Introduction to My Murder Theories
Readers would do well to remember our ways of thinking change rapidly with changes in our language and environments. Even our technologies bring about rapid social change. I say this because it wasn't so long ago that isolated communities spoke dialects incomprehensible to tribes and clans a mere fifty miles away. Forests and jungles were habitat to demons and forces beyond the terror of wild nature. So if what follows seems to fantastic to give credence, recall a time when crocodiles and bears were more evil spirit than wild animals embraced by a struggle for existence.
As we all know from story tellers and reading, murder resides well within our history. From Adam and Eve's Cain and Able's sibling rivalry and subsequent murder of Adam, we remain vexed by our own Cain's to this day.
We've had plenty of time to think on this social problem and scholars have done their best to route out motives for homicide. We hear of unsolved crimes and we ask, "Who did it?". "How did this murder occur?" We ask about murderer's plans and escape. Then again, so many murders occur in light of day, right in our own neighborhoods, there's no denying who murdered whom. Male on female accounts for over 51 percent of murders in the United States. There's no mystery in these murder cases.
Early Search for Motive
In early Melanesian society tribes looked to sorcery to account for murder. Illness, murder, and other unwanted conditions were sorcerer's magic at work. Among these people, as a legal force, we find their proof of how a man had been killed by sorcery. It was done by an exact
interpretation of certain signs or symptoms in an
exhumed body.
If readers now have an idea that our murder victim was accused for his death, good. Because here the victim becomes the accused rather than the murderer, "victimize the victim." This process takes on a punitive finding for the murder victim rather than the murderer. Finding a motive remains the greatest part of Melanesian guilt-finding rather than punitive justice.
What stood out in these investigations were attitudes toward death and a deceased victim. Whether or not community shared an opinion about a decedent before a victim's death similar to that after being exhumed, remains unknown.
It was not until after the Renaissance that a scientific attitude toward analysis of a dead body become acceptable in Europe and Britain. We might imagine spirited motives at work in these places as well, if not as dramatically played out with corpses.
Be that as it may, Melanesian society once found indication of motive between twelve or twenty-four hours after burial. The murder victim’s grave was opened at sunset. As a crime scene investigation, we shirk at what follows. Investigators cleaned the exhumed victim with coconut milk and paint sings on the body.
A well planned post-death ceremony shows a newly added signs. These are said to point to habits and character traits. Within these personality type would surface, showing how hatred motivated his death through a magician's invocation of evil spirits. For example, if, scratches on the shoulder are found, similar to the love marks made during intercourse, they say that the dead man had committed adultery. Likewise with a general success with a clan or tribes women, which lead to a magician's curse.
Certain symptoms appear before death and are interpreted in a similar fashion. So if a dying man smacked his lips soon before death, an interpretation of seeking a lover’s attention became an interpretation.
Unknown Murderer
We know that signs of self-adornment or beautification on a corpse show to interpreters that the decedent attracted evil magic. Red, black or white patches of color on the skin, and any
patterns similar to those ruling elite houses, show that the deceased has decorated his
house in an arrogant way. So he aroused his chief's anger. Failing to bow deeply with enough humility when before a king brought down evil magic. As a result, upon opening the grave of such a man, most likely he lay crumpled up.
Here, there seems to have been no question about resurrecting the dead in the name of learning something, even if learning meant prying into the ways of evil magic. Finding motives among these people worked pretty much like finding motives today among psychological searches, internalized forces were at work. Only today we seek chemical and psychoanalytical causes for motives rather than externalized intrusion by evil magic.
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Origins of Criminology
Finding clues took us some time to think in terms of individual agency rather than magic and evil spirits. Before the Renaissance it was unthinkable under cultural circumstances to imagine individual agency outside of magic and evil procedures. Homicide and suicide were not matters of choice as matters of unseen forces. The dead man
was taboo; the murderer was taboo, and everything he
touched and that touched him became taboo.
