Subj: Get the kids off the PC!
Date: 11/28/99 12:10:45 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: [email protected] (Frances Carlton)
To: [email protected] (Mary Smithson)
Sis,
Either get another phone line, get voice mail, or occasionally tell the kids to get offline. Lord! Don't they ever go to bed! I've been trying to reach you all day.
Xmas is off. Sorry. We had something of a disaster at work. There was a fire in the lab early this morning. All of my hard copy files, which are those photocopied and used by the DA, the police, and the defense attorneys, will have to be totally reconstructed. The computer files are OK & fortunately I split my evidence samples, so I can keep half the sample at another site. Just as a protection against something like this. Redoing the files won't a hard job, just time consuming and tedious. Dammit! I really am sorry, sis. :-( I was looking forward to a real Xmas in the snow.
The arson squad says it was an electrical short, but I can't help but wonder if it wasn't set by a pro, hired by someone with a case coming up. Get rid of the evidence - no case - judge dismisses for lack of evidence. Whoever it is will be in for a surprise.<WG>
I have a favor to ask of Dan. Hope he's in a good mood. If not give him a few beers & put on a WWF video with that Dominatrix gal.<g> I'm attaching a file. Hope you don't have trouble opening it. Since we were on a skeleton crew on Friday, I did the analysis of Nick's stuff. Fortunately, I had it all in my car over the weekend. I was planning on taking it over to Berkeley on Mon. to a geologist I used to date. He's a nice guy, but didn't tell me he was married. Met him when he gave a series of lectures on California soils, etc. to police forensics departments. Now he owes me for the shine-on. The fire did that idea in. I just can't spare the time right now.
Anyway, do you think Dan would show the attached file to the guys in the NYFD arson & explosives squads? Hope it won't look too odd for an ordinary fire captain producing a report like that, but maybe he can cover it by saying he ran across it on the internet & is just curious. Sorry I can't come up with anything better.
It's really weird. I hadn't expected to find anything - normal or abnormal out there. There was just too much damage. But what I found, by accident, doesn't jive. Some of the soil samples contain extremely high concentrations of sulphur. They almost stink of it. The radiation levels are high too. Yet 2 of the samples come from less than a 5 ft. apart. One sample has relatively normal readings. The others are off the scope for sulphur and radiation. Dammit! I only took 5 soil samples from what should have been the sub-basement floor. The one [#A] from what seemed to be an intensely scorched, circular area had the highest readings. The one [#B] from between that and the pile of rubble was nearly as high. The 2 [#C & #D] from off to the side & farther back had somewhat decreased levels, while the one at the center of the room [#E] was nearly normal.
The scorch patterns are also odd. Intense at that circle, but after that they fan out to the sides. Almost like they were deflected or somehow diminished as the force of the main blast blew forward from that collapsed portion. It's hard to describe the pattern of destruction without you seeing it in person.
The other thing that is beyond weird, which is not included in what I'm sending. Is that the heat was intense enough to melt glass & metal, but the drops of metal that I collected are an unknown alloy according to the computer analysis. Gold & some other metals were present, but there was another compound that the computer totally failed to recognize. And - get this! - one of the pieces of what I thought was scorched rock - was petrified wood, but the kind of tree was also unknown. I know that practical science would try to explain the anomalies as being the result of the intense heat, but that won't fly. I know what intense heat & other catalysts can do. They don't do this.
I've got to go out to see Nick later this morning to tell him and give him half the samples and the report. I'll feel like I'm letting him down because what with the fire, I just don't have time to pursue this. It looks like I'll be working weekends & loads of OT from now thru Jan. Tell Dan to be careful how he presents this to the techies. The FBI, CID, Interpol, & God knows who else is interested. I know I won't be able to get more samples & would be *actively* discouraged from pursuing this, even if I could. The welcome wagon was not exactly rolled out even on Thanksgiving Day. Call me when the kids take a break. We need to talk.
Love bunches, Franny
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