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XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1999 20:45:11 ET XXXXX

CHURCH GUNMAN WROTE CRAZED LETTERS TO LOCAL PAPER

According to publishing sources, Larry Gene Ashbrook, the madman who
slaughtered seven parishioners at the Wedgwood Baptist Church Wednesday
evening, sent two letters to the FORT-WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM over the summer --
letters the paper plans to reprint in Friday editions!

The STAR-TELEGRAM'S Karen Rouse reports that the letters describe "bizarre
tales of encounters with the Central Intelligence Agency, psychological
warfare, assaults by co-workers and druggings by police."

Stephen Kaye, a city editor and one who received the letters, said on
Thursday that they contained "outlandish things", and described the letters
as "hard to follow."

"My immediate reaction was that there was not much we could do for him."

Ashbrook even came by the STAR-TELEGRAM's offices and visited Kaye -- who
described the killer as "the opposite of someone you'd be concerned about...
He couldn't have been any nicer."

The eerie letters, which are dated July 31 and August 10, were handed over
to the Ft. Worth police on Thursday.


TEXT OF LARRY GENE ASHBROOK'S LETTERS:


City editor Stephen Kaye
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
400 W. Seventh St.
Fort Worth, Texas, 76102
July 31, 1999

Sir:

I am interested in relating to you some events I have experienced. If these
events are true, then they would indicate a serious injustice against me.
Specifically: the denial of due process for me in the investigation of me as
a suspected serial murderer. I use the term -investigation- loosely. It was
not so much an investigation as it was a continuous intereference in my life
and employment for a period of possibly twenty years.

Three operative terms apply to this situation: First; rumor control, this
was one method by which those investigating me used to create problems for
me: Second: Psychological warfare, this was the general mode of of
operation: Third: Plausible deniability, the ideas those involved would
proffer in order to divert blame from themselves.

The first experience I had which became a clue to my future problems occured
in July of -79.- Soon after reporting to a deployment site with the U.S.
Navy squadron, I attended a social event. While there I was pulled aside by
a young man who was in that squadron and he asked me some odd questions. The
questions involved the murder of someone I had no knowledge of. The tone of
his questions became almost accusatory. This was the first of three similar
events which occured during my active duty with the Navy from -79- to -83.-
What I eventually began to wonder was if there were any reason for me to be
a suspect in any murder. As I now know, there were several abductions or
murders of young women in Fort Worth and Arlington during the -70s- when I
lived in the area.

After I moved back to Fort Worth in -84- the odd events became a major
problem in my life and occurred both on and off the job. The seriousness of
the events and the humiliation I sufered made it impossible for me to keep a
job.

The most pronounced situation began soon after I began work at the
Photo-Etch Company in 1986. Shortly after I was hired as a machinist I was
put on the evening shift with another employee who was hired about a week
after me. We were the only workers at the company during that shift. At some
point around September of that year in the evening I was taking a break when
the other employee walked up to me and made a somewhat veiled indirect
threat. It went like this: -I have a lot of friends on the police force, in
fact I know a woman police officer who can kick your (deleted) all over the
place.- This was the beginning of continuous troubles on the job at that
company. When I attempted to remedy the problems through the proper channels
I got no where. The troubles included minor physical abuse and general
disrespect by another employee.

Eventually after about six months of the situation I was visited by the
owners son. He identified himself as the one who oversees the machine shop
(even though I had never met him) and he called me a liar concerning what
was happening on the job. It was obvious then that there was nothing I could
do to remedy the situation and I quit to look for another job.

During the period of unemployment that ensued the most blatant event
occurred. At that time in my life I was not dating, socializing or spending
much time with others. One evening I decided to go out for a beer and I
ended up at a nightclub on East Lancaster. After I had been there for a few
minutes a man came and sat next to me at the bar. All that I recall of him
is that he talked about he had been in the U.S. Army special forces. During
the time we talked I began to feel slightly sick so I went to the restroom.
After a short time I felt better; however as I returned to my seat I became
very dizzy and passed out. Never before had I experienced such an event. I
was partically concious and was aware that I as dragged out to the back of
the bar by several men. Eventually I told them that I believed that I had
been durgged and would they call the police. -We are the police- was one
man's reply. I was held against the wall with one mans hand around my throat
for several minutes. During that time I described for them the man who had
been sitting next to me. If they did search for him they didn't find him.
After a while I felt better and left. Had I been at the east Fort Worth bar
that Linda Taylor was abducted from by Farryion Wardrip two years earlier? I
have other reasons for suspecting this.

The next job I had I was fired from, for no valid reason, one week after the
abduction of Wendy Robinson from Lake Weatherford. I believe there was a
connection.

In 1987, around the late summer, I began to seek the audience of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation. I certainly had reason to believe I was being
targeted by some investigative group. I was unable to get an agent over the
phone as the young woman who was answering the phones would not connect me
with one for reasons I've never understood. By June -88- I decide to pay a
visit to the FBI office in person. I went to the down town Fort Worth
Federal Court House third floor office of the FBI and asked to speak with an
agent. An agent, I will not list his name here, invited me to sit in his
office and he would hear what I had to say. The problem, though, is that he
listened for about one minute then stood-up and told me that I would
be -contacted.- I did not believe him though. I shook his hand and left.

