>Who's Reed Irvine? Sounds familiar. I know it's a nutty source but I find
>it interesting because the suicide, declared almost instantaneously by the
>locals, never sounded right to me. Take note of the last line of the
>comments after the story. Somehow the Socialists are responsible! This is
>the same mind-set I find in the Bear lairs of the gold world. It's
>dangerous, and the basis is so thin that I can't believe some of these
>people couldn't be shown that they are victims and pawns of this ideology.
>Especially now that the Top Thugs have taken to robbing their own supporters
>so blatently.
>
>Was Baxter out of his mind?
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>By Reed Irvine
>© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com
>The massive police report on the investigation of the death of Cliff Baxter,
>the former Enron vice chairman, would have us believe that he killed himself
>the day before the suicide exemption on his insurance policy expired,
>costing his estate a cool $5,000,000. If he did, he was out of his mind.
>
>The 900-page report says that there was no evidence that cast any doubt on
>the suicide finding, but then includes some important evidence that does
>just that.
>
>Two letters I sent to the Sugar Land chief of police are included in the
>report. They explained why the police should insist that the level of
>Ambien, a sleeping tablet, found in Baxter's blood be calculated.
>
>Overdoses of Ambien can produce a hypnotic trance or a light coma. Baxter's
>prescription called for one tablet a day, but the number missing from the
>bottle indicates that he may have ingested as many as four in the five hours
>before he was found dead. If so, he would not have been able to drive,
>according to a pathologist who is familiar with the drug.
>
>The toxicology report should have given the amount of Ambien found in his
>blood. Was Baxter drugged out of his mind? The police did not dispute the
>claim that it was possible, but they failed to demand the analysis that
>would have answered the question.
>
>The report shows that they weren't interested in evidence that undermined
>the suicide theory. For example, they knew that it was important that Baxter
>owned the gun that fired the fatal shot and the type of ammunition that was
>used. They found that he bought the gun, a Smith and Wesson .357 magnum, in
>February 2001, together with a box of Winchester .38 cartridges.
>
>But the ammo that killed him was Glaser, which fires a lot of small pellets
>instead of a lead slug. It is sold in blister-packs of six. Five cartridges,
>one expended, were found in the gun. The sixth couldn't be found. Officer
>Mary Herbrig, in thanking the detective who found the Winchester ammo in
>Baxter's house, said, "I sure wish they had matched what we recovered."
>
>They made a big search for evidence that Baxter had purchased Glaser ammo.
>With a box of Winchester ammo in his house, he had no reason to do so. If
>Baxter had no Glaser, he could not have killed himself with it. This is
>evidence of homicide, something that has to be ruled out before the death
>can be declared a suicide. The police handled that by simply asserting that
>there was no evidence of homicide.
>
>Their report says that the gun was found lying in Baxter's lap on top of his
>hands, both palms up. They say he pulled the trigger with his right hand and
>steadied the three-inch barrel with his left and that the blood spatter
>shows he was facing forward when he pulled the trigger. The recoil would
>have thrown the gun from his hand to his right and his hand would have
>dropped to his side. Both hands and the gun on his lap is indicative of
>homicide.
>
>Officer Herbrig pointed out that they had too few samples of Baxter's known
>handwriting to obtain a conclusive finding that he wrote the printed suicide
>note. All they got from the expert analyst was that there were "indications"
>that Baxter wrote the note. The main indications were that it was on his
>stationery and in an envelope on which his DNA was found.
>
>If he were drugged, his killer could have moistened the flap with Baxter's
>saliva. The note and its envelope should have been checked for fingerprints.
>The shards of glass found in Baxter's hair and clothing should have been
>tested to determine if they came from the car window that was broken by the
>police to gain entry. If all this was done, the results were not reported, a
>good indication that findings were negative.
>
>To firm up the case for suicide, the police revised the account given by
>deputy constable Head of how he found Baxter's body.
>
>On Jan. 25, they said 15 minutes had elapsed between the time he first saw
>Baxter's parked car and the time he checked it out and found the body. Now
>they say he saw Baxter driving the car, and only two or three minutes later
>he found it parked with the body inside.
>
>At least two witnesses, one of them mentioned in the report, claim to have
>seen Baxter's parked car long before any police arrived.
>
> Earlier postings about Baxter Murder ------
>
>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/641855/posts
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>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/627021/posts
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>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/617668/posts
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>1 posted on 6/15/02 7:56 AM Pacific by rdavis84
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>If it was a glaser round, it could probably have been fired from any gun -
>there would be no need for getting hold of Baxter's gun in order to do the
>deed. There won't be anything left of a glaser for ballistic analysis.
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>2 posted on 6/15/02 8:05 AM Pacific by Cachelot
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>Was there any confirmation that he inquired about hiring a bodyguard a few
>days before this. I find that rather strange, if true.
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>3 posted on 6/15/02 8:06 AM Pacific by steve50
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>I didn't re-read it, but that's the topic of the third link at the end of
>the article. Might be some pretty good confirmation there.
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>4 posted on 6/15/02 8:11 AM Pacific by rdavis84
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>I'm glad to see that Mark Fuhrman is making a decent living on following up
>on and writing books about these 'unsolved' crimes.
>
>The recent verdict against the Kennedy Clan proves that these socialists are
>vulnerable.