John Denver's for Baby for Bobby Hardcover Book

[Notation: See footnotes dated 10/20/2016 and ten/25/xvi.]

When you ask how I've been here without you,
I like to say I've been fine, and I practise.
But nosotros both know the truth is hard to come up by.
And if I told the truth, that's not quite true.
(Some Days Are Diamonds, by Dick Feller, Performed by John Denver)

The National Transportation Safety Board on January 26 1999 held a public meeting regarding the 10/12/97 decease of singer John Denver, real name Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. I called NTSB earlier this summer to get hold of a copy of that study, just to be told that they have no record of it. I did notice it, somewhen, in the Wayback Machine.

That'due south odd, NTSB missing a report on ane of the most high-profile airplane crashes in recent memory. But information technology makes sense from another standpoint: If the death was faked, and if higher powers were involved, then people of integrity at NTSB might just want to dorsum away from information technology. They would not want their careers or graphic symbol sullied by such an affair of deceit. So they let the report to broadcast, but exercise not claim ownership.

Here at this blog nosotros do a lot of enquiry of fake deaths, and on the surface, Denver'southward had all the earmarks. He died at an appropriate age (53, 5+three = eight, Spook marker*), and the circumstances of his death are completely hinky. He is said to have been struggling with the fuel tank switch in his Long EZ, a second-hand home-assembled model he bought and flew even as he could easily afford something new, something factory built. It doesn't read well. Denver, a smart man and achieved pilot with hundreds of hours of flight time, was not going to perish in an deed of idiocy.

Other markers of fake decease are present as well. Denver's once-prolific output had dwindled, his more than current offerings were just not very adept. Equally with Elvis, Karen Carpenter, John Lennon and most recently Prince, faking death is a business decision that maximizes the monetary value of the trunk of work. Denver'south Greatest Hits, along with his cutting room debris, have all been repackaged and resold to the melody of millions of dollars, every bit with the others who imitation their deaths.

I've been working on this event for months now, off and on, and am convinced now that John Denver did not die that day. Too many things are wrong with the picture. And nevertheless, I don't retrieve I will ever be able to testify across reasonable dubiety that he didn't. While the people who planned the deception were sloppy and while the whole day of his death seems a cheap and contrived detective novel, in that location is enough "evidence" to keep the myth alive. At that place is a fingerprint match, probably facilitated by Monterey Sheriff Norman Yard. Hicks, and the absenteeism of 2 toes on the corpse, said to be a link to the real Denver, but probably contrived and circular. While I cannot disprove these 2 pieces of prove, I will cast doubt.

John Denver: Fly Fishing in New Zealand

Let's beginning with a video which defenseless my eye months agone. Something is non right.

The video was said to exist shot in 1993, and released to YouTube in 2009. Denver is hidden behind sunglasses, hat and beard. The hair looks similar that he had dorsum in the 90s, but could easily be a wig. Below is a screen grab of a known video of Denver in 1993:

Several things jump out at us. Ane, in side view close-ups in the New Zealand video, Denver has pronounced crows-feet and other facial wrinkles, where in the image higher up his eyes and face are still youthful and unwrinkled. Of course, that could be makeup and the poor quality of video bachelor in 1993, as the latter is a stage functioning. And so that is non conclusive. In 1993, Denver was 49 years quondam. Tough phone call. In 2009, he was 65. The  crow's feet and lines below look more like 65 than 49.

The other thing still is a bigger tell, and that is the quality of the video. A member of the team that shot the video in 1993 claimed information technology was done on Sony Betacam i/ii inch tape. Tyrone, a writer on this web log who has seen the to a higher place video and has good knowledge on such matters, says it is entirely plausible that it was shot in 1993 when Denver was still a large deal and loftier-applied science films would be made of his performance. The question is, why? The conversion to video is slick and contains high production values. In 2009, putting information technology on YouTube does not generate a acquirement stream. They basically kept it in the can for all the years it had maximum value (1998 especially), and and then cut it loose for nothing.

As with everything else in the matter of the death of John Denver, it is plausible, simply highly suspicious.

John Denver, by the manner, had three children. Anna Kate was adopted and now lives in New Zealand. Zachary, adopted, still lives in Colorado, and Jesse Belle, product of the 2nd spousal relationship to Cassandra Delaney, lives in California. When I speak of them below, it is only as a matter of trying to clarify their father'due south beliefs. They were not in control of the events of Denver and his handlers, and I urge everyone to leave them exist.