Taboo
Taboo is
contagious and therefore an investigation into the
deed is impossible. Before investigations could happen religion
had to change. Old restrictions had to
disappear, powerful beliefs had to be shaken. It is
true that the modern priest who brings comfort to
the prisoner still makes use, strangely enough, of
the words: 'Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord.'
In those times, however, when the Lord acted in
accordance with those words, Jehovah's terrible and revengeful acts meant to pre-historic tribes
there was no
need of a criminal investigation. The god or demon
of the clan took good care of his laws and punished
their breach ruthlessly. Suggest otherwise to peers and the power of taboo fell upon one's home and family.
As a result a chief became caretaker to taboos. In language, symbolic interactions, art, even meta-gestures (blinks, eyebrow movement, finger indications), instilling taboo powers remained a rich and powerful force in societies in general. Even today taboos play a part in human communication and socialization, if we care to search for their patterns among us.
So a deceased chief's tribal role meant slowly morphing into a tribal god as generations of story tellers embellished the chief's actions. Taboos remained his domain, but in an other-world (metaphysical) sense. Homer reminds us so well of a time before literacy when gods brought sudden suffering to those in breach of taboo topics. We need look no further than Oedipus for taboo's power to connect far-flung destinies. Odeon's power to bring starvation to a clan remained cause for giving taboos a place of awe and reverence.
These remarks about taboo and murder, motivation, and clues must sound odd. Today we have crime scene investigation modeled on scientific analysis of crime scenes. Blood type, dna from hair samples, and fingerprints, of course, all tell us about clues to who did it.
Today we uncover taboo breaches familiar to students of Freud as district attorneys establish fatherhood by blood analysis leading to fathers becoming fathers of their own grandchildren. So it seems that our scientific minds uncover acts once hidden behind taboo subjects.
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This attitude, alien to us in our day-to-day existence, proceeded from the
punishment to the solution of the crime.
Taboo had
enormous power and was to retain it for many
centuries in spite of social changes; crime was
still regarded as a breach of the laws of taboo of early societies. An apparent breach of taboo became explanation enough as punishments arose. Misfortune or catastrophe
occurring to a community or the
individuals came with a prepackaged explanation, taboo.
We must understand that concern with breaches of taboo became motivation for investigations. Finding causes for misfortunes became more fruitful than continuing to blame evil magic. We should look to ritual cleansing
following taboo breaches for solutions. Crime solving became a community means of self-empowerment, however misdirected.
Moving fast forward, we find humanity now set out to learn "Who did it?". Now when a murder occurs under mysterious circumstances we begin to use our critical thinking. We begin to ask pertinent questions based on prior learning and documentation.
Finding clues and facts occupy our attention. Actual circumstantial evidence becomes motivating and leads to rewarding inferences as criminal investigation expands from crime scene analysis. Long before crime scene cleanup begins, in fact, discovery and interpretation of circumstantial evidence leads far away from psychology or our prior evil magic explanations -- internal causation.
Fingerprints, matches, cigarette ashes, these become clues. Chemistry, microphotography, blood analysis, and other clues begin to unravel how a crime occurred. Investigators know before walking into a homicide scene what questions to ask of themselves and one another. We know from homicide cleanup that homicide investigators followed a pre-set pattern of fingerprint dust application. We know too that pieces of wall and floor will be removed as evidence. We've come a long way from taboo to finding clues for explanations.
Clues
Clues lead to convictions for murders without witnesses. Clues serve as proof of an act, event, or situation. These facts do not work without finding a relation to other facts. They will not hold as proof alone, but in connection with other clues, begin to build a logical, deductively compelling argument for another fact. Not yet proved, this unveiled fact continues a fact finding, case building murder case. Such fact in criminal law lead to guilt or innocence of the accused.
Eventually with enough clues we come to understand the facts of a case. Otherwise, a killer must be caught red-handed. With a confession under Miranda, a murder case slams shut.
