Why isn’t a MURDER being called one?
Even as news-media, across continents, is ‘Breaking News’ of developments on 15 yr-old Scarlett Eden Keeling’s Murder with a 24×7 vigil, the case continues to be reported, almost unanimously, & appallingly, as the 15 yr-old’s being ‘drugged, raped, & left to die on the beach’. The attestation till date accompanies reports that clearly contradict Goa Police’s complicit cover-up yarn, & inspite of the erring Goa Police themselves registering a case of Murder (on Saturday 8th March 2008).
This insistently negligent reporting reeks of a recent precedent, in the ways of manipulating (or reserving judgment for) the public imagination of the extent of a particular crime. In January 1999 in Delhi, a Hit-and-Run-Case that killed 6 people was registered against Sanjiv Nanda, grandson of Indian Navy’s (former Chief of Naval Staff) Admiral S.M. Nanda, and son of yesterday’s Lt. Commander, & ironically today’s accused ‘Arms Dealer’, Suresh Nanda. During the initial investigations the case was being headlined as ‘Nanda Hit-and-Run case’. Very soon, out of coercion and/or corruption, the case started getting itself called ‘BMW Hit-and-Run case’, clearly refracting from the identification, in the public imagination, of a Nanda as the accused. The ‘Hit-and-Run case’ has been, almost, closed owing to the lone survivor of the accident changing his deposition to remembering the erring-vehicle to be a truck & not a (BMW) car. But, in a triumphant deliverance of Poetic Justice, the Father-Son-Nanda-Duo are, as of today, committed to Judicial Custody in a case relating to alleged tampering with evidence to influence the investigations in defence deals (on charges of receiving kickbacks in the controversial Barak missile deal).
For the sake of authenticity, & as a mark of respect to the departed Scarlett, I shall insist on the case being referred to, as it must rightly be, as the Scarlett Keeling Murder Case.
As has been brought to our living rooms, ‘On-The-Hour, Every-Hour’, the Scarlett Keeling Murder Case seems to be about a 15-yr-old Brit tourist girl’s death, in mysterious circumstances. Scarlett Keeling’s dead body was found on Anjuna Beach in Goa, exactly 5 weeks ago, at 6.30 in the early hours of Monday the 18th of February 2008. Goa Police, in the local reigns of Anjuna Sub-Inspector Peron Albuquerque, declares the cause of death to that of drowning. Fiona MacKeown, mother of Scarlett’s, & 8 more kids, exploring Gokarna in neighboring state of Karnataka, is informed of the (accidental) demise of her eldest daughter.
43-yr-old Fiona doesn’t buy the Goa Police story of a Death-by-Drowning pronouncement & ventures to view Scarlett’s remains one more occasion. Overcome by grief, Fiona, nevertheless, manages to make pictures of the numerous wounds, numbering 50, all over her daughter’s remains - legs dotted with red marks (indicating injury caused before death, as anything after death wouldn’t ‘redden’), and Scarlett’s “genital area showing large red marks around her bottom and down both sides of her inner thigh”. The battered body, & the knowledge that Scarlett’s a “strong swimmer” convinces Fiona of the death being a case of murder (& torture), beyond any reasonable doubt. In trying to pursue the investigation of what obviously is a murder, it is only when the grieving mother threatens to release the graphic pictures of a battered Scarlett, addressed to the Chief Minister of Goa, does the Government relent a 2nd autopsy - a full 17 days after Scarlett’s death – on the 6th of March 2008.
Post the second autopsy, conducted by the doctor who signed the first one, Dr Silvano Sapeco, it emerges that there were indeed about 50 wounds on her body, & that there are signs of struggle resisting torture& death. Dr. Silvano Sapeco also revealed, in a TV Hidden Camera, that he suggested the strong possibility of murder in the 1st autopsy too. But Sub-Inspector Peron Albuquerque intervened in the findings. Goa Police, after having already made desperate attempts of cover-up, by this time, picked their candidate to take the fall (deservedly or otherwise), in Peron Albuquerque, who anyways has a questionable record with passing off a 2005 murder (another one?) as drowning.
Meanwhile Scarlett’s death figured in debates in both the Indian & British Parliaments. While the Union Minister for Tourism Ambika Soni seems to have assured thorough investigation into the case, she “ignored CPI(M) member Brinda Karat’s suggestion that her ministry should support the demand for a CBI enquiry into Scarlett Keeling’s death in Goa.” Now, why would our Tourism Minister do such a thing? Indian Tourism’s ‘Incredible India’ mantra managing to attract only half (about 5 million tourists a year) of what smaller, neighbouring centers (such as Singapore) draws seems to have been one of her many concerns for India Inc?
Saturday 9th March 2008: Goa Police registers a case of Murder. But continues to find excuses for stalling & covering-up the investigation. Having picked-up 28 yr-old Samson D’Souza, a waiter at the Luis’ Café in Anjuna (where Scarlett was seen last before hurled to her rape, torture & murder) & one of the accused based on eye-witness account claming he was seen raping Scarlett, the Goa Police, bizarrely, orders an ‘Ossification test’ that would ascertain Scarlett’s correct age that might have been lied about in her passport. Now, what the Goa Police is saying is that the prosecution, if Scarlett’s age turns out to be 18+, would have to essentially acquit the said Samson D’Souza. Acquit of what? Consensual sex? When found raping the victim? And why invoke an ‘Ossification Test’ that’s exclusively reserved for un-identifiable/ unclaimed bodies? Scarlett’s identity never was in doubt; turns-out, the killers could vouch for the same too.
Fiona trades accusations with the Goa Police, State Home Minister Ravi Naik (under whose fiefdom the State Police Force figures), DGP B S Brar, & the faceless-and-tentacled-Drug-Mafia-in-Goa. The Government tries to pressurize the Centre to keep Fiona from re-entering Goa as all-of-a-sudden “Goa is supposed to be not wanting people with criminal background”. Fiona’s having done a year’s time in jail for knifing a man’s neck seems to be coming in the way of seeking justice for her daughter’s murder. And for her “negligent parenting”, would warrant jail time in India too.
Three arrests are made, one after another, by the Goa Police. 25(?) yr-old Julio Lobo (dubbed as Scarlett’s ‘Indian Boyfriend’) seems to be the 1st arrest. Barman Samson D’Souza the 2nd one, & on the 13th of march 2008 the third arrestee Placido Carvalho (AKA Shanna Boy) at which juncture Goa Police claims to have solved the case. Newsmen, imaginatively, headline stories in the first person “I Killed Scarlett Keeling” apparently admitted by Samson D’Souza while the very same stories don’t bother to carry anything of the sort quoted by the barman. According to Goa Police, Samson D’Souza is supposed to have raped Scarlett twice, assaulted her, dumped her body & left the crime scene when a man walking with a torchlight was spotted by him. Placido Carvalho, a drug dealer who gets media’s promotion to that of a ‘businessman’, is held on charges of ‘supplying’ drugs to Scarlett on the fateful night.
