From: charlie
Date: 5/4/02
Time: 8:26:18 AM
I mentioned to Rose in an email below about the Dateline that I watched last night about the death of the wife of a state patrol officer allegedly in a car accident with him. However, she had no injuries and appeared to be dead before the wreck.
To make a long story short, the coroner could find no cause of death and left it undetermined with the possibility of a homocide.
It is a long story but after a big investigation, they came to no conclusions and cleared her husband.
The wife's mother being suspicious hired a PI and he went back and found that although they claimed to have interviewed hundreds of people, that many at the scene were not interviewed. A neighborhood nurse who helped at the scene for example was neve found and questioned though she lived w/in sight of the crash scene.
He also found that of those interviewed like the EMT's and police officers (local) etc. much of what they did say did not make it into the report at all. In fact, any info that did not fit with a totally innocent husband (a state cop) was ignored and not included into the report.
The state cop husband had only pretended to be unconcious at the scene (reported by several including both EMT's--they said he grabbed the stretcher when someone tripped and then went back to have an unconsicous posture.)
The EMT driver told them that he had made two calls to the house in the past year for injuries to the woman which appeared to be domestic abuse. This did not make it to the report either.
In the end, the guy wasn't charged and he was promoted. The ambulance had been to the house twice before but his time he claimed that he was driving her to the hospital (18 miles) when he had the wreck.
The point of me telling you this is to point out that if they don't WANT to, the cops can hide a world of info in plain sight. It took a PI --5 years later--to get to the bottom of it. It appears she was smothered with something soft not to leave marks or anything else but the DA wouldn't do anything. The new DA promises he will but nothing yet.
The witnesses dutifully answered questions in the interviews but only what the state cops wanted in the report made it--the rest did not.
The only way this info would get forward would have been a grand jury with a DA interested in finding out what happened.
I have felt all along that in the OJS case, this is what happened. We heard of too many people who reported things but were told they were wrong or they were LOST in the paperwork shuffle or they were warned away.
It is inconceivable to me that some regular dog walkers in the neighborhood that probably walk their dog every evening could never be found again. And if they couldn't be found (a la lookouts) why that wasn't suspicious.
Or if they did contact the cops--did their report get lost?
Same goes for Benjamin Jones--if he were really the cop that Schwab stopped. We did learn OF him but of nothing he had to say.
The Final story from the case on Dateline was VERY different from the case presented by the state cops.
BTW, it was noted on the show that whatever the State Cop husband said was taken as gospel by them and never questioned although he had told the hospital that his wife's bruises were from her luekemia (which she didn't have) and that she had seizures-which she didn't have either. He told them she was a hypochrondriac (sp) but her medical records show no unusual number of visits to the doctor although he had claimed that as well.
charlie