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“Vincent Foster could not have killed himself by putting a gun in his mouth and pulling the trigger as reported in the media,” Ruddy wrote in
The Strange Death of Vince Foster: An Investigation
. “The crime scene displayed none of the telltale signs of suicide, from the amount
of blood spilled to the position of the body. Foster’s shoes and clothing held no grass or soil particles, despite the official determination that he walked across nearly 800 feet of grass and dirt paths before sitting on the ground and killing himself.”
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Ruddy interviewed Joe Purvis, a longtime friend of Vince Foster. Purvis had been able to talk with one of the morticians who had worked on Foster’s body up close at Little Rock’s Reubel’s Funeral Home. The mortician said that bullet entrance wound was a small hole in the back of Vince Foster’s mouth and the exit wound was found in the back neck at the base of Foster’s head.
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Foster was leaned up against an incline on a berm, and if a bullet had come out the back of his neck it should have burrowed into the dirt. The fatal bullet that Foster used to kill himself was not found despite the fact that Robert Fiske’s and Ken Starr’s people made extensive searches of the area.
Foster’s glasses, covered in gunpowder, were found nineteen feet away and behind the body. Both of Vince Foster’s hands were found to have gunpowder on them as well. There was heavy foliage and vegetation on the berm behind Foster. The question is: did Foster throw down his glasses before he shot himself? But how could that have happened if there was gunpowder on the glasses? The report of the Independent Counsel states “This powder is physically and chemically similar to the gunpowder found in the cartridge removed from Foster’s gun…. These facts are consistent with the eyeglasses being positioned near the gun when fired (such as Foster’s face or in his shirt pocket.)”
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In his book
The Murder of Vince Foster
, Kellett mocked the eyeglass theory with his offer of “$10,000 TO THE WORLD’S BEST FALLING, NECK SNAPPING EYEGLASS THROWER.” A .38 revolver has a sharp recoil but not one that can toss a pair of glasses nineteen feet. “According to the ‘independent’ counsel, the head [of Vince Foster] snapped back with such force that it caused the eyeglasses to be dislodged and thrown over the five-foot berm, plus another thirteen feet.”
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When Vince Foster’s body was found, he had no car keys on his body, according to Park Police Detective John Rolla, who conducted the initial examination. Rolla did find Foster’s pager on the body but not the large mass of keys that Foster carried. Ken Starr’s report speculated that Detective Rolla must not have dug deep enough into the pockets to find the large clump of keys.
“When the Park Police investigators realized they did not have Foster’s car keys, they went to the morgue to research the body,” wrote Marinka Peschmann. “Not only did the investigators locate Foster’s car keys in his right pant pocket but they also found a second set of keys with four door and cabinet keys. Foster’s right pant pocket was near ‘his right waist area,’ where Rolla retrieved his pager during the initial search. How could he have missed them?”
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Craig Livingstone and Kennedy were the two people who went to the morgue to identify Foster’s body. It has been said by numerous researchers that either Livingstone or Kennedy could have planted keys on the corpse during their morgue visit.
Though Vince Foster drove a gray Honda, there is no Honda car key in the FBI photographs of the keys belonging to Vince Foster. Nor is there a Honda key listed in the evidence recovered for the Foster case. “A Park Police evidence report listed a key ring with a tab, ‘Vince’s Keys,’ but these alleged keys were never photographed and were never on the FBI official list of evidence. Honda automobile keys are double-sided and there is no double-sided Honda key in the official photo of Foster’s keys.”
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Besides the physical incongruences, there were also problematic time issues in the “official” version of events.
In her autobiography Hillary wrote that she first heard of Foster’s death “That night, sometime between eight and nine o’clock, Mack McLarty called me at my mother’s house and told me he had terrible news: Vince Foster was dead; it looked like a suicide.”
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In 1993 the Clinton White House said Bill had learned about Foster’s death at 10 p.m. Eastern while on a break during a
Larry King Live
interview. A CNN makeup artist told Robert Fiske that just before
9 p.m. an aide told Bill that some sort of document had been already been found in Foster’s office. This is proof that Clinton was aware the search for documents had commenced.
