Saturday, September 13, 2014

KISS OF THE BLACK WIDOW: PILLS, BOOZE, MONEY AND LOVE, INSIDE 33-YEAR-OLD SPOKANE MYSTERY, INLANDER MAGAZINE--I HAD A SIMILAR CASE WITH A BLACK WIDOW IN UTAH, WILL SEE IF SOMETHING CLICKS TO PROSECUTORS OR COPS; ALSO, GLOW IN THE DARK AT THE PARK, RUN WALK . . . HOW FUN, SEE The5kGlowRun.com, FOR A GREAT TIME, VISIT SPOKANE, SOMETHING ALMOST EVERY WEEKEND, AND IT IS GORGEOUS AT THE PARK, THE RIVER, AND IN THE CITY! SEE YOU THERE!

Female Serial Killers Are Hard to Detect, Sneaky

I love ID Network, a series of true crime stories, acted out for TV, with the real victims, witnesses, prosecutors, and investigators, sharing the screen with the actors.  There is a series they do, called, Deadly Women, and I think they have one on Female Serial Killers in History, and they even have therapy groups for those of us addicted to the show, usually those of us, who have worked in the criminal justice system, and want to see how other jurisdictions discovered, hard to find and detect killers, what evidence convinced the prosecutor to file charges on a particular case, which is at issue in this death of a popular fire chief, who suddenly dropped over dead at the age of 53.  

As is the case with suicides, men typically go out in a dramatic way, shoot themselves in the head or mouth, crash a car, or prefer, suicide by cop, which is a game of tight triggers these days, even when you don't intend that form of death, you might get it that way, if you reach for a pocket or jacket.  Men are not afraid to get dirty or bloody; however, women on the other hand, generally do not choose bloody escapes from life, they use pills, carbon monoxide poisoning in a car, in a garage, or something of that nature.  They generally do not like to look bad for their funerals, mess up their faces much, nor their hair, so they rely on much less violent means of death, either for suicide, or the reverse of that, homicide.

Just an interesting side note, in England, there used to be a law on the books, on suicide, that if you didn't succeed at the attempted suicide, the punishment was death, or in other words, they would kill you! Fact is stranger than fiction . . .

Drugs & Alcohol Don't Mix

That is almost all we need to say.  In my black widow case the same deadly combination was there, this woman would select men, who were already alcoholics, but not necessarily into drugs.  She had a real high tolerance for that combination, of drugs and alcohol, being a pill-popper herself, and had conditioned her body to withstand the detriments of the mixture of the two.  My client, who escaped her bite, but did end up in jail for a year, as she framed him for domestic violence, actually attempted homicide, eyeing the cool older home he just inherited, with all the antiques, and a home with acreage around it, collector type trucks in the yard, trailers, and other really nice things like china dishes, and a ton of other things.  

Given the stereotypes of men and women, the cops, even when the blood in the house was from the widow cutting my client with a knife, rather than her blood as they just naturally assumed, until I demonstrated, that from the arrest pictures, the smeared blood on my client's arm, matched the exact mark of blood smudge on the end table in the front room, where he liked to watch TV and fall asleep, with on part of the sectional couch being shorter than the other, with no end on it, so when he wanted to recline and lay down, he, that night had, by all the evidence, put his back arm, on the end table, and rested his head on his hand . . . a perfect match.  The cops and prosecutors, either bought her version, blending two trips to the hospital, rather than the one, with Allan in jail, the second time, but being blamed for her grand maul seizure, probably on drugs and alcohol, and falling into barb wire, which i remember seeing at the back door of the house, when I first saw the house, prior to even having Allan as a client.

He told me, he strongly thought that she was slowly poisoning him with prescription drugs, by smashing them up, and mixing them in his meals . . . she was living with him at the time.  And, the night he kicked her out of his house, because she kept, slapping a knife around, either threatening to use it on herself, she was a cutter, or on that night, he took the knife away from her twice, and the second time he took it from her, she slapped him with it, and he didn't even know he had been cut . . . cops not only assumed that the blood was hers, but they said there was blood all over the place; I saw the front room, did the private investigative work, about 100 hours myself, fired two private investigators, former LAPD and Salt Lake PD, retired and turned private investigator, one who seemed loyal to the cops, who didn't much like my theories, and the other, who would do everything but what I told him to do, but the front room had orange carpet, but it was dirty, with spots, that I think, the cops, assumed were blood spots, according to the black widow's version!

