Conspiracy Theories

Former pro wrestler and Minnesota Governor Jesse “The Body” Ventura has a show on TruTV where he and his team of crack investigators look into famous cases and incidents that were deemed solved but questions still lingered from skeptics who didn’t totally buy into the conclusions provided.

Cases looked into by this show range from the JFK assassination to Area 51.

Following I will give three cases based on actual events that were deemed solved and closed but that I still have questions about.

I am leaving out names purposefully for really no reason but some of you may be familiar with these cases and the people involved.

After I give the “facts” of each case, I will give my own conspiracy theories dealing with each of them.

CASE #1. A man is accused of having inappropriate contact with young girls at a daycare center owned by his daughter. He is indicted on ten counts of child molestation and goes to trial. The judge ruled one of the children incompetent to testify. The jury finds the man not guilty on one of the counts but could not reach a decision on the other eight charges. The judge declares a mistrial but tells the parents of the eight children who the jury could not reach a verdict on that he would recommend the man be re-tried on those counts. But 11 days later the man’s body was found outside of a large piece of farm equipment that he apparently had been pulled through. An investigation determined the death to be accidental.

CASE #2. A decomposing body is discovered inside of an old, abandoned house in the rural area of the county. Seven shell casings are found near the body which is so badly decomposed it can’t be determined to be black or white, male or female by just looking at it.

The body, which had no identification on it, is taken to the crime lab where it is determined to be that of a white male that had been dead at least a week inside that house in the sweltering, summer heat. Investigators still had no clue as to the identity of the man or any leads as to who killed him and put him there. The case grows cold and unsolved for over a decade until a former sheriff’s office radio operator and jailer comes forth with some chilling information. Terminally ill and dying, the ex-deputy is begged by the only other person who knows his dark secret to come clean before he leaves this world. The ex-deputy waivers at first but is threatened by his friend that if he doesn’t tell, she will. He agrees to meet with investigators at his hospice and confesses to the killing. He continued to work with the department for several years often asking investigators about the case. He is taken to jail and booked on murder charges and released back to the hospice where he later passes away without ever be tried in the case.

CASE #3. A part-time police officer of a small municipality is ending his shift and is at the station alone getting ready to go home. He radios dispatch for back-up and medical assistance. He has been shot and names his assailant. When other officers arrive on they scene they go and apprehend the suspect who has been considered by many to be the town nuisance. The suspect is taken to jail and booked on suspicion of shooting the officer who, by now, has been treated by medical personnel for a bullet wound through his hand and taken to the sheriff’s office where state detectives begin their investigation into the incident. The officer also took a round to the chest but was wearing his bullet-proof vest at the time and is saved from what might have been a fatal wound. It is later determined that the suspect has been falsely accused, is innocent of any wrong doing, and released. The officer is accused of shooting himself and blaming the man for it but no one knows why. He is tried for and convicted on charges of giving false statements, tampering with evidence, interference with government property, false swearing and theft by taking. He is sentenced and serves nearly four years in prison before being paroled.

My conspiracy theories concerning these three cases are as follows…

In CASE #1, a man accused of ten counts of child molestation is freed after a mistrial is declared and just over a week later is found dead outside a piece of farm equipment. His death is ruled accidental. My theory is that there were ten sets of angry parents out there. Could one or more of them have put the man in that farm machinery?

In CASE #2, a former sheriff’s employee gives a death bed confession in a 13 year old unsolved murder case of a man found decomposing in an abandoned house in a rural part of the county. My theory is that the ex-deputy went straight to the sheriff after committing this act and told him what happened hoping to get his support and have the killing to be determined self-defense. The sheriff, not needing or wanting this kind of attention, took and disposed of the gun and advised his employee and long time friend to keep quiet and no one would never know.

In CASE #3, a part-time police officer accuses the town vagrant of shooting him on duty one night but is later convicted of shooting himself and concocting the whole story and does time in the state pen for it. My theory is that the officer’s jealous wife suspected him of having an affair and confronted him at the station about it where a heated argument ensued and she shot him. Looking to cover up the embarrassing reality, the cop made up the story about the vagrant shooting him to protect his wife who moved out of town, and later divorced him, shortly after he was convicted.

Those are my theories and I’m sticking to them.