These "freepers" are also questionable:
VelmaCruther
terrapinfan
Gerry Jarcia
De Valera
All are newbies to the original rumor thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1190972/posts
Via google, terrapinfan is a named found posting to other forums. One terrapinfan poster lists their residence as Maryland. The majority of posts on another forum have been deleted.
http://www.google.com/search?tab=gw&q=terrapinfan&hl=en&lr=&
Good sleuth work. Thanks for the post.