The Goa Police refuse the benefit of the doubt, if we were willing to confer on them, & insist on inviting upon themselves a ridicule-ous imbecilic tag when as late as yesterday, the 23rd of march 2008, they haul Scarlett’s boyfriend Julio Lobo for a medical test that would “ascertain whether he is sexually active“ in the words of Goa Police’s Superintendent of Police Bosco George. What would this accomplish for the Goa Police, especially when the 25 yr-old has himself stated, on many occasions, that he’s been sexually active. The earlier Ossification might actually come handy here, if only ossifications can ascertain how long since an individual’s been sexually active!
More events fuel the investigation, of Scarlett’s Murder:
1. Michael Mannion (AKA Masala Mike):
Fiona, having gathered of Masala Mike’s presence at Luis’’s Café on the fateful night, & his subsequent flight, requested his coming back to aid the investigation. Meanwhile Placido Carvalho (Shanna Boy) names Masala Mike in his deposition as a witness to events at Luis’ café. Goa Police issue a look-out notice alerting Airports & Ports for Michael ‘Masala Mike’ Mannion. Masala Mike is supposed to have earlier spoken to a British Scribe about being witness to the rape & assault of Scarlett by his friend (Samson D’Souza). 35(?) yr-old Masala Mike arrives in Goa on the 17th of March to record his deposition. A Gist of the deposition would be that Masala Mike is a “witness to the events preceding the homicide of Scarlett Eden Keeling, British National, on the morning of the 18th February 2008”, a friend of Prime Accused Samson D’Souza, & staying as a guest at Samson’s house along with Samson’s wife Cecile, has known Samson from 6 yrs ago when he was here earlier. A British National, a carpenter by profession, Masala Mike’s been in Goa since 1st of February 2008. Having arrived at Luis’ Café with Samson at 8.30 p.m. on 17th February he hung around till 3 a.m. when Scarlett ‘fell over’ in front of the café, on the sand. Scarlett’s helped into the café by the shack’s owner Luis Coutinho. Scarlett’s supposed to have been “in an inebriated state”, wearing a red vest (Scarlett was found in a Bikini Top) & a blue shorts with ‘italia’ written behind them. According to Masala Mike’s deposition, Scarlett was overheard talking to Luis & “She said she had no money to get home with a taxi as she was living in Siolim. I suggested to those present in the bar that we organize a taxi for her and I offered to pay for it. But this suggestion was ignored.” The others present at the café, according to Masala Mike, were Samson D’Souza, Placido Carvalho (Shanna Boy), Luis Coutinho, Murli (who worked at the Curly’s bar), & another Brit by the name of Charlie. Masala Mike then goes on to say that at 5 a.m. Scarlett was being taken by Murli, who assured Mike that the girl would be safely dropped at curley’s.
Masala Mike spots Samson walking out of the café. While taking a piss-break at the parking area, around 5.15 a.m. Masala Mike observes Murli leaving on his two-wheeler, while the vehicle’s lamp throws light on Samson perched over Scarlett, trying to rid her of her clothes. At this time Masala Mike says, fearing for his own safety, he left the place on his scooter. Reached Samson’s place, not having a key to himself in, waited for Samson, who returned at 6 a.m. & both of them went to bed, with Masala Mike waking up at 11 a.m., called his partner in England(?) narrating the events of the night where a teenager was violated. Later, when he reached Luis’ café he is supposed to have heard of a girl’s dead body washing-up on the shore. Description of the piercing on the lower lip confirms the identification, in Masala Mike’s mind, of Scarlett. At some point he is supposed to have been threatened, & asked to leave the place. Masala Mike obliges the flight the 23rd of February.
2. Scarlett’s 35 page diary makes appearance:
Goa Police, in a search at boyfriend Julio Lobo’s premises, find a 35 pages’ diary that Scarlett kept along with her belongings. The diary is immediately made copies of, & claimed to be in possession of almost every news group that’s been covering the Murder. But it’s amazing how every news coverage on the diary uses the very same few entries that have supposed to reveal Scarlett’s ‘craving for drugs, drink & sex’. The very same entries & very same conclusions, verbatim, across correspondents, news groups, & continents. But there must be more to this teenager, revealed in the 35 pages than the little that has been handpicked. The last entry supposedly illustrates the confusion in her mind, & her death-wish in “Dear Diary/ I rele rele rele don’t know what to do. I wish something big would happen to make my decision final.” This last undated entry (she was using a school-book for her diary) is accompanied by a stick-drawing showing a human figure dangling from a hangman’s Death-By-Hanging rope, & followed by Julio’s name, address, email, and phone numbers.
3. New Autopsy & Forensic Lab reports:
Forensic Experts’ final report on Mar 22 confirmed the cause of Scarlett’s death – Homicidal Drowning (drowned by holding Scarlett’s head underwater for between 5-10 minutes). Additional Drugs were pumped-into Scarlett’s body after her death by Goa Police, conclusively proving, along with the earlier abominable practices, Goa Police’s desperate attempts to cover-up the case. Dr. Silvano Sapeco (in-charge of both the autopsies) is now being discredited for something he wasn’t responsible in the first place; a senior Police Officer is quoted as saying “only when a forensic doctor keeps the cause of death reserved can they give new insights into the cause of death. But in Scarlett’s case, Dr. Sapeco had clearly stated that the cause of death was due to drowning. So, he can’t give any new insight as an afterthought”.
4. Julio interviewed:
Julio Lobo, the 25 yrs old boyfriend of Scarlett’s in whose care Fiona had left her daughter finally was interviewed by a British Newspaper. In his interview Julio claims to have known Scarlett’s age to be 19. Julio is facing charges of rape (for unlawful sexual relations with a minor). He recounts his seeing Scarlett for the last time – on Feb 17th 2008 Sunday when he dropped her on his bike to a vegetarian restaurant in Anjuna called ‘Bean Me Up’ at about 8.30pm. He says “She was due to meet the rest of her family in Gokarna the following day and said she wanted to spend time with her friend, Ruby(16), whose family run the restaurant”. Scarlett & Ruby were supposed to have gone out & returned to ‘Bean Me Up’ at 1.30 a.m., when they appeared to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Ruby went to bed, and Scarlett was next seen about one & a half hours later in Lui’s bar on Anjuna beach, again in “an intoxicated state”. Julio also says that “She said she’d call me when she was ready to be picked up.” But the call never happened, till he heard about her death, subsequently sent a text message to Fiona who was in Gokarna where Scarlett & Julio were supposed to meet the family.
