WHITE GOLD & PORCELAIN
Within a month of my receiving this communication, the front page of the city newspaper carried a story about a 600-pound shipment of cocaine that had mysteriously appeared in a truckload of toilets from Medellin, Columbia. The Special Agent in Charge of the FBI, the KPD Chief of Police and an official of the State Bureau of Investigation all had their photos taken with one of the largest coke -- and toilet -- seizures in state history. The government police assumed that the late Pablo Escobar's drug cartel shipped the $30-million worth of drugs here "by mistake." No arrests had been made regarding the coke-filled toilets.
(Other examples of federal government's gangster-love are detailed in C.I.A: Cocaine In America?, by Kenneth Buuchi, regarding the CIA's cooperation with Pablo Escobar in "Operation Pseudo Miranda," and in SAC DEA Michael Levine's The Big White Lie, regarding the CIA's infiltration of DEA in order to violently overthrow democracy in Bolivia with Nazi Klaus Barbie (to help treasonous Ronald Reagan and George Bush cheated US voters along with President Jimmy Carter in 1980. Barbie was later kidnapped, exported to France, tried by jury, convicted and executed for World War 2 crimes. American and world histories are saturated with such shenannigans and high jinks.)
Note that the killer had originally attempted to flee to Columbia after his latest killing, but was prevented from doing so by Customs Department agents, according to homicide detectives.
$6-million governor (center) campaigns for doctor convicted of stealing $1-Billion. Rep Duncan's (on left) house in Knoxville mysteriously burned down in 2000. | A couple of weeks later, I spoke with the Special Agent in Charge of the DEA at the Knoxville office, at the John J. Duncan Federal Building (the construction of which left the neighboring US Post Office Building with the largest empty office space in an 11-state area. Duncan's son, Jimmy, is a GOP US Congressman). I asked him whether the FBI, which was just next door, had made any arrests yet in that cocaine case. He burst out laughing and declared the FBI had probably already dropped its investigation. I donated a copy of my entire case file, along with my personal contact information, in case DEA needed to locate me regarding this case.
Wac[k]o COPS in George Bushs' home town of "Crawford" TX | Eventually, we located a witness to the killer's murder confession(s). The witness described how the killer was "haunted by his victim's ghost," and suffered from nightmares. He also threatened to kill anyone who informed police of his confession(s). I contacted the D.A. and FBI with details of this conversation. Interestingly, the dead FBI director's portrait had been removed from the wall, although it had reappeared on a different wall, and the recently promoted FBI director Louis Freeh's portrait had been added to the gallery. (Ex-president Bush's FBI director William Sessions was fired by Clinton after the Waco holocaust. Sessions was a former city councilman in Waco, according to an attorney who used to live in Waco. Until my correspondance with the police chain of command DC, this fact was apparently unreported. Sessions broke his arm when he fell down some steps leaving Reno's office for the final time. Perhaps the revolving doors of government spanked the unemployed on the bum, catching him off-guard. Waco is also home of former governor of Texas, George Bush Jr., though the "news"media alleges it's "Crawford", Texas.)
The FBI eventually tracked this witness down in Key West, Florida. Although the witness was not yet inclined to cooperate, the FBI informed us that this drug dealer had a Knoxville Police Department officer as a roommate. When I mentioned this fact to KPD homicide detective Stan McCroskey -- who had coincidentally seated himself next to me in a restaurant upon his return from yet another "vacation" -- he did not deny it, and mumbled something to the effect that it was not important.
LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE, THRICE, ETC
In 1994 the killer attempted to kill again, kidnapping a new girl friend, Jaqueline Gray (who was also a witness to his murder confessions), brutally beating her to a pulp. He dumped her naked, bloody body in a hospital parking lot after she reasoned with him that it would look pretty bad for him if police found [four] dead bodies at the same house. A warrant was issued for his arrest, for the charges of aggravated burglary, kidnapping and assault.
Knoxville Police Department allowed the accused convict to turn himself in at his convenience, nearly allowing him the opportunity to pull off yet another successful escape, as he pulled after his first murder charge. He was found packing his bags when police arrived to find out why he had missed his appointment.
Pampered arrest | Luckily, I gave a local TV news crew a heads-up that the killer, kidnapper and hostage taker was being (gently) escorted to the KPD Safety Building -- without handcuffs, to record the event of his capture, making it more difficult for this particular career criminal to escape prosecution again. I had scooped the Knoxville News Sentinel after eavesdropping on a conversation in their back office (they have since tightened security precautions). News stories also included information about the killer's first murder conviction. The police quickly released the killer on $60,000 bail.