The odds are high that by five in the evening, the Clintons knew about Foster’s suicide.
Shortly after Foster’s suicide, Helen Dickey, Chelsea’s nanny, called the Arkansas governor’s mansion and told Arkansas state trooper Roger Perry that Foster had committed suicide in the White House parking lot.
“Vince shot himself,” a clearly distraught and confused Dickey told Perry. “He walked out to his car and shot himself in the head.”
Perry stated that Dickey called him sometime between 4:30 and 7 p.m. Central Time. Perry then called Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker and fellow trooper Larry Patterson. Patterson said that he was “fairly certain” the Perry call occurred, at the very latest, before 7 p.m. Eastern. Perry also called Lynn Davis, the former head of the Arkansas State Police, who plainly declared in an affidavit the call was no later than 7 p.m. Central.
“It was during the rush hour, before 6:00pm our time,” Davis said. “He told me they’d found Vince Foster’s body in his car, he’s shot himself in the [White House] parking lot.”
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At approximately the same time this series of calls was occurring, Dale Kyle stumbled upon the body. In fact, “If Patterson’s memory is accurate, he learned of the Vince Foster’s death fifteen minutes before the body was found by police at Fort Marcy Park,” wrote Ruddy.
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This was problematic.
Senator Alphonse D’Amato led a sham Senate investigation into Whitewater and other Clinton scandals. His Senate Banking Committee subpoenaed Helen Dickey who signed a sworn affidavit that stated that she did not learn about Foster’s death until 10 p.m.
Time
magazine at the time reported that the “White House has offered D’Amato a sworn statement from Dickey in which she describes learning of Foster’s suicide late that night and discussing it with a state trooper at the Governor’s mansion in Arkansas.”
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In
a closed-door deposition to the Senate, Dickey couldn’t remember much about the night Foster committed suicide: the time she got off work, what she did for dinner, whether she talked to the First Lady that night—she could not remember any of it.
Former Arkansas state trooper L. D. Brown confirmed that Robyn Dickey, the mother of Helen Dickey, was carrying on an affair with Clinton. Both Bill and Robyn confirmed this to L. D. Brown, and, later, Robyn went to work in the Clinton White House.
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Robyn’s daughter Helen Dickey “worked for Marsha Scott on the illicit ‘Big Brother’ database that has been the subject of an investigation on Capitol Hill. She helped Hillary Clinton write
It Takes a Village
, typing up the pages every day in July and August of 1995. For two years she lived in a suite in the third floor Living Quarters of the White House, directly above the Clintons, and went in and out of their kitchens as if it were her own.”
Here are the spring 1995 affidavits of Arkansas state troopers Roger Perry and Larry Patterson as well as that of Lynn Davis:
ROGER PERRY on March 28, 1995:
AFFIDAVIT
State of Arkansas }
County of Pulaski }
On this day comes before me, a Notary Public, authorized to administer oaths, in and for the County of Pulaski, State of Arkansas, Roger Perry to me well known, who being first duly sworn, says, upon oath:
On the 20th day of July, 1993, I received a telephone call from a person known to me as Helen Dickey. I was working on the security detail at the Arkansas Governor’s mansion in Little Rock, Arkansas at that time. Dickey advised me that Vincent Foster, well known to me, had gotten off work and had gone out to his car in the parking lot and had shot himself in the head. I do not recall the exact time of this telephone call but am fairly certain it was some time from about 4:30 p.m. to no later than 7:00 p.m.
Dickey had previously been employed as a baby-sitter for Governor Clinton’s child and at the time of the call she was working at the White House in Washington, DC. I then passed the message on to Governor Jim Guy Tucker through his wife.
During my tenure at the Governor’s Mansion I received a number of calls from Jennifer Flowers to Governor Clinton.
I have been told by Danny Ferguson, another trooper who was working security detail at the time, at the Governor’s Mansion, that he had talked with a young lady named Paula during a conference at the Excelsior Hotel and that he had taken her up to a room in that hotel at the direct request of then Governor Clinton. Danny has also stated that he talked with [P]aula at a restaurant in Little Rock during a chance meeting shortly before she filed her suit. He told her then, according to his conversation with me, that he would testify on her behalf if she did file suit against Clinton. I have read Danny’s answer to her suit and [see] that he admitted taking Paula up to Clinton’s room on that occasion.
