Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

How pathetic the juvenile bpete is as he sinks further into desperation. He can't beat me in the realm of argument when it comes to the JFK assassination, so his only recourse is to attack me personally, including the raising of ancient events from my past.

He found an article from the DeWitt County News in which a jilted woman shot her lover in the back of the head at close range. But, it was only 22 caliber pistol, and the bullet disintegrated in his skull, only barely entering the brain. Doctors scraped the pieces out in a 7 hour operation. The guy lived, but he had holes in his visual field because it was the visual center of the brain that was affected.

Prior to that, and without explanation, the woman had asked me to hold a large amount of cash for her in my safe, which I did. She didn't say why, and I didn't ask. I didn't know it, but she had planned to kill herself after she killed him. But, after being shot, he wrestled the gun away from her and ran away. So, she was stuck with no way to kill herself. So, she went down to the river and tried to drown herself, and that's where the police apprehended her.

Both, she and the man she shot, whose name was Terry Fry, were in the same hospital at the same time: he in surgery and she in the mental ward. I was trying to be supportive to both of them, him because he was shot and almost killed, and she because she was obviously very disturbed. The money which I was holding for her I returned to her in the hospital in front of two of her friends, and there was never any question that I did so and in full.

Obviously, if I had kept money that was hers, it would have been not just a civil matter but also a criminal matter. I'm pretty sure that theft is a crime. But, I was never ever accused of keeping any of her money. Not by her, not by her friends, and not by any law enforcement. Never did anyone from law enforcement come to talk to me about that. They came to talk to me about Terry's and Frances' relationship, but they never asked me a thing about any money.

But, I did have a falling out Frances because, sick or not, she had done this to Terry, and I urged her to take responsibility for it and to start by paying his medical expenses. She did have a lot of money. And at first, she did, but she wound up hiring the most expensive lawyer in the area, and he told her to stop doing it. In fact, he filed suit against Terry for extortion, corruption, and moral turpitude. The fact is that she had given a lot of money to Terry, and he did end up taking up with a much younger woman. But, they were never married or engaged, and I don't think he ever made any explicit promises to her. Did he lead her on? Probably. I wouldn't doubt it. And I'm not defending him. But whatever he did, it didn't rise to the level of deserving to be shot in the head.

So, as Terry was trying to recover from his near-death experience, Frances and her lawyer were aggressively suing him. And he, of course, got a lawyer and sued her back for attempted murder and severe bodily harm.

Meanwhile, on the criminal side, her defense lawyer got an esteemed psychiatrist to write 20 pages claiming that Frances was an abused woman (Terry had never physically or verbally abused her- not in the slightest) and it was a form of mind control and manipulation on his part that led her to do it, that she was the real victim, not him, etc. etc.

And the defense attorney started planting articles in the local paper in order to bias the jury pool in her favor. He was famous for doing that. And by that point, the lines were drawn, and I was clearly on Terry's side. And that's how I got dragged into it.

But, the criminal case never went to trial. The DA offered her a deal in which she plead guilty to aggravated assault, and she went immediately on probation- so no jail time. She just had to stay in the county for 5 years and report once a week to probation officer and that was it. She did that, and then she returned to Illinois from whence she came.

She and Terry ended up settling by her paying all of his medical expenses and dropping all claims against him for past money she had given him over a period of several years.

And the thing about the land is that before any of this began, she and I and another party had bought some land in the beautiful Texas Hill Country, about 100 acres where we were going to develop into a health retreat. She and I had bought it together, so when things fell apart, there was the issue of how to divide the land properly. Based on the monies that we each put in, I agreed to keep one-third of our portion and give her the rest. That is how we settled it, and that was the end of it.

Again, the bullet points are that I was NEVER accused of retaining any of her money, not by her, not by police, not by anybody. And surely if there were any issues in that regard, it would have been both a civil and a criminal matter. Never was I accused of withholding any money; never was I asked to produce any money beyond what I voluntarily returned to her; and never was it stated in any legal document that I had done anything wrong. That article bpete found was written by her lawyer to prejudice the jury pool- if the case had gone to trial, which it didn't.

So, in that respect, her aggressive lawyer turned out to be a complete failure; he did not accomplish anything for her. Of course, on the criminal side, he did get her off without any jail time, which was quite amazing.

But, I happen to know that she came so disenchanted with her lawyer that she wound up firing him, and he had to sue her to collect his fees. Fancy that. I don't know how that worked out, They probably settled.

Eventually, she and I wound up settling our land dispute. By then, she had already fired her lawyer, and we were able to do it on a friendly basis. And I continued to hear from her occasionally over the next few years until her probation ended, and then she returned to Illinois. I don't know if she is still living or not. She would be very old now if she is.

And that is the whole story. I was NEVER accused of withholding any of her money. I was never accused of any wrongdoing. And in the end, she wound up doing exactly what I urged her to do from the start, which was to forgive Terry's debt and pay his medical expenses. For goodness sake, she shot the man in the head.

Terry ended up dying at the young age of 65, and he was previously a very strong, robust man. Did the shooting have something to do with his early demise? I wouldn't doubt it.