-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/3/15/190211.shtml Remains Identified as O'Hair's NewsMax.com Wires Friday, March 16, 2001 AUSTIN, Texas (UPI) A forensic expert said Thursday the remains of atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair, her son and granddaughter were found last January buried on a Texas ranch, officially ending a six-year mystery about their disappearance. Dr. David M. Glassman, chairman of the anthropology department at Southwest Texas State University, said forensic tests identified the bones of O'Hair; her son, Jon Garth Murray; and her granddaughter, Robin Murray O'Hair, the victims of a 1995 abduction and extortion plot. Glassman said it was impossible from the surviving bones to determine the cause of death for Madalyn O'Hair and her granddaughter, but it appears Jon Murray was tortured. "When we removed the dirt that was covering his skull, his head had been covered in a plastic bag, his arms had been bound with a plastic ligature, and there was some trauma in the form of defect fractures to the side of his head and the back," he told a news conference. Glassman said the fractures were sufficient to have caused Murray's death. The examination supported the theory of federal agents who said the O'Hairs were killed and their bodies dismembered, possibly with a power saw. "All three of the O'Hair skeletons had been dismembered to the point that their legs were all cut, between the hip and the knee," he said. Glassman said the bone pieces were found scattered around the gravesite and one of his challenges was to put them together and determine which bones matched which skeletons. Also found in the grave were the skull and hand bones of a man in his early 40s. They are believed to belong to Danny Fry, a third conspirator whose headless and handless body was found on the banks of the Trinity River near Dallas in October 1985 after the O'Hairs vanished. Fry's body remained unidentified for three years, and it was when officials identified it that the plot began to unravel. Former O'Hair office manager David Waters, the mastermind in the extortion plot, led FBI agents and forensic experts to the bodies on Jan. 27 at a 5,000-acre ranch 100 miles west of San Antonio in the rugged Texas Hill Country. Waters, 53, guided FBI agents and Texas Rangers to the bodies as part of a plea bargain deal with federal prosecutors. He had pleaded guilty to one extortion charge in a closed federal court hearing Jan. 24 to order to get four other kidnapping and extortion charges dropped. A sentencing hearing is scheduled March 20. The maximum sentence is 20 years. Waters is already serving a 60-year state prison sentence for stealing $54,000 from O'Hair in 1994. During the January dig on the Cooksey Ranch, the law officers found human remains, including a metal hip replacement joint, which led them to believe they had found O'Hair. The 77-year-old woman had undergone a hip replacement a few years before her disappearance. Waters and the other two men allegedly abducted and held O'Hair, her son and granddaughter at a San Antonio motel in a plot to steal the $500,000 in gold coins. The three were then killed, their bodies chopped up and buried on the ranch, the FBI said. Waters's third accomplice, Gary Karr, was convicted on extortion and robbery charges last June. No murder charges were filed against Waters or Karr. Madalyn Murray O'Hair, who once said she was the most hated woman in the United States, was best known because of the Baltimore lawsuit she filed that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court banning school prayer in 1963. Copyright 2001 by United Press International. All rights reserved. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