Without a "caught in the act" conviction, clues as circumstantial evidence will remind readers of my own clues and facts used to prove my case against Orange County's consumer fraud. In this as in a murder case, clues become valuable as links in a chain of proof serving as suggestions, indications for detection of a crime. Clues work as a center in a criminological strategy for discovering traces of criminal acts. A deduction of facts from a clue or set of clues leads to an overwhelming proof of criminal acts. Now it becomes time to find a California Bail Bond agent.
In clues we find material objects. These give criminologists all they can observe and make use of. Observation of these materials includes sensing odors, noting peculiarities, and other findings we find so common in Sir Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes escapades. So we find evident facts' meaning and understanding their value as proof.
A fire by a suspected arson and murder lead investigators to find clues within a victim's autopsy report.
In this case no carbon monoxide was found in the victim's lungs, indicating death before the fire started. Had this victim been alive during the fire, surely he would have inhaled carbon monoxide as well as other gases related to breathing during a building fire. As a result, this clue lead investigators to propose the victim died from other means than the fire. Arson then became a reasonable suspicion for covering up a murder. Before long more clues came into this picture and revealed that murder did occur. Arson also occurred as an attempted means to covering up murder.
Albert S. Osborn once commented in a book about clues from indirect evidence in matters of timing as proof. In the case in point a mortgage letter
showed several thousand acres of land came into existence before changes to the Remington typewriter in 1898. A close look at the mortgage letter's fond type showed conclusively that the alleged mortgage letter came into existence after Remington changed its font in 1898. In this way clues lead to facts. In these cases deductive logic plays a keen role in directing investigators to their conclusions.
The place of a crime scene will sometimes reveal clues to a crimes motivation as well as its consummation. We know in Orange County, California, the Orange County Coroner's Department houses a certain number of crony employees. These employees create an ongoing criminal enterprise inside the coroner's department. How so? By referring families of homicide victims to certain crime scene cleanup companies, if not their own, they receive kickbacks. As much as ten percent of a crime scene cleanup comes their way by cash, tax free, that is. Now what we find b this place of Orange County fraud beats just about any other crime scene; for who would look to a Sheriff-coroner's office for an ongoing crime against tax payers? Alas, its exclusivity leads to near perfect proof of coroner employees' criminality. That is, to whom do families of homicide victims report for claiming the remains of their loved ones? To whom do homicide victim's families place their queries for professional crime scene cleanup help? Right, coroner's employees. No where else in our universe do so many arrive for the same or similar reasons. No where else do so few have so much power to direct an ongoing stream of families victimized by violent death than the coroner's department.
So where might we look for a cause to heavy crime scene cleanup marketing failures? Like, where do we begin looking when a crime scene cleanup business fails in Orange County in spite of heavy Internet business marketing? An investigator looking elsewhere in a preliminary search would hardly qualify as a professional law enforcement investigator. A deputy coroner suggesting a different source of information would reveal more than a focus on her department would prove manipulative, at the very least. So it happens that the place of a crime often gives us clues leading to reasonable suspicions about who we will find involved in a crime.
We will not find all clues and inferences by focusing solely upon the Orange County Coroner’s Department. We need to also focus upon our Orange County Administrator’s Department for more clues. Like a coroner’s department, administrator’s department must also become involved in homicide victim’s family affairs, only more deeply so. Bills levied against the decedent’s estate come due. Technicians see that these are paid when family member reside out of state or are also deceased. These relationships between administration employees and victims’ families create conditions for cronyism. Cronyism, meaning referral of victims families to corrupt crime scene cleanup companies, pays large dividends. So here too we find that place gives us a place to consider as we develop inferences unveiling local government corruption in crime scene cleanup.
Bitten Cigar
Trivial clues become pieces of proof carrying extraordinary conviction. In one case in which a banker was found murdered in his office, a cigar with deeply embedded teeth marks was found. Upon close examination, these tooth marks were shown not to belong to the banker, victim. Instead, along with other trivial clues leading to the banker’s cousin, the cousin’s bite showed a perfect match for the cigar’s tooth marks. No witnesses were available, but clues leading to more clues proved enough to convict the murderer in this case of the bitten cigar.
