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Arkansas - Autopsy found no bite-marks on snake death man, say police
The Scotsman (UK) ^ | May 25, 2004 | IAN JOHNSTON

Posted on 05/24/2004 8:45:58 PM PDT by HAL9000

AMERICAN police investigating the death of a Scottish businessman thought to have been bitten by a deadly snake said yesterday that an autopsy had found no sign of bite-marks on his body.

Computer programmer Garrick Wales, 48, from Kilmacolm, was found dead surrounded by vomit in a hire car near Little Rock airport in Arkansas on 13 May. Four highly poisonous snakes he had earlier ordered from a supplier in Florida were found in a box about half a mile away from his car two days later.

But yesterday, police said that earlier theories that he had been bitten by one of the snakes had not been confirmed by an autopsy carried out on Mr Wales’ body.

Sergeant Terry Hastings, of Little Rock Police Department, said the examination had not found any obvious wound on Mr Wales’ body, including a snake bite.

"The autopsy report didn’t give an indication of such. It’s a suspicious death. He didn’t have any obvious trauma to the body," he said.

Sgt Hastings said officers were waiting for the results of toxicology tests carried out on Mr Wales body that would show whether there was any snake venom or other poisons in his system.

Little Rock police are investigating Mr Wales’ background in an attempt to find out why he ordered the snakes and what he planned to do with them.

They have established from the Florida dealer that he had ordered snakes on several previous trips to the US.

Sgt Hastings said: "We don’t know anyone that he was in touch with in Arkansas but we are investigating that and trying to check into his past, where he has been and what he has been involved in, but right now we know very little."

A spokesman for Inverclyde Council said that following discussions with police and the family, it was satisfied that no dangerous animals were being kept at Mr Wales home in Kilmacolm, but said its officials had not actually inspected the premises.



TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Arkansas
KEYWORDS: bloodhounds; clintonlibrary; cobra; darwin; garrickwales; littlerock; mamba; snakes
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So far, none of the local media have reported that some of the snakes ordered by Garrick Wales are unaccounted for.
1 posted on 05/24/2004 8:45:59 PM PDT by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000

Maybe they should check the snakes for bite marks.


2 posted on 05/24/2004 8:47:32 PM PDT by formercalifornian (Nancy Pelosi owns 2 vineyards, many high-rent office buildings in SF and millions in pocket change)
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To: HAL9000

That part of the country takes about six weeks to produce autopsy results that defy rational belief, but are considered official and final.


3 posted on 05/24/2004 8:51:27 PM PDT by sarasmom (Sometimes, I wish liberals had beliefs, so I could desecrate them. (spok))
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To: sarasmom

The Coroners covered up Bill Clinton's mothers mistakes well enough. One could miss a bite from a snake easily in a corpse sitting in the sun for a day or two.


4 posted on 05/24/2004 8:56:02 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: spetznaz

update Pong


5 posted on 05/24/2004 9:00:56 PM PDT by nuconvert ("America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins." ( Azadi baraye Iran)
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To: HAL9000

Well, when you lie down with snakes you get......No, no, that's dogs and fleas.


6 posted on 05/24/2004 9:03:01 PM PDT by BARLF
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To: HAL9000

you sure he wasn't a victim of an air crash?


7 posted on 05/24/2004 9:13:28 PM PDT by gorebegone
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To: BARLF
Well, when you lie down with snakes you get......No, no, that's dogs and fleas.

...Sssnakes do sssuffer from parasssitesss,too...and being called Liberal Hurtsss!..."How would you like to be called liberal everyday"...Sssnakes have feeling, too. ~~~~~~

8 posted on 05/24/2004 9:13:58 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :)
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To: HAL9000

They don't eat much.


9 posted on 05/24/2004 9:14:28 PM PDT by Old Professer
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To: HAL9000

We likes the snakesesss. Nice ssnakessess wouldn't bites masster.


10 posted on 05/24/2004 9:18:31 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: HAL9000
Computer programmer Garrick Wales, 48, from Kilmacolm, was found dead surrounded by vomit in a hire car near Little Rock airport in Arkansas

There's two popssibilities. He had an exotic and horribly infectious new disease that he got from the snake dealer, or he saw Hillary passing by.

11 posted on 05/24/2004 9:21:06 PM PDT by DonaldDuke
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To: HAL9000
So far, none of the local media have reported that some of the snakes ordered by Garrick Wales are unaccounted for.

Is that the case? The first article I read said that they'd been taken to a local zoo for safekeeping a care.

12 posted on 05/24/2004 9:23:48 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: HAL9000; Judge Parker; *Bloodhounds; Budge; T'wit; Clive; Boyd; Wallaby; rdavis84; NDCORUP; ...

News of the Weird from Arkinsaw ... and posted by HAL!

I'm getting a little misty for the old days.


13 posted on 05/24/2004 9:29:58 PM PDT by Askel5
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To: Askel5

Sal I queue up the Henry Mancini albums for you?


14 posted on 05/24/2004 9:33:17 PM PDT by Senator Pardek
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To: Askel5

"I'm getting a little misty for the old days."

AWWWWWWW! That is so cute.

And this thread has reminded me, via the hissssssing sounds, that I have a strange cat in my house tonight. Must go do a kitty nose-count NOW!

What did this Scotsman ask, and when did he ask it, that's the question.


15 posted on 05/24/2004 9:36:07 PM PDT by jocon307 (The dems don't get it, the American people do.)
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To: Ken H; skinkinthegrass; nuconvert
We likes the snakesesss. Nice ssnakessess wouldn't bites masster.

For some reason I feel like saying (in my best Smilgo (sp) LOTR accent): "My precioussssssssss."

16 posted on 05/24/2004 9:37:57 PM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear missiles: The ultimate Phallic symbol.)
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To: lepton

He had ordered snakes from this company several times. The snakes found were the latest shipment. No one knows why he ordered the snakes nor where the earlier shipments of snakes are.


17 posted on 05/24/2004 9:38:25 PM PDT by Miss Marple
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To: Askel5

I've tasted Arkansas cooking and I can't see what mystery this case holds.


18 posted on 05/24/2004 9:38:29 PM PDT by T'wit (Liberal to child: you'll sink into depravity eventually, so do it at home, now, where it's hygienic)
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To: lepton
The first article I read said that they'd been taken to a local zoo for safekeeping a care.

Those were the snakes that are accounted for. They're at the Lufkin, Texas zoo now.

A U.K. Press Associated report quoted Detective Eric Knowles of the Little Rock Police Department: “We will continue trying to determine what he did with the other snakes. We still have not accounted for those snakes.”

But the report did now say how many snakes were unaccounted for, nor what type of snakes they are.

The snakes' shortest route to the Arkansas River is through the Clinton Library park.

19 posted on 05/24/2004 9:39:15 PM PDT by HAL9000
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To: Senator Pardek

Pardek ... I don't think anything less than Felix Slatkin & His 70 Strings is gonna do the trick.

Shade of my youth on the northside of Grand Lake ... no cd, no tape deck, no LPs but a slew of Felix Slatkin a part of the "lock stock and barrel."

It's music for going fishing in the cove ... so long as you watch out for the snakes, of course.


20 posted on 05/24/2004 9:42:05 PM PDT by Askel5
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