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The exclusion of Jesse Belle from the John Denver manor

Denver, we are told, died "intestate," that is, without a last will and attestation. (This was also said of Prince.) It is nonsense, of course. Denver was said to exist worth $21 million, though nosotros never know whether our rock stars are living on royalties or are salaried employees. He had a individual foundation supervising state near his home, Windstar**. Having three children, two ex-wives, and surrounded by business advisors and investment managers … I take no doubt he had (has) a will. To think otherwise is delusional.

In that location is a problem in faking his decease, however. The provisions of the volition of a living person are only triggered past death. If he was however a living person, information technology could not exist done. In the case of intestate death, courts step in to supervise probate, and avails are distributed by rule of law. In Colorado, when a person dies without a spouse, all assets are distributed evenly to the children.

And so Denver's kids should have each inherited something in the area of $7 million if the $21 meg valuation is accurate. There is a 2003 article about a dispute between Zach and Anna, the adopted kids, and the IRS over valuation of the estate and some deductions, we are told, only that is the end of the story. We are told the thing was settled, but not plenty of the details to understand exactly what was settled.

His third kid, Jesse Belle, would accept been xiv at the time of the IRS dispute, and so a minor. However, she should have been named and had representation before IRS. She is not named in the dispute. Why was she excluded? Disposition of property in intestate deaths is by rule of law, so that no human can overrule it. Jesse Belle was entitled to one/three of the estate. She is not mentioned.

His Aspen house was sold in 1999 by its legal owners, Anna Kate and Zachary. Again, Jesse Belle, legally entitled to ane/3, is non mentioned. Information technology sounds, oddly as if Jesse Belle, the product of a stormy second wedlock, was brusk-inverse. If indeed he died intestate, that is quite incommunicable. The police is articulate that she was entitled to 1/3 of the estate. The movement of assets to Anna Kate and Zachary would appear then to exist mayhap a gift than an inheritance. Valuation of the gift would non affect the children'south cost basis, simply would affect the value of the gift and the amount of tax paid past Denver, and non the children.

Disposition of assets in deaths is usually public cognition. Wealthier people effort to avoid public disclosure by fugitive probate, and that is usually done by setting up trusts during their lifetimes. In the case of intestate deaths, disposition of assets is controlled past the courts. Usually, with modest estates (nearly of us) the matter is routine, often not even handled by courts. But Denver's estate was very large. The Pitkin Canton Combined Courts (Aspen, Denver'southward home, is in Pitkin County) were involved, and did indeed supervise disposition of assets.

I called Pitkin Canton on October 12 of this yr and innocently asked questions regarding intestate deaths. Afterwards existence bodacious I was in the right place, the clerk asked me whose death I was inquiring about. "Henry Deutschenforf," I said, hoping she would non recognize the name. She quickly said "I can save yous a lot of time here. You're not going to notice anything out. Those courtroom records are sealed."

I asked if disposition of assets in intestate deaths was not a matter of public tape, and she said yes, merely in this example "the family'south privacy took precedence over the public'southward correct to know." It was the end of the line.

The Long EZ

John Denver is said to have died on October 12, 1997. His experimental aeroplane, was an Adrian Davis Long-EZ. There are many inconsistencies about the plane and the crash.

The Long-EZ is no longer manufactured by the Rutan Shipping Factory, since renamed Scaled Composites. It is a home job, that is, if you buy one it comes in a crate. You assemble it yourself.

There has been one other known crash of this model, where an writer, John Gleick, crash landed in New Bailiwick of jersey. He was badly injured, and his viii-year quondam son was killed. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) link to that written report is a expressionless-end. This will factor in once again.

The Long EZ was famously flown around the world in 1997 by Dick Rutan and Mike Melvill, with some legs lasting fourteen hours. It was a light plane designed for fuel efficiency, and not comfort. In 1979 the Long EZ, flown past Rutan, set a world record for distance flown, 4,900 miles.

The "EZ" refers to ease of assembly. Denver's model was second-hand, we are told, and here it gets murky. The official cause of the crash was airplane pilot mistake. Denver was supposedly attempting to switch fuel tanks when he kicked a lever and entered into inescapable descent into Monterey Bay.