One-month later, second-degree murder charges were finally filed against the killer of Sherlene Miller, in addition to his charges of kidnapping and attempted first-degree murder of Jaqueline Gray. He was arrested again, this time held on $100,000 bond, without release. It had only taken three years for KPD and the DA to make an arrest of a convicted serial killer who had confessed to police at the bloody crime scene.
After the TV news story on his second arrest, discussing both the initial kidnapping and hostage situation, and the subsequent murder arrest--they neglected to mention his previous murder conviction, police issued a special report to the citizens of Knoxville that they shouldn't worry about crime, that it had allegedly been "a quiet night so far." This type of special report had never been issued before and has never been issued since. The police public relations department also issued a video clip that was immediately broadcast as the next news story, demonstrating KPD's Special Operations Squad in training "action." The paramilitary, infantry-style SWAT team was shown storming a deserted house, wearing military combat helmets, flak vests, fatigue uniforms, combat boots and face masks to hide their identities. They were allegedly recreating a hostage situation to help hone their skills for "the real thing when it comes along." I wonder where the SWAT team had been 30 days before, when the kidnapping victim was getting tortured and promised a slow, painful death? Perhaps they had been too busy with their training.
DR. DEATH
Once given the green light, homicide prosecutor Bob Jolly, a mild-mannered professor at the local university, transformed himself into a superman capable of ripping the heads off his legal adversaries. His students at University of Tennessee College of Law nicknamed him Dr. Death, in deferrence to his prosecution of homicide.
Dr. Death went on the offensive with the star defense witness, Dr. William McCormick, professor and head of forensic pathology at East Tennessee State University Medical School and Deputy Chief Medical
Examiner for the State of Tennessee. McCormick--a veteran of hundreds of trials--was so rattled by Dr. Death's hammering on cross examination that the state coroner literally fell down in front of the entire courtroom. The government pathologist, after listing all the books and reports he had written, had attempted to explain the victim's massive internal and external injuries as resulting from a fall down a single step. Incredibly, the doctor did not suffer similar injuries from his courtroom pratfall -- he even fared better than the accident-prone ex-FBI director.
The experienced expert witness later complimented Mr. Jolly for "the best cross examination he had ever seen." The victim's family wept as the autopsy photos were shown to the jury via big-screen projection.
SLICK LAWYERS
The killer's government defense attorney was the perky Leslie Nassios, the highly pregnant wife of Jolly's former homicide partner, Mike Nassios, who Jolly alleged went to work for the defendant's regular criminal attorney during the trial (who apparently continued to work for the defendant while the state provided a free public defender, according to court documents). Jolly told me that Nassios presented the most highly motivated and toughest defense of her entire career, defending this murderous career-gangster and woman-hater--at the taxpayers' expense, despite the accused owning his own home.
At one point, the killer saw a routine photographic portrait of his victim displayed on his T.V. in the jail. This was coincidentally the same pale photograph I had mailed to him in the greeting card--complete with the tombstone--in order to remind the media that this serious crime was worthy of prosecution. It had been the only picture I had handy when the T.V. crew asked for a picture. The portrait was broadcast sans tombstone. The killer flipped out, and then his government defender flipped out in the courtroom, complaining that her client now required psychiatric medication (which he had probably needed for many decades, and often sold on the black market while practicing medicine without a license). The judge warned the courtroom that she would declare a mistrial if any more inflammatory pictures were shown in the media. A jolly Dr. Death told me later not to worry, smiling, that, "it's the public's trial, not the killer's trial."
The killer refused to take the stand to defend himself from the murder charge. Note that it is "ethical" for an attorney to lie on behalf of a client--argue "not guilty" even though a client has confessed everything to their lawyer, but it is "unethical" for an attorney to listen to a client tell a lie under oath. Attorneys are never placed under oath.
Incidentally, a recent law school graduate admitted to me that "his brain had become twisted around," while learning all the required "logical" thinking, arguing and debating taught by his professors. He said the secret to a lawyer maintaining sanity is his ability to twist his brain back again after graduation.
Public relations played a key role in this case, although the local newspaper, which holds a monopoly in this city, gave it relatively minor print space. A public relations expert advised me how to submit professional-format press releases, since that prevents discrimination from an arrogant media. This at least gave one T.V. station, WBIR, a temporary angle for its coverage, that the victim's family had "hired" a public relations company to help win justice. (I suppose the eager reporter liked the utopian idea that media types aren't all wimps.) The PR expert suggested rallying public support, in the name of the victim, to attempt to change domestic violence laws to allow courts to admit evidence of prior assaults on the victim.
