue as to cause of death. Apparently coroner Dr. Kim is still in possession of Wilcher's heart. Sarah McClendon is petitioning Dr. JOYE CARTER of the D. C. Medical Examiner's office to submit this forensic evidence for further study. Dr. Carter hasn't moved with alacrity to permit or facilitate this. McClendon would like to submit the evidence to a DR. MASON, one of the top forensic toxicologists in the U. S. (Dr. Mason: 2300 Stratford Ave, Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, 215 657-4900). Dr. Mason feels it is extremely significant that no cause of death has been found, a rarity in his experience. Perhaps, Mme. Attorney General, you can aid in investigating this and other crucial aspects of Paul Wilcher's death. Thank you for any consideration in response to this request Garby Leon. http://www.webcom.com/~pinknoiz/covert/wilcher.html "Dr. Joye Carter, Chief Medical Examiner, Harris County By Kim Hall July 1997 *** Prior to assuming this position ten months ago, Dr. Carter served as Chief Medical Examiner for the District of Columbia. Working in the Washington D.C." http://www.jfa.net/VOJ/July97.html http://www.democraticunderground.com/cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=sh ow_thread&om=14011&forum=DCForumID5&omm=0 http://globalfreepress.com/Baxter_Medical_Examiner.shtml Medical Examiner fired for refusing to falsify evidence says she suspected a frame-up in case County settles suit / Whistleblowing doctor gets $375,000 Harris County agreed Tuesday to pay a former employee of the Medical Examiner 's Office $375,000 and to drop the county's appeal of her successful whistleblower lawsuit. Harris County Commissioners Court accepted County Attorney Michael P. Fleming's recommendation to settle the case with Dr. Elizabeth "Libby" Johnson. Johnson sued the county in March 1997, contending that Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Joye Carter wrongly fired her for reporting potentially illegal cover-ups and sabotage at the office. . *** http://www.informed.org/MedicalExaminer.htm Sunday, February 4, 2001 Harris County medical examiner fined for illegal autopsies, keeps job HOUSTON (AP) - Harris County's chief medical examiner was fined $1,000 on Friday as part of a settlement reach with the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners for allowing an unlicensed pathologist to perform autopsies. Dr. Joye Carter had faced stiffer punishment, including revocation of her medical license and the loss of her job, as a result of the investigation. The agreement ends a three-year controversy that erupted when it was revealed that Carter had hired Delbert Van Dusen and allowed him to perform autopsies, including some in homicide cases, without a Texas medical license. http://www.reporternews.com/2001/texas/fine0204.html Victory for Crime Lab Director accusing TX Lab of abuses In the verdict, jurors said Medical Examiner Dr. Joye Carter and Johnson's immediate supervisor, Dr. Ashraf Mozayani, were responsible for damaging Johnson. The jury assessed $15,000 in damages for lost wages and benefits, and $300,000 in future compensation damages. http://venus.soci.niu.edu/~archives/ABOLISH/jan98/0098.html Bloodletting? The medical examiner's controversial DNA expert is fired... for doing her job ***Johnson firmly believes there was another motive for her firing-that she refused to be a "team player" with police and prosecutors in the investigation of murder suspect ***But her argument failed to sway Mozayani, who was brought to the M.E.'s office by Carter. "I was told Dr. Carter wanted it this way," ***The next morning she was handed her walking papers. *** "It's very interesting how rules are created and destroyed in the blink of an eye," Puppi wrote in her resignation letter to Carter. "When we needed more hands the most, we only lost the hands we already had .... I do not wish to be part of this working environment anymore." That "environment" apparently required that employees shade the truth in order to get their jobs done http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/1997-01-09/news.html Legal review of examiner's office sought County official wants to know 'what's going on over there' Harris County Commissioner Steve Radack wants the county to hire a local law firm to review Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Joye Carter's hiring and firing practices in response to a second successful whistle-blower lawsuit against Carter's office. Radack placed an item on the court's May 2 agenda calling on the county to hire Fulbright & Jaworski "to form an outside review of the employment practices of the medical examiner's office, " a review Carter said she welcomes. Radack said he wants "to find out a very respectable law firm's opinion of what's going on over there." The whistle-blower suits resulted in awards totaling $625,000 to two former employees who claimed that Carter fired them for reporting illegal or potentially illegal practices at the office. A third former employee has threatened to file a third whistle-blower suit. Those suits and legal threats have cost Carter some