Dr_Doogie wrote:
Kate Dixon and Virginia McCullough claim to be objective journalists, but the actions betray them more as the public relations "crisis response team" for alumni of Cabazon Arms. Just look at which cases grab their attention and what they say about them:
Virginia McCullough wrote:
Does Dr_Doogie have the corporate papers for Cabazon Arms? Does Dr_Doogie have any idea of who was a member of Cabazon Arms and who was not? Is he/she just blowing smoke or have they done their homework? How long have they researched this issue?
Dr_Doogie wrote:
Richard Hamlin: His defense was that his wife was under the influence of her father, Sid Seimer, who worked for Cabazon Arms. KD and VM did their best to bury Hamlin and he ended up being sentenced to life for what was nothing more than a domestic violence case. Mission accomplished!
Virginia McCullough wrote:
Richard Hamlin’s defense was NOT that Susan Hamlin was under the influence of her father, Dr. Sid Siemer. There is absolutely no proof that Sid Siemer ever worked for Cabazon Arms. In fact Kate Dixon and VM clearly spelled out the possible defenses for Richard Hamlin and what ended up “burying” him was his own inept defense chosen by himself as First Chair attorney for the defense. That, and the fact, that he audio taped himself beating his wife on two separate occasions. I absolutely agree that the torture charge filed by DA Gary Lacy was excessive and that, in my non-legal opinion, he should have been charged with domestic violence which, if he had been convicted, would have been a first time offense.
Dr_Doogie wrote:
Philip Arthur Thompson: This vile human being has been responsible for the deaths of many people - Cloer, Winter, MacDonald, Sailer, Morasca, Quick, and I believe ultimately he will be linked to the Alvarez triple murders too along with probably many others. Yet, VM and KD tried their best to tweak public opinion against the prosecution's case. Hell, VM even joined the defense team for Thompson! WTF? You can judge a person by the friends they keep - any friend of Thompson is no friend of justice.
Virginia McCullough wrote:
There comes a point in time when it is almost useless to debate issues with someone who “is on a mission” and who is either deliberately or unintentionally misconstruing the facts over and over again to achieve their mission’s agenda.
FACT: Philip Arthur Thompson was convicted by a jury for the murder of Betty Cloer
FACT: Thompson was present in the car with Ronald E. Winter when he was assassinated on 4-26-75 on San Juan under Interstate I 5 in Sacramento, Ca. Mr. Winter told his wife and his doctor that “I will die in a hail of bullets” and, in fact, a full clip of an AR15 was used in the killing which occurred when Winters and the passenger Thompson pulled to the side of the road and Winters walked to the back of his car and opened his trunk. A car that had been following the two men stopped behind their car and a man got out and executed Winters. Thompson ran from the car, was later arrested and charged with three felonies, none named him as the shooter. He entered into a plea agreement. Lt. Robbie Waters, later a City Councilman in Sacramento, was in charge of the case and to this day will not tell Mr. Winter’s widow what happened. This is one of the most fascinating cases linked directly or indirectly to Thompson.
FACT: The murder of Valerie MacDonald remains an open homicide. MacDonald disappeared Nov. 6, 1980. Miss MacDonald was 26 years old, a striking blonde with a slender build and she had ambitions of becoming a model or an actress. She was last seen alive outside her apartment complex in San Francisco. The complex was known as The Tower Apartments in North Beach.
Three men were managing this apartment building. They were Michael Hennessey, John Abbott and Phillip Thompson who had met while serving time in a California prison. Hennessey was later killed in a shootout with the Canadian RCMP, a gunfight in which Abbott was also wounded. Abbott served time in prison for this incident and is now a free man. Thompson was never charged with MacDonald’s disappearance.
MacDonald’s remains were not discovered until October 1991 when two hunters found a skull near Danville, Ferry County, Washington. It was not until November 22, 2000 that California CAPMI matched the skull with the dental records of Valerie MacDonald and notified her parents DeeDee and Robert Kouns their daughter’s body had been found.