This Woman, Also Had Several Other Husbands That Died Unexpectedly

Vickie's previous husband was a deputy sheriff, named Randy, who was also an alcoholic, but did not use drugs, and he just up and died mysteriously.  My client was sure, that she was doing to him, what he suspected happened to Randy.  Vickie, a local girl, would just season the food she prepared for the cop with pills, that are a deadly combination, by any one's standards.  I remember, hearing in high school health classes, that this was something you never wanted to combine in your system.  And it sounds like in the Al O'Connor case, that both of these deadly agents were involved, pills and booze.  And it was stated in the article that there were 17 capsules, found in the garage, by the detective for the city cops, plus, Linda, his wife at the time, had ordered, something like 97 pills, through obtaining the same prescription, through two pharmacies, which would lend some circumstantial evidence that she had used pills to possibly kill her husband, who was planning on leaving her, in a very open relationship with Halbig, whom he intended to marry.

We have Linda, the wife, threatening to kill him in he ever left her, she wanted the pension, and whatever, and she was not going to let him go . . . even though, it sounds, like Halbig and O'Connor, were very open in public about their affair, being seen all over town, which would contradict the notes, the detective found in the garbage or the warranted search of the house, stating that they, the couple, especially, the mistress or girlfriend, who was warned that to be seen in public or telling others of the relationship, might be ruinous to the chief's reputation, if the word got out. and the note was signed, your Good Friend?  Perhaps the wife, thought the affair, was merely a friendship, and learned that Al was planning on leaving her for the alleged friend, so she slowly poisoned him, evidenced by the grape juice incident, just two days earlier, when he allegedly vomited, after she gave him the juice.

I believe thw woman in my case, had three other dead husbands, and Allan was her next victim.  This woman, Linda Lipp or O'Connor, now Austin, had two previous husbands that nobody knew or knew where they were, but her third husband, who's father, had just changed his will, shortly before he died, and Patrick, thought it was strange that his signatures didn't look the same, but it made Linda the beneficiary?  Now, after the death of Al, and the suspicious circumstances surrounding his father's death, and will, he wants dad's body exhumed.  In my case, Allan told me that Vickie was seen with his daughter, going through his mother's paperwork, and there were issues with the will in that case also, the daughter, who was at war with dad, teamed with this woman, and they were shredding paperwork at one point.  Allan would have been the sole heir, and his parents had a lot more money than anyone knew, except, Vickie and Stacey!

Female Disadvantage, Also Works To Their Advantage

Men tend to even discredit and underestimate women, even attorneys, to their discredit, because at times they under prepare for things like cases, briefs, and investigations, legislation and many other things.  So when you blow them away, they are pissed, but still just don't quite get it, that there are not only deadly women on the streets, in houses, in marriages, in relationships, but there are also, not in a literal, but figurative sense, killer women in the legal system, so their stupid underestimation of them actually works for the woman and in favor of the conniving woman, as it seemed to even with the grape juice incident, when Lori Halbig, the girlfriend asked Al, if he had been poisoned, and he said, Linda would never do that?

Really, who stood to benefit from his demise, who would be hurt by his divorce and re-marriage, pension, will, property, and what do you not get, that a new woman in Al's life would take all of that away from her. She was the one with the big house, he moved into, so, she didn't need that, but the pension, when the inherited money ran out, or when other sources of multiple streams of income were cut short, a new relationship would drastically change her anticipated income flow . . . so, in criminal law, you have to look at the modus opereni, or the motive, opportunity, and who else might have a motive, and money is always a motive, in almost every case . . . this woman was not independently wealthy, but she lived an extravagant lifestyle, as seen in her later, multiple insurance claims, property damage, and debt, all the key elements for a motive in the earlier case, were to me, apparent, and especially in the later lifestyle; she was a woman who wanted something for nothing, and men were her means to that end, she the means to their end!

