Posted on 02/12/2002 2:20:09 PM PST by knak
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:32:31 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
MEMPHIS, Tenn.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
I guess setting herself on fire may have caused her to run into the pole, or maybe since she didn't kill herself when she ran into the pole, she set herself on fire to finish the job. Either way a tough way to do one's self in.
It's not as much fun if we can't.
Corrupption is as corruption does.
All of the suspects except Smith are being held without bond.
Oughta shoulda stayed in jail.
"The reports of her being on fire are unsubstantiated. We believe that after a visit to a suntanning parlor, where she stayed in longer than she should have, the terrible itching she was subjected to, as well as the wake of the passing semi, are the cause of this unfortunate accident.", said spokesperson Koverin Mybutt of the NTSB.
;0)
Why wasn't the FBI tailing this woman?
Katherine Smith identified through dental records; cause of death pending
By By Bill Dries
dries@gomemphis.com
A Memphis woman allegedly at the center of a scheme to sell fraudulent Tennessee driver's licenses has been identified as the person whose burned body was found early Sunday in the wreckage of a car in Fayette County, according to the Tennessee Highway Patrol. Lt. Col. Mark Fagan said Katherine Smith was identified by the Shelby County Medical Examiner's office through dental records. The office also found "evidence of smoke inhalation," Fagan said. This indicates Smith was alive when her car left the road, crossed a ditch and ran into a utility pole.
The Highway Patrol, which is investigating the crash, is awaiting a rule on the cause of death from the medical examiner in Fayette County. Fagan said he did not know when the report would be completed.
Smith and five men with ties to the Mid-East were charged last Wednesday in a federal complaint with conspiracy to obtain fraudulent identification documents.
Smith was free pending a detention hearing Monday in federal Magistrate Court. Her five codefendants have been held without bond since their arrests last Wednesday.
Federal prosecutor Tim DiScenza told U.S. Magistrate Judge Diane Vescovo on Monday that Smith's death was "most unusual and suspicious."
He also said two of her five codefendants had "connections" to the World Trade Center, which was destroyed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
But defense attorney Anthony Helm told the court there was no indication the defendants were connected to terrorism. He said the prosecutors are making the terrorism implications only because the defendants are from the Middle East.
Not that I mind her being dead, but at this stage she'd be more useful to us alive. She never should have been released.
I think a lot of people in the judiciary and law enforcement must have slept through 911. Whether we like it or not the whole country, not just NYC, is in a state of war. The enemy is very stealthy and adept at dissembling. As a nation we are very naive, provincial, and gullible. Our enemy has nests within nests of clans who are practiced in deceiving authorities. We do not have experience with such people. They know how to manipulate our system to the max. We must be extremely suspicious. What ordinarily would seem plausible now must be suspect. I really wonder whether if our law enforcement officials are sufficiently trained.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.