WOMAN ARRESTED FOR AIDING ARABS IN DRIVER'S LICENSE SCAM PRESUMED DEAD

WLAC RADIO NEWS | 2-11-02 | SELF

[Blood of Tyrants]

Katherine Smith, a Memphis driver's license examiner who was arrested for selling Tennessee driver's licenses to 5 Middle Eastern men is apparently dead. Ms. Smith's family had not heard from her in two days when they received word that her car had been involved in a fatal one car accident near the Mississippi/Tennesse state line.

The victim inside was burnt beyond recognition and the body was transported to the Memphis medical examiners office in an attempt to identify the body. At this point it is assumed that the body is indeed of Katherine Smith.

[falfa]

I can't get Glenn Beck's "Just Another Isolated Incident" song out of my head right now.

[archy]

Plenty of easier and smarter ways to murder someone than by somehow getting the victim to crash her car. A killer could just have made her disappear.

Maybe so but one former Tennessee Sheriff was done this way also.

Indeed he was, and on an evening after he'd spent the earlier part of his day in Memphis....He had announced that he'd play himself in the third film to be made about his life, and having already personally attended to taking care of those who had murdered his wife Pauline during the attempt on his life on 12 August of 1967, it was expected that he was going to do approximately the same to the careers of the crooked politicians who had profited from the payoffs from the stateline mob and other Dixie crime rings, and likely okayed the outlaw's first attempt that killed Pauline Pusser.

On August 21, 1974, Buford Pusser had his last ride. Earlier that day he had been at a press conference in Memphis announcing that he would play himself in a sequel called "Buford." Pusser drove his Lincoln Continental home, parked it in his garage, and changed from his suit into shorts and a tee shirt. Employees of the Phillips 66 Station delivered his 1974 maroon Corvette and Pusser took a test ride. When he returned, his daughter Dwana had already left for the county fair. He got into the corvette and headed for Selmer.

He attended the McNairy County Fair and Livestock show and signed autographs and chatted with Dwana, his daughter. Around midnight, he left the fair headed home, passed his daughter's friend's car and was out of sight. On a stretch of road between Selmer and Adamsville his new Corvette veered off Highway 64, then shot across the road into an embankment where it crashed and burned. His daughter was one of the first to arrive at the scene, and she pulled her giant father away from the burning wreck. "He had suffered so much," she's on record as saying. "I couldn't just let him burn up." While ruled an accident, his daughter suspects foul play.

It took nine guest-books to contain the names of those who turned out for Pusser's funeral. Actor Joe Don Baker, who portrayed the big sheriff in Walking Tall, was there, and even a brooding Elvis Presley lurked somberly in one of the children's bedrooms throughout the service.

[RaceBannon]

bump

[nicmarlo]

I believe you're right; hadn't thought of that.....hmmmm.

[archy]

Maybe so but one former Tennessee Sheriff was done this way also.

Was his first name "Buford"?

See above post with pics, and this post from earlier today....

-archy-/-

[~EagleNebula~]

In the best tradition of Vince Foster and Enron's Baxter, I'd just like to say that this was obviously suicide /sarcasm ...put so well!

Definitely fishy! Here's hoping they aren't stupid enough to release those they are now holding!

[chantal7]

Not to mention the millions the state of Tennessee made by selling those "hundreds of thousands" of driver's licenses to illegal aliens.

Here it's $14 every 4 years but let's take it at $10 and only the first year that the illegal aliens were able to get the driver's licenses.

$10 x $100,000.00 = $1 millions dollars x however many of hundreds of thousands bought those driver's licenses.

Maybe someone needs to investigate and make sure that all the money owed to the state was received by the state?

That money is blood money.

[lsee]

For something so important, I wonder why she was out of jail?

[Dallas]

Ping...

[slym]

Coinkydink?

