Dead Wrong: Straight Facts on the Country's Most Controversial Cover-Ups (54 page)

A .38 (even
without
the high-velocity ammo that was in the crime scene gun) fired at point-blank range into a human skull always leaves a large amount of blowback, i.e., it splatters blood and tissue all over the victim, all over their clothing, and all over the gun. Yet when the crime scene photo is examined (of Foster with a dark gun in his hand), virtually
no
blood is visible on victim, victim’s clothing or gun. Even
the cuff
of his white dress shirt corresponding to the hand with which he supposedly fired, is in practically pristine condition. That is simply not possible.
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ABCENSE OF BULLET:

After a bullet traverses through a human skull, it loses its velocity and does not travel very much further. A huge team of FBI agents scoured every inch of the area where the body was supposedly found, figuring trajectories and bullet angles and using hi-tech gear to locate the bullet. They couldn’t find it.
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ABCENSE OF CHIPPED TEETH:

If a .38 is fired directly into the mouth, it breaks teeth. That’s especially true of the Army Colt. 38 Special, the type of gun found in Foster’s hand, because it is a very bulky weapon with a high sight. At the impact of a huge explosion and resulting recoil of a .38 inside one’s mouth, especially one firing a high- velocity round, teeth are broken and nearby tissue is practically destroyed. But the victim had no chipped teeth, insufficient tissue destruction and not even gunpowder on the tongue.
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ABCENSE OF BONE FRAGMENTATION:

Bone fragmentation is also what usually happens from the above-described explosion. But, you guessed it—
not
in Vince Foster.

VICTIM’S CAR KEYS:

If the victim drove to the park, as the official version purports, he obviously would have needed his car keys. Yet they were not there. The crime scene was thoroughly searched, as well as the victim and victim’s car. There were no car keys. They turned up later, very “mysteriously” at the morgue, in Foster’s pockets, which had already been checked.
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VICTIM’S EYEGLASSES:

Even though the Government maintains the position that the gun stayed in Foster’s hand because there was no dramatic recoil (and you can’t have it both ways), it
also
purports that the recoil of the gun was so dramatic that it knocked Foster’s eyeglasses off his head and drove them up a steep hill, over and down the other side of that hill at a distance of approximately 15 feet from the victim, where they were found deep inside heavy underbrush. That’s not to mention the facts that the ballistics indicate that the glasses should have been thrown in the
opposite
direction, and that the eyeglasses contained gunpowder from a gun
other
than the crime scene gun!
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ABCENSE OF SOIL ON SHOES:

The virtually complete absence of soil or dirt on the bottom of Foster’s shoes clearly reveals that he never took that 700-foot walk through the park trail that afternoon. Independent investigators test-walked the same path in the same type shoes and, quite unlike Foster’s shoes, picked up considerable dirt and soil on their shoes.
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BALLISTICS MISMATCH:

The gun in Foster’s hand was not the gun that killed him. The ballistics
did not
match.
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“FOREIGN” WEAPON:

No link was ever established between the victim and the weapon. It was not his gun.

PROFESSIONAL WEAPON:

The weapon was what is known as a “drop-gun”—a gun favored by professional killers because it is hard to trace. Drop-guns are pieced together from parts of different guns. They are so-named because the shooter drops it without fear because it is untraceable, or places it in a victim’s hand to stage a suicide.
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EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS:

Most of the eyewitness testimony dramatically contradicts the official version of events. For example, the first person to find Foster’s body, swore under oath repeatedly that he was absolutely certain that there was no gun in either of his hands, and that he was laying with his palms up, which is not at all how officials claim.
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Solid eyewitnesses have repeatedly verified that Foster’s car was not in the parking lot at the time that the body was found. It arrived later. One police officer reportedly even felt the hood of Foster’s car after it arrived—long after Foster’s body was found— and noticed that the hood of the car was still warm. As Brett Kavanaugh conceded (he followed Miguel Rodriguez as Lead Prosecutor after Rodriguez resigned), all of the police, medical emergency personnel, and others—twenty-four witnesses in total—all identified the Honda in the park’s parking lot at the time of their arrival as being “brown”—not silver-gray, which was the color of Foster’s Honda.

PROSECUTOR RODRIGUEZ:

“Well, it all comes down to that brown car issue, right? All the police and medical personnel who were in the park also described it as brown.”
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The witnesses were all consistent that the car was brown. Therefore, the car was not the Foster family’s grey Honda. But, through semantic gamesmanship, that car magically became Foster’s car in the official version of events, by misrepresentation of witness testimony, preposterously implying that they had somehow all gotten the color wrong.

RECAP:

Those dramatic inconsistencies lead to some startling, but very logical conclusions. We know from the above facts that:

•The gun photographed in Foster’s hand was not the murder weapon;

•Foster did not die at the official crime scene but must have been transported there after he was shot;

•A cover-up distorted the true facts;

•Most in major media played right along with the scripted show, apparently either because they lacked the time to investigate, or because they were “in somebody’s pocket” from the start.

