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.
Maybe they should check the snakes for bite marks.
That part of the country takes about six weeks to produce autopsy results that defy rational belief, but are considered official and final.
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.
update Pong
Well, when you lie down with snakes you get......No, no, that's dogs and fleas.
you sure he wasn't a victim of an air crash?
...Sssnakes do sssuffer from parasssitesss,too...and being called Liberal Hurtsss!..."How would you like to be called liberal everyday"...Sssnakes have feeling, too. ~~~~~~
They don't eat much.
We likes the snakesesss. Nice ssnakessess wouldn't bites masster.
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.
Is that the case? The first article I read said that they'd been taken to a local zoo for safekeeping a care.
News of the Weird from Arkinsaw ... and posted by HAL!
I'm getting a little misty for the old days.
Sal I queue up the Henry Mancini albums for you?
"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.
For some reason I feel like saying (in my best Smilgo (sp) LOTR accent): "My precioussssssssss."
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.
I've tasted Arkansas cooking and I can't see what mystery this case holds.
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.
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.
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