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Guess he wanted a bodyguard to help him kill himself ?

DUH!

1 posted on 01/28/2002 7:54:34 PM PST by ex-Texan
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To: ex-Texan
Your link is to the Santa Barbara Independent.
2 posted on 01/28/2002 8:01:29 PM PST by M. Thatcher
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To: ex-Texan; _Jim
...and the FBI is now investigating his death...

Just more conspiratorialists hugh _Jim.

3 posted on 01/28/2002 8:05:11 PM PST by DoughtyOne
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To: ex-Texan
But we won't know what he knew now. Along with the documents shredded by the auditors from Andersen, the testimony of J Clifford Baxter will remain one of the untold mysteries of the Enron affair, however far into the recesses of George W Bush's administration and corporate America it eventually reaches.

Blatant spin. Tie the death to Bush as often as possible, and eventually it becomes conventional wisdom.

If he was offed, it was much more likely to be because of what he knew about Billy Boy Clinton.

4 posted on 01/28/2002 8:07:44 PM PST by EternalHope
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To: ex-Texan
bump to the top please
5 posted on 01/28/2002 8:13:34 PM PST by timestax
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To: ex-Texan
bump
10 posted on 01/28/2002 8:24:48 PM PST by PRND21
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To: ex-Texan
I presume that donating to the Catholic Church means he was Catholic. If he was Catholic, he knows that suicide means eternal damnation. He left behind a wife and two kids, including an 11-year-old daughter.

This was a wealthly man who probably still had some of his wealth despite now owning worthless stock. If he was the whistleblower wanting to do the right thing, I don't know that he saw prison in his future. Money could buy competent legal representation.

Perhaps he was just so filled with shame that he took his own life? It doesn't add up. It sounds, on the surface at least, that he was a man who had a conscience and was trying to do the right thing.

The coroner wasn't Fahmy Malik was it?

11 posted on 01/28/2002 8:33:27 PM PST by doug from upland
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Am I the only one who was watching the 10:00 pm news on channel 2 in Houston the same day that Mr. Baxter's body was discovered? I heard Linda Lorrell say that although it appeared to be a suicide an autopsy had been ordered. She then said that those on the scene reported a bullet exit wound from Baxter's body but no bullet or bullet exit was found in/on the car he was found in.

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.

21 posted on 01/29/2002 6:05:11 AM PST by texgal
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To: ex-Texan
He left a suicide note. That tells me it was suicide.

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.

28 posted on 01/29/2002 7:54:39 AM PST by Wm Bach
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To: ex-Texan
I guess he took the Vince Foster Suicide by Contortion Correspondence Course...
29 posted on 01/29/2002 8:05:13 AM PST by TADSLOS
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To: ex-Texan
"County coroner, Joye M. Carter, a former D.C. medical examiner who graduated from Howard and currently is attached to Baylor and the University of Texas. After performing a court-requested autopsy, Carter's office declared the former Enron exec had killed himself. While saying they respected that decision, local police said they intended to continue investigating.

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. "

32 posted on 01/29/2002 12:17:31 PM PST by Osinski
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To: ex-Texan
BTTT
38 posted on 02/09/2002 8:33:13 AM PST by maestro
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