And silly us, we still believed in a “free press” back then, right? Keep on reading, my friends.

So we know that the gun in Foster’s hand was not the murder weapon, and that he was killed elsewhere and dumped at the official crime scene after he was already dead.

There’s even
more
(not that more is even necessary in this case!):

No one in the park saw him alive;

The person who found the body, and had someone call it in to 9-1-1, was absolutely certain that there was no gun in either of Vince’s hands— he was curious, so he looked closely. Imagine yourself in his position. You’re not sure what’s going on—you approach suspiciously—your senses are heightened from the danger—you look closely and you remember it too, probably for the rest of your days. Well he looked, he inspected, he remembered—he swore repeatedly that there was no gun in either hand (the FBI pressured him to change his testimony and he resisted);

That crucial first witness also stated with certainty that Vince’s palms were
face up.
The official version states that they were just the opposite and that one hand was under his leg;

Another early witness who saw the body a bit later stated with certainty that there
was
a gun in Vince’s hand, but guess what? It was an
automatic.
The witness was a “gun guy” who knew his weapons too. He described it repeatedly as an automatic, which differs dramatically from the 1913 Colt .38 revolver that was found in his hand later. They pressured
him
to change his testimony too; he refused, reiterating that he knows what an automatic looks like, and an automatic is what he saw in the victim’s hand. (Then, everyone
after
these early witnesses, states that they saw the .38 revolver in his hand);
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Foster’s wife could not identify the gun;

Patrick Knowlton was another extremely credible witness. Guess what he saw? The cars that were in the parking lot at the time that the body was discovered. And guess what? Vince Foster’s Honda
was not one of them
—it arrived later!;

Blood tracking on his face and shoulders indicated that his head had been moved in several different positions
after
the gun had been fired;

Blood trails from Vince’s nose and mouth “defied gravity”— the tracks were hard forensic evidence that the blood had traveled
upward
on his face— but the body was laying on a steep slope, so blood should have traveled
downward;

Both
of the EMTs on the scene (Emergency Medical Technicians who are trained in life support, and trauma identification, and treatment) stated that they definitely observed gunshot trauma in Foster’s neck; they observed no entry or exit wound in the head (one of the EMTs even reinforced this in testimony— when he was questioned about the exit wound, he countered “Was there one? I didn’t know there was one.” Here’s how he actually testified:

EMS Technician Richard Arthur:

Q: “Where was the blood coming from?”

A: “To me it looked like there was a bullet hole right here.”

Q: “In the neck?”

A: “Yes, right around the jaw line.”

Q: “The neck and jaw line underneath the right ear?”

A: “Somewhere there. I would have to see a picture to point it out exactly where, but there was a little bit of blood coming out of the mouth too, and a little out of the nose, but the main was right here. I didn’t see any on the left side. I didn’t see any on the chest or anything.”
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And again later, more testimony from the same EMT:

Q: “With respect to the bullet wound you think you saw in the—at the scene could you describe in some detail exactly what you thought you saw?”

A: “I saw what appeared to be a bullet hole, which was right around the jaw line on the right side of the neck.”

Q: “About how big?”

A: “It looked like a small-caliber entrance wound, something with—I don’t want to say a .22 or whatever, but it was a small caliber. It appeared to be a smaller caliber than the gun I saw.”

Q: “How close to the body were you when you saw this?”

A: “Two to three feet.”
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There was also a doctor at the scene, a Dr. Haut, who also saw the neck wound (which varies dramatically from how the wound was later officially described, as entering the mouth and exiting the back of Vince’s head). Dr. Haut wrote in his report:

“Gunshot wound mouth-neck”

Dr. Haut’s
sworn
report (the form actually reads “I hereby certify and affirm under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia”) reads:

“U.S. Park Police found a gunshot victim, mouth to neck.”
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The paramedics from the local fire station were used to seeing dead bodies and knew what to expect from a death scene, be it a suicide or a murder. They assumed it was a murder because the body was lying perfectly straight and you don’t see that in a suicide. They said it looked staged, like somebody had laid the body out—one of them even originally wrote it up as “murder” in his report for that reason. Here’s how he testified:

“He was just perfectly straight. It just seemed weird, how the gun got underneath the leg and he was off the beaten path over a hill. I mean, most people wouldn’t go back into shrubbery and sit down in all this shrubbery and everything around him, and shoot himself. I mean, maybe he would, but I don’t know. I didn’t know the man, so I’m just saying it just doesn’t seem like a normal suicide that I would have run into.”
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The lead prosecutor quit because he said he wasn’t being allowed to actually investigate the crime!

Critical crime scene photos are “missing”—officers
know
that they exist because they
saw
them being taken. But guess what?—nobody knows where they are, or at least that’s what they told everybody, including Prosecutor Miguel Rodriguez. But Rodriguez got a peek at some enhanced crime scene photos, and guess what he says?—that there
was
a neck wound, folks!