LARRY PATTERSON on March 28, 1995:
AFFIDAVIT
State of Arkansas }
}
County of Pulaski }
On this day comes before me, a Notary Public, authorized to administer oaths, in and for the County of Pulaski, State of Arkansas, Larry Patterson to me well known, who being first duly sworn, says, upon oath:
I received a telephone call from Roger Perry on the 20th day of July, 1993. Roger was working security detail at the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion in Little Rock. He advised me that a lady known to both of us as Helen Dickey had telephonically [contacted] him and advised him that Vincent Foster, well known to both of us because of his relationship with Hillary Clinton and his being an advisor to Governor Bill Clinton had gotten off work and had gone out to his car
in the parking lot and had shot himself in the head. I do not recall the exact time of this telephone call but am fairly certain it was sometime before 6:00 p.m. on that date.
Dickey was employed as a baby-sitter by Governor and Hillary Clinton while in Arkansas and at the time of the call she was working at the White House in Washington, DC.
I have been asked, under oath, whether Bill Clinton ever had extramarital affairs while he was Governor of Arkansas. I have replied that I knew Jennifer Flowers, who has said she had an affair with Governor Clinton. I took him, on occasions to the Quapaw Towers, where she lived, and where he would meet with her. I have taken him to see other [females] with whom he had personal relationships, including one he met during the night at Chelsea Clinton’s schoolyard. I worked with Danny Ferguson, another trooper who was working security detail at the Governor’s Mansion. Danny told me that he had talked with a young lady named Paula Jones during a meeting at the Excelsior Hotel in Little Rock. He told me he had taken her up to a room in that Hotel after having been asked to by then Governor Bill Clinton. On one occasion I was with Governor Clinton when we met Paula Jones in the rotunda at the State Capitol. The Governor referred to her as Paula as they hugged. Danny has also told me that he talked with Paula at a restaurant in Little Rock in the summer of 1994. At that time, Paula told Danny that she had learned she had been [mentioned] in a [negative] article about Bill Clinton. He told her then, according to his conversation with me, that he would testify on her behalf if she did file suit against Clinton. I have read Danny’s answer to her suit and see that he admitted taking Paula up to Clinton’s room on that occasion. That agrees with what I kn[o]w about that situation.
LYNN DAVIS on April 7, 1995:
(text portion of affidavit only)
This is to certify that on the 20th day of July, 1993, I received a telephone call from Roger Perry, of the Arkansas State Police, who was a member of the Arkansas Governor’s security detail.
Perry
advised me that he had just received a telephone call from one Helen Dickey, a [former] baby-sitter for Chelsea Clinton, who was employed at the White House and that she had advised him that Vincent Foster, known to both Perry and me, and gone to his car in the Parking Lot and had shot himself in the head.
I do not recall the exact time of the call, but I [place] it as being during the rush hour at the White House and [assumed] there must be many witnesses to the event. Perry advised me that Helen Dickey was quite upset as if the event had happened shortly before her call to him. I estimate the time at being no later that six o’clock, Central Standard Time.
Perry advised me that he had telephonically contacted Betty Tucker who had relayed the message to Governor Jim Guy Tucker.
When the D’Amato committee met, it refused to call Perry and Patterson to testify. Then the committee members made the grossly false statement that Perry and Patterson refused to testify, an outrageous lie designed to suppress the truth.
Ruddy examined the timeline when the various members of the White House were said to have discovered that Foster had committed suicide.
“The White House said that the Secret Service was initially notified of the death by Park Police at 8:30 pm—just as Park Police were wrapping up their inquiry at Fort Marcy—and that key presidential aides were only told after the president went on ‘Larry King Live’ at 9:00pm,” wrote Ruddy. “The White House had also maintained that the president himself was not informed until about 10:00pm, when the show ended, some four hours after the Park Police first discovered Foster’s body in Fort Marcy Park shortly after 6:00pm.”
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