There has been harsh criticism for Fiona “for neglecting her young daughter”, “setting a bad example with her bohemian lifestyle”, “Irresponsible parenting”, to relegation of blame by UK Daily Mail’s columnist Allison Pearson – “Fiona MacKeown, the mother of Scarlett Keeling, the 15-year-old girl who was raped and murdered in Goa, seems less like a grieving mother than an avenging tigress. Maybe so (referring to Goa Police’s dereliction of duty). But isn’t there an even better chance that Scarlett would still be alive if her own mother had not abandoned her for several weeks after an argument and recklessly continued her own holiday? Instead the blonde teenager, as tempting as a ripe peach, was left in the care of a 25-year-old tour guide - a local man she’d only recently met. I don’t know what they call that in globe-trotting hippy circles. Back here on Planet Parent it’s known as dereliction of duty.” To even some appalling comments such as “All at the UK taxpayer’s expense” by a Michael J Lee, from Sheffield.
Fiona, as much as I find it difficult to understand your critics’ indiscretion I do also have a few questions that might as well be put away-with to be able to single-mindedly pursue Scarlett’s Murderers;
a. Why don’t you talk about your past that the Goa Police seems to be intensely pursuing & rid them of the time it would take while they might as well be using the same, un-covering Scarlett’s Murder (when they are not busy covering-it-up).
b. You, Fiona, have always maintained the presence of a bigger consortium behind Scarlett’s Murder, even when Samson D’Souza’s & Placido Carvalho’s arrests prompted the Goa Police to claim the case solved. You have gone to the great risks of accusing Goa’s Home Minister Ravi Naik to be involved with the Drug Mafia, along with the Police. Why then refrain from naming (if there are any you have reasons to name) the ‘others’ you vociferously have maintained from the beginning. What sort of names have you had in mind when you were confident that the Police had got the “wrong guys”?
c. There is a pattern of selective recounting on everybody’s part here. According to Julio’s accusation (who conveniently claims to have believed Scarlett to have been 19), you, Fiona, seem to not acknowledge that Scarlett & Julio have been living under the same roof, & that they spent-time/stayed together even when they visited you in Gokarna, in Karnataka. And also that the week of her demise was not the first time Scarlett was left in Julio’s care-of.
As far as the selective recounting can be kept to nil, there would be hope to un-cover what’s been humiliatingly brushed aside as a case of ‘drugged, raped, & left to die on the beach’. Because, young Scarlett’s death has hardly been selective.
It is very un-believable, of a section of the news media that fails to ask questions that are begging to be asked. What is the point of the Exclusives that star-journos manage when they leave gaping holes un-negotiated, in the space of the same interview/piece they’re filing for News’ Breaking? Asking questions barely qualify as accusation, especially when one’s serving in the capacity of the ‘asker’!Here are some questions, I have, that scream to be asked:
1. Masala Mike:
a. Why did you come back? When is it that you decided to come back? Though you seem to have earlier expressed your desire to depose, to a British Journalist, you finally came back only when a lookout notice was issued in your name by the Goa Police, rendering it impossible for you to leave the country.
It turns out that the lookout notice was issued after Placido Carvalho’s naming you as a witness at the Luis’ Café. Now, it doesn’t look a co-incidence that Placido Carvalho named you as a witness. Placido had procured an anticipatory bail much before his arrest. This seems to match the time Goa Police took to figure the fall-guys, as speculated by Fiona & a British Legal firm. It is curious that you use the not-so-common expression for being intoxicated - ‘inebriation’, while describing Scarlett’s state when she entered Luis’ café on the fateful night. Because that’s the same exact expression Placido employs too, in his deposition. In fact there’s no mismatch at all, in yours’ & Placido’s recounting of the events of the night, to even the timings staying in-sync.
b. You talk of how Scarlett wasn’t carrying (enough/any) money to take a taxi to Siolim, how you offered to pay for the taxi but that the offer was ignored by your ‘mates’ at the café;since, by your own admission, you possessed a scooter why wouldn’t you yourself see the minor girl home to the barely 15 minutes drive to Siolim? Because, after 2 hours’ deliberation, & much else, at the café it was Murli who was dropping Scarlett to Curley’s, on his bike (wasn’t Scarlett wanting to go to Siolim?).
c. You carefully avoid the subject of drugs, & deny any knowledge of, when asked. Why? To start with, unfairly or otherwise, your alias (of Masala Mike) sounds like a hash dealer’s. In any case, I would be interested about the origin of your curious alias. You never talk of any of the group at Luis’ as running/dealing drugs while it seems to be common knowledge as to what kind of businessman Placido Carvalho was! Nor do you talk of the owner of the shack, Luis Coutinho, & the certain Charlie.
d. You claim to have seen & spoken to Scarlett for the first time only hours before her death. And Scarlett is supposed to have discussed her drugs-intake whilst talking to you at the bar area (3 drops of LSD, two Ecstasy pills and cocaine). How is it that you are not aware of what Scarlett’s conversation with the rest of the congregation, in the approximately 120 minutes that she spent there, was like? You also mention how at one point you warned the others that the “girl was still a minor”. What were you warning them against?
e. Mike, having come back for the crucial deposition, & joining the ‘SUPPORT FOR FIONA MACKOEWN!’ group on Facebook isn’t good-enough! Ask yourself if you’ve presented all that there is to be told, as a crucial witness that was sought, in the investigation of a Murder you attest to have witnessed the beginnings of.
2. Julio Lobo:
a. You claim to have had ‘feelings’ for Scarlett, & that you thought Scarlett loved you till being shocked by what her diary revealed; questioning herself if she was with you for the money, favors, trip to Finland etc., and consequently wondering if you were with her for the sex etc. How is that you claim that Scarlett lied to you about her age being 19 when, according to Masala Mike’s account, her age seems to be the very 2nd thing she reveals to strangers (after her name).
b. How is it that you don’t mention any of the names accused in the Murder. As a local, & a tourist guide who arranges exotic specialty sightseeing trips, you must be acquainted, or more, with the Samson D’Souzas, Placido Carvalhos, Masala Mikes, Murlis, & Luis Coutinhos.
c. You claim to have dropped Scarlett on the night of her murder at 8.30 p.m. at the ‘Bean Me Up’ restaurant, meters away from Luis’ café, where Scarlett was seeing her friend Ruby, with the instruction that you’d pick her up as soon as she calls for you. Having received no call while she could have (till 5 a.m.), & never being able to afterwards, you go asking around for her only in the morning. Weren’t the two of you to leave for Gokarna to join Scarlett’s family, the next morning, according to your own narration? Or was it just Scarlett, in which case were you people exhausted of all/any ‘Sweet Nothings’ to accompany your farewells to, on her last day here in Goa?