Another car fies off the road:

Johnny Franklin Lawhon

A tornado caused a garage mechanic to discover decade old documents which corroborate testimony of Jim McDougal in White Water. The mechanic's son (Lawhon) died in a car accident a year later. McDougal died while in solitary. (Freeper Steven W )

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 3/31/98 OBITUARIES-Pulaski County "

JOHNNY FRANKLIN LAWHON, JR., 29, of Mabelvale, passed away Sunday, March 29, 1998. He was a manager of Johnny's Transmission. He is survived by his parents, Johnny and Glenda Lawhon of Mabelvale; one brother, James Hoyette Lawhon of Mabelvale and his grandmother, Mary Josile Lawhon of Ft. Worth, Texas….."

KATV News 3/31/98 Johnny Franklin Lawhon, Jr. Dies In Car Wreck "…….Just over a year ago a violent tornado forced the discovery of Madison Guaranty documents stashed away in the trunk of a Mercury Marquis since the mid '80's. The March 1997 tornado produced many Whitewater related documents, including a copy of a $27,000 cashiers check drawn on Madison and payable to Bill Clinton. …… Son of the owner, and manager of Johnny's Transmission, Johnny Franklin Lawhon, Jr. (age 29) was killed early Sunday, March 29, 1998 when his black 1997 Corvette travelling at high speed left the road before crashing into a tree and coming to rest wrapped around a power pole…. The accident occurred on Sardis road not too far from the junk yard. ……..

Investigators at the scene noted the car had only travelled about a quarter of a mile before becoming airborn, and carrying Lawhon, Jr. to his death. A passenger in the car, Arlen Wayne Nugent, survived the crash, but was hospitalized in critical condition. Although it was reported that beer was found in the car, young Lawhon had not been drinking. ……"

With a tribute to Alamo Girl for her records...

[vikingchick]

bttt

[nagdt]

Remember? Scientist fell to his death by accident

Me thinks, Accidently on purpose.

[zog]

--I do not like this one.

suicide-ok, single body, nothing in the article to indicate that she was forced off the road by another car. The crime itself, even if guilty? How much actual time in jail? Is this worth suicide? Points against it, except from the good insurance angle presented, but still,it's not "heavy" enough of a crime for that, IMO.

ok-murder then. How the heck was it pulled off? Some mechanical contraption that made the steering go bad the same time as the throttle got applied, the brakes stopped working, and the gear shift wouldn't drop to a lower gear or park? That's pretty complicated. An incapacitating gas released in the back seat with a timer or radio control? Less complicated but still pretty overkill just for drivers licenses. Another, a dazzling laser shown through the windshield or side window at close range, a passing car or well ahead of hers? Powerful enough to blind enough to cause loss of control, at an opportune spot on the road.

I'm just trying to pin down any possible way, given this articles dearth of details, how a murder could have technically been accomplished.

This is too puzzling, occams razor doesn't fit either scenario that well. OK, one more, she was drugged surreptitiously, it started to kick in after she was behind the wheel. Then there's regular old gunshot, too, and it just hasn't come out in the autopsy yet. The other witnesses in the cars might not have heard the shot, that's possible.

Need more data here, but it's not just a coincidence with the crime being uncovered, that's too improbable.

[No Truce With Kings]

Smells bad, doesn't it?

Especially if they didn't find the body right away. Gas mask time.

[Fireone]

If this woman missed court and was out driving around, where are the other five (people) arrested in this scam? Did they set them free if they promise to show up later? Did they deport them? Did they torture them for information like they should have?

[thinden]

walking in memphis. don't miss this, bump

[MHGinTN]

You can forget any further facts coming out on this one ... A 'Ford' fix is likely.

[rdavis84]

I'm not even smiling about this one.

"things" happen, huh?

[GailA]

It got mentioned on Memphis WREC talk radio on Mike Fleming's show. BUT it was a bare mention. Fleming was off on the Catholic church perverts. While that is a very important topic, the tax situation and the vote on the haynes bill tomorrow for me are of more immediate importance. Mike has not been gun hoe about hammering the congress critters over the taxes.

[GailA]

Shelby CO jail is OVERCROWDED...Under FED orders on it. Unless they locked her up in the FED prison, they probably didn't have room. Of course they only have room for violent offenders who can't make bail.