Posted on 02/15/2002 1:35:24 PM PST by weegee
Oh brother ... more mysterious, unexplained, non-present 'devices' ... you guys would make a fine batch of detectives ...
So it was. So, what was the point? Why did they go to this amount of trouble for something so transparent? Why not a bullet in the brain?
Sending a message? To who?
Alien spacecraft.....swooped in and fired a laser beam??
Odtllah had access to duplicate keys since he sold the car. He was in jail but an associate could have tampered with the car. The car crash was Sunday night.
It's difficult to say when such a device would have been planted (Where was the car? Impounded at her arrest? In a government parking garage/lot at the DMV? At her apartment? At Odtllah's place?
It's doubtful that she would have been exterminated if the deal proceeded without incident as Odtllah had used her for this in the past.
It's dangerous to install such a mechanism in the car "for a later date" because it could still go off in an accident and then there would be some explaining to do (especially since the car would trace back to Odtllah).
Ya don't think they'd maybe keep a FEW details secret, if for no other reason than to check the veracity of a confession?
Nah! Cops alway let the perps know just how close they are to figuring out whodunit...
Richard Pryor could give us some expert testimony...
An FBI agent in NYC got a tip from an informant that they were travelling to Memphis to obtain fraudulent Tennessee driver's licenses.
It is possible that someone could have tipped off the criminals as well but I suspect that they would have called it off (rather than sit in jail and answer awkward questions about past licenses and whereabouts 9/11).
Alive. But unconscious.
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Feb. 7
Six Charged in Tenn. License Plot [Courtesy of the Tennessee DemocRAT Party]
Feb. 8 (for comedic relief)
Dri ver license fraud case here is a rare incident, state says
Feb. 11
WOMAN ARRESTED FOR AIDING ARABS IN DRIVER'S LICENSE SCAM PRESUMED DEAD
Feb. 12
Feds fear license examiner is dead - Memphis Woman's co-defendants tied to 9/11, judge told
Feb. 13:
Body in car identified as license examiner - Update on Memphis, Tennesse License Examiner
Feb. 14
TENN DRIVER LICENSE SCANDAL: FLAMING DEATH NO ACCIDENT, FBI SAYS
TENN DRIVER LICENSE SCANDAL: FLAMING DEATH NO ACCIDENT, FBI SAYS (II)
Feb. 14
FBI Agent: Arson Killed Key Suspect (driver's license examiner accused of supplying terrorists) Flaming death no accident, FBI says - Gasoline found on clothes of license examiner
Feb. 15
New York Times (with Pics of car) F.B.I. Says Arson Killed Woman Accused in License Scheme
Sm ith led low-impact life until arrest, fiery end (Not a thread)
I am sure that FBI arson investigators are going over the car very carefully. They haven't announced one way or the other if there was any 'device' found, as far as I know. There could be one in there, and they haven't gotten to it yet.
But, to forestall your objections, let's assume that there is no incendiary device or fuel container present in the car. If there are witnesses, who saw no one get out of the car, and didn't see anyone throw anything in there, then I would believe this is a highly unusual suicide.
Unusual because people don't burn themselves to death very often, and black middle aged women (to generalize here) don't cook up some accelerant laced gasoline and set themselves on fire to make it look like they were in an accident. Or to fool fire investigators into thinking they were killed. Still, statistical improbabilities do happen.
O.K. How does one ignite the interior of a moving automobile?
(does "underscore" mean you are less than 20?)
What could burn that hot??
"What could burn that hot??"
Crumbled up foam cups in a plastic gasoline container? Think I read that somewhere but not sure.
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