Tennessee currently does not consider it legally pertinent if a murder victim had been repeatedly threatened with murder and kidnapping by the same person, and repeatedly and violently assaulted by the same person, even to the point of near death (prevented in this case after rescue by professional security officers). Understandably, the victim's family was exhausted from their battle and was divided over whether to pursue another difficult legal accomplishment. (Several years later, the PR master graduated from law school, motivated in part by rage at the failure of the legal machine.)
35-CENT CENSORSHIP
During the trial, a bullet hole appeared in my car's windshield while it was parked at work at Ted Russell Nissan. "Right between the eyes" where I had to see it while driving. This occurred within days of appearing on T.V. giving the White House credit for assisting with motivating the government to action. An ex-husband of the murdered woman (my boss), who also appeared on T.V. with me describing his family's fear of the accused, had a murder contract placed on him. Together with an attorney at the business, we advised him to contact law enforcement immediately. A joint FBI, ATF, state and local police task force was mobilized to protect him. (I got no protection other than filing a report with KPD over the telephone. No detective contacted me, despite my previous dealings while badgering them to motivation on this case. I did take my own security precautions, however.) The bullet hole was repaired immediately in an effort to negate the psychological impact of violent censorship.
The chief suspect was a James Bozeman (aka Boseman), a local car salesman who allegedly lived with the doomed couple after his trailer burned down. Bozeman was previously convicted of a gang-murder and was sentenced ten years for his trouble, and was also named in court records by ADA John Gill as the individual who negotiated with Gray for the $3,000 contract killing. Not to worry, such folk normally just kill off their friends, family and criminal associates, and don't fare so well with outsiders. (One Knoxville journalist pulled an Uzi machine gun on a hit man sent to silence his alphabet. The cagey newspaperman spotted the ex-con first and ordered the would-be assassin to step into his car. He then observed that he could pull the trigger and make up any story he wanted. The sniveling assassin spilled his guts as to origin of his contract, a local narc lord on trial, narcing that two other assissins also failed to get close enough to do the job. The gentle writer sent the con back to his sender, who apparently sent the expendable grunt to meet his maker two weeks later. The writer dared write about the murder of a Democratic lobbiest at the houseboat of a Loudon County politician, implicating the Loudon County Sheriff's Department in the homicide by simply publishing the police reports.
Back in the courtroom, sitting on the side of the room reserved for the killer's supporters, were a couple of scruffy looking men who occasionally walked up to the killer's government defense lawyer and whispered information. These men, however, had a disciplined, "military" demeanor that was out of place with their appearance. Due to my bullet hole that week, I had a hightened sense of self defense. When I asked the Dr. Death about the courtroom observers (who appeared to practice law without apparent license), Jolly advised that they worked for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). This, I instantly and painfully realized, were the same individuals I had volunteered my entire case file to, including my personal address. Doh!
A MAN OF HIS CONVICTIONS
Fortunately, the jury found the defendant, Charles Daniel Gray, guilty of murder in the second degree. A dozen people breathed a sigh of relief at the hard-fought verdict. Perry Mason, Miss Marple and Dr. Quincy, et al, would have been proud.
It was the killer's second (criminal) murder conviction (fourth murder if the civil convictions are counted), and he was sentenced to a minimum of 8 years with a maximum of 25.
However, the shadow of secret government oozed into the judicial proceeding through the unlocked back door. The DEA's courtroom defeat was just a trivial retreat in the Drug War. Sentencing offered yet another opportunity to derail justice.
The serial-killing, mass-murdering, drug-dealing, drunk-driving hit man with the false passport was given a parole date of "Standard Range 1" of 30% of the sentence served. This 30% range is supposedly reserved for first-time offenders without drug charges. Gray was not classified as Multiple (35% Range 2), Persistent (45% Range 3), Career (60%), violent (100%), Multiple Rapist, Child Rapist, 1st Degree Murder, or Repeat Violent Offender. There is no parole-date classification for government-employed "informants," though police officers say that "informants" automatically get an additional 10% to 15% reduction of sentence, hidden from the public records and hidden from their crime victims. (This sentencing classification and parole date turned out to be very important to the government(s) just five (5) years later, in the selection year of 2000.)
The killer will have to suffer the indignities of prison life: free housing, free health care, free cable television, free recreation facilities and all the free food he can eat, courtesy of the taxpayers' generosity. I just hope he gets lots of free psychiatric therapy, nutrition, medical cures and legitimate rehabilitation for the $50,000 a year the taxpayers will have to pay. Actually, contrary to what the victim's family was told, the killer served the majority of his time at palatial Knox County Penal Farm, which supposedly is reserved for nonvioilent offenders--at least that's what sheriff Tim Hutchinson promises local residents.
