Posted on 01/26/2002 7:17:36 AM PST by MeekOneGOP
NewsMax.com
Saturday Jan. 26, 2002; 10:30 a.m. EST
Houstonians Debate: Was Baxter 'Vince Fostered'?
News that ex-Enron executive Cliff Baxter had been found shot to death ignited a firestorm of speculation on Friday, and nowhere was the debate more intense than on talk radio in Baxter's hometown of Houston, Texas.
"I would say it's about 60/40 that people down here think he may have been Vince Fostered," said KPRC radio host Chris Baker Saturday morning.
Suspicions intensified when police rushed Baxter's body from his late model Mercedes where it was found in a Houston suburb to a local funeral home without further examination, the Texas radio talker noted.
But then "the Justice of the Peace in the area decided he was going to be much more thorough," Baker told WABC radio's John Gambling in New York. "So now the body's going to go for autopsy and that cooled down a lot of that, maybe-this-guy-was-murdered thing."
Still, questions continue to swirl, he said.
"You know, there's a saying that you can always blame a dead man so - (while) I truly believe it's a suicide, the rumors are going to start," Baker predicted.
The KPRC host said that any attempt to make Baxter Enrongate's fall guy would be complicated by his image as a straight shooter. "It would be strange to see (Baxter's colleagues) point the finger because this guy did have a reputation for boldly speaking with former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling and protesting against a lot of (the company's) business practices."
Houston police have so far declined to release the contents of a suicide note found in Baxter's car. But ABC News reported Friday night that several coworkers said the ex-Enron executive had expressed distress over the prospect of having to testify against his former colleagues in upcoming Congressional hearings.
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Finding the gun in his hand would indicate murder, not suicide. Foster's gun was found in his hand (suppposedly). It was explained that Foster's thumb was caught between the trigger and trigger guard of the gun.
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Please ask your daughter why a killer would take him to the middle of the main road through one of the most affluent areas in Ft Bend County to shoot him. The area is patrolled by both Sugar Land police and off duty constable deputies.
Turn off 950, back away from the radio, have some coffee and tune in 700!! ;-)
My neighbors sister and a neighbor of my parents each shot themselves. I saw both and they still had the gun in their hand.
Maybe Baxter got a "Lewinsky" before he was "Fosterized"?
His former colleagues had more of a reason to want to commit suicide or see to it that he was suicided.
The Confidential Witness went over and peered into the half-closed eyes of the corpse. "He looked as if he'd been dead for a long time, I mean hours," he said. There was no blood on the pristine white shirt; nothing to explain why this elegant figure should be lying dead in the shrub wearing a "$400 or $500 suit" and sparkling "dress shoes," with a bittle of wine cooler at his elbow. The bed of dried leaves below the body had been "very heavily trampled," so something was obviously wrong.His hands were stretched out, with the palms up. No weapon was visible anywhere. No gun.
"I noticed that there was a tiny bit of dried blood around the mouth and nose, so I thought maybe he'd been hit on the back of the head."
from "The Secret Life of Bill Clinton" by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard; chapter entitled "The Peripatetic Gun."
The stakes here are exceedingly high. We're talking billions and there's plenty of people, including the Clintons, who have lots to hide.
How hard did you look? AM700 has three of the most knowledgeable right wing hosts I've ever heard from 6am - 6pm followed by 4 hours of national right wing talk. One of the 3 is a former state senator, and bank CEO.
Congressman DeLay and Patterson are on there all the time and my state rep, who has the most conservative voting record in the house, is on several times a year. The Harris County Tax Assessor Collector is a regular guest host.
AM950 has Rush live.
Most suspicious.
He just couldn't stand the scrutiny, shame and embarrassment.
A former Vice Chairman that had fallen a long, long ways. He was obviously weak psychologically.
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