Why is it that NOBODY’s (Fiona, relatives, boyfriend, witness, Police, news media) talking of a most crucial detail in the unfortunate series of events that have led to young Scarlett’s Murder?
That Sunday the 17th of February 2008 was the last day Scarlett was going to spend in Goa. Little did young Scarlett know that the same day would end up being her last, anywhere on this planet.
As chronicled by a British Scribe (Tom Rawstone of the Daily Mail), Fiona made plans to go to Goa on a holiday for 6 months for the whole family, consisting of Fiona, her 47-year-old Boyfriend Rob Clarke, & 8 children (the eldest Halloran, 19, remained at home in Devon). Goa was chosen as holiday destination as Rob Clarke had been there several times before. This was the first time the family was ever traveling beyond Britain, and the trip was a Christmas present to themselves. Having reached Goa in November the family spent couple of months in Anjuna, before heading out to explore different parts of the country, with a motive to, maybe, come back to settle down. Scarlett chose to stay back, in Goa, owing to reasons unknown (probably out of attachment for the boyfriend Julio Lobo & wanting to stay non-nomadic while the family figures the next abode.
On the 14th of February 2008, Fiona’s eldest offspring, & Scarlett’s (biological) brother Halloran met with a serious life-threatening accident while crossing a road (freakishly at 6.42 a.m. while his sister’s dead body would be discovered at 6.30 a.m. 4 days later). It is only on the 17th of February that Fiona informs Scarlett of the accident, & the decision Fiona’s made to return home to England. Hence Scarlett (& so did, obviously for me, her Murderers) knew that February 17th would be her last day (& night) in Goa, as she would leave for Gokarna with Julio, to join the family. Allegedly, as Julio was “feeling ill” & “decided to stay home”, Scarlett “teamed up with a 16-year-old girl called Ruby for one last night on the town”. Scarlett has been continuously, & speculatively, painted a hedonistic picture of an overgrown, over-sexed, alcoholic, drug-addicted, & in the words of a columnist Allison Pearson “as tempting as a ripe peach”. Sure, Scarlett is as desirable, & falling-in-love-with-able as a Natalie Portman personnage from Closer, inhabiting the body of a much younger girl. But isn't it very much possible that the ‘inebriated’ state Scarlett is claimed to have been found-in could be the result of a farewell she was bidding a geography she probably fell in love with, before resuming a “difficult life” on the “field” back in Devon. And am making a strong supposition that Scarlett’s Murderers, & witnesses of the violation, knew as much about her last night in Goa before she was to leave the place, for good. In the light of this new motive, Scarlett’s death becomes a definite case of pre-meditated, pre-planned Murder.
Now, it must not be difficult, for the investigation, to map Scarlett’s last hours before her death. The hours between 8.30 p.m. and 1 a.m. that was spent with Ruby [whom a British Daily had the good sense to track down in South of Spain & talk to] when the duo’s supposed to have hopped pubs & shacks; the hours between 1 a.m. & 3 a.m. when Scarlett was supposed to have been by herself; and the hours between 3 a.m. from the moment Scarlett was led into Luis’ Café to the time of her death. It's baffling that none of the autopsy reports have bothered to ascertain the exact time of Scarlett’s death (a process that’s been in place for decades) while we only know of the time when the dead body was discovered – 6.30 a.m.
It must be very much possible, & ensured of the same, that Scarlett’s entire duration in Goa, of 2.5 months, is mapped. And the leading protagonists’ time too. There could very well be, as Fiona’s been confidently insinuating, the devil himself who emerged from the shadows to unleash his havoc before receding back into the dark. The devil, or a bunch of devils, that probably was looking to take-on the sense of beauty, freedom & desire Scarlett represented, before this particular bird would make her flight back to where she came from.
Given the extent of the desperate Cover-up of Scarlett’s Murder, I wouldn’t be as surprised if there exists a Video of Scarlett’s death. A snuff film, of a young life, violated, tortured, & snuffed-out.
I make the Black Dahlia reference, in my enquiring if Scarlett’s Murder investigation is going to turn into ‘Scarlet Dahlia’, as this present case is scarily approaching the layers beyond layers of Corruption Practices that rendered the Black Dahlia Investigation a long-standing Un-Solved Crime of the previous century. The Black Dahlia Case also involved a beautiful young girl, 22-yr-old Elizabeth Short, who was tortured (for about 48 hours) before rid her of her life, drained out of blood, cut in half, & her body curiously displayed for a mocking view, for the on-looker/investigator. The case took more than 50 years for solving, while it officially is yet to be unanimously acknowledged as SOLVED. It turns out, according to Steve Hodel who cracked the case, that the investigating Los Angeles Police Department’s (LAPD) officers were on the payroll of the Abortion Lobby that was protecting one of it’s own – father of ex-LAPD officer Steve Hodel & the Murderer of the Black Dahlia, the Black Dahlia Avenger Dr. George Hodel.
Steve Hodel’s guiding light, & now his very own investigative philosophy, that he’s termed Thoughtprints, has been that “Our thoughts connect us to one another and to our actions”. He goes on to say “In all of our actions, each of us leaves behind traces of our self. Like our fingerprints, these traces are identifiable. I call them thoughtprints. They are the ridges, loops, and whorls of our mind. Like the individual “points” that a criminalist examines in a fingerprint, they mean little by themselves and remain meaningless, unconnected shapes in a jigsaw puzzle until they are pieced together to reveal a clear picture.” “A collective of our motives, a paradigm constructed from our individual thoughts, these illusive prints construct the signature that will connect or link us to a specific time, place, crime, or victim.”
Now, seen, & understood in this new light, nothing seems to be a co-incidence; even Samson D’Souza & Masala Mike reaching Luis’ Café at 8.30 p.m. which is exactly the time boyfriend Julio drops Scarlett at the meters-away ‘Bean Me Up’ restaurant in Anjuna on the fateful Sunday night of February 17th 2008.
I do wonder what our esteemed Intelligence Community (R.A.W and I.B) is doing about this present case? What they are advising our politicians who, in cases of this nature, seek the Intelligence’s intelligence.
Mr. Rakesh Maria, this present case, of Scarlett’s Murder, needs your Goan counterpart; a counterpart not in your rank, of Joint Commissioner of Police (Mumbai Crime Branch), but your resolve to deliver justice, & in your righteous anger.
Fiona, do keep your fight to put young Scarlett to rest, at a place where she would be Scarlett again. And hope that people who can make a difference do come forward to make the difference.
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of Truth and Love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it, always."
- A Mahatma Gandhi quote, succinctly chosen by Steve Hodel for his un-masking of his own father as the 'Black Dahlia Avenger'.