As a government "informant," the serial-killing, mass-murdering, drug-dealing, drunk-driving hit man with the false passport was allowed a secret parole hearing on 4 January 2000. This was less than five years after his conviction for his second (or sixth) murder.
Neither the D.A.'s office nor the victim's family was notified. When notified one day prior to the hearing, the family contacted the D.A. However, Bob Jolly was on paternity leave and his replacement was not familiar with the case. After faxing the case file to the parole board, the parole was denied. According to the computer, the soonest a hearing could again take place is 18 months away, but that's what it alleged the last time. In reality, he can get a new hearing every month with a new parole board.
The state prosecutor in Nashville demanded to know who tipped off the Knox County D.A., but the victim's family refused to reveal my name. This was about the time my home nearly burned in a towering inferno and my car was stolen by KPD and Sutherland Avenue Wrecker Service with a $5,500 parking ticket (call Guiness!) for legally being parked on my own private property. Both KPD and Sutherland denied they had the car for six weeks before finally mailing a letter 2 weeks after their legal deadline to do so.
The D.A. dropped further charges of kidnapping and attempted 1st degree murder, allegedly because that victim was given permanent brain damage, courtesy of the killer. Yet she appeared perfectly coherent to me at the murder trial. This is despite the fact that there was also another eyewitness to the assault, who was good enough to be the star witness at this trial. It was alleged that if the killer survived a violent and AIDS-infected prison life, he would be instantly prosecuted for the attempted murder.
In May of 2000, Danny Gray was again prosecuted for the attempted murder of the female associate. Here's the press release distributed to local TeeVee news and local advertising/news papers:
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, May 9, 2000
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
John Lee
Advantage Public Relations
865.971.5806
gostryter@netzero.net
KNOXVILLE -- Jury selection was due to begin today in the
attempted murder prosecution of Charles Daniel
"Danny" Gray, who is serving time in a Tennessee state
prison for murder but may be eligible for parole as early
as this summer.
Gray was also charged with especially aggravated kidnapping and aggrevated burglery after
his original arrest for kidnapping girlfriend
Jaqueline Ann Gray, 31, (no relation) from her
Alice Road home, taking her to his 1101 Glen
Oaks Drive home and "savagely" beating her and
saying he "was going to kill her," then dumping
her nude and bloody in the parking lot of Baptist
Hospital.
Gray is currently serving a 15 to 25
year sentence for 2nd Degree Murder. He was convicted
April 15, 1995 in the beating death of another
girlfriend, Sherlene Miller, whose nude body was
found bludgeoned in his Glen Oaks home.
In the Miller case, Gray got his first parole hearing in
January 2000, three years before he was due for
early parole under Tennessee's minimum sentencing
laws, and according to the district attorney's
office is due for another parole hearing in July.
This was Gray's second murder conviction. In 1977,
he was convicted in the July 26, 1976 shooting
death of a Charles Joseph Montgomery at a Clinton
Highway convenience store, and was sentenced to
two years for voluntary manslaughter, Knox County
Criminal Court records show. Assistant district
attorneys Randy Nichols and John Gill described
Gray at the sentencing hearing as a drug-dealing
hit man who carried a false driver's license and a
false passport. Gray pled guilty to a plea bargain
in that case.
Gray has also been arrested and convicted numerous times,
primarily for vehicle offenses including drunken
and reckless driving, according to City Sessions
Court records. At the time of the Miller homicide
in October of 1992, Gray was only arrested for
possession of marijuana for resale despite being
"covered in blood" at the crime scene (from
allegedly performing CPR on "his wife" who
allegedly fell down a single step). An arrest
warrant for murder was not issued in the Miller
case until after Danny Gray's arrest in the
Jacqueline Gray case in September of 1994. Gray
fled prosecution in the Jacqueline Gray case, just
as he did in the Montgomery case, and Knoxville
Police Department spokesman Foster Arnett
described Danny Gray as "armed and extremely
dangerous."
According to court records, Gray was the driver and owner of
a boat involved in a fatal crash on Boone Lake
near Johnson City in 1969 that claimed the lives of Gray's
passengers, ETSU students Danny Courier (secretly
married to the former Carolyn Barnett) and Janie
Ketron.
According to Jolly, Danny
Gray was a paid "informant" for the U.S. Drug
Enforcement Administration (DEA).