The FBI profiler for the insurance companies, almost pegged her to a tee, socially reclusive and likely to have multiple divorces.  There were marital issues from the very first; she most likely selected her male victims according to what she could benefit, the affair didn't effect her security, but a marriage, sure as hell would.  There was one guys who called the prosecutor and said that he was willing to testify, that several days before the death, he heard a woman screaming at Al or the chief, threatening him, then the grape juice incident, then the final death, with pill present, that could have been planted by her, with the alleged or possible suicide note, or the one signed by the good friend, protecting that marital relationship, which was not the case with the husband, but a wife protecting her financial turf would want it to appear, different than the relationship was, just friends!

Traditionally, a Husband Was Held Responsible for His Wife's Crimes

This shows that there is a genetic imprint in our collective mind, that women don't commit serious crimes; therefore, we are going to have the man, who can beat her, with a stick that is not bigger than his thumb, responsible for his wife's crimes, because, it is his fault if she is out of control.  So the man is responsible for the woman's crimes, and society or the criminal justice system is responsible for handling the man's crimes. Is there some type of carry over, this woman is 77 years old right now, so she is no spring chicken, and that societal advantage women have, that they do not commit serious crimes may have come into the subconscious minds of the men involved, with the exception of the detective who rummaged through the garbage.  The prosecutor is now retired; therefore, he must be of substantial age, or of that generation that was just leaving the era, that they not only under estimate women, but don't think of them as being anything other than an appendage to a man, his property, his chattle, but also that he is responsible for what happens in the home.  Not that they blamed the man, consciously, but the subconscious is very powerful, in the colored glasses we will wear to view a certain situation, a crime, our attitudes, can taint an investigation.

The man Linda Lipp-O'Connor-Austin, is living with now, was indicted or charged with securities fraud . . . the men in her life have always been the means of support for this woman, in her luxurious lifestyle, there is not mention of her working or being responsible.  And when her husband couldn't support her in the style she had become accustomed to, she went after the insurance companies, the pattern fits.  We see the conflict between the coroner and the prosecutor, a man and an obviously, very progressive woman, who call for the coroner's inquest, and had to wait almost 8 months to get the report, that states there were issues with that too.  And then she mysteriously dies?  She was demanding justice!  Just like I did, and they, the statewide criminal justice battery system of men, in a systemic violence against me, for dealing in allegedly, big boy trials, that often crossed the cops and prosecutors!  Call me conspiracy central, but . . . really

I am here in the mall, near the Espresso, and it is too dark to read the date of the coroner's death, but if I remember, it was only two years after the chief's death, so not to much time, she was being a pain in the ass to the prosecutor, who was going to look bad for not charging the wife with anything, if the coroner's report came out with high contents of drugs in them.  And if you will remember, the state crime lab refused to test the mix of the drugs found in Al O'Connor's system or at the scene it was too dangerous, for who? And why was it dangerous, that is the crime labs job!

Crime Labs Across the Country Have Tampered With Evidence

While I was in the height of my own black widow case, I had contacted the state crime lab, who agreed to run a DNA test on my client's blood, and the blood on the furniture, before I knew there were pictures of the crime scene, I got those after the fucking jury was already selected and waiting for the trial to start! The first private investigator I had, just casually mentioned there were 30 photos the prosecutors had of the crime scene.  WHAT?  Prosecutors are suppose to turn over all exculpatory evidence to defense counsel, that has been given to them by the cops . . . I get it at trial, starting in 5 minutes, and I was shocked, all self-authentication of dates, times of photos had been removed, so there was no way, that I could determine the order of the photos, and the prosecutors, just seemed to arrange them the way they wanted the story to go!  