Co-ordinate to the official story, the previous owner of Denver's EZ had fabricated some adjustments, one of which was to movement the fuel tank switch behind the pilot seat so that his children in the back could brand that change while he was flying. This model has two fuel tanks, i in each wing, and a switch between the pilots legs. On Denver'due south model, we are told, the change of fuel tanks was difficult, requiring the airplane pilot to plough effectually and apply a vise grip. That'south why Denver screwed upward. He was monkeying with it and got twisted upwardly and his foot hit one of the control levers.

That story insults our intelligence, in my stance. Denver, an experienced pilot and wealthy performer, did non need to be buying planes off the used motorcar lot. He did not need a airplane designed for fuel efficiency. As he was not a stupid man, he would have assured himself that the plane was safety to fly. He would not have taken off until all systems were performing well.

Moving the tank switch to a place where it is not visible or easily attainable to the airplane pilot achieves and so little, while increasing flight danger, then that only a fool would have done information technology. Nosotros are told that the original owner did it and so that his children could perform the maneuver from their seats behind the pilot, and also keep track of fuel. Not just do I find that difficult to believe, just too that Denver would have owned, much less taken off in, such a Rube Goldberg contraption.

(Denver, we are told, on taking ownership of the aeroplane, changed its wing registration to "NC555JD." Once again, numerologists accept note*! The number "555" signals that a person is going though a major life change, neither skilful nor bad, but major.)

The crash

Denver died on October 12, 1997. Having just purchased his Long EZ, he was anxious to give information technology a trial run. He was using information technology that day to practice take-offs and landings. Though he was not legally qualified to fly on that twenty-four hours due to a drunkard driving episode in Colorado, later toxicology reports prove that he was clean and free of drugs and booze.

Here is Wikipedia's report on the crash itself:

The NTSB interviewed xx witnesses of Denver'southward concluding flight; six of them had observed the plane's crash into the bounding main virtually Point Pinos.^{[35] [36]} Four of the witnesses indicated that the airplane was originally heading west; five of them observed the airplane in a steep depository financial institution, with iv of those five reporting the banking company was to the right (north). Twelve witnesses saw the airplane in a steep nose-downward descent. Witnesses estimated the plane'southward superlative at 350 to 500 feet while heading toward the shoreline. Eight of the witnesses said that they heard a "pop" or "backfire", forth with a reduction in the engine noise level just before the airplane descended into the water.

[Emphasis added.] I left the footnote citations 35 and 36 in because both of those links are dead. Footnote 36, linking to the NTSB written report, is an interesting ane. Equally mentioned in a higher place, the report does exist in the Wayback Automobile.

While NTSB does not name any witnesses, the report of the Monterey County Sheriff/Coroner names 11. Nine are at odds with NTSB. I'll review them later.

Denver took off from Monterey Peninsula Airdrome at about 4:30 in the afternoon. He was wearing a bright shirt and gray pants. Everyone who saw him that day remembered his vesture. (Often times when looking for my wife as she disappears on me in the grocery shop, I realize that I don't know what she is wearing that 24-hour interval.) But according to official reports, everyone who encountered Denver that day remembered his bright shirt and grayness pants.

Denver discussed his flying plans with Chris Hadland, airport mechanic, who said that he was only going to exercise a couple of practice accept offs and landings, and go for a short flight thereafter. He was low on fuel but did not think that a trouble and refused to make full. He discussed the trouble with the switch on the Long EZ aircraft. He is said to have requested a mirror and so he could read his fuel status from the judge, which was backside him.

Although NTSB does not name its twenty witnesses to the crash, the Coroner's Report does list the 11 by name. Both reports conclude pilot error, and "instance airtight."

Norman G. Hicks

Norman Thou. Hicks, the sheriff in 1997, campaigned in part based on his war machine service record, but I can find no record of information technology. Although officially both sheriff and coroner of Monterey county, on official reports he is a ghost. He signed no documents that I accept seen in regard to the Denver decease.

The Coroner'south Study

I offset chosen the Monterey County Coroner in May of 2016, and trying to exist coy asked if I could get a copy of the Coroner's Report for the 1997 expiry of John Henry Deutschendorf, Jr. Information technology is numbered 97-227. Equally I hoped, the clerk did non recognize the proper noun, so no red flags went up. So I thought … she so expressed surprise, as their records are computerized, just that the record of this particular accident was withal on paper, had never been digitized. She would have to search for it. Nonetheless, she said, I had to write and asking the report, enclosing $10. I did and then on May 18.