Division 2 Circuit Court with Judge Jenkins, docket number 56936
photos on the WWW:
Miller and Gray at Littons restaurant: 132Kb
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Miller gravesite: 361Kb
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© John Lee
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No daily news agencies reported on this story. It was bumped by more important stories such as a man making a bed in front of a crowd (of bored people) and a local radio corporation selling out 11 stations for $300-million to a larger corporation that now owns 300 stations. The weekly Knoxville Journal did run the press release verbatum as a news article, but "edited" the final paragraph regarding DEA's employment of a murderous "informant."
TRUTH IN REPORTING
The "trial" for attempted first-degree murder (8 to 30 years), especially aggrevated kidnapping (15 to 60 years), aggrevated assault (3 to 15 years), and aggrevated burglery (3 counts at a total of 9 to 45 years) turned into a mysterious plea bargain to especially aggrevated kidnapping (15 to 60 years), aggrevated assault (3 to 15 years) and aggrevated burglery (1 count at 3 to 15 years). The three convictions totaled 8 to 90 years. The attempted first-degree murder charge was expunged from the public record by order of Judge Jenkins (related to the former sheriff of Knox County, Joe Jenkins, who was convicted of $1-million in car theft to feed his cocaine hobby).
WATE-TV filed a request for courtroom media coverage of the trial itself, which was not then allowed in Tennessee at Gray's murder trial of Sherlene Miller. Perhaps the US Drug Enforcement Administration did not want free TV publicity for its hired "informants" and commanding officers, nor have pesky reporters snapping pictures at their heels.
The vicitm's family was barely informed of what was going on, and was not allowed to be a part of the Top Secret sentencing "hearing" which was a violation of the Tennessee Truth in Sentencing Act. Just as they were kept in the dark about the killer's Top Secret parole hearing in January 2000.
ADA Bob Jolly "signed off" on the plea ageement. Dr. Death (or DA Randy Nichols) gave new meaning to the term "plea bargain," and allowed sentences of 25, 6 and 6 years, for a total of only 37 years, not the maximum of 90 years. Dr. Death (or DA Randy Nichols) also agreed to "concurrent" sentences, meaning they all run at the same time. Concurrent effectively eliminated the lesser convictions for especially aggrevated assault and aggrevated burglery, for a grand total of only 25 years. Must be the New Math for the New Millenium.
The serial-killing, mass-murdering, drug-dealing, drunk-driving hit man with the false passport with four murder convictions plus two unprosecuted DWI homicides was again given a parole date of "Standard Range 1" at 30% of the sentence served. This 30% range is supposedly reserved for first-time offenders without drug charges. Gray was not classified as Multiple (35% Range 2), Persistent (45% Range 3), Career (60%), violent (100%), Multiple Rapist, Child Rapist, 1st Degree Murder, or Repeat Violent Offender. There is no parole-date classification for government-employed "informants," though police officers say that "informants" automatically get an additional 10% to 15% reduction of sentence, hidden from the public records and hidden from their crime victims.
To top it off, Dr. Death's signature allowed the May 2000 prison sentence for the attempted murder of Jaqueline Gray to run "concurrently" with the previous murder sentence, which means it started its countdown back in 1995, when Gray was first imprisoned for murdering Sherlene Miller.
Dr. Death's (or DA Randy Nichols') bargain-basement generosity for the serial-killing, mass-murdering, drug-dealing, drunk-driving hit man with the false passport and four murder convictions meant that GRAY WOULD NOT SERVE A SINGLE DAY IN PRISON FOR CONFESSING TO KIDNAPPING, ASSAULT AND BURGLERY--IN ORDER TO AVOID CONVICTION FOR ATTEMPTED FIRST-DEGREE MURDER--AND WOULD BE INSTANTLY ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLE.
DR. DEATH GETS THE AXE
On June 28, 2001, Bob Jolly was "fired" by DA Randy Nichols, in a twist on the usual "resign or be terminated" scenario. Tennessee is a state that uses the employment law of "hire and fire at will", as thousands of honest, productive employees experience every year. With Jolly, however, it was more of the boss "firing" the employee that previously turned in his mandatory two-week notice of quitting.
A newspaper reported ("alleged") that Jolly and Nichols had a disagreement over a plea bargain for a confessed killer, Anthony "T-Bone" Jones (one victim "only", murdered during a robbery for one dollar ($1)). Jolly reportedly wanted the death penalty, as promised to the victim's family, but Nichols accepted a guilty confession in trade for life in prison without parole, plus 37 years (presumably allowing his corpse to rot in prison for 3 decades before burial--isn't that "cruel and unusual punishment"? Especially for his cellmates.). Apparently, the plea offer was never made to the accused prior to trial, forcing the decision to skip death penalty to prevent successful appeal.