Even as news-media, across continents, is ‘Breaking News’ of developments on 15 yr-old Scarlett Eden Keeling’s Murder with a 24×7 vigil, the case continues to be reported, almost unanimously, & appallingly, as the 15 yr-old’s being ‘drugged, raped, & left to die on the beach’. The attestation till date accompanies reports that clearly contradict Goa Police’s complicit cover-up yarn, & inspite of the erring Goa Police themselves registering a case of Murder (on Saturday 8th March 2008).
This insistently negligent reporting reeks of a recent precedent, in the ways of manipulating (or reserving judgment for) the public imagination of the extent of a particular crime. In January 1999 in Delhi, a Hit-and-Run-Case that killed 6 people was registered against Sanjiv Nanda, grandson of Indian Navy’s (former Chief of Naval Staff) Admiral S.M. Nanda, and son of yesterday’s Lt. Commander, & ironically today’s accused ‘Arms Dealer’, Suresh Nanda. During the initial investigations the case was being headlined as ‘Nanda Hit-and-Run case’. Very soon, out of coercion and/or corruption, the case started getting itself called ‘BMW Hit-and-Run case’, clearly refracting from the identification, in the public imagination, of a Nanda as the accused. The ‘Hit-and-Run case’ has been, almost, closed owing to the lone survivor of the accident changing his deposition to remembering the erring-vehicle to be a truck & not a (BMW) car. But, in a triumphant deliverance of Poetic Justice, the Father-Son-Nanda-Duo are, as of today, committed to Judicial Custody in a case relating to alleged tampering with evidence to influence the investigations in defence deals (on charges of receiving kickbacks in the controversial Barak missile deal).
For the sake of authenticity, & as a mark of respect to the departed Scarlett, I shall insist on the case being referred to, as it must rightly be, as the Scarlett Keeling Murder Case.
As has been brought to our living rooms, ‘On-The-Hour, Every-Hour’, the Scarlett Keeling Murder Case seems to be about a 15-yr-old Brit tourist girl’s death, in mysterious circumstances. Scarlett Keeling’s dead body was found on Anjuna Beach in Goa, exactly 5 weeks ago, at 6.30 in the early hours of Monday the 18th of February 2008. Goa Police, in the local reigns of Anjuna Sub-Inspector Peron Albuquerque, declares the cause of death to that of drowning. Fiona MacKeown, mother of Scarlett’s, & 8 more kids, exploring Gokarna in neighboring state of Karnataka, is informed of the (accidental) demise of her eldest daughter.
43-yr-old Fiona doesn’t buy the Goa Police story of a Death-by-Drowning pronouncement & ventures to view Scarlett’s remains one more occasion. Overcome by grief, Fiona, nevertheless, manages to make pictures of the numerous wounds, numbering 50, all over her daughter’s remains - legs dotted with red marks (indicating injury caused before death, as anything after death wouldn’t ‘redden’), and Scarlett’s “genital area showing large red marks around her bottom and down both sides of her inner thigh”. The battered body, & the knowledge that Scarlett’s a “strong swimmer” convinces Fiona of the death being a case of murder (& torture), beyond any reasonable doubt. In trying to pursue the investigation of what obviously is a murder, it is only when the grieving mother threatens to release the graphic pictures of a battered Scarlett, addressed to the Chief Minister of Goa, does the Government relent a 2nd autopsy - a full 17 days after Scarlett’s death – on the 6th of March 2008.
Post the second autopsy, conducted by the doctor who signed the first one, Dr Silvano Sapeco, it emerges that there were indeed about 50 wounds on her body, & that there are signs of struggle resisting torture& death. Dr. Silvano Sapeco also revealed, in a TV Hidden Camera, that he suggested the strong possibility of murder in the 1st autopsy too. But Sub-Inspector Peron Albuquerque intervened in the findings. Goa Police, after having already made desperate attempts of cover-up, by this time, picked their candidate to take the fall (deservedly or otherwise), in Peron Albuquerque, who anyways has a questionable record with passing off a 2005 murder (another one?) as drowning.
Meanwhile Scarlett’s death figured in debates in both the Indian & British Parliaments. While the Union Minister for Tourism Ambika Soni seems to have assured thorough investigation into the case, she “ignored CPI(M) member Brinda Karat’s suggestion that her ministry should support the demand for a CBI enquiry into Scarlett Keeling’s death in Goa.” Now, why would our Tourism Minister do such a thing? Indian Tourism’s ‘Incredible India’ mantra managing to attract only half (about 5 million tourists a year) of what smaller, neighbouring centers (such as Singapore) draws seems to have been one of her many concerns for India Inc?
Saturday 9th March 2008: Goa Police registers a case of Murder. But continues to find excuses for stalling & covering-up the investigation. Having picked-up 28 yr-old Samson D’Souza, a waiter at the Luis’ Café in Anjuna (where Scarlett was seen last before hurled to her rape, torture & murder) & one of the accused based on eye-witness account claming he was seen raping Scarlett, the Goa Police, bizarrely, orders an ‘Ossification test’ that would ascertain Scarlett’s correct age that might have been lied about in her passport. Now, what the Goa Police is saying is that the prosecution, if Scarlett’s age turns out to be 18+, would have to essentially acquit the said Samson D’Souza. Acquit of what? Consensual sex? When found raping the victim? And why invoke an ‘Ossification Test’ that’s exclusively reserved for un-identifiable/ unclaimed bodies? Scarlett’s identity never was in doubt; turns-out, the killers could vouch for the same too.
Fiona trades accusations with the Goa Police, State Home Minister Ravi Naik (under whose fiefdom the State Police Force figures), DGP B S Brar, & the faceless-and-tentacled-Drug-Mafia-in-Goa. The Government tries to pressurize the Centre to keep Fiona from re-entering Goa as all-of-a-sudden “Goa is supposed to be not wanting people with criminal background”. Fiona’s having done a year’s time in jail for knifing a man’s neck seems to be coming in the way of seeking justice for her daughter’s murder. And for her “negligent parenting”, would warrant jail time in India too.
Three arrests are made, one after another, by the Goa Police. 25(?) yr-old Julio Lobo (dubbed as Scarlett’s ‘Indian Boyfriend’) seems to be the 1st arrest. Barman Samson D’Souza the 2nd one, & on the 13th of march 2008 the third arrestee Placido Carvalho (AKA Shanna Boy) at which juncture Goa Police claims to have solved the case. Newsmen, imaginatively, headline stories in the first person “I Killed Scarlett Keeling” apparently admitted by Samson D’Souza while the very same stories don’t bother to carry anything of the sort quoted by the barman. According to Goa Police, Samson D’Souza is supposed to have raped Scarlett twice, assaulted her, dumped her body & left the crime scene when a man walking with a torchlight was spotted by him. Placido Carvalho, a drug dealer who gets media’s promotion to that of a ‘businessman’, is held on charges of ‘supplying’ drugs to Scarlett on the fateful night.
