Pathologist Cyril Wecht, who performed a “backup autopsy” on Carol Gotbaum’s corpse late today. Spoke with Gotbaum family attorney Mike Manning earlier this evening, around 6 p.m. He informed me that noted forensic pathologist Cyril H. Wecht had been flown in from Pittsburgh to do a “backup autopsy” of Carol…
Former Congressman Gary Condit loses again in court to the Sonoran News . Here’s an update to my July post “What a Condumbass! Linda Bentley, Gary Condit and the Sonoran News,” wherein I documented the gooberish legal maneuverings of former Congressman Gary Condit, who now lives in the Valley, like…
Not in the travel brochure: Come to lovely AZ and get chained and choked in the freakin’ airport. The autopsy of Carol Anne Gotbaum, the New York mother of three who died in Phoenix police custody Friday at Sky Harbor Airport, was ruled inconclusive this afternoon by county pathologist Dr…
Can we really buy this story that Carol Anne Gotbaum choked herself to death with her own handcuffs? The autopsy of the 45-year-old New York mother of three who died in PHX police custody Friday at Sky Harbor is under way at the moment, according to David Boyer, Director of…
Carol Anne Gotbaum, who died in the custody of the PHX PD Friday. Phoenix attorney Mike Manning, retained by the husband of deceased New Yorker Carol Anne Gotbaum, called the Phoenix PD’s actions in the Gothamite’s arrest, “at first blush, astounding.” Though he hastened to add that the Gotbaum family…
How in Hades did this poor lady choke herself? And was David Hans Schmidt involved? UPDATE: Seems PHX attorney Mike Manning, known for his many successful lawsuits against Sheriff Joe Arpaio, has been retained by Carol Gotbaum’s family to keep on eye on the inquiry into Gotbaum’s death. Gotbaum’s family…
Passed polishing the bishop? So speculates one former pal. (UPDATE: Since this was written, David Boyer, Director of the County Medical Examiner’s Office has announced the cause of death in the Schmidt case to be hanging. The manner, suicide. No surprise there. Further details are pending.) Did David Hans Schmidt…
From the DHS site Hansnews.com: Schmidt turning over filched photos of Jamie Foxx to the actor’s rep. I’ve gotta give up the journalistic kudos to Arizona Republic reporter Richard Ruelas, who’s obviously been working overtime on the DHS suicide story. In a winding piece that jumps from the front page…
An ass on an ass? Schmidt in better days, from his Web site. Could it be another of David Hans Schmidt’s publicity stunts? Yet, there it is in black and white on my ‘puter, the news that the celebrity sex-tape hawker was found dead in his PHX home of an…
One step ahead of the Sheriff: Chief Dan Saban in his CHiPs getup. Buckeye Police Chief Dan Saban, Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s once and future foe, may be able to breathe a tad easier this weekend. Seems a draft ordinance preventing Buckeye town employees from running for elective office will not…
The satirical image of Joe as a Klansman that made media headlines in August. Sheriff Joe’s on the warpath against illegals, so much so he’s not even bothering to wait for new anti-day laborer laws to take effect in the bigoted burg of Cave Creek. Hell, he’s already harassing workers…
Note the similarity? Just saw this bit in the ASU State Press about PHX Mayor Phil “Goober” Gordon speaking at the Central Library yesterday, where he “discussed making the city a safer place for members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community.” The occasion was a forum addressing hate-crime…
Elissa Wall, a.k.a., Warren Jeffs’ Jane Doe… Pardon me if I crow like the Feathered Bastard that I am, but what was all over the news last night but 21-year-old Elissa Wall, formerly known as Jane Doe in the press, addressing a horde of reporters? This was, of course, following…
Cpt. John Birch, Baptist, U.S. intelligence officer, and inventor of the missionary position. It isn’t often that someone contradicts themselves so blatantly in the comments to this blog as has Bryan Turner, the AZ state coordinator for the John Birch Society, whom I met Saturday as he was manning the…
Michael Israel’s Lady Liberty, painted live on the premises. “So where are the slaves and the dead Indians?” That was my first thought on arrival at Mesquite High School this Saturday evening for Gilbert’s 6th annual Constitution Week Fair, an event celebrating America’s founding document, with George and Martha Washington…
Jeez, dudes, get a room! J.T. Ready and Russell Pearce snuggling at an anti-immigrant rally in June. Have you seen Russell Pearce’s new toupee? Pearce sports his new rug on his Pearce for Congress Exploratory Committee Web site. He also loses the glasses in an obvious attempt to look younger…
Elissa Wall, age 14, in a photo released by her lawyers. As the jury in the rape-as-accomplice trial of FLDS leader Warren Jeffs recessed for the weekend, attorneys for his accuser revealed her name, Elissa Wall. They also provided a photo of Wall at age 14, one just published in…
Who gets the blame for Officer Erfle’s murder? According to nativist wing-nut logic, they do! I’ve heard the anonymous voice before. The cowardly creep has called in to my phone mail previously to tell me why the Holocaust never happened, why Hitler wasn’t such a bad guy after all, why…
Look at this incompetent putz. No wonder our cops are getting killed right and left. They say Nero fiddled while Rome burned, and Phil “Goober” Gordon suns himself in the tropics and passes the buck as PHX cops are boldly shot down during daylight in the center of the city…
It doesn’t have quite the same ring as “Banned in Boston,” but Phoenix New Times could be “Banned in the Chandler Library” if this dip Larry Edwards gets his way. Edwards is reportedly the prig who complained to the Chandler Library about New Times being on the shelves of the…
Slain PHX Police Officer Nick Erfle. Like you needed more proof we live in the Wild Wild West: PHX Police Officer Nick Erfle was shot dead Tuesday morning in Central Phoenix, during rush hour, after stopping a man for jaywalking, and attempting to arrest him for priors. This was near…
Supporters of convicted Border Patrol Agents Ignacio “Nacho” Ramos and Jose Compean often tout the case as a miscarriage of justice, an instance where two true-blue BPAs ended up the victims of an overzealous prosecutor. As I stated in my recent Bird column “Anti-Heroes,” it’s obvious from the transcripts of…