Jolly wrote in his resignation letter: "You made promises to the family of Scott Loveday that you refused to keep. While the decision to plead guilty by any defendant is yours to make, your promises should be yours to keep. I feel it is important for us to honor our commitment, and if we promise somebody, we should do that. And that wasn't done in this case, and I didn't feel that I could continue."
Nichols' surprise termination letter reportedly came after he begged Jolly to not quit. Nichols wrote: "In light of your stated intention to resign from this office, your unwillingness to handle some matters consistent with position of the office and my lack of confidence that you will handle your duties appropriately you are hereby terminated."
This spat allegedly is what terminated the terminator after 18 years in the DA's office. Presumably, "resignation" allows retention of certain retirement benefits from his $80,000-a-year job.
The June 30 issue of the News-Sentinel reported Professor Jolly's lamentations on his future: "I don't know. I have children to feed, two kids in college, a mortgage to pay. I guess I'll look for work." He returned to adjunct teaching of "Trial Technique" at University of Tennessee College of Law and became a criminal defense lawyer.
T-Bone's new criminal-defense lawyer (and "entertainment" lawyer), Donald Bosch, claimed his would have won on appeal from a guilty verdict due to the ADA's failure to make the initial plea offer, thus remanding the case for a 2nd trial. Bosch recently opened a new law office in a renovated building on Gay Street, next door to Michael McGovern of Ayres and Parkey (the "world's number one expert on towing laws" and partnered with the Mafia-connected towing/garbage cartel of 20,000 truckers based in Knoxville, as used by KPD to seize tens of thousands of cars and overcharge tens of thousands of drivers for alleged improper parking, and subject to this author's class actions and RICO prosecutions for racketeering). Bosch also recently "purchased" the abandoned eyesore of the Knoxville Utilities Board for $500,000, the green giant on the next block of Gay Street, after KUB spent $15-million giving its new Gay Street HQ a boob job. Danny Gray's alleged "partying buddy" and primary defense lawyer was Jim Bell, known as Knoxville "best" criminal defense lawyer (ie, the most highly paid). It is alleged in high circles that Bell and a couple of other defense attorneys are the "real" District Attorneys and are the only ones allowed to truly broker such plea agreements. In other words, the DA answers to a higher power, one that is unelected and unaccountable to the voters.
JUSTICE FOR SALE?
Law enforcement protection of criminal informants? What's this country coming to? A police officer has told me that this sort of experience is more common than the average person can imagine.
During the course of my investigation, I interviewed three other local families whose loved ones had been murdered by alleged drug dealing government informants, with the investigations stalled despite apparently sufficient evidence to convict.
One victim was even an off duty cop. According to a KPD source, on the night of the 1989 murder police allegedly had both the killers and the killer's gun in their custody; the killer had accidentally shot himself in the leg due to over-excitement during the shooting, and was taken to the same hospital as the dying cop, Tony Williams. His partner in crime was arrested DWI at that time, and the killer's gun was found in the car. The police source alleged that the dead cop had merely revved his motorcycle at a traffic light, and the coked-up drunkard opened fire just for fun. Official police spokesmen and the media alleged it was a drug deal gone bad, as if that's an acceptable excuse not to prosecute. However, his police partners deny this, that in fact the dead cop had been an honest cop, who had become a victim of a random act of violence. Although murder charges were filed against both men, all charges were later dropped. One of the dead cop's friends told me they didn't want to get involved, at the price of risking their careers and retirement, had they decided to second-guess their superior officers. Over dinner, the cop requested that I also look into his partner's murder, since it was also a government corruption case. The alleged killers were later convicted of dealing cocaine in a federal investigation, rather than a local one, as reported in news articles.
Another victim was butchered in her home, and raped after death. An adopted family member used several rolls of film photographing the bloody floor, walls and ceiling. The suspected family member profited from an insurance policy, and another acquaintance that he owed money to also died in a violent murder. A police detective told me they did not want to solve the murder because "it was a dysfunctional family" situation.
However, I am too exhausted to help these people (other than offer self-help), and no one else seems to care, including the local press (although their publishers do sell a lot of newspapers with their front page cover stories about these "unsolved" murders). The district attorney, Randy Nichols, target of a recent mail bomb in the courthouse, was quoted by the paper as claiming that he had no "open" murder investigations. Bomb scares are a common occurrance when local politicians attempt to debate funding of Knoxville's $100-million maximum-security prison and abandonment of Knoxville's two existing prisons. Nichols later debated this author in the same city council chambers regarding the 11-year-old "unsolved" (police-condoned) cop killing of Tony Williams, shot while riding his motorcycle off-duty.