From Dust to Conviction
London Yard develops novel ways of finding valuable clues. Earlier in its history perpetrator’s jacket lead to his conviction following evidential research and inferences drawn from forthcoming clues. Placing the perpetrator’s jacket in a paper bag, it was beaten with a wooden broom handle. Dust made airborne by these blows settled. Filtering and inspecting this dust lead conclusively to saw dust remnants, leading investigator to infer a carpenter or other tradesman owned the jacket. In time it proved so as investigators learned that the homicide victim recently fired a cabinet maker. Inferences lead from jacket dust hidden from the naked eye to a conviction, not unlike consumer fraud against homicide victims’ families by coroner employees.
Logic
Elsewhere. Orange County Consumer Logic, I write about Logic and crime in consumer fraud. Logic applies just the same in murder investigation.
We ask the same logical, universal question, "What is effect and what cause?". Keeping this question foremost in our minds steadies our course and keeps us focused on genuine clues, facts, and characters.
We must admin Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes for his skills to observe pertinent objects and to make deductions leading to correct conclusions. But we go well beyond Sherlock Holmes when it comes to unraveling what happened to criminal investigation with technological changes and experience. Like Holmes we observe trivial detail while thinking about them. We connect the dots so they appear relevant to one another, then we base our deductions on them. Where Holme's observes hands, finger nails, scars, hair, and garb, murder detectives do the same today. It's the same, but for technology. Following clues to through the logic of a murder investigation works the same, but for technology.
From observing and logically deducing premises leading to judgments and finally correct conclusions, murder detectives bring homicide suspects to justice. It's not easy work and any serious murder detective will share horror stories related to hundreds of note cards and such. On these they keep their observations, addresses, witness statements, and a million pieces to a puzzle they must find deductible propositions.
We are reminded of the Los Angeles Police Department's failure to keep its ducks in order, its evidence untainted in the O. J. Simpson trial. Mark Ferman's failure to secure evidence, the LAPD lab's failure to secure evidence properly, and an ongoing series of mishaps destroy valuable clues to one of the most publicized murders of the 20th century. These external evidentiary clues should have lead to a conviction without question, or an innocent finding without reservation in anyone's mind. We had neither.
Let's return to Orange County Fraud for a look at evidence and logic. Here we have premises arising from hundreds of clues. Any one of these clues left separate from its species of clues gives us nothing to deduce Orange County fraud on the part of coroner and administration employees. But, once placed together it becomes impossible to reasonably ignore their overwhelming, logical indications. We should surmise from these hundreds of Orange County crime scene cleanup related web pages something to this effect: Whomever owns all of these web pages must receive a lot of telephone calls from those in need of homicide cleanup, suicide cleanup, unattended death cleanup, human decomposition cleanup, and trauma cleanup.
To test what we surmise, actually, a growing hypothesis, we need to spend time with a person in charge of taking telephone calls at 888-431-7233. This 24/7/365 should lead callers to a biohazard company for professional cleaning in Orange County, California. If we devote a detective to monitor said telephone, we learn that these hundreds of web pages garner few telephone calls from Orange County. These call, as it turns out, have nothing to do with murder cleanup services. The incoming telephone calls from 888-431-7233 usually represent "spam," telephone sales.
If we were to test the above telephone number in preparation for making a logical case again's fraud in Orange County's coroner and administration departments, we could turn these same web pages toward other business activities. And this is exactly what has been done over the years.
For example, if Eddie Evans desired to control organic web pages in Orange County for concrete polishing, marble polishing, and other natural stone work, he would do so. How do I know so? Because I've done it in the past. Soon readers will begin to see Orange County's Internet web pages for bail bond services appear with Eddie's web pages. These will prove his case. County employees stop grieving families from using the Internet for murder cleanup services by sending these families to corrupt cleaning companies.
These thoughts arise from actually existing clues found on the Internet by anyone person in the world. Alone, anyone of them is meaningless for a logical argument against Orange County fraud. However, once a critical mass, an overwhelming number, of these web pages occur on Orange County's Internet, there's plenty of "proof" for fraud in Orange County's government.
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