My client had been a former Marine, a cowboy and a biker, had sued the U.S.A. and the VA, and won, so he was not only known as a local bad ass, but when the cops came to arrest him, they had cops surrounding 4 blocks, with officers, flanking all four corners of his house, as a friend from Parowan reported hearing it over her radio, so the reputation of my client, combined with the traditional, little girls are sugar and spice and everything nice, totally blinded the cops and the prosecutors to the highly visible, black widow, with a history of biting her men, and even killing her mates after she has taken a bite!  But, the crime lab made an exception to me, doing some of my work as a defense attorney, who was doing the case, pro bono, or free, and I had also been a former assistant attorney general, in the Utah Attorney Generals Office, ans worked with Mark Nash at the Utah Prosecution Council, and I also informed him that I had done an anger management presentation worth $1,000 to the cops for free at the BCI, or Bureau of Crime Investigation, the DNA testing was going to cost about the same, and they owed me.  He said he would help me, but magically, I never got the results, but by that time, I had the photos, that were so evident, a match to my client's arm from the cops pictures that I didn't need the DNA tested.

But, that same time period, the ACLU or some national law firm, had done a study of state crime labs and many were found wanting, one sided, tampering with evidence that would sway toward the prosecution or in this case, possibly help the prosecution, cuts both ways!  But the report on the crime labs was revealing and telling, especially, since I had a client who placed a recorder in another client's chandelier or light, and caught, 3 narcotics cops, breaking in my client's home, and planting 51 pieces of felony evidence, and then they are heard on the tape to say, now go get a warrant!  I had only met these officers once, each and I knew it was their voices, and the female officer, Fritz, even used her name, saying, now we are going to play the Fritz Game . . . and my clients were forced to get voice recognition specialists, and both sides had to go the the state crime lab under the direction of specialists from the FBI, and they said, that the results of the highly technical audio equipment, was just not conclusive enough for use to use this in the Cheek et al v. Garrett et al, Iron County corruption case, for $56.7M!  An unbiased opinion?  I think not, they were protecting their side, the cops and prosecutors!  So beware of that also!

The Prosecutor's Reticence to Charge Mrs. O'Connor is Suspect

Has anyone investigated the possible motives for the prosecutor, to have not at least considered charges? Cases built on circumstantial evidence, plus, looking at the totality of the circumstances, the motive and the opportunity . . . the makings of a great case, but I wasn't there, nor am I privy to the inside scoop.  It is not my job to second guess a prosecutor, but there might be some extenuating circumstances, some history between the fire chief and the prosecutor's office, or issues with the cop shops, and the fire station . . . this guy was considering a run for mayor, seemed to be popular, good-looking, and up and coming?  Is there any professional jealousy that might come into play?  Often city's work together, cops, fire stations, prosecutors, coroners, and judges, like a well oiled machine, but that is not the case here, and I was glad to see that, because they all have independent jobs to do, regardless of the team approach, but there might be some reason, other than the lack of evidence that might be hiding under the covers . . . but that is purely speculative in my curious little mind?

Every job has its politics, and I know that fire fighters, at least in Utah, have been used in raids against my clients, with one fire fighter, saying that the flash bangs, blowing my clients, glass windows and doors out, slashing mattresses, and trashing the new townhouse, with SWAT, narcotics cops, and fire fighters, was the biggest breach of justice and rights the fire fighter had ever seen!  So were there issues, that someone may have been a target, and the wife, just took the guy out first?  I don't know, just throwing out possibilities from my somewhat educated background on both sides, plus the civil rights side of the criminal justice system. Just thinking out loud!

There is a lot to this case, but had I been the prosecutor, I think I would have charged, and let a jury decide, but that is a lot of work, sounds like there were 53 witnesses that testified to a grand jury, if I recall right, but these are the facts that either break or make a name for a prosecutor.  If, in reality there were not the facts to support a charge, then the prosecutor has every right to decline prosecution, or to proceed if he thinks he can get a conviction, or even if it is a close call.  What I can't respect is prosecutors who charge knowing full well, the guy is innocent, just doing it for sport, or a prosecutor, who knows it is a close call, and just doesn't want to take the time, or a prosecutor who lets the cops call the shots, which may have been the issue with the detective's stake out . . . city politics, politics, politics . . . we should operate free of all of that, but it is hard, to say the least!

Okay, So, I am Done Pontificating & Hypothesizing . . . And Stepping into City Politics is What gets me Into Trouble, so, that is Just My Two Cent's Worth!

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