The Goa Police refuse the benefit of the doubt, if we were willing to confer on them, & insist on inviting upon themselves a ridicule-ous imbecilic tag when as late as yesterday, the 23rd of march 2008, they haul Scarlett’s boyfriend Julio Lobo for a medical test that would “ascertain whether he is sexually active“ in the words of Goa Police’s Superintendent of Police Bosco George. What would this accomplish for the Goa Police, especially when the 25 yr-old has himself stated, on many occasions, that he’s been sexually active. The earlier Ossification might actually come handy here, if only ossifications can ascertain how long since an individual’s been sexually active!
More events fuel the investigation, of Scarlett’s Murder:
1. Michael Mannion (AKA Masala Mike):
Fiona, having gathered of Masala Mike’s presence at Luis’’s Café on the fateful night, & his subsequent flight, requested his coming back to aid the investigation. Meanwhile Placido Carvalho (Shanna Boy) names Masala Mike in his deposition as a witness to events at Luis’ café. Goa Police issue a look-out notice alerting Airports & Ports for Michael ‘Masala Mike’ Mannion. Masala Mike is supposed to have earlier spoken to a British Scribe about being witness to the rape & assault of Scarlett by his friend (Samson D’Souza). 35(?) yr-old Masala Mike arrives in Goa on the 17th of March to record his deposition. A Gist of the deposition would be that Masala Mike is a “witness to the events preceding the homicide of Scarlett Eden Keeling, British National, on the morning of the 18th February 2008”, a friend of Prime Accused Samson D’Souza, & staying as a guest at Samson’s house along with Samson’s wife Cecile, has known Samson from 6 yrs ago when he was here earlier. A British National, a carpenter by profession, Masala Mike’s been in Goa since 1st of February 2008. Having arrived at Luis’ Café with Samson at 8.30 p.m. on 17th February he hung around till 3 a.m. when Scarlett ‘fell over’ in front of the café, on the sand. Scarlett’s helped into the café by the shack’s owner Luis Coutinho. Scarlett’s supposed to have been “in an inebriated state”, wearing a red vest (Scarlett was found in a Bikini Top) & a blue shorts with ‘italia’ written behind them. According to Masala Mike’s deposition, Scarlett was overheard talking to Luis & “She said she had no money to get home with a taxi as she was living in Siolim. I suggested to those present in the bar that we organize a taxi for her and I offered to pay for it. But this suggestion was ignored.” The others present at the café, according to Masala Mike, were Samson D’Souza, Placido Carvalho (Shanna Boy), Luis Coutinho, Murli (who worked at the Curly’s bar), & another Brit by the name of Charlie. Masala Mike then goes on to say that at 5 a.m. Scarlett was being taken by Murli, who assured Mike that the girl would be safely dropped at curley’s.
Masala Mike spots Samson walking out of the café. While taking a piss-break at the parking area, around 5.15 a.m. Masala Mike observes Murli leaving on his two-wheeler, while the vehicle’s lamp throws light on Samson perched over Scarlett, trying to rid her of her clothes. At this time Masala Mike says, fearing for his own safety, he left the place on his scooter. Reached Samson’s place, not having a key to himself in, waited for Samson, who returned at 6 a.m. & both of them went to bed, with Masala Mike waking up at 11 a.m., called his partner in England(?) narrating the events of the night where a teenager was violated. Later, when he reached Luis’ café he is supposed to have heard of a girl’s dead body washing-up on the shore. Description of the piercing on the lower lip confirms the identification, in Masala Mike’s mind, of Scarlett. At some point he is supposed to have been threatened, & asked to leave the place. Masala Mike obliges the flight the 23rd of February.
2. Scarlett’s 35 page diary makes appearance:
Goa Police, in a search at boyfriend Julio Lobo’s premises, find a 35 pages’ diary that Scarlett kept along with her belongings. The diary is immediately made copies of, & claimed to be in possession of almost every news group that’s been covering the Murder. But it’s amazing how every news coverage on the diary uses the very same few entries that have supposed to reveal Scarlett’s ‘craving for drugs, drink & sex’. The very same entries & very same conclusions, verbatim, across correspondents, news groups, & continents. But there must be more to this teenager, revealed in the 35 pages than the little that has been handpicked. The last entry supposedly illustrates the confusion in her mind, & her death-wish in “Dear Diary/ I rele rele rele don’t know what to do. I wish something big would happen to make my decision final.” This last undated entry (she was using a school-book for her diary) is accompanied by a stick-drawing showing a human figure dangling from a hangman’s Death-By-Hanging rope, & followed by Julio’s name, address, email, and phone numbers.
3. New Autopsy & Forensic Lab reports:
Forensic Experts’ final report on Mar 22 confirmed the cause of Scarlett’s death – Homicidal Drowning (drowned by holding Scarlett’s head underwater for between 5-10 minutes). Additional Drugs were pumped-into Scarlett’s body after her death by Goa Police, conclusively proving, along with the earlier abominable practices, Goa Police’s desperate attempts to cover-up the case. Dr. Silvano Sapeco (in-charge of both the autopsies) is now being discredited for something he wasn’t responsible in the first place; a senior Police Officer is quoted as saying “only when a forensic doctor keeps the cause of death reserved can they give new insights into the cause of death. But in Scarlett’s case, Dr. Sapeco had clearly stated that the cause of death was due to drowning. So, he can’t give any new insight as an afterthought”.
4. Julio interviewed:
Julio Lobo, the 25 yrs old boyfriend of Scarlett’s in whose care Fiona had left her daughter finally was interviewed by a British Newspaper. In his interview Julio claims to have known Scarlett’s age to be 19. Julio is facing charges of rape (for unlawful sexual relations with a minor). He recounts his seeing Scarlett for the last time – on Feb 17th 2008 Sunday when he dropped her on his bike to a vegetarian restaurant in Anjuna called ‘Bean Me Up’ at about 8.30pm. He says “She was due to meet the rest of her family in Gokarna the following day and said she wanted to spend time with her friend, Ruby(16), whose family run the restaurant”. Scarlett & Ruby were supposed to have gone out & returned to ‘Bean Me Up’ at 1.30 a.m., when they appeared to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Ruby went to bed, and Scarlett was next seen about one & a half hours later in Lui’s bar on Anjuna beach, again in “an intoxicated state”. Julio also says that “She said she’d call me when she was ready to be picked up.” But the call never happened, till he heard about her death, subsequently sent a text message to Fiona who was in Gokarna where Scarlett & Julio were supposed to meet the family.
