Enron
whistle-blower (->) Sherron Watkins wrote to Chairman and CEO Ken Lay,
in an Aug. 14th 2001. Because of Baxters deep connections between the
US government and ENRON, his suicide was questioned by many
investigative websites on the internet. This included Dan Rather (CBS
Evening News), who was openly skeptical of the claim that this was a
suicide. Baxters body was discovered on January 25th, 2002, about 2:20
a.m. in the driver's seat of his Mercedes-Benz, parked in the 5800
block of Palm Royale Boulevard. Sgt. Truman Body from the
SugarLandPolice found him "inside his Mercedes with a suicide note
and revolver at his side". He had been shot once in the head and a
.38-caliber revolver was found inside the locked car, investigators
said. Another new autopsy in late January 2002 by "Medical Examiner
Joyce Carter (->), who conducted an autopsy on Baxter's body Friday,
said the cause of death was suicide by "a penetrating gunshot to the
head."
But as investigative members of Democraticunderground.Com
found out, Carter had a controversial past. These results had been
picked up by New York's weekly paper Villagevoice "Fueled by a
report on Democraticunderground.com, skeptics are homing in on the
Harris County coroner, Joye M. Carter. Carter has had her share of
controversy. In 1998, Harris County paid a former employee in the
medical examiner's office $375,000, after a jury agreed Carter fired
her for reporting potentially illegal cover-ups. Then a federal court
awarded another whistleblower $250,000 after she was fired for
reporting that an unlicensed physician had performed autopsies. In
2000, writes The Houston Chronicle, a Harris County commissioner asked
the county to hire an outside law firm to review Carter's hiring and
firing practices." Source:
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0205/ridgeway.php
Friends of Baxter told some papers, that he "loved yachting and had
recently traded in his 72-foot boat for one with a larger engine so he
could travel to Florida in two days." Baxter was looking for a
bodyguard, as one anonymous source told the NY Times.
http://www.truthout.com/01.30C.Police.Suicide.htm "..Detective Billy
Baugh is retracing Baxter's movements in the days prior to his
death. In addition, he is checking the car for blood splatters and
fingerprints and running ballistic tests on the gun that was found in
Baxter's hand. Baxters role at Enron was primarily in mergers and
acquisitions. He helped engineer the purchases to build up Enron's
failed water venture, Azurix Corp., and of Oregon utility Portland
General. More oddities: Due to
http://www.dallasnews.com/latestnews/enron_012502early.d61e0.html the
car was "closed". A family friend told the New York Post that Baxter's
wife says he was home in bed just hours before his body was found at
2:23 a.m. on Friday, January 25. "His wife couldn't believe he could
get out of bed without her knowing it," said the friend..." In
February 2002 madcowprod.com (->) reported, that "...contrary to the
statements of the Sugar Land Police Department, it was not two Sugar
Land police officers but one of Hal Werlein's Deputy Constables who
discovered the former Enron executive." As whatreallyhappened.com (->)
found out in the same month: The original autopsy report, which can be
ordered for $25 by the Medical Examiner of Harris County, Texas, said
Baxter was found in his car in the 5200 block of Palm Royale
Boulevard. We learn for the first time here, though, that his home was
at 5211 Palm Royale Boulevard. He was less than a block from home, and
could have been in front of his own house. His dress, workout pants
and a t-shirt, are most consistent with his having just ventured out
from his house rather than his having been out in some public
place. Then in March 2002, NationalEnquirer still insisted, that
Baxter was murdered. "He knew where all the Enron bodies were buried
and he was apparently ready to talk," former congressman John
LeBoutillier, who attended Harvard Business School with former Enron
CEO Jeff Skilling, told the ENQUIRER. They picked up the past of
Medical Examiner Joyce Carter: In February 2001, Carter was fined
$1,000 and narrowly escaped being fired for allowing an unlicensed
pathologist to perform roughly 200 autopsies in the Houston area. Nine
days after Baxter's death, police still hadn't publicly supported the
suicide verdict." In March 2002, CBS investigated: "(Baxter) just
agreed to testify to Congress in the Enron case. A congressional
source tells CBS News that Baxter wasn't a target in the probe, he was
to provide evidence against others. The gun and other evidence were
moved before photos were taken. The body was moved as well. The
experts found several things highly unusual. First the peculiar
ammunition: not regular bullets but something called "rat-shot". "This
kind of ammunition cannot be easily or readily traced back to the gun
from which it was fired," explained (independent coroner Cyril)
Wecht. "It's not as frequently used by people for any reason. It's not
the type of ammunition one finds in guns - it has a specific purpose:
shooting at snakes and rodents in order to get a distribution pattern
of the small pellets contained within the nose portion of the
bullet. It's not something that a person is likely to have and to use
if they intended to kill themselves," said Wecht. Other unanswered
questions include mysterious wounds on one hand and unexplained shards
of glass in Baxter's shirt. All reasons to look deeper to rule out
murder. Source:
http://origin.cbsnews.com/htdocs/videoplayer/newVid/video_display_new.html?clip=/media/2002/04/10/video505850.rm
Finally in April 2002 Baxters "suicide note", addressed to his wife
Carol, was released, but disturbingly, it contained some oddities, as
recognised by Democraticunderground.Com member Doug Decker: "At the bottom of the page
(far below his printed name, his wife name appears. His name is
typed/centered in the middle of the page (including his initial) "If a
formal note (with typing) wouldn't it have a formal signature... If an
informal note - why would the name be typed?.." The Carol twice could
indicate that the paper was folder over, with Carol written as an
address (i.e. To Carol). " The note was signed, "Cliff." instead of
"your Clifford" Other observations: 1) If you fold his letter, the
second "Carol" appears still on the same side, which makes no
sense. 2) Writing in rude, capitol letters, more impersonal style, is
strange 2) The handwriting still looks very dynamic at the end, not
depressive. The two FF's still go up. 3) The uppercase letter i for
the pronoun I is indeed different from the other uppercase i letters
4) The "L"s look different 5) It's hard to explain, why his suicide
note didn't start with something like "dear carol" 6) a bold number on
the Top could not be explained: 02000599 can't be an evidence number,
it would destroy the evidence. It looks like his handwriting. 7) Why
was this note released so late and what was so personal anyway in this
note? 8) If you look carefully at the word "try" at "Please try to
forgive me." you will see a very small typed "1" under the "T". What
is this about? 9) What does the dot mean in the middle of the lines
between 02000599 and the first Carol. Just a smear? Mirror at:
More
was revealed on Joyce Carter: "A federal jury awarded $250,000 Friday
to a former Harris County pathologist who said she was fired in 1998
for blowing the whistle on what she considered illegal activity in the
medical examiner's office." Source:
http://www.opengovtcoppell.com/file/news/2000/0-4index.htm
In June 2002, Baxters original story was upgraded with another
bizarre twist. "A cop in the neighborhood said he saw Baxter driving
alone. About two minutes later, the same officer found Baxter shot in
the locked car" Source:
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/16876.htm
At the end of 2002, most independent investigators on the internet
still believed , that Baxter was killed. The phrase" baxterised"
became a synonym for a political murder and was used, when Senator
Paul Wellstone (->)died in a plane crash, just one week before the US
election.
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