Dead Wrong: Straight Facts on the Country's Most Controversial Cover-Ups (56 page)

According to the FBI, the lack of sweat on Foster’s hand was responsible for the absence of fingerprints. However, the temperature that afternoon was over ninety-five degrees Fahrenheit, it was very humid, and common sense tells us that a man seriously planning on firing a weapon into his mouth is probably going to be sweating even if he’s in Antarctica. The temperature, the humidity, and the drama of the moment are not indicative of a situation in which perspiration would be completely absent.

3. No Ballistics Match

There is no evidence that the gun found in Foster’s hand fired the shot. There is also no evidence that the gun belonged to Foster.

4. No Gunpowder Match

GSR (gunshot residue) was found on Foster’s clothing and eyeglasses but it did not match the gunpowder from the gun found in his hand— it was from a different gun. Let’s make that very clear—the gunpowder residue on his clothing and eyeglasses did not come from the gun that was in his hand.

5. No Blowback

There should have been substantial blowback of blood and tissue from a .38 at point-blank range with high-velocity ammunition, which was found in the gun. Yet the official crime scene photograph clearly shows Foster’s hand, shirt, and the gun in his hand, all in virtually pristine condition. Homicide experts agree that there should have been a “jet stream” shooting out of the back of the head that drenched vegetation in the area with huge amounts of blood and body matter, especially near the victim’s head. Yet the Park Police report clearly states “there was no blood spatter on the plants or trees surrounding the decedent’s head.”

6. No Blood Pooling

A .38 caliber gunshot at point-blank range obviously leaves a gaping wound and a lot of blood. Trained personnel observed dramatically insufficient amounts of blood and tissue on the victim, underneath him, or anywhere at crime scene. During one search:

At least “sixteen FBI agents used high-tech equipment to search the park for the missing bullet, bone fragments from Foster’s skull, and the presence of blood beneath the soil.”
(Crime Lab investigative reports, cited in The Mysterious Death of Vincent Foster, Dr. Cyril Wecht, 1998)

7. No Bullet

A .38 caliber bullet was supposedly fired at the crime scene. But no bullet or bullet fragments of that slug were ever recovered. The bullet is typically found because, after traveling through a human skull, it loses most of its velocity.

The level of importance of the above fact is demonstrated by the level of the search that it mandated. An army of FBI agents combed the entire area methodically using the latest hi-tech equipment. There were three separate FBI searches utilizing dozens of agents and spanning several months of efforts. The searches came up with
nothing that could be linked to the supposed murder weapon:

“The FBI even developed a map showing the likely path and direction of the bullet after it exited Foster’s skull.”
(Crime Lab investigative reports, cited in The Mysterious Death of Vincent Foster, Dr. Cyril Wecht, 1998)

8. No Witnesses

The park is tiny— less than a quarter of a mile wide— and a Colt .38 is loud. The embassy of Saudi Arabia, with guards on duty, was very near the crime scene and five homes were also located within a few hundred yards. It’s a very quiet area. Yet no one at those locations, or anywhere in a public park, reported hearing a gunshot. Emergency personnel encountered two witnesses who were a few hundred feet away from where the body was found. They reported that they had heard nothing.

9. No Car Keys

How exactly does a person drive their car with no car keys? They searched the victim; no car keys. They searched the vehicle; no car keys. They searched the park; no car keys. They were not there. Later that evening at the morgue, a “re-check” was made of Foster’s pockets by White House officials and—you guessed it, folks—the car keys magically appeared. However, it is quite logical to conclude that the professional investigators, who made a thorough search of Foster and were specifically looking for those same car keys, would not have missed them had they originally been in Foster’s pockets. They were not there. So can somebody please explain how he drove his car to this remote park with no car keys?

10. No Dirt On Shoes

If the victim had actually walked hundreds of yards (as alleged) through the park to reach the location where the body was found, he would have picked up large amounts of dirt on his shoes and clothing. Witnesses saw no dirt on his clothing and the amount of dirt on his shoes was dramatically insufficient for that scenario.

11. No Chipped Teeth

The Colt .38 found in the victim’s hand (an Army Colt .38 Special) is a large weapon. It has a high gun sight and a very bulky ejector rod head (the metal extension beneath the barrel of the gun) that, if placed inside a person’s mouth and fired, would inevitably produce chipped teeth and damaged lips at discharge. Foster had no chipped teeth and his lips were undamaged. That simply isn’t possible if that weapon had gone off inside his mouth, especially with a high velocity round, as was present in the revolver.

12. No Exit Wound

According to the U.S. Government’s story, the only gunshot wounds on Vince Foster were a .38 caliber entry wound in the mouth and its wound of exit at the back of his head. The medical experts who initially handled Foster’s body did not see an exit wound anywhere in the victim’s head, even though they looked for one. The paramedics at the scene handled the body and moved it into a body bag. They knew it was extremely rare to not have an exit wound in a high-velocity shot into the head at point blank range. So they looked for an exit wound, and their testimony confirms that there was not one. The doctor who certified Foster’s death also said that he did not see an exit wound in Foster’s head.