DeeDee Kouns believes the Thompson is responsible for her daughter’s murder. However, Michael Riconosciuto’s alleged cousin-by-marriage Anita Langley implicated Riconosciuto in the disappearance of MacDonald in a letter she wrote to Thompson prosecutor Trish Kelliher on March 20, 2006 during the midst of the Thompson trial. In that letter Langley writes the following paragraph:Michael decided to cooperate with federal agents after he witnessed a murder in the late 60s. The investigation involved corrupt police in the San Francisco area. The corruption was very well organized and also involved dirty federal agents outside the SF police department. Michael’s status as an informant was discovered, and same for some of his friends, several people were murdered. An attempt was made to frame him by dumping the body of Valerie MacDonald, who was his girlfriend and Betty Cloer’s friend, behind a property owned by Michael. (I may have said “house” on the phone, but I don’t think that is correct, Michael owned a number of businesses. ) Another attempt was made to frame him after Michael produced solid alibi for the murder, drugs were planted under his houseboat. The FBI were not ready to make their case so he went to jail.
FACT: Thompson was never charged and not brought to trial in the murder of Ines Sailer and, in fact, another man was ultimately convicted of this crime based on DNA evidence.
Disinformation and an inaccurate news article published on 1-27-81 in the SF Examiner by Ivan Sharpe wrongly linked the Sailer murder to the MacDonald disappearance. A San Francisco Chronicle article by John Cote on September 24, 2006 announced the arrest of 60-year old Melvin Forte for the Sailer killing based on DNA evidence that the San Jose police department found when they re-submitted Sailer’s dress for testing in 2005. Forte was ultimately convicted.
FACT: The murder of Paul Morasca in San Francisco occurred in January 1982, approximately 6 months after the Alvarez executions. A grand jury to investigate this murder was impaneled by then San Francisco Assistant DA James McBride (now presiding judge in San Francisco) approximately 1 year after the Morasca. Philip Arthur Thompson was the target of that Grand Jury. Michael Riconosciuto was going to testify but never did. Riconosciuto has always alleged that Thompson, then using the name of Jason Smith was the killer of Morasca with John Philip Nichols giving the orders. Despite a letter in my possession from McBride to Riconosciuto wanting to know when Michael would testify, it never happened and the Grand Jury returned a no bill against Philip Arthur Thompson.
Both Riconosciuto and Thompson point the finger at each other for this killing and it remains an open homicide.
FACT: The murder of Mary Quick near Fresno, California occurred shortly after the murder of Paul Morasca. The story behind this murder is solely based on the word of Michael Riconosciuto who alleges that someone thought that Quick had been given the code that would release the funds of the Nugan Hand Bank in Australia. According to Michael, Mary Quick was killed to obtain that code. It remains an open homicide but could link back to Quick’s alliance with W. Patrick Moriarty, close personal friend of President Richard Nixon and Marshall Riconosciuto, Michael’s father.
It is apparent in reading Dr_Doogie’s tirade that he is attempting to put every murder at the doorstep of Philip Arthur Thompson. Therefore, I am surprised that he missed the December 20, 1980 vicious murders of the Davis sweethearts John Riggin and Sabrina Gonsalves. Law enforcement, in their desperate attempt to lay these killings at Thompson’s doorstep, delayed the solution of the murders until Joel Davis did their homework for them and published it in his excellent book Justice Waits: The UC Davis Sweetheart Murders. See attachment for references to Philip Arthur Thompson and please note that Sacramento prosecutor Anne Marie Schubert who was so centered on Thompson as the murderer of the Davis Sweethearts was the same DNA prosecutor who controlled the DNA testing that resulted in matching Thompson to the Cloer murder.
In reply to Dr_Doogie’s last comments I do not, at this time, have any evidence that Thompson will be linked to the Alvarez executions and I do not, at this time, believe that Michael Riconosciuto will be indicted or charged with any complicity in the Alvarez executions. Both men were at that location in Indio, California in 1981 and both men knew “Dr.” John Philip Nichols and Jimmy Hughes and John Paul Nichols and Mark Nichols. The only man that none of them knew, except allegedly, was co-conspirator Glenn Heggstad, who is apparently a co-operating witness in these executions.
Finally, I have never made any secret of the fact that I was a legal runner for Philip Arthur Thompson as I said in a full disclosure at the end of one of my articles. That position protected my ability to cover the trial because I was told that the prosecution would attempt to keep me out of the courtroom and it enabled me to convey documents concerning events that took place at the Cabazon reservation to Thompson without the prosecution reviewing them first and preventing their transfer. So what is the purpose of anti-VM posters continuing to repeat what I have already fully disclosed?
Virginia McCullough
