Posted on 01/12/2011 12:02:33 PM PST by Gabrial
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives will work directly with D.C. Police to determine how 37-year-old Ashley Westbrook Turton's SUV became engulfed in flames in the garage of her home early Monday.
...the D.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has finished an autopsy on Turton. D.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner Chief of Staff Beverly Fields says more testing needs to be done to determine the cause and manner of death.
(Excerpt) Read more at wtop.com ...
The man found dead in a dumpster was Jack Wheeler who was a graduate of West Point as well as a decorated veteran who helped build the Vietnam Memorial. His murder must be investigated and not allowed to drop; those responsible must be prosecuted accordingly.
It was on a report that she was out early to catch a flight...which makes sense there was a big merger announcement....that day and she would likely be involved.
(maybe they should put Ducky and Abby on it - just sayin’)
Just getting into the annointed ones Chicago legal client list would allow us to add another few.The Illinois bar has sealed it but the word is that Obama represented several gangsters and indeed did get dirty.We will likely never see that list.
Did you lnoe that both of them no longer even have a law lic.?
They are lucky the neighbors saw the flames, otherwise the entire family could have perished. (tin foil? Not saying she had a hand in it, only that either could have been a target.)
I think of her 3 year old twins and 1 year old baby and my heart breaks. The twins might have vague memories of her but I doubt the one year old remembers her when she gets older.
Exactly.
She was backing out slowly to get around the other car that was in the driveway. Cold sober. Being quiet not to wake the kids. She made it 1/8 of the way out before the explosion that killed her.
The fire inspector on the scene said the BMW “came into contact with a flammable or explosive material”.
Now the ATFE is on the scene.
Emphasis on the “E”.
Thanks, I didn’t know that. It does make sense.
It appeared as if when they found the car with her body inside that the garage door had been raised and the car only partially in the garage. The side and back end of the car don’t even appear to have been burned which given how the front of the garage looks would mean the car wss in fact partially outside at the time of the fire. If she were initially alive it had to be a fire that engulfed the car immediately
It’s hard for me to imagine how this could have happened without another party being involved.
Also, I read that the FBI was on the scene that morning looking for evidence of explosives. I wonder if ATF was called in because of what the FBI found (or did not find).
Thank you for ping. This is truly amazing to watch.
Bingo.
Most garage explosions in my area are caused by a combination of three things. 1) Improperly stored gasoline 2) a pilot light on a gas water heater, and 3) a sealed garage.
They don't happen when the garage door is open.
Before it happens, the garage REAKS of gas fumes. Any sane person would bug out the minute they smelled that much gas.
It seems very suspicious that she was backing out when the vehicle was engulfed in fire. It almost suggests that an explosive device was triggered when she put the car in reverse. I doubt her death was accidental.
Car looked unrecognizable? Looked only partially burned and entirely recognizable in the photo I saw.
The three fags.
BTW, can someone please tell us the legal ground for federal jurisdiction in this case? Remember that the victim was not a federal official.
sometimes cars catch fire because of crappy shade tree mechanic work. Every so often I see a modded car afire
by the side of the road. Probably not a likely scenario here
though.
Maybe the arsonist used the same method as Silvio when he torched Vesuvio.
Or a remotely detonated device on the workbench next to the driver's side window. The original fire inspector said the vehicle had come into contact with “a flammable or explosive” material. To me this comment would indicate the driver's side was blown in, not out. AND the workbench was reduced to a pile of rubble from the pictures. The rear window of the BMW was not even blown out.
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