Hiya Willow, I am fine, hope you're doing good too. You might have heard that the institutional abuse inquiry in the UK has taken a predictably dire turn though, with the victims understandably losing confidence in the process and walking out on it (much like the three previous chairpersons and several lawyers have done already), having grown sick of being mucked around consistently by the authorities much like the victims in the Keepers case.
That was always the plan on the part of the authorities in my opinion. Theresa May appointed three separate
uniquely unqualified and problematic individuals to head up the inquiry, all of them with clear conflicts of interest (or not-widely-known histories of attempting to cover up abuse) in their backgrounds. One could be accidental, two looks careless, three is enemy action...
But that's a topic for another time and another thread.
Yes, the FMS trolls have been out in force on reddit.
Aye, I saw them. I'm far from being an expert on these matters, but if those people think they are being subtle and convincing, they are wrong. It's funny how they always claim to be lawyers (at the least), or Public Defenders who only ever represent people falsely accused of sexual abuse, yet they seem to have a noticeably shallow knowledge of the law in their own country.
The records he buried in the cemetery are key.
Absolutely, and I wish the doc had spent more time on that rather than more tenuous things like the wedding gift necklace. As much as I think this documentary is essential viewing, it let some very obvious questions go unexplored, which was frustrating. The District Attorney's ability to remember the exact car she drove to the exhumation scene in, contrasted with her inability to remember if the files contained any pictures of children, was bizarre. What would be more memorable to a person? There were
three van-loads of material, which were hastily buried in an abandoned graveyard by a priest (but not so hastily that he couldn't get someone else to dig the hole for him - a hole so big that it required a mechanical digger). If there was one thing I'd remember clearly from my DA career, in her position, it would be the content of those files.
And how could the files possibly be lost in their entirety after being taken into evidence?
Oh... Like this:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ly-deletedAnd how arrogant was Maskell? Getting a victim to type them up for him! I know it was the Sixties, and tough guys didn't type, but Jesus. He must've known he was absolutely bulletproof to even think of doing that. And his selected typist suffered from amnesia and blackouts too...
It's horrific.
Btw, in spite of what I was saying about Jeanie's testimony in my earlier post, it's always worth re-stating that she never sought publicity, never joined or posted on the victim's FB group, seeks to recover her memories in her own way to avoid contamination, and there are around 100 other victims as well. It is also obviously not her job or her duty to convince
me of anything.
Was he ordered to destroy them and then did a sloppy job of it?
The "DeepThroat" ex-police guy said a paedophile is unable to permanently dispose of his stash no matter the consequences, which rings true (though I'm not sure of the guy's reliability at this distance, of course). But surely if Maskell was being run from above there would've been some sort of enforcement?
If they are genuinely interested in mindcontrol to the extent they seem to be, though, I suppose those documents would have some kind of real value to them - they were probably far more valuable to the overall operation than Maskell himself. Also, Maskell must've been certain that the gardener/digger/caretaker would never talk. Even as a Catholic I never experienced anything like the kind of social and institutional hegemony that seems to have existed in Baltimore at that time (which I found fascinating - if I ever show the doc to my Mum I'll probably start her on episode 2 for that reason).
Edgar appears dissociative himself, which would explain a great deal of his behavior, in the interview and as described by his wife. By the time Sister Cathy was murdered, we'd already had two, perhaps three, hypno-killer/patsy assassinations of major public figures, so there's no stretch there at all. Perhaps the doc who worked with William Pepper on the Sirhan case could interview Edgar.
Like I said, I've only watched up to episode 5, so I haven't seen the Edgar interview yet. Still waiting for someone to upload it to my source - Netflix aint it. Have read about it though, and everybody seems to agree that he is either very ill or dissociative as you say. When i mentioned Maskell possibly "selling" hypnosis to these guys earlier, I don't think I got my point across well. What if he sold it to the conflicted and rejected Billy Schmidt as some kind of "gay cure"? And to Edgar as... I don't know... either an empowerment of his sociopathy, or a cure for it. Then he got his hooks in and turned them to his own purpose.
Did Billy Schmidt's obsession with the nun (and the weird...visualization aid...in the attic) pre-date the murder? The doc didn't make it clear enough. There were a lot of things that the doc didn't make clear enough.
I'm going on way too long here, but my last point would be that on the night when Maskell and Magnus apparently turned up at Sister Cathy's apartment, Maskell was described as being furious - which you'd expect from a psychopath under threat. But Magnus was described as being "dumb." He doesn't look like a dumb man to me, he was a teacher in a once-reputable school - did Maskell have some kind of mental control over him too?
The doc never went back to this incident of the two main abusers appearing angrily at the victim's house, which is surely of huge import to the murder investigation regardless of any MK or MC implications it might have.