Was A Vulnerable John Douglas Hijacked By ‘First Generation Crackpots’ To Lie About The Case?
First-generation crackpots Doug Preston, Michael Heavey, and Steve Moore
1. Overview Of This Post
In these four magnificent posts the Machine shows in devastating detail HOW John Douglas mis-stated the case.
Click for Post: How With Myriad False Claims John Douglas Pushes To Forefront Of Pro-Knox Crackpots #1
Click for Post: How With Myriad False Claims John Douglas Pushes To Forefront Of Pro-Knox Crackpots #2
Click for Post: How With Myriad False Claims John Douglas Pushes To Forefront Of Pro-Knox Crackpots #3
Click for Post: How With Myriad False Claims John Douglas Pushes To Forefront Of Pro-Knox Crackpots #4
Here I would like to examine one good possible reason WHY he mis-stated the case.
In this context, please take special note in Posts 2 and 3 of how the Knox PR shills and to a lesser extent the Sollecito PR shills increasingly misled in 2007-2010 about AK and RS and the evidence against them.
This helped to drown out genuine news of what was a very fair and decisive trial and the blatant corruption of the 2011 appeal court that came next.
Who were those shills? The list became very long but Doug Preston and Michael Heavey began large-scale lying from 2007 (to such an extent that even the defense counsel complained) and Steve Moore noisily picked up the load from 2009.
2. John Douglas: The Public Persona We Already Knew
Douglas was born on June 18, 1945, in Brooklyn, New York City, so he is now aged 73. In 1995 John Douglas turned in his FBI badge and he retired at the tellingly early age of 49.
In the subsequent 23 years he wrote some books on past profiling cases which won some respect, even though not everybody marvels at the science of profiling and its so-so results and some even consider them something of a fraud. He gained a loyal readership and saw his alter ego repeatedly recreated in crime shows on TV.
But since 2004 Douglas does not seem to have written any books exclusively by himself. Much of what he wrote since was recycled, and he adopted some seemingly dogmatic and badly argued positions, for example on the JonBenet Ramsey and West Memphis Three cases.
In 2011-2013 John Douglas first wrote about Meredith’s case and, with Heavey, Moore and others, entered into a major lobbying campaign in the US. To quote from the Machine’s third post:
Douglas came late to the case and the “beautiful” Amanda Knox seems to have turned him into something of a whirling dervish. He has made false claims in several books, in postings on his own and other websites, in interviews, in a pitch to a near-empty room at the Congress, and in one or two forays into the State Department.
Peaking in 2013 before the Nencini appeal (the repeat of the annulled Hellman appeal), they were seemingly made to (1) poison the jury pool of an ongoing legal process and (2) inflame American public opinion to create pushbacks at the political level.
In his four posts so far, the Machine has meticulously demonstrated how John Douglas became detached from the realities of the case. He has been misleading millions on a grand scale. Literally dozens and dozens of his findings are flat-out wrong.
And Douglas did this with a remarkably angry and inflammatory contempt for the Italian investigators and judiciary.
In what the Machine examined John Douglas comes across as defamatory (against especially Dr Mignini), racist (against Rudy Guede), and xenophobic (against Italy in general) and utterly callous toward Meredith’s long-suffering family.
3. John Douglas: Telling Mental Signs In Public Domain
On October 13, 2017 an article by Ed Power about John Douglas’s mental health appeared in the British newspaper The Telegraph: The real Mindhunter: inside the head of FBI ‘serial killer whisperer’ John E Douglas.
The article was never questioned or rebutted. The sourcing is specific. The Telegraph, a respected source in itself, published this Article 10 months ago & it has apparently not been challenged since then even by his family.
And there is independent corroboration in an already-screened movie series, that addressed the subject of Douglas’s mental health, which was offered on Netflix beginning in December 2015.
The Telegraph article is well worth reading in its entirety and includes the following passage:
“...the ghoulish nature of the job eventually wore Douglas down. Nightmares and sleepless nights were increasingly frequent and he found it hard to communicate with his family….
Under immense pressure at work, he contracted viral encephalitis ““ a fever which doctors said “fried his brain”. His family were warned he would likely be left in a vegetative stage.
He recovered however,.........but the psychological trauma never quite lifted and he turned in his badge for good in 1995 aged just 49.”
So he was not aged more than 49 when he contracted viral encephalitis at least 23 years ago.
Complete recovery from viral encephalitis of this severity is unusual. Any implication that it was “immense pressure at work” that caused his viral encephalitis is misleading.
Only a virus could have caused viral encephalitis. However, stress could have lowered his physiological resistance.
To size him up with confidence we really need to know more about this viral episode, but the HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) will almost certainly be enlisted to hinder fulfillment of that need.
Common sense tells us that Douglas’s fall from his former excellence into his current incompetence and gross negligence is probably a late consequence of his viral encephalitis,
This late consequence is analogous to Shingles as a late consequence of Chickenpox.
4. John Douglas: Was He Hijacked By The Knox PR?
The evidence for this seems pretty clear.
The last book with Douglas as sole author was in 2004. The AK Book “The Forgotten Killer” was published in 2013. His chapter was co-written with Mark Olshaker.
The co-authors of other chapters were the PR shills Douglas Preston, Michael Heavey, Steve Moore, and Jim Lovering. All have been exposed by us here over the years.
The Introduction was by Thomas Lee Wright, and the malicious grandstander Bruce Fischer introduced at least some of this team to one another; his fingerprints seem on the book as well as those of Marriott and the Knox-Mellases.
Let us allow a few of our past exposures to show how they originated almost all of Douglas’s false claims .
1. Doug Preston
Click for Post: Doug Preston’s Nasty Ant-Italy Anti-Mignini Campaign To Stir Bigotry Hits A Wall
Click for Post: New Mignini Interview Makes Doug Preston Look Increasingly Incompetent And Vindictive
Click for Post: How Doug Preston’s Wrong Claims In His MOF Afterword Were Often Contradicted In The Past
2. Michael Heavey
Click for Post: Why Prominent Knox Supporter Judge Heavey Faces An Uphill Task
Click for Post: Prominent Seattle Knox PR Puppet Michael Heavey Might Be About To Take A Fall
Click for Post: FOA’s Michael Heavey Sends A Pretentious Dishonest Letter To President Obama Copied To Congress
3. Steve Moore
Click for Post: How With Myriad False Claims Steve Moore Pushes To Forefront Of Pro-Knox Crackpots
4. Thomas Lee Wright
Click for Post: Fervent Knox Supporter Tom Wright Seemingly Strongarms Knox High School Into “Honoring” Her
5. Bruce Fischer
Click for Post: Disarray And Decay In The Pro-Knox Parade: Bruce Fischer’s Epidemic Of Malicious Claims
5. My Own Conclusion
It will be easy for the media to take this further. John Douglas needs to speak up. In shilling for Knox… did he jump, or, was he pushed?
Posted by Cardiol MD on 09/18/18 at 11:44 AM in