Let us take a minute to define the term "informant." Is an informant a concerned citizen who is merely keeping their eyes and ears open? Or is an informant a career criminal on the government payroll (or providing the government payroll), with a get-out-of-jail-free pass?"
AMERICA'S MOST PISSED OFF
Many families of murder victims have to face the reality of the American justice system. John Walsh, a real estate developer when his six-year-old son Adam was abducted, raped and beheaded, lost everything as a result of the devastating stress. He turned his life around by fighting for legislative changes to help law enforcement use computers for tracking missing children around the country, leading to death threats against him and having to go into hiding. The T.V. movie Adam had the largest viewership in history, and led to the recovery of 65 children. Mr. Walsh founded the crime-fighting T.V. show America's Most Wanted, which eventually led to the capture of hundreds of violent criminals. Yet the killer of Adam Walsh had never been found by police. Or had he?
Eventually, a journalist fought a legal battle to get Adam's police file released after 16 long years, perhaps hoping to publicly blame the famous John Walsh for his son's murder. However, what was revealed was government police incompetence insanely out of control. Walsh promptly hired his own investigators, who quickly discovered witnesses to the abduction (including a security guard) and soon solved the crime and located the killer, a convicted pedophile and serial murderer. The killer, unfortunately, had died in prison, after making a deathbed confession. John Walsh had never been notified by prison officials of the confession! Mr. Walsh has written a book of his ordeal, Tears of Rage.
Back when I was in college 20 years ago, instead of enjoying extracurricular activities, I was working hard at a part time job as a legal investigator. It was tough trying to study and work, make a large car payment, and cut back on having fun with my friends. A series of car burglaries took place on campus. My car radio was stolen, and my car was damaged. Although I filed a police report, no investigation was made. A few months later, I happened to come across someone who told me the name of a local criminal who had bragged about breaking into my car. I also learned from a second source that this criminal was an informant who spent a lot of time with the police. I was livid with frustration and rage. Assuming all legal sources of redress were moot, I actually plotted a violent vigilante assault upon the property of this career criminal. Fortunately, I came to my senses before I hurt somebody, or ended up in prison. I did not yet realize I actually had many other avenues of satisfaction. For example, I could have merely given my info to the lynch mob waiting on the rooftops for the cop-loving thief to try again. Those who do not learn from their mistakes are doomed to repeat them, as many a wise man claimed.
In January 2000, with my articles getting published in local newspapers about police corruption in the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina region, my entire car was literally stolen by KPD, who promptly denied knowledge of their illegal towing and impoundment of my car. KPD car theft detectives were unable to locate my car for four months while it sat concealed at a junk yard of a former cop previously arrested for concealing stolen property. When I finally located my stolen car and reported its recovery to the blind detectives, I discovered my CD player had been stolen, proven by the KPD Vehicle Impoundment Report which declared it still installed at the time of the illegal tow. Instead of vigilante baseball bats, a million-dollar class action on behalf of thousands of victimized Knoxvillians was my profitable revenge.
GOPS OR US
Knumb Skulls | This in a town with a former GOP sheriff imprisoned for his million-dollar car theft and cocaine hobbies, and who was best-associates with the two arrested-and-confessed-but-unprosecuted cop-killers I wrote about, and where the current GOP sheriff was alleged by his chief of detectives to steal cars with another convicted cop killer, and where a car theft ring was allegedly condoned by a GOP state senator convicted of fatal-hit-and-run (Tennessee named a highway after the drugged-and-drunken killer). A KPD firearms instructor (who was also the county coroner) was shot six times in the back by Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) detectives while allegedly searching for the murder weapon in a cop killing, among the convicted dope-rapist doctor's collection of 100 guns seized from the citizens of Knoxville. Even crooked cops kill crooked cops in this town (3 in the past 2 years), while honest folk keep on whistling past the graveyards, and while GOP's politicians annex 100,000 voteless citizens and tax and spend $1-billion to "bankrupt Knoxville... for generations to come" (as city council member Carlene Malone ranted to this author). Tennessee GOP taxman, Byron "Low Tax" Looper, was convicted in 2000 for murdering his legislative opponent so close to the "35-cent election" that the Party-of-Gore was not allowed to substitute an FNG. I guess that's why Senator Bob "Disabled Sex Machine" Dole spent his last lonely night on the presidential campaign trail in Ktown, partying down at Cotten-Eye Ho's nighclub with other greedy GOPs (such as Senator Dr. Bill Frist, who's hospitals were convicted of stealing $1-billion), a dance club owned by an Arab under indictment for wharehousing stolen property and laundering money for export. Guess that's why local New York City owner of MetroPulse, one of many cheerleaders of higher GOP taxes (seeking a $20-million welfare check like the Knoxville News Sentinel got from GOPs), wrote that Knoxville is the most GOP city in the USA. In a state that condoned the sniper hunt of possibly America's first nigger president, Nobel Prize winner Dr. Martin King Jr (not a GOP). Is it any wonder GOP mayor Victor Ashe, a Skull and Bones frat boy like GOPs George Bushes, considers it a "landslide" when only 8% of the locals vote for him? Do I suspect a pattern here?