Fourth dimension went past, other matters interfered, and I next broached the subject area in July of 2016. It had been two months, and they had not sent the report. I chosen, and the same clerk said they had no record of my letter or check.  And then on July 5th I sent another $ten check. This time I got a telephone call back proverb that my original check had been located, would be processed, and that the report was on the manner.

It did go far, some fourth dimension in July or August.

The report is a 19-page certificate. The first page is the Coroner'south Register, which serves as a death certificate, I suppose. It lists Denver'south Social Security Number as 453-70-6010 – that, for numerologists*, contains a 53 (eight), and ii sevens (6+1 is the second). I don't know what to make of numerology, and do not consider information technology to be solid evidence, but I do note that Denver'due south death is littered with markers.

The report states that Denver's corpse was fingerprinted past Susan Clark, the body was examined by M. Burns, and that another investigator was A. Wheelus. Photographs were taken by T. Jenkins and the above listed Chiliad. Burns. Carl Wheeler was the officer on scene. The pathologist was F. Walker. As I go far out, the report was signed past Main Deputy "Joe Submeier," even as the officer with legal accountability was the County Coroner, in Monterey County, the Sheriff, Norman G. Hicks.

A word about the Sheriff/Coroner functions. Combining the 2 offices may be common, merely in my view, that combines two functions that need to be separate. The sheriff has  "line" authority, that is, the ability to enforce laws, while the coroner is a "staff" office, there to clinch accountability. Well-nigh counties in the United States have elected coroners, as we demand to know the truth of deaths. So, operating independently of law enforcement, the coroner has the power to examine every decease, perform autopsies, and clinch the public (and insurance companies) that there is transparency.

The sheriff with law enforcement duties, the coroner operating equally a check and balance against the sheriff, assure public integrity in the matter of suspicious deaths. When one person holds both offices, at that place is a conflict of interest.

But in either case, Hicks is absent from this report. In an event this significant, the death of a major public effigy, the absence of the sheriff's signature on the report speaks to me. (If anyone reading this has access to public military records and tin can locate those of Norman Thousand. Hicks (Army, as I recall), please do so. I have had no luck.)

The Coroner's Report recounts the events leading upward to commitment of the corpse to the morgue. A police lieutenant, Carl Miller, reported that a small shipping had crashed into the bay. Part of the pilot'due south remains were recovered, and Miller believed they were that of vocaliser John Denver. Chris Hadland was contacted, and claimed to be present for pre-flight inspection, recounted his dealing with Denver and the color of his clothing.

It is noted that Denver had inverse the wing registration number of his plane to #N555JD, and sure enough, a portion of the fly bearing that number was said to have been recovered in the wreckage.

While very footling of Denver's body is supposed to have survived this crash, the post-obit items were recovered from the sea bottom by the Declension Guard:

• The aforementioned wing portion bearing the registration #N555JD.
• Several documents relating to the aircraft's registration and specifications.
• Several pieces of shipping, a "Long-Eze"[sic] serial S54, number 228vs.
• A torso which consisted of a right arm, hand, role of the head (missing the teeth portion). Missing were "both legs and a pelvis."
• Article of clothing – a "dark, multi-colored shirt and a nighttime pair of pants."
• A baseball game cap bearing the inscription "Yuma Rod and Gun Club".
• A pair of black jockey shorts.
• A correct cowboy boot and nighttime sock.

Given this array of surviving evidence, we are to conclude this was indeed the body of John Denver. It was just plenty to be a postcard from the edge. At that place was no face or teeth, simply i hand. And his underwear.

The trunk was put in the morgue cooler and placed nether baby-sit. Reports of Denver's death were already appearing in local and national news. Since the only person who suspected the crash was that of John Denver, the news must take been planted by Lt. Carl Miller or his superiors. They were the only ones suspecting it was Denver at that time.

Given the news spreading similar wildfire, the immediate object was to contact family members. Denver's brother Ron Deutschendorf, his mother and ex-wife were all contacted.

Annie, we are told, helped identify the trunk. She told investigators that John had lost two toes in a lawn mowing blow as a youth. If possibly the leg that survived the crash were his right leg, and if the foot were however intact, well, that might but assist identify the torso. And it did! The Coroner afterwards reported "…healed fractional amputations of the right first and second toes" on the correct pes. Annie's song was the correct tune, it appears.

