Thanks, everyone.
First of all, let's remember that the wife and the two accomplices are only
charged with the murder, not yet convicted of it. I realise that's an increasingly irrelevant distinction in the US these days, but still worth keeping in mind. The case has not yet been solved.
Secondly, the story as told by the prosecutors takes some believing. Two guys overpowered this Naval Commander in his hotel room before beating & strangling him to death and
no witness saw or heard anything at the time? No screaming, no shouting, no banging around? Also: There was
no video surveillance anywhere in or around the hotel in February 2014 (in the 13th year of the War on Terror)?
Thirdly, we're told the estranged wife was waiting in her car in the parking lot. Surely she was a prime suspect from the very start? She and the murder victim were undergoing an acrimonious divorce at the time. So why did it take the cops months to investigate, arrest and charge her?
Fourthly: No surveillance camera (and no witness) saw that car entering or leaving the parking lot shortly before and/or after the murder?
Not a single camera recorded that car passing on the highway or main roads nearby? Bullshit.
An Orange Park woman charged with masterminding the slaying of her estranged Navy commander husband for insurance money is the daughter of a former Mississippi elementary school principal who tried killing his lover’s hospitalized husband in a similar murder-for-hire plot.
Police never considered the woman’s father a suspect in the Feb. 12 slaying of Cmdr. Alphonso Doss but were aware of the family’s history, said Orange Park Police Chief Gary Goble.
WTF? How can they be aware of the family's "murder-for-hire" history and
not suspect the family?
“You can’t make this stuff up,” Goble said Thursday.
Oh yes you can. Where there's a will there's a way.
Orange Park police didn’t reveal they were investigating the still-unsolved slaying of Cmdr. Alphonso Mortimer Doss, 44, for two weeks
because there was no pressing need to do so, Police Chief Gary Goble told the Times-Union Thursday morning.
Goble said he is confident in the probe’s progress and put out a brief news release Wednesday
only upon an inquiry from a television reporter based on a tip. The news release and a
heavily redacted police report said a woman discovered Doss in Room 183 at the Astoria Hotel Suites near Jacksonville Naval Air Station and that an autopsy found he was killed. Few other details were released.
http://members.jacksonville.com/news/cr ... ubled-life
???
From the reviews on the hotel website (this one's from May this year, three months after the Doss murder):
5/10
Verified Hotel Guest
Traveling as Couple
5/12/2014
Due to the 'gangsta' element at night, and most obviously on the weekends, this is not good at all for the overall integrity of an otherwise pleasant place to stay. The ghetto thugs are ruining it for everybody, except themselves. We checked out early because of the outside company that was surrounding the front door and parking lot. Didn't feel very safe. Nothing but a bunch of punks with attitudes.
The staff was very nice
YES.the nightclub inside was entirely 'ghetto'!
OMG, police and security were everywhere watching the doors, and when I asked the desk clerk what was going on, she said it was normal because the club gets packed and fights break out. Thugs everywhere!
http://www.priceline.com/hotel/hotelOve ... opID=40082
So:
1) "police and security were everywhere"
2) The Navy were happy to have one of their most prominent Commanders (a man apparently in a very fragile emotional state) staying in a place like this?
A man who was in possession of lots of classified information about the nation'sHomeland's most high-profile and heavily-guarded terrorist detainees -- and who was by then known to have a serious alcohol-abuse problem?
"Ich kann gar nicht so viel fressen, wie ich kotzen möchte." - Max Liebermann,, Berlin, 1933
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." - Richard Feynman, NYC, 1966
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