Posted on 01/28/2002 7:54:34 PM PST by ex-Texan
The Justice of the Peace who had originally declared this a suicide was informed of this finding and he ordered an autopsy. They didn't just decide to "err on the side of caution". Some finding at the scene made them suspect this may not have been a suicide after all.
An awful lot of this story is opinion and question-asking - and presents no new information that I can see ... other than asking some of the same questions that I have seen posted here on FR (amd I assume other boards as well) and on various talk shows ...
Iit looks like this author is just extremely well-informed; and this story is a well-written composite of all that he has read and studied.
Questions that remain are:
Has a handwriting analysis been done on the note?
Was he right handed or left handed?
Which side of the head was he shot?
Does the bullet path trace up from below, or down from above (as though shot while offering ID to someone standing outside the window)?
Since there is no report of windows being shattered from an exiting bullet, did the (.380 or .38?) bullet lodge in the seat, indicating a path from above to below, ore remain in his skull?
Since some reports indicate he used a .380 and others mention a revolver, is there such thing as a .380 revolver?
The answers to these basic questions will enable even the most junior of detectives to rule on the presence of foul play.
The withholding of answers to these questions should raise some red flags.
Carter has had her share of controversy. In 1998, Harris County paid a former employee in the medical examiner's office $375,000, after a jury agreed Carter fired her for reporting potentially illegal cover-ups. Then a federal court awarded another whistleblower $250,000 after she was fired for reporting that an unlicensed physician had performed autopsies. In 2000, writes The Houston Chronicle, a Harris County commissioner asked the county to hire an outside law firm to review Carter's hiring and firing practices. "
July 6, 1997 -- A quiet Georgetown neighborhood in the nation's capital is stunned by a gangland-style murder at the Starbucks' café. One of the three victims, assistant manager Mary "Caity" Mahoney, an avowed lesbian, had served as an intern at the White House. Was it robbery ... or a hit?
November 1996, The U.S. Commerce Department -- The partially nude body of 14-year employee Barbara Wise is found in a fourth floor office following Thanksgiving weekend.
"She worked in the same section as John Huang," says Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch. "She was found naked in an office after a long weekend at the Commerce Department. Does one die naked in a government office? You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out something's being covered up."
District of Columbia police say the Commerce Department death is no mystery at all: the DC medical examiner determined that 48-year-old Barbara Wise died of natural causes. DC homicide detectives refused to talk to CBN News about the Mahoney case, saying the Starbucks murders are still under investigation.
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Any chance Carter was the medical examiner on the Wise case?
Prior to assuming this position, Dr. Carter served as Chief Medical Examiner for the District of Columbia. Previous military experience includes serving as Major and Chief Physician and Forensic Pathologist in the United States Air Force Medical Corps. Concurrently, while on military duty, Dr. Carter served as Deputy Chief Medical Examiner at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology where she was in charge of forensic education provided to the military, state department, and federal investigative agencies.
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The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology is the place where the X-rays of Ron Brown's head went missing.
....things that make you go hmmmm.
11/30/96 AP - A Commerce Department employee was found dead in her fourth-floor office at the agency's downtown headquarters on Friday. The body was discovered around 7:45 a.m. by a co-worker arriving for work, police said. The woman was identified as Barbara Alice Wise, 48, of Gambrills, Md. She had worked as a secretary for 14 years at the department's International Trade Administration. Anne Luzzatto, chief spokeswoman for Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor, said the unit where she worked provided analysis for various industries in studies designed to boost export sales….. A local television station, WRC, quoted unidentified police sources as saying that the office where the body was found was locked and the body was partially nude…."
WorldNetDaily 5/4/99 David Bresnahan "...Barbara Wise worked for Brown, well down the chain of command. She was a secretary and worked in an area of Commerce in which she was well aware of the dealings of Brown, Juang, and others…. Barbara Wise was found dead in her office. She was partially clad and blood was evident when she was found on the floor the day after Thanksgiving. An effort was made by Commerce officials and others to portray her as a drunk and abusive to herself. Police investigated it as a homicide until the sudden claim that her death was by natural causes..."
Please disregard the Carter connection to the Barbara Wise autopsy. Carter was in Houston in November 1996, when Barbara died.
Dr. Joye M. Carter assumed the Chief Medical Examiner position in July 1996. She comes to Houston from a background as Chief Medical Examiner in Washington D.C. and Chief Physician, Forensic Pathologist, United States Air Force Medical Corps.
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