What follows here is the third
installment in my series of posts on things that go together. All three posts together form a coherent series and are meant to be taken as parts of a whole. And every word in each of them is critically important!
I think everyone nowadays is aware
that the scourge of illegal drugs—the societal woes it causes and
the organized crime networks it spawns—is international in scope.
Banking issues and transfers of cash related to the illegal drug
trade are both world-wide and potentially traceable, and cash
transfers between countries have the added issues of conversions and
conversion rates.
One way organized crime gets around
these monetary problems is to trade or barter for illegal drugs
instead of paying for them in cash. The practice of trading or
bartering for desired goods predates paying for goods with cash by a
considerable margin of time in history and is actually still quite
commonplace in certain areas overseas. Indeed, original Northern
European settlers of the town in which I live famously signed what is
said to be the only peace treaty with Native Americans that has never
been broken as part of a deal where both money and goods were paid by
the settlers in exchange for protection from attacks.
In order for a barter system for
illegal drugs to work, potential purchasers must have something to
trade that is of value to the sellers. In the Middle East (a region
of major opiate production), this is often Mexican vanilla, which is
a popular addition to coffee in the many cafes there. Once my friend
Medawar explained this to me, I remembered hearing my former
mother-in-law and some of her lady-friends talking about bringing
back whole suitcases of Mexican vanilla from their trips down there,
supposedly to bake with, although in retrospect, the amounts seem to
have been rather excessive.
Medawar has also explained to me that
in the Far East, gambling on sporting events is extremely popular, so
anyone having inside information on which players in a particular
match might be playing injured, for example, could potentially trade
this information for drugs there.
I'm told that the other item of great
value in the Far East when it comes to purchasing power for illegal
drugs is hardcore pornography. There is a huge
market for this particular evil over there, with such sales largely
unchecked and the desire for new and fresh photos, movies, and
victims remaining constant. In this regard, “snuff films” in
which victims are brutalized, tortured, and murdered in front of a
camera, are especially valuable as trade items for drugs.
The
making of snuff films is particularly attractive to psychopathic
killers, because their poor behavioral control, in combination with
their need to self-medicate in order to control behaviors they need
to conceal from others, makes them extremely vulnerable to addictions
of all sorts. [See the Merck
Manual for more
information on psychopaths and addiction.] Besides commonly having
multiple substance addictions (like illegal drugs) and addictions to
gambling, psychopathic killers are addicted to the feelings they get
when they are killing, so the making of snuff films offers a way to
fuel their initial thrill from the killings themselves, their
insatiable need to relive the killing over and over again by
repeatedly watching the films, and their need to purchase substances
they are hooked on.
In
the Far East markets for hardcore pornography in general and snuff
films in particular, attractive Western victims command the highest
prices. However, victims of all sexes, sexual orientations, ages,
and races can be of interest to the market, particularly if there is
a related “story line” involved.
When
I first discovered Medawar's blog online and began corresponding with
him about the organized stalking and other serious crimes I am the
victim of, I also told him about two cold homicide cases I had
previously contacted law enforcement officials who were investigating
them about, because I had recognized certain aspects of these cases.
One of these homicides had occurred in Texas (but not in Central
Texas), while the other took place outside of Texas. In the Texas
case, which I learned about online, I recognized the names of persons
the victim was said to have been involved with as being the same as
persons who had committed fraud and other criminal acts against me
and whom I knew to be from the same area as the victim. In the case
from outside Texas, which I learned about on a national television
show, I recognized suspects from their descriptions and an item of
clothing one of the suspects was said to have been wearing. In the
first case, I provided investigators with information on my case and
the perpetrators and was told only that police “already had a
suspect in the case who was a known associate of the victim's”. In
the second case, I provided additional details about the item of
clothing witnesses had described, additional information about unusual
physical characteristics of the suspects that witnesses were likely
to have noticed, and information on the whereabouts of the suspects
at the time of the murder. I never heard back from investigators in
this case.