There has been harsh criticism for Fiona “for neglecting her young daughter”, “setting a bad example with her bohemian lifestyle”, “Irresponsible parenting”, to relegation of blame by UK Daily Mail’s columnist Allison Pearson – “Fiona MacKeown, the mother of Scarlett Keeling, the 15-year-old girl who was raped and murdered in Goa, seems less like a grieving mother than an avenging tigress. Maybe so (referring to Goa Police’s dereliction of duty). But isn’t there an even better chance that Scarlett would still be alive if her own mother had not abandoned her for several weeks after an argument and recklessly continued her own holiday? Instead the blonde teenager, as tempting as a ripe peach, was left in the care of a 25-year-old tour guide - a local man she’d only recently met. I don’t know what they call that in globe-trotting hippy circles. Back here on Planet Parent it’s known as dereliction of duty.” To even some appalling comments such as “All at the UK taxpayer’s expense” by a Michael J Lee, from Sheffield.
Fiona, as much as I find it difficult to understand your critics’ indiscretion I do also have a few questions that might as well be put away-with to be able to single-mindedly pursue Scarlett’s Murderers;
a. Why don’t you talk about your past that the Goa Police seems to be intensely pursuing & rid them of the time it would take while they might as well be using the same, un-covering Scarlett’s Murder (when they are not busy covering-it-up).
b. You, Fiona, have always maintained the presence of a bigger consortium behind Scarlett’s Murder, even when Samson D’Souza’s & Placido Carvalho’s arrests prompted the Goa Police to claim the case solved. You have gone to the great risks of accusing Goa’s Home Minister Ravi Naik to be involved with the Drug Mafia, along with the Police. Why then refrain from naming (if there are any you have reasons to name) the ‘others’ you vociferously have maintained from the beginning. What sort of names have you had in mind when you were confident that the Police had got the “wrong guys”?
c. There is a pattern of selective recounting on everybody’s part here. According to Julio’s accusation (who conveniently claims to have believed Scarlett to have been 19), you, Fiona, seem to not acknowledge that Scarlett & Julio have been living under the same roof, & that they spent-time/stayed together even when they visited you in Gokarna, in Karnataka. And also that the week of her demise was not the first time Scarlett was left in Julio’s care-of.
As far as the selective recounting can be kept to nil, there would be hope to un-cover what’s been humiliatingly brushed aside as a case of ‘drugged, raped, & left to die on the beach’. Because, young Scarlett’s death has hardly been selective.
It is very un-believable, of a section of the news media that fails to ask questions that are begging to be asked. What is the point of the Exclusives that star-journos manage when they leave gaping holes un-negotiated, in the space of the same interview/piece they’re filing for News’ Breaking? Asking questions barely qualify as accusation, especially when one’s serving in the capacity of the ‘asker’!Here are some questions, I have, that scream to be asked:
1. Masala Mike:
a. Why did you come back? When is it that you decided to come back? Though you seem to have earlier expressed your desire to depose, to a British Journalist, you finally came back only when a lookout notice was issued in your name by the Goa Police, rendering it impossible for you to leave the country.
It turns out that the lookout notice was issued after Placido Carvalho’s naming you as a witness at the Luis’ Café. Now, it doesn’t look a co-incidence that Placido Carvalho named you as a witness. Placido had procured an anticipatory bail much before his arrest. This seems to match the time Goa Police took to figure the fall-guys, as speculated by Fiona & a British Legal firm. It is curious that you use the not-so-common expression for being intoxicated - ‘inebriation’, while describing Scarlett’s state when she entered Luis’ café on the fateful night. Because that’s the same exact expression Placido employs too, in his deposition. In fact there’s no mismatch at all, in yours’ & Placido’s recounting of the events of the night, to even the timings staying in-sync.
b. You talk of how Scarlett wasn’t carrying (enough/any) money to take a taxi to Siolim, how you offered to pay for the taxi but that the offer was ignored by your ‘mates’ at the café;since, by your own admission, you possessed a scooter why wouldn’t you yourself see the minor girl home to the barely 15 minutes drive to Siolim? Because, after 2 hours’ deliberation, & much else, at the café it was Murli who was dropping Scarlett to Curley’s, on his bike (wasn’t Scarlett wanting to go to Siolim?).
c. You carefully avoid the subject of drugs, & deny any knowledge of, when asked. Why? To start with, unfairly or otherwise, your alias (of Masala Mike) sounds like a hash dealer’s. In any case, I would be interested about the origin of your curious alias. You never talk of any of the group at Luis’ as running/dealing drugs while it seems to be common knowledge as to what kind of businessman Placido Carvalho was! Nor do you talk of the owner of the shack, Luis Coutinho, & the certain Charlie.
d. You claim to have seen & spoken to Scarlett for the first time only hours before her death. And Scarlett is supposed to have discussed her drugs-intake whilst talking to you at the bar area (3 drops of LSD, two Ecstasy pills and cocaine). How is it that you are not aware of what Scarlett’s conversation with the rest of the congregation, in the approximately 120 minutes that she spent there, was like? You also mention how at one point you warned the others that the “girl was still a minor”. What were you warning them against?
e. Mike, having come back for the crucial deposition, & joining the ‘SUPPORT FOR FIONA MACKOEWN!’ group on Facebook isn’t good-enough! Ask yourself if you’ve presented all that there is to be told, as a crucial witness that was sought, in the investigation of a Murder you attest to have witnessed the beginnings of.
2. Julio Lobo:
a. You claim to have had ‘feelings’ for Scarlett, & that you thought Scarlett loved you till being shocked by what her diary revealed; questioning herself if she was with you for the money, favors, trip to Finland etc., and consequently wondering if you were with her for the sex etc. How is that you claim that Scarlett lied to you about her age being 19 when, according to Masala Mike’s account, her age seems to be the very 2nd thing she reveals to strangers (after her name).
b. How is it that you don’t mention any of the names accused in the Murder. As a local, & a tourist guide who arranges exotic specialty sightseeing trips, you must be acquainted, or more, with the Samson D’Souzas, Placido Carvalhos, Masala Mikes, Murlis, & Luis Coutinhos.
c. You claim to have dropped Scarlett on the night of her murder at 8.30 p.m. at the ‘Bean Me Up’ restaurant, meters away from Luis’ café, where Scarlett was seeing her friend Ruby, with the instruction that you’d pick her up as soon as she calls for you. Having received no call while she could have (till 5 a.m.), & never being able to afterwards, you go asking around for her only in the morning. Weren’t the two of you to leave for Gokarna to join Scarlett’s family, the next morning, according to your own narration? Or was it just Scarlett, in which case were you people exhausted of all/any ‘Sweet Nothings’ to accompany your farewells to, on her last day here in Goa?