Later we larn that Denver left his wallet containing his commuter's license and a wad of cash in his car at the aerodrome. Mayhap the bulge on his backside was too much for such a pocket-sized aircraft.

The body was delivered to the autopsy room in multiple bags. A total examination was done on the remains. A toxicology written report reveals that Denver had not been drinking or taking any substances of any kind. The esophagus and tummy were intact, and even though Denver enjoyed lunch that twenty-four hours with friends at the country club, no mention is made of contents. The right hand survives intact, then the Coroner was able to identify fingerprints as matching those supplied by Colorado authorities as belonging to Denver. Cause of decease is listed equally "multiple blunt force trauma (seconds)."

A final note about the torso – while no alcohol was present in the blood stream, ethanol was present in liver fluid. More later.

Witnesses, and the "Popular!"

NTSB failed to proper noun its twenty witnesses, as noted above. Information technology gives a full general summation of their statements, seeing a plane enter the water, a loud "Popular!" earlier that.

The "Popular!" is interesting given  the lower speed of sound, that it was heard by witnesses earlier the plane hit the water. The crash was said to be 150 yards offshore. Witnesses were said to exist on the beach and farther inland. Audio travels  in in air at well-nigh a football game field per second, there would take been equally much as a half-second delay in sound arriving onshore subsequently a visual witnessing of the upshot. Estimated speed of the craft on impact varies from "very fast" to 60-100 mph. Taking a mid-ground of 80 mph, the pop sound would have occur when the craft was 120 anxiety higher in the air, that is, the "Popular!" occurred 120 feet before people actually heard it.

The Coroner'south study makes no effort to explicate it, and witnesses could non identify information technology, and so that "Pop!" audio remains unexplained. Reasonable explanations – an explosion, breakage of a wing or other major part of the craft, or a shot fired at the craft or engine backfire …  are pure speculation.

Information technology can always be said that eyewitness accounts vary.  Go on in mind the NTSB report as we recount the listed witnesses in the Coroner's Report. Hither is what NTSB said, according to Wikipedia, repeated from above:

The NTSB interviewed twenty witnesses of Denver'southward last flight; six of them had observed the plane's crash into the body of water virtually Betoken Pinos.^{[35] [36]} Four of the witnesses indicated that the plane was originally heading west; 5 of them observed the airplane in a steep bank, with four of those five reporting the bank was to the right (north). Twelve witnesses saw the airplane in a steep nose-down descent. Witnesses estimated the plane's height at 350 to 500 feet while heading toward the shoreline. 8 of the witnesses said that they heard a "pop" or "backfire", along with a reduction in the engine dissonance level simply before the plane descended into the water.

Coroner's Report witnesses

I have placed the witnesses listed in the Coroner's Report on the map in a higher place. Descriptions of their locations are vague – merely ii were specific: "1273 Body of water View Boulevard", shown by a cerise pivot above, and Rachel Bertone, on the eighth hole of the golf course. Since witnesses said the plane crashed "beyond the rocks" or "behind the copse" I have placed the crash site beyond a rocky area and beyond some trees as shown below:

Peter Aline and his married woman said the plane flew directly over their business firm at 1273 Ocean Grove. Roger Rodriguez thought it came from the direction of the "cemetery on Asilomar Avenue (El Carmilo Cemetery, near that street, is located not too far from the eighth hole of the golf class), and then I accept put in an guesswork flight path that draws a line over their business firm to the indicate beyond the rocks. This report forces us to do a lot of guessing. (NTSB reports witnesses proverb the airplane was flight towards the shoreline.

Hither is a brief summary of the eleven witnesses recounted in the Coroner'south study:

• Rod Rainey was driving on Sea View Drive, caught a glimpse as a arts and crafts hit the water, at almost 15 anxiety above water. He heard a popping audio. He thought it was traveling lx-100 mph, entered the water nose start. He thought at kickoff that it was a "remote-controlled" device.
• Andrew Mulkey had been at the Butterfly Grove Inn, several blocks inland, but we are not told his location at the fourth dimension of the crash other than that he had a "clear and unobstructed view of the ocean." He called it an "ultralight" plane, that it was going very fast. It suddenly nose-dived and disappeared backside some trees. He heard the popping sound. He did not guess the elevation of the plane prior to the nosedive.
• Clifford Dilling, active duty in the Navy, was on vacation in the area and on the beach at thee fourth dimension of the crash. He claimed to exist very familiar with many types of shipping because of his military background. He said the plane was in descent at a 35-4o caste angle under full power. He said prior to the crash the plane pulled upwards to l to 55 caste angle. He thought the airplane pilot was trying to avoid harming people on the beach. (Dilling, active duty military, happened to exist on that beach, was familiar with shipping, and could read the mind of the pilot.)
• Christina Rodriguez was likewise on the beach. She saw what she thought was a remote-command plane flying lower than 100 feet. She idea it appeared to speed up to clear some rocks before crashing into the water. She saw brownish smoke.
• Roger Rodriguez saw the aeroplane coming from the direction of the cemetery on Asilomar Avenue, passing over some houses and so started dying. Information technology throttled up over some rocks and then crashed 3-4 seconds later. It was at full throttle upon touch on, bending of descent 45 degrees. He did not estimate elevation.
• Judith Finn was parked in a lot "past the rocks" with her boyfriend, and was positioned in such a way in the vehicle that she was looking up. She saw the plane pass over and veer to the correct, perhaps fifty to 100 anxiety in the air, flying level. There was no testimony from her boyfriend, who perchance chose to be anonymous. There is no description of the vehicle, which was maybe a convertible, or having a sun roof? Or perhaps her caput was positioned close to a window to permit an unobstructed view upwardly.
• Richard Ellis was driving on Sea View Boulevard when he saw the aircraft plummeting from 3-400 feet in the air. He said a fly had broken and that he could not hear the sound of an engine. He placed the crash at fifty-75 anxiety beyond the rocks. He could not tell if information technology was a airplane or a helicopter.
• Peter Burshinger, at his apartment approximately 1/4 mile from the crash site, had only sat down to picket football when he heard a plane go past. He placed its altitude at 300 feet, and said that at the beach it plunged straight down. He did not hear engine sound on descent. (I guessed at buildings looking like apartment complexes near the embankment as his place of residence.)
• Peter Aline and his wife were working in his back yard on Ocean View Boulevard (she atop their roof) when a calorie-free plane flew over. The woman saw the top of a pilot'southward head as information technology flew over, meaning that her angle of view was far off to the side rather than directly overhead. She is the but ane to see a airplane pilot. She said the airplane may be been as low every bit 20 feet over their house and barely clearing power poles. Peter heard the popping sound and the splat every bit it hitting the water. He said the pilot probably did not realize that he had nearly hitting power poles. He said the aeroplane was only using plenty ability to continue information technology above the houses.
• Rachel Bertone was playing golf at the Pacific Grove Municipal Golf game Course  when she looked up and saw a airplane going down at a steep bending. She thought it sounded similar a clay bike. She said it was going very fast.

Contradictory witness reports are not unusual, but this is a mishmash. We have a airplane flying so depression that it nigh clips telephone poles, and also hurtling down from 300 feet (NTSB 350-500 feet). Two witness reported what appeared to exist a "remote-controlled vehicle,"  i heard what "sounded similar a dirt cycle." None, however, describe any features of a Long EZ, every bit shown hither:

The craft is xvi feet long and has a 26-foot fly span. Information technology has a forewing called a canard, an unusual feature on shipping. The propeller is behind the aircraft. It has the wings with the ends sticking upwards in the air. No witness described any feature that would brand what they saw a Long EZ.

About of the witnesses place the vehicle low to the ground, and not doing the "350-500 foot" uncontrolled drib described past NTSB.  Almost written report it heading out to sea, while NTSB reports it heading towards the shore. Only Ellis, who saw an airplane (or helicopter) plunging from 3-400 feet, and Burshinger, who place the altitude at 300 anxiety, are in agreement, somewhat, with NTSB. And none saw the crash. They simply saw the events earlier the crash. Only one person, looking directly up from her rooftop at 1273 Ocean View, saw the head of a pilot.

So, we either had a plane scraping rooftops and narrowly avoiding lite poles, or i plummeting from 350-500 feet in the air. Merely not both.

Or mayhap, both.

While NTSB does not proper name witnesses and only summarizes, it offers a different view of the crash than 10 of the eleven referenced in the Coroner's Study. Only Ellis places the aircraft anywhere near the 350-500 feet in the air that NTSB claims. In fact, other witnesses take the