Medawar
was particularly interested in the second of these cases (the one
from outside Texas), because he recognized certain elements of it
that were very theatrical: the way the suspects had dressed and
acted, the type of weapon used, and more. Having grown up with and
having been stalked by a future serial killer, Medawar originally
noticed the way the killer/s in this case appeared to have committed
the crime around a detailed story that had been worked out well in
advance. [For more information on this, please see my two previous
posts here.]
After
doing some research, Medawar discovered a substantial number of
similar crimes, some in Texas, some in other parts of the U.S., and
many in the same area as the one I'd originally told him about. He
pointed out to me the common aspects of all or most of these crimes.
Besides having strong elements of the theatrical, there were multiple
suspects involved, but the primary killer always appeared to be the
same person. [Note: Psychopaths are well-known to have no trouble
finding each other; any psychopath in a long-term relationship will
usually be found to be partnered with another psychopath.] The
killer arranged to be with the victim in ways where he and any
accomplices would not be disturbed while the murder was being
committed, sometimes for quite lengthy periods of time. Victims were
tortured and killed in particularly violent and brutal ways that
required considerable medical knowledge and familiarity with killing.
Victims and crime scenes were left in ways that indicated extensive
knowledge of crime scene investigative techniques: victims were left
in running water to remove traces of DNA, crime scenes were quickly
and expertly cleaned up (meaning there had been extensive planning and
preparation ahead of time), and more. After the murders, suspects
other than the primary killer made sure they were seen and/or
photographed driving victims' vehicles to deliberately confuse the
investigations and divert suspicion away from the primary killer.
Medawar
and I then began to focus our attention on certain ones of these
cases that most closely conformed to his model and had the most
detail as far as descriptions of suspects. We were particularly
interested in cases occurring at times where I could provide
information about the whereabouts of persons we suspected of having
been involved in the crimes.
As
soon as Medawar and I began doing this, a number of interesting
things began to happen. (Remember that as victims of organized
stalking, all of
our computer, phone, written, and spoken communications are being
illegally monitored and shared 24/7.) One suspect began deliberately
parading around in front of me at local stores, wearing the item of
clothing I had originally described to authorities. Other people
walked up to me in parking lots and other public places while wearing
various life-like rubber masks and wigs of various kinds, especially
ones of elderly men and women. That same week, a local pilot whose
photograph very closely resembled a suspect in one of the killings
far from Texas turned up listed as having just died in the local
newspaper. Most of the people I strongly suspected of being involved
in these homicides began stalking me in person in various ways. And
there is more, but for now I choose not to disclose everything.
Because
I knew the persons I suspected of being involved in these killings
were heavily involved in the drug trade here, Medawar believed the
strongly theatrical aspects of the cases we were looking at meant the
murders had been filmed so the snuff films could be traded overseas
for drugs. This fits very well with the fact that you can often
drive through my neighborhood at night and smell the noxious odor of
burning “China sticks” (pressed sticks of potent cannabis soaked
in opiates) coming from the houses of my ex-husband's stalker-friends
on the hill above my house.
Medawar
and I continue to look for homicide cases that meet the criteria I
have described here. If you know of any of these, please contact me
through my profile on this blog.
You
should also be aware that Medawar and I strongly suspect the same
persons involved in the types of cases discussed here of being
involved in numerous other very different types of homicides. As I
discussed in my post titled “Stalking and Murder” recently,
psychopaths who stalk kill to many different well-developed stories
in their heads. Criminal profilers seem to have no trouble
understanding that a particular murderer can kill repeatedly to one
of these stories, but they seem to have trouble understanding the way
a single psychopath can kill to unlimited different
stories and patterns—or just how detailed and unique each of these
can be.
Finally,
I need to sound some warnings. Anyone
having
any knowledge of
any kind
about a homicide can be charged with the crime, and there are no
statutes of limitations in homicide cases. Also be aware that a
great many people close to the persons I suspect of involvement in
these homicide cases are now suddenly turning up dead themselves; all
of these deaths in such a relatively short period of time cannot
possibly be coincidental. And finally, please be aware that there
are now far too many leaks in the dam of lies and cover-ups here to
be able to be plugged up (even by the Department of Justice). This
is huge,
and the whole thing is about to give way.