support on the Commissioners Court. ... The first of the two whistle-blower suits was filed by Dr. Elizabeth "Libby" Johnson, who was awarded $375,000 by a state jury in 1998. Johnson, who headed the medical examiner's DNA lab, claimed that she was fired for blowing the whistle on potentially illegal cover-ups at the office. Dr. Marilyn Murr Doyle, a former pathologist, was awarded $250,000 in federal court last month. A jury found that Doyle was fired in 1998 because she reported that an unlicensed physician in the office had been allowed to perform autopsies. http://www.hcdo.com/html/area_counties_roundup_may00.html in addition: Baxter Was Expected To Help Investigators This Week WASHINGTON (CNN) - Congressional investigators planned to interview Cliff Baxter next week and had the impression from Baxter's lawyer that he would cooperate, according to a congressional source. As late as Friday morning, investigators with the House Energy and Commerce Committee spoke with Baxter's attorneys, another source on the committee said. Apparently, neither the investigators nor Baxter's lawyers were aware that he had killed himself. http://rense.com/general19/wk.htm Whistle-blower gets $250,000 judgment Civil jury sides with fired pathologist http://www.opengovtcoppell.com/file/news/2000/0408hcr1.htm A federal jury awarded $250,000 Friday to a former Harris County pathologist who said she was fired in 1998 for blowing the whistle on what she considered illegal activity in the medical examiner's office. The award marks the second time a jury has sided with a fired worker in the medical examiner's office who crossed Dr. Joye Carter to report problems in that county office. Looking drained after the two-week trial, Marilyn Murr Doyle said she was grateful to the eight-member jury. "I did what was right, and I feel like they backed me up," Doyle said. "I feel like justice has been done." Doyle testified that she went to Carter on Jan. 5, 1998, with concerns that Dr. Delbert Van Dusen was performing autopsies without a Texas medical license*** Jurors deliberated about six hours before reaching a decision in the lawsuit, which alleged that the county violated Doyle's First Amendment right to free speech and state whistle-blower laws. "The evidence does not support the verdict," Gambill maintained. The linchpin of the case was Doyle's Jan. 5, 1998, meeting with Carter. After Doyle complained about Van Dusen's licensing status, Carter began to scrutinize every aspect of Doyle's professional life. Doyle said her personnel file was papered with memos about insubordination, excessive absences from work and complaints about tardiness in an effort to build a case against her. For example, Doyle said, she was cited for failing to comply with a requirement that employees' time sheets agree with computerized records of their comings and goings from the medical examiner's building. But the veteran pathologist said she was unaware of the requirement, until just before she and other pathologists were told that administrators would analyze the time sheets and computer records in February to see who was complying with the order. In early March, the analysis was released showing that Doyle and some of the other doctors were not in compliance. Doyle was the only physician fired. The five-man, three-woman jury was unanimous in its decisions on four key issues: · Carter fired Doyle for exercising her right to free speech by reporting alleged illegal conduct to Holmes. · Harris County fired Doyle solely because she exercised her right to free speech. · Doyle was fired for blowing the whistle on conduct she believed to be illegal. · Doyle, who was hired by former Chief Medical Examiner Joseph Jachimczyk, was fired solely because she reported an alleged legal violation. Although the jury's award fell far short of the $3 million Doyle sought, the tally may climb when Harmon assesses requests for interest and attorneys' fees. Jurors awarded Doyle $55,000 for lost wages and benefits from the date she was fired until the trial date and $95,000 for future wages and benefits. The jury also awarded Doyle $50,000 for mental anguish and $50,000 for loss of enjoyment of life. Doyle said the verdict vindicated her. However, she said her professional reputation has already been sullied by Carter's allegations. "After all my training and work this has pretty much ruined my career in Texas," she said. Doyle said she was forced to move from her home in Houston to Tennessee in July 1998 to find work as a forensic pathologist. In November 1998, the county agreed to pay Dr. Elizabeth "Libby" Johnson $375,000 and to drop the county's appeal of her successful whistle-blower lawsuit in state district court. Johnson sued the county in March 1997, contending that Carter fired her for reporting potentially illegal cover-ups and sabotage at the office. A jury sided with Johnson and awarded her $315,000 plus attorney's fees. The county immediately appealed the verdict to the First Court of Appeals. But Harris County Attorney Michael P. Fleming said the potential cost of fighting the lawsuit rose to more than $453,000 in a few months. With the potential that costs would rise and the unlikely prospect of getting the verdict overturned, Fleming suggested the county cut its losses. PARENTS AGAINST CORRUPTION AND COVERUP Shelly's dead body was airlifted by Medstar helicopter to D. C. from the field after a mercy call from the good men of The Plains Fire and Rescue Squad. Shelly's autopsy pictures, especially two of her face suggest she was beaten. It demands explanation why the report of D. C. Coroner, Dr. Joye Carter, overlooked commenting on the fact that Shelly's lips were split in two places and that there are multiple contusions and abrasions to her face and body. It is a fact that influential people in The Plains tried to have the autopsy canceled (Cf. the Sheriff's files in the Shelly Malone case.) I wonder, though, why the Coroner has missed obvious facts and misstated others in her Autopsy Report which makes no mention of visible injuries to Shelly's face and torso photographed and recorded. (Cf. the autopsy photographs in the Sheriff's office sent by our lawyer as an attachment to his forty page memorandum to the Sheriff, dated January 23, 1995 )<snip> http://www.thepacc.org/Malone.html POSSIBLE FURTHER FORENSIC INVESTIGATION: Given the inconclusive autopsy results, further testing of the forensic evidence would seem to be crucial. Wilcher's body fluids, sent by the D. C. Medical Examiner to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology at Walter Reed Hospital, haven't yielded any clue as to cause of death. Apparently coroner Dr. Kim is still in possession of Wilcher's heart. Sarah McClendon is petitioning Dr. JOYE CARTER of the D. C. Medical Examiner's office to submit this forensic evidence for further study. Dr. Carter hasn't moved with alacrity to permit or facilitate this. http://www.webcom.com/~pinknoiz/covert/wilcher.html County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Joye Carter said she cited Gulf War Syndrome as a contributing cause of death- it was last among nine causes-because it had been diagnosed by Department of Veterans Affairs doctors. "This is a syndrome with multiple aspects," said Carter, who served as an Air Force medical examiner during Desert Storm. "We're not sure what it is. Its symptoms run the gamut-strange chemical tastes, benign tumors, heart disease, heart palpitations. ... " Another symptom is a psychological reaction similar to post-traumatic stress disorder, which is sometimes marked by substance abuse in former servicemen. Ingram, said Dr. Sara McCarron, the Harris County pathologist who performed the autopsy, had a history of depression and alcohol abuse. "He may have been self-medicating due to depression and/or post-traumatic stress disorder," she said http://www.gulfwarvets.com/death.htm http://www.thepacc.org/Malone.html "PARENTS AGAINST CORRUPTION AND COVERUP The Shelly Malone Story (Fauquier County, Va.) My family and I also can't understand why my sister's multiple injuries to her face and body, visible in autopsy pictures, do not raise suspicion that Shelly was roughed up badly by human blows***Shelly's dead body was airlifted by Medstar helicopter to D. C. from the field after a mercy call from the good men of The Plains Fire and Rescue Squad. Shelly's autopsy pictures, especially two of her face suggest she was beaten. It demands explanation why the report of D. C. Coroner, Dr. Joye Carter, overlooked commenting on the fact that Shelly's lips were split in two places and that there are multiple contusions and abrasions to her face and body." The deeper questions about Dubya go to whether he is more than just a serial killer in regard to executions in connections with convicted criminals in Texas while he was governor there, but whether he is in fact a serial killer of the Ted Bundy type himself. For more on that please see: CONDIT CHANDRA CHENEY AND BUSH http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BushBusters/message/1540 WHY DID IT TAKE CHENEY 81 DAYS TO GIVE CONDIT AN ALIBI ? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BushBusters/message/1525 Did George Do It? Did Dubya Do Chandra In? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BushBusters/message/1482 Part Two Did George Do It? Did Dubya Do Chandra In? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BushBusters/message/1483 The apparent fingernail scratches from a victiom on Dubya's face bring this haunting possibility into all of our faces because Dubya is in everybody's face when we see him on TV. A better example of an Emperor who has no clothes cannot be imagined than a serial killer with fingernail scratches from a victim on his face. Meanwhile, if unable to convince everyone that he is the President, he tries to convince as many as possible that a pretzel is responsible for those scratches. Perhaps he should call himself the Pretzeldent? Talk about hiding in plain sight! You are invited to join http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BushBusters [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------ Yahoo! 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