Maryland Sniper Shootings-FR Commentary

Fox, CNN, Press Conferences | October 9, 2002 | Fox, CNN, Press Conferences

[Peach]

Another press conference due soon. To avoid multiple vanity threads regarding any news that comes from press conferences, thought we'd keep a live commentary thread going again today.

[valleygal]

Said you were raised Catholic and in MD..what part of MD? I grew up in MD too but moved in 1979.

[valleygal]

We have several Michaels stores out here in the Phonix area as well. They may be nationwide by now.

[_Jim]

They claimed the "engine" fell off which is why it landed miles from the rest of the crash site. Get your facts straight.

Huh?

Care to explain how the tail was pulled FROM THE BAY ... (an engine WAS NOT picked up 'miles from the rest of the crash')?

Here - I'll help get you started:

AA587 Tail

NTSB updates New York plane crash probe

CAUSE OF PLANE CRASH SOUGHT Regulators are concerned about failure in widely used composite materials ... Failure at the attachment points that held the Airbus' vertical stabilizer, also known as the tail fin, to the fuselage is evident in this NTSB photo of AA 587's tail fin recovered from Jamaica Bay.

[relee]

He talked to the 'team' and each part of the team thinks the other part of the team leaked the info. "...we don't have time for a congressional investigation...", so we're going to forget about it and move on.

[ET(end tyranny)]

King George... ?

King George County is in Virginia, just south of where the Friday shooting took place.

King George Bush? Does that clarify it better? Possible? I sure hope not!

[antivenom]

Eastern Shore from 1964 until 1977 Dorchester County...Dad was a US Naval Graduate...Mom born and raised in Baltimore...Ex hubby lives in Annapolis, grown daughter lives in Catonsville...goes to school at Art Institute...I'm and OLD Maryland gal now living in Houston...

[harpseal]

Sources said it is unclear whether the Tarot card -- inscribed with the message "Dear Policeman: I am God" -- is related to the shootings. The card, which was found near the middle school in Bowie where a 13-year-old boy was shot Monday, represents death in the fortunetelling deck. Authorities said they believe the card could have been left by a prankster

Focus on facts not supposition. Since we are talking about a school where the card was found after the fact why could not a student fascinated with Tarot Cards and not all that knowledgeable about their mystical meanings have left one as a commentary?

Stay well - Stay safe - stay armed - Yorktown

[two23]

"Chief Moose is on now, thanking the media?

"Damage Control"---he needs to practice ecomony of words....he rambles too much. But then again, this IS a difficult situation.

[Catspaw]

Oh, I doubt if they're going to forget about it. But they're too busy to conduct the internal investigation that is sure to come.

[ET(end tyranny)]

They just showed a picture of the death card. What looks like a crusader on a horse. They didn't say if this was an exact picture of the card found and there are several types of tarot cards.

[Peach]

I find it difficult to believe that police didn't immediately search the area after the shooting at the school, which would not leave time for a prankster to leave the tarot card behind. I don't see some kid wandering the woods after the shooting at their school to drop a tarot card to throw the cops off the scent. Just my 2 cents.

[relee]

Chief Moose is still looking for the white box truck.
He's looking for boring, silent people, that may have missed work.
He's not prepared to talk about the tarot card.
Search is still going on in Clinton, MD.
They are still trying to consolidate to a single 800 number.

[ET(end tyranny)]

Now they are going to bring Mark Furman into it.

[Mr. Jeeves]

I don't want to sound tin foil or like I'm not open to ideas other than terrorism... but has anyone who has been researching the tarot card angle come across the tower card? It shows a crumbling tower on fire.

In some decks it depicts people jumping from the burning tower, eerily similar to the events on 9/11.

[Miss Marple]

Mark Fuhrman will be on Fox after the break. Maybe we will get some intelligent commentary.

[Catspaw]

Furman is good after the fact. But all he can know is what's known in the media.

He, like any other talking head, can only speculate. I just hope his speculation is better than that idiot, Candace DeLong.

[_Jim]

Let's clear-up your idiotic mis-conceptions on this once and for all:

The FDR’s rudder data becomes unreliable about 2.5 seconds before the end of the recording, and sound spectrum analysis shows that engine sounds can be heard on the cockpit voice recorder beyond that point.

The rudder and tail fin were found first in the wreckage path, followed by the engines and then by the main wreckage impact point at the intersection of Newport and 131st Street, Belle Haven, New York.

http://www.airsafe.com/events/aa587.htm

PS. Please, do us all a favor and quit making stuff up ... it does FreeRepublic and yourself a great disservice to continue doing so ...

[Route66]

"He's not prepared to talk about the tarot card."

He's not prepared to talk about it, but by airing the dirty laundry of the police department in public - (by talking about their playing the blame game with each other) - he has confirmed the story.

[valleygal]

I'm so sorry you sre going through this and my prayers ae with you. My sister has a daughter in high school in Rockville. She said pick up time was unreal with police cars circling in the parking lot and a helicopter flying up above.

[dasher]

***Focus on facts not supposition. Since we are talking about a school where the card was found after the fact why could not a student fascinated with Tarot Cards and not all that knowledgeable about their mystical meanings have left one as a commentary?***

They need to match finger prints on the card and casing. If they match, it's a viable clue, if not, it could be from anything.