Within about ten days I began to be visited by a person from the
neighborhood whom I had only been slightly acquainted with years earlier.
During the course of our initial, short, conversations he asked me if I
would be a -designated- driver for him and his brother some time. I told him
that I was uninterested. He continued to come around for several weeks with
the same request until my interest was piqued and I consented to be his
designated driver so that he and his brother could visit a bar.

Beginning in late June I went to his house to pick him up and take him to
the bar he wanted to go to. We started out with him directing me to go
toward west Fort Worth on Loop 820. When we got all the way around to the
west side of -820- he began discussing with his brother which bar to go to.
Evenutally they settled on a bar on Highway 180 even though we already
exited on to Route 199. After turning around and getting to -80- my
passengers decided they didn't want to go there either. I then took them
home. To make a long story short: in the foolowing year up to April of -89-
I continued to go over to this persons house after he would call me. There
were two recurrent phrases that continued to come up in various
conversations with him. The first was that he -was going to do a cemetary
job.- Initially when I asked what he meant he said that he did lawn
maintenance at a cemetary. Then he would cite this quote which he said went
back to someone else: -Live by cancer, die by cancer.- All he meant by this,
he would say, ws that he was of the zodiac sign of the cancer and that so
was I. This relationship continued until the day of Rick Green's arrest for
the murders of several people in west Fort Worth. When I called him up
several times after Green's arrest I was told by someone else that he was
at -another location.-He did not contact me again.

The possible connection is this: Ricky Green abducted two women from a bar
on -199.- Wendy Robinson was abducted from Lake Weatherford which is
near -180.- Was the drive my acquiantances took me on supposed to be a test
of some sort? I believe it was.

After Ricky Greens arrest I realized the reasons for my troubles. There was
no doubt. However; I could not forsee, at that time, that there was another
serial murderer, Faryion Waldrip, who fit the same physical description of
both Green and myself.

What could I have done about it? I tried for months to find a lawyer who
might make a case for me. After a year or so it was evident no lawyers were
going to be interested. Then I began making contact with the media. I
contacted three newspapers: The Dallas Morning News, The Dallas Times Herald
and The Fort Worth Star-Telegram. All with no result. I contacted each of
the network TV station affiliate news rooms. None were interested. During
one conversation with a TV news anchor he asked me an odd question: -Didn't
you recently get out of the military.-Certainly that struck me as a very
strange or evne suspicious question for him to ask. Why would he possibly
think that I had been in the military?

I have sought the assistance of many different people. I could relate many
more events that indicate that I was targeted as a suspected serial
murderer. There are many names of people whom I could identify as being a
party to the events. If just one individual admitted, for there part what I
allege, then I believe the others would begin to be proven.

What I am asking is for you to investigate and tell my story.

Sincerely,

Larry Ashbrook


X X X X X


City Editor Stephen Kaye
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram
400 W. Seventh St.
Fort Worth, Texas 76102
August 10, 1999

Sir

This communication is an addendum to the July 31 letter. It is obvious that
you are uninterested in my story. Therefore, I find it necessary to amplify
certain aspects of it.

Consider one of three situations I experienced where people I had never met
volunteered that they were either former Central Intelligence Agency
employees or were laision with the CIA while they were in the military.

In 1987, after being fired from the company I worked for in July, as I
related earlier, I got a job with a forging company in Fort Worth. On the
morning I reported to that company I aws to be indoctrinated into the
opearations of the machine shop by the shop foreman. Unfortunately, it was
not so much an indocrination as it was a recounting of the mans exploits in
Viet Nam. Particularly his story was about how he worked laision with the
CIA and his exploits included special forces operations which entailed
assissination of enemy political units. This lecture lasted the entire
morning. From eight until lunchtime.

If this were the only time I had ever encountered someone who voluntered
such a story I would think nothing of it. However, since it is one of three
encounters and since it falls within the time period that I am certain that
I was being targeted as a suspected serial murderer, then I must consider it
a relevant part of my situation. My employment at this company eventually
became impossible and I quit. Not because I could not work with them but
because they did not want to work with me.

Without belaboring the point with my experiences, I will call to your
attention two stories that have come out of the news in the last decade. The
first involved the Tarrant County Sheriffs Department. I believe the year
was 1991; and in that year there was a situation which came to light in
which it was found that reserve deputies with the sheriffs department, who
were full time U.S. Airforce personel, were also discovered to be affiliated
with the Ku Klux Klan. What I particularly recall is that when one of those
involved personel was interviewed on TV (KXAS Channel 5, NBC affiliate) he
directly stated that they were involved in -going after child abductors.-
Amy Robinson's abductor perhaps?

The second also involved the sheriff's department. The year was, I
believe, -95- or -96.- The story that came out disclosed that an individual
or individuals within the department had had, for some time, a web site that
contained the dossier's of suspects in a criminal investigation. These files
were being made available to civilians so as to enable them to aid in
the -criminal- investigations. The implication of this should be obvious
with regard to my allegations.

What I must wonder about is the reason that no news reporting agency,
particularly yours, is interested in this story. Is it because you think it
implausible or unimportant? Is it because the general political climate in
Fort Worth is not conducive to such a story? Or is there a clue in the words
of John Chriswell, then news anchor for the CBS affiliate, when he asked me,
as I was attempting to explain my situation: -Didn't you just get out of the
military?-

It is apparent to me that the suspicions against me have been widely
disseminated. I believe that there are a few individuals who would realize
no damage to themselves if they admitted to the truth regarding my
allegations.

With all due respect,

Larry Ashbrook

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