13. No Skull Fragments

A Colt .38 fired directly into the mouth explodes with such force that it blows out the back of the brain casing and, inevitably, knocks out skull fragments in the process. But there were no skull fragments found. An officer at the scene stated:

“There was no blowout. There weren’t brains running all over the place ... I initially thought the bullet might still be in his head.”
(Richard L. Franklin,
101 Peculiarities)

14. Small-Caliber Gunshot Wound In Neck

Two paramedics who were at the scene clearly saw what they identified as a gunshot wound in the victim’s neck and they testified accordingly. The doctor, who was also at the scene, also saw a neck wound and described it as such in his official report. Lead Prosecutor Miguel Rodriguez stated that he also saw evidence of the gunshot wound in Vince’s throat, but that evidence was suppressed, and he was unable to obtain documentation of the original crime scene photos that he had earlier viewed.

15. “Gravity-Defying” Blood — Sign Body Was Moved

If the body was not moved, then the blood stains on Foster’s cheek defied gravity by running uphill instead of downhill. One or the other is true, so the smart money would have to bet that the body was moved after death when the blood had already dried.

16. Other Signs That Body Was Moved:

Independent homicide experts concluded there is “overwhelming evidence” that Foster’s body was moved to the park, and that he did not die in the location he was found. The fact that there was a gun in his hand on a hot day and no fingerprints under circumstances ideal for leaving prints, is a forensic indicator that the gun was placed in his hand in the hours after his death, when the prints would no longer adhere.

His car arrived at the crime scene after Foster was already dead.

His car keys were not located after a thorough search of his person and the scene.

The body was lain out straight and neat as though it had been placed in such a position, a fact which caught the eye of the Emergency Medical Tech on the scene.

The same EMT wrote “Homicide” under cause of death in his official report.

A gun found in the hand of the victim is an automatic red flag of possible foul play (the gun is usually thrown out of the hand of the victim when firing, especially with a high-velocity weapon like a 38).

The underbrush near the area where the body lay was very trampled, unlike the rest of that very remote area of the park— the indication being that several people had been busy in the area.

17. Wine Stain

A large purplish wine stain was very visible on the front of Foster’s shirt, and a witness also observed vomit on his shirt and a wine cooler bottle two and a half feet from the body. That’s inconsistent with our victim— Foster was not an afternoon drinker— we know that he had a Coke that day with his lunch. He was also very neat and orderly, always profes-sional. Therefore the large wine stain is suggestive of a struggle, or of a staged crime scene. The stain was never analyzed.

18. Semen Stain

Laboratory testing also could have determined if the large semen stain on the inside of Foster’s underwear was the result of a natural spontaneous post-mortem emission (which occasionally happens) or evidence of sexual activity just prior to death. Even if the stain had simply been photographed (standard procedure), comparative testing of the drying of fresh semen on similar fabric could have established the approximate time of ejaculation. That’s the way you properly investigate a violent crime.

19. Blonde Hairs

Blonde hairs were found on the victim, which were inconsistent with the victim’s hair or that of his wife. Incredibly, no testing of those hairs was ever conducted. By the time that The Starr Report was released— September 11, 1998, over five years after Foster’s death—the government attempted to diffuse this issue by implying that it was a moot point because the people who would have been asked to provide hair samples, were people with whom it was already known that Foster had been in contact. So we still do not know who the hair samples matched.

20. Carpet Fibers

Multi-colored carpet fibers (six different colors) were found all over the victim, even on his underwear. No investigation was initially made to match the carpet fibers to the victim’s car (for example, the trunk, to see if he had been transported in it), home or office, which is standard investigatory procedure. The police later claimed that the carpet fibers must have gotten all over his clothing from cross-contamination when his clothes were all thrown together in an evidence bag— but that possibility has been thoroughly disproven. The Starr Report, five years later, amid growing controversy that Foster’s body may have been moved, attempted to diffuse this issue by stating that most of the carpet fibers were white and the white carpet fibers were consistent with the carpet in Foster’s home back in 1993. Pink wool fibers were also found on the victim’s undershirt, socks and shoes. Apparently, no testing was done upon those either.

21. Gun Anomolies

a) The official crime scene photograph clearly shows a black or very dark blue gun lodged in Foster’s hand. The gun that the FBI showed Foster’s wife and got her to identify as the gun that Foster owned, was silver, not black.

b) The witness who first found the body in the park examined the scene very closely and swore that he was positive that there was no gun in Foster’s hand. The FBI bullied the witness in an attempt to get him to change his testimony, but he would not budge.