To begin, Monaco prosecutor Daniel Serdet lied that Ted was on drugs.
Monaco's Princess Grace Memorial Hospital ran toxicology tests on Ted and produced results of negatif negatif negatif for drugs and alcohol.
Who are we to believe? The official slanderer or science? Gotta go with science.
Time.com's Thomas Sancton came up with three negative "witnesses" for his December 20, 1999 story--
1) an ex-wife declared unfit by the court and relieved of custody for her child for the type of drug use she projects on Ted;
2) an ex-neighbor known to police as a perennial nuisance;
3) a self-styled "landlord" who never rented to Ted--
Against which Heidi has 200 letters on file from family, friends, neighbors, fellow soldiers, medical colleagues, parents of patients, and clergy--
All attesting to Ted's good character, clean living, and no drug use--
Hmm, believe the journalist who wouldn't reply to my letters about his three highly suspicious sources. . ?
Or two hundred real people in good standing who actually knew Ted?
Have to go with real people.
Monaco beat Ted--our U.S. Consul in Marseilles noted the bruising to his face--to get him to sign their prepared false confession--
In French, which he does not read, write or speak--
Three straight days without sleep in four-point restraint, catheterized, while police threatened Ted's kidnapped wife with her U.S. Passport they stole--
And the secretly-taken photos of the couples' children, and the secretly-recorded voices of the children--
So to save his family, Ted signed the police lies--
And Ted was told by his pre-tend de-fender Monaco-paid Manasse (who serves at the pleasure of the Prince) to adhere to the lies--
Kept isolated for three years, without mail save the rare card, without calls save the one a week, Ted is gagged--
We have the false confession--which is nothing more than a false confession--
Beat me, threaten my family, make me confess that I sold the Moon's green cheese to the Subway Sandwich Shop chain--
Yet, I stipulate, the cheese is still there, or not, independent of my false confession--
Monaco has a moose-cheese confession from Ted--and they intend to use it to railroad him on a life sentence.
The gestapo tactics are crap, the false confession is crap, and the money-laundering police state is crap.
How retro to the Inquisition; how very Dreyfus.
And as Dunne says, the Prince, like Louis XIV, "just wants it to go away."