Why is it that NOBODY’s (Fiona, relatives, boyfriend, witness, Police, news media) talking of a most crucial detail in the unfortunate series of events that have led to young Scarlett’s Murder?
That Sunday the 17th of February 2008 was the last day Scarlett was going to spend in Goa. Little did young Scarlett know that the same day would end up being her last, anywhere on this planet.
As chronicled by a British Scribe (Tom Rawstone of the Daily Mail), Fiona made plans to go to Goa on a holiday for 6 months for the whole family, consisting of Fiona, her 47-year-old Boyfriend Rob Clarke, & 8 children (the eldest Halloran, 19, remained at home in Devon). Goa was chosen as holiday destination as Rob Clarke had been there several times before. This was the first time the family was ever traveling beyond Britain, and the trip was a Christmas present to themselves. Having reached Goa in November the family spent couple of months in Anjuna, before heading out to explore different parts of the country, with a motive to, maybe, come back to settle down. Scarlett chose to stay back, in Goa, owing to reasons unknown (probably out of attachment for the boyfriend Julio Lobo & wanting to stay non-nomadic while the family figures the next abode.
On the 14th of February 2008, Fiona’s eldest offspring, & Scarlett’s (biological) brother Halloran met with a serious life-threatening accident while crossing a road (freakishly at 6.42 a.m. while his sister’s dead body would be discovered at 6.30 a.m. 4 days later). It is only on the 17th of February that Fiona informs Scarlett of the accident, & the decision Fiona’s made to return home to England. Hence Scarlett (& so did, obviously for me, her Murderers) knew that February 17th would be her last day (& night) in Goa, as she would leave for Gokarna with Julio, to join the family. Allegedly, as Julio was “feeling ill” & “decided to stay home”, Scarlett “teamed up with a 16-year-old girl called Ruby for one last night on the town”. Scarlett has been continuously, & speculatively, painted a hedonistic picture of an overgrown, over-sexed, alcoholic, drug-addicted, & in the words of a columnist Allison Pearson “as tempting as a ripe peach”. Sure, Scarlett is as desirable, & falling-in-love-with-able as a Natalie Portman personnage from Closer, inhabiting the body of a much younger girl. But isn't it very much possible that the ‘inebriated’ state Scarlett is claimed to have been found-in could be the result of a farewell she was bidding a geography she probably fell in love with, before resuming a “difficult life” on the “field” back in Devon. And am making a strong supposition that Scarlett’s Murderers, & witnesses of the violation, knew as much about her last night in Goa before she was to leave the place, for good. In the light of this new motive, Scarlett’s death becomes a definite case of pre-meditated, pre-planned Murder.
Now, it must not be difficult, for the investigation, to map Scarlett’s last hours before her death. The hours between 8.30 p.m. and 1 a.m. that was spent with Ruby [whom a British Daily had the good sense to track down in South of Spain & talk to] when the duo’s supposed to have hopped pubs & shacks; the hours between 1 a.m. & 3 a.m. when Scarlett was supposed to have been by herself; and the hours between 3 a.m. from the moment Scarlett was led into Luis’ Café to the time of her death. It's baffling that none of the autopsy reports have bothered to ascertain the exact time of Scarlett’s death (a process that’s been in place for decades) while we only know of the time when the dead body was discovered – 6.30 a.m.
It must be very much possible, & ensured of the same, that Scarlett’s entire duration in Goa, of 2.5 months, is mapped. And the leading protagonists’ time too. There could very well be, as Fiona’s been confidently insinuating, the devil himself who emerged from the shadows to unleash his havoc before receding back into the dark. The devil, or a bunch of devils, that probably was looking to take-on the sense of beauty, freedom & desire Scarlett represented, before this particular bird would make her flight back to where she came from.
Given the extent of the desperate Cover-up of Scarlett’s Murder, I wouldn’t be as surprised if there exists a Video of Scarlett’s death. A snuff film, of a young life, violated, tortured, & snuffed-out.
I make the Black Dahlia reference, in my enquiring if Scarlett’s Murder investigation is going to turn into ‘Scarlet Dahlia’, as this present case is scarily approaching the layers beyond layers of Corruption Practices that rendered the Black Dahlia Investigation a long-standing Un-Solved Crime of the previous century. The Black Dahlia Case also involved a beautiful young girl, 22-yr-old Elizabeth Short, who was tortured (for about 48 hours) before rid her of her life, drained out of blood, cut in half, & her body curiously displayed for a mocking view, for the on-looker/investigator. The case took more than 50 years for solving, while it officially is yet to be unanimously acknowledged as SOLVED. It turns out, according to Steve Hodel who cracked the case, that the investigating Los Angeles Police Department’s (LAPD) officers were on the payroll of the Abortion Lobby that was protecting one of it’s own – father of ex-LAPD officer Steve Hodel & the Murderer of the Black Dahlia, the Black Dahlia Avenger Dr. George Hodel.
Steve Hodel’s guiding light, & now his very own investigative philosophy, that he’s termed Thoughtprints, has been that “Our thoughts connect us to one another and to our actions”. He goes on to say “In all of our actions, each of us leaves behind traces of our self. Like our fingerprints, these traces are identifiable. I call them thoughtprints. They are the ridges, loops, and whorls of our mind. Like the individual “points” that a criminalist examines in a fingerprint, they mean little by themselves and remain meaningless, unconnected shapes in a jigsaw puzzle until they are pieced together to reveal a clear picture.” “A collective of our motives, a paradigm constructed from our individual thoughts, these illusive prints construct the signature that will connect or link us to a specific time, place, crime, or victim.”
Now, seen, & understood in this new light, nothing seems to be a co-incidence; even Samson D’Souza & Masala Mike reaching Luis’ Café at 8.30 p.m. which is exactly the time boyfriend Julio drops Scarlett at the meters-away ‘Bean Me Up’ restaurant in Anjuna on the fateful Sunday night of February 17th 2008.
I do wonder what our esteemed Intelligence Community (R.A.W and I.B) is doing about this present case? What they are advising our politicians who, in cases of this nature, seek the Intelligence’s intelligence.
Mr. Rakesh Maria, this present case, of Scarlett’s Murder, needs your Goan counterpart; a counterpart not in your rank, of Joint Commissioner of Police (Mumbai Crime Branch), but your resolve to deliver justice, & in your righteous anger.
Fiona, do keep your fight to put young Scarlett to rest, at a place where she would be Scarlett again. And hope that people who can make a difference do come forward to make the difference.
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of Truth and Love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it, always."
- A Mahatma Gandhi quote, succinctly chosen by Steve Hodel for his un-masking of his own father as the 'Black Dahlia Avenger'.
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