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Exactly.

Why would the Maui PD Chief confirm to her that no one died in the waters off Molokai, if all of this was a plot to cover up that Director Fuddy had been spirited away? Why wouldn’t he just say they did an investigation? Why wouldn’t he just put up a fake investigation results? According to Butter, all the passengers and the pilot are in on it, why not get fake sworn statements?

Her own evidence that this is a conspiracy contradicts her.

If this accident had not involved Director Fuddy, I image the documentation on it would be exactly the same as it is now.

If this really were some conspiracy to fake a death so as to put Fuddy out of reach, then I'd expect the stories and documentation to have a more integrated, consistent appearance. As this theory presently stands, one has to believe that the conspirators, on the one hand, executed their "air game" amazingly well (even though that called for ditching a fixed-gear plane in the ocean, which is a highly risky thing to do). One the other hands, one has to believe the conspirators botched their "ground game" by not getting their stories consistent. And now these multiple-reported causes of death and other anomalies are blowing the cover off the whole faked-death thing.

I mean, c'mon, couldn't they manage even a basic pre-op meeting, something like this:

"OK, folks, Operation Delta (DELiana Take Away) is a go. The Cold Case Posse could drop their bombshell at any moment, so we've gotta get Loretta out of here and fast. The air team has got the plane rigged, so once the plane is the water, we're on. The Dive Team will wait till currents take the other passengers out of view, then will release the body double and move Loretta and hide her in the ocean swells till everyone has cleared out.

Now, once our custom-made body double is on land, it will be taken to the Coroner's office. The official cause of death will be myocardial infarction -- that's a 'heart attack' for all you liberal arts majors. [general laughter] OK, got that? Coroner?"

"Check."

"Police?"

"Check."

"Coast Guard? Oh, right, we didn't invite the feds in on this one."

"Now you all know your assignments. You'll be swell. You'll be great. Oh, and kudos already to our Funeral Task Force; they've gone and gotten Confidentiality Agreements from all the friends, co-workers and family expected to attend. We can't stage this open-casket: once the body double gets saturated in sea water, it won't look right. But the pre-made video feed we're getting to the news channels will show open-casket so as to make the rest of the world think those in attendance actually saw Ms. Fuddy's corpse. So, great job team, that was some effort." [general applause] "

OK, any questions? If not, wait for the signal, then it's 'places!'"

This should have been so simple.

Moral of the story: the inconsistencies point away from conspiracy, not at it.

Because the Maui County Police Chief is honest. And he had nothinq else he could say, because he had a deadline to respond to my request and could not fabricate a complete investiqation 10 months after it was supposed to have happened. And besides that, he already knew that I knew what had happened. The accountinq department had already sent me the invoice for the autopsy, showinq no travel expenses to qet Dr. Harle to Molokai from Maui. Once that anqle was overlooked and exposed, they knew it was all over.