MEMPHIS, TN: MEDICAL EXAMINER AMUSHED

The Commercial Appeal ^ | 6/3/02 | Yolanda Jones

[GailA]

Fleming our local talk host briefly mentioned this today. Seems in a public meeting the Workman case was being discussed with the ME and Workman's lawyer. Something about new evidence the ME came up with about the bullet proving Workman guilty. I didn't catch it all. BUT some guy in the audience got really BOTHERED and shortly there after the ME got that threatening letter.

I goofed in the early post it's OC Smith..not Pleasant. Our Election commissioner is OC Pleasant.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Great links, Shermy. Thanks a lot.

[GailA]

Shermy can you come up with the list of the 11 micro biologist that have died in the past year? I remember seeing it but can't locate it here?

[cgk]

From your article above:
Last year, anonymous letters threatened harm to Smith, a prosecution witness in the long-running case of convicted Memphis cop killer Philip Workman.

Smith said at the time that he had not received any letters himself but was taking the threats "very seriously."

Workman's attorneys had challenged the validity of Smith's ballistics and laboratory tests. Smith said the tests proved Workman's bullet killed Memphis police Lt. Ronald Oliver in 1981.

In one letter, the writer called Smith a liar and said, "Long have I waited for my HOLY ORDER to fight against the DOCTOR-KILLER abortionists but now I know OUR LORD was saving me for something larger."

I posted my theory about this yesterday, but no one seemed to think it had much relation:

Medical Examiner Attacked, Tied to Bomb Outside Office [Memphis, again!]
			Posted by cgk to KissOfTheSith On News/Activism Jun 2 1:14 PM #28 of 62 In some article I read by Jim Garrison -- the real life DA from NO Stone made JFK about -- Garrison asserted that when "the Establishment" wanted to infiltrate and "control" an area, they would make it a priority to get one of "their people" in the position of medical examiner because the position has so much power in a real world way. The position can label deaths accidental/murder, etc. Perhaps there's more to this guy than meets the eye... Here's another story, significant only because the accused murderer's birthday is the day Smith was attacked: Saturday, June 1st.: They are accusing the Shelby County medical examiner of purposefully withholding evidence that could have helped them defend Workman."That X-ray was absent from the record for one reason: the Medical Examiner's Office suppressed it," the attorneys wrote yesterday in the motion to reopen the case. Dr. O.C. Smith, Shelby County medical examiner, did not return a request for comment yesterday. from this Death Row Inmate's Case History page, which I neither support, nor am against... just remember it from Court TV: Philip Workman; Tennessee Death Row The Case Today Interesting coincidence, if that's all it is. I wonder how much more can be found about Smith? Mrs Kus Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies
and this...
			Posted by cgk to KissOfTheSith On News/Activism Jun 2 1:24 PM #31 of 62 I forgot this one in the last post: With drama befitting a John Grisham novel, the day before their client's last-chance clemency hearing, Minton and Dorsey uncovered a missing autopsy X-ray taken by the Memphis/Shelby County medical examiner, O.C. Smith. He says that he just forgot about the X-ray's existence, and that it "just got lost" over years of refiling. Monday, 10 out of the 12 jurors went on record saying they would not have recommended the death penalty knowing the new information. from Salon News:Dead Man Talking Mrs Kus Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies
Could the letter calling Smith a liar possibly be referring to, in his own words, forgetting & losing an x-ray crucial to the case, even the jurors' decision? Just another theory to throw out there. Mrs Kus

[Shermy]

Scientists' deaths are under the microscope (11 Microbiologists mysteriously dead within 5 months) [May 1, 2002]

[JDGreen123]

Good points. I am about 50/50 on whether it is terrorist related or Workman related. I am trying to weigh why an attacker from either camp would not have just killed the ME instead of going to such an elaborate scheme.

[JDGreen123]

New article just out on Dr. Wiley's mysterious death:

The Death Of Dr. Wiley - 'Murder, They Wrote'

[archy]

Good info but is it in any mob in the US's M.O. to kill a scientist who may be getting too nosey?

The mob [*outfit* in the environs where I worked in the newspaper racket] is not at all so generally disposed, but has cooperated in the past with US Government intelligence agencies requiring either local talent or no direct links to a death that may be required, as with that of Fidel Castro at the hands of former Havana casino operators, or of Martin Luther King by crooked cops on the payroll of the Carlos Marcello family of New Orleans...which took place in Memphis. Just a coincidence, I'm sure....

I could also well imagine that the mob, which has long held interests in certain legitimate businesses such as hotels, waste removal and the liquor distribution business might easily diversify into pharmaceuticals, and at least one way of preventing a breakthrough advantage by a competitor might be to remove the individual responsible for that advance, if he could not be bought off. Do you reckon that Dr. Wiley was the sort of fella who could have been bought off easily? If not, a local cop on the outfit's payroll could have handled the job neatly, and that might easily explain the Memphis PD determination to write off the physician's disappearance as a suicide or accident.

Such a drastic step would of course not be likely if but a few thousand dollars were involved, though certainly men have been murdered for less, but if a multimillion-dollar breakthrough drug or treatment were involved, I might be wary about selling life insurance to those involved.

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[archy]

One of the worst was the lies and cover-up of the JFK assasination. My God, the Warren Commission and the Justice of the Supreme Court was part of the cover-up, so I'm not very shocked at much anymore.

And of course, of the Secret Service agent killed that day as well.

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[Ann Archy]

YIKES! What do you think?

[archy]

YIKES! What do you think?

See also this related news story/announcement. *Just a coincidence, I'm sure....*

[Ann Archy]

I'm thick...what was the coincidence?

[archy]

I'm thick...what was the coincidence?

A research establishment, funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, comes out with a breakthrough, just shortly after a leading researcher at a facility working along similar lines elsewhere is killed while away from his home area where a more exhaustive investigation might have been demanded by his family, friends and neighbors. And he's one of 15 or so in the world who meets a similar end in the last half year. After the recent terrorist/ post office anthrax scare, how much do you think an anthrax *cure* or preventative medicine might be worth? Millions? Certainly. Billions? Over the long run, almost certainly.

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[weegee]

What I found odd (data may have changed) is that at last call Dr. Wiley's bridge death was ruled an accident and not a suicide. Measurements cited in some of the articles make it unlikely for him to "accidently" fall over the safety rail but they did back off from any inference that the doctor committed suicide. Helps his family survive because they can claim his policy but it does little to close the circumstances of his death.

[archy]

*Doctor, would you step out of your car and stand here by the railing....* ***Why, certainly, officer....***

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