Apparently, in America, victims of crimes must investigate and solve their own cases, rather than rely upon government police. Victims can never know for sure whether a police detective is incompetent, corrupt or protecting criminals, either because of "legitimate" informant status, or for accepting bribes or profitable shakedown income.
Victims families that don't go quietly into the dark night often hire their own detectives, rent billboards and "broadcast" websites, investing years of their lives in the process. (Helpful tip for relatives of "domestic violence" situations--do like the webmaster: grab a baseball bat and chase the would-be killers away before the killing can take place. It works even when only half-size of the bully. This is cheaper, feels better and costs nothing. Even when the cops are bought off, you still win. And, you don't have to listen to the fighting and bitching anymore.)
Westchester Community College in Valhalla, New York teaches such techniques in its class, "The Art of Investigations," taught by retired detective Gil Alba. Alba was hired by a couple of families searching for killers (one suspect of serial killing was previously convicted and billed as kingpin of "New York's largest car theft ring"). The private eye now uses them as instructors in his class.
Even victims of hit-and-run homicides can use guerilla PR tactics to fight injustices, as when the American Motorcyclist Association rented billboards and advised its million members to boycott Knoxville, Tennessee. This was in response to police refusing to arrest a state senator for murdering a tourist in his driveway, for at least 12 hours after the crime, and prosecutors allowed him to plea bargain to "leaving the scene of an accident." The killer had a police officer living with him at the time, and had been chauffeured by police all day while he was campaigning with Governor [The] Don Sundquist, an alleged bootlegger. The senator was an alcoholic and a crack-cocaine addict, alleged to be kingpin of the local billion-dollar-a-year cocaine import-export industry. The AMA was not impressed that the Knoxville mayor, Victor "Skull and Bones" Ashe and his friends in the state legislature, named a section of the local Interstate for the hit-and-run murderer.
And vice versa, people falsely accused in a quota-inspired police arrest cannot rely upon a profitable judicial system to provide impartial justice. These victims must also pursue their own private investigations (into government corruption), in order to stay out of jail.
New York City detective Frank Serpico proved that police vice investigators can nearly double their government income by extorting bribes from local criminal establishments (and by shaking down legal business owners for minor alleged infractions). The NT City Mollen Commission found that narcotics investigators can earn over $15,000 PER WEEK by extorting bribes, and stealing and reselling confiscated drugs, not to mention crimes like armed robbery and murder for hire.
Tennessee leads the nation with 18 sheriffs recently convicted mainly for drug dealing. "Honest" cops merely have to keep their mouths shut in order to get their fair share of the profits, perhaps out of fear of the crooked cops. Retired cops can even collect a "pension" by assisting in the collection of payoffs. Protected crooks are never arrested unless a public citizen complains loudly enough. Often such arrests are intentionally mishandled, in order to guarantee that the criminal's lawyer would win his case, quietly, at a later date. Why would a corrupt cop ever want to arrest a criminal, if that arrest meant a large reduction in his income?
The keys to defeating Big Brother's bureaucracy of crime are stealthy politics and guerrilla paralegal tactics. Once I admitted my anti-DEA agenda in my White House correspondence, the covert gatekeepers shut down further assistance from Dodge City. No politician can survive for long by targeting federal police agencies and their billionaire backers. 35-cent elections are an American tradition since before the dozen convictions and death penalties delt to some of the cospiracy nuts who killed the first GOP president--the slick lawyer, taverns owner and heir to Kentucky's biggest marijuana farmer, Abraham Lincoln. The purpose of revealing this knowledge is not to change anything. We can't change human nature, can we? Civilization has probably existed this way for thousands of years. This is the reality whether we like it or not. But when we finally know the rules, we can begin to develop an effective strategy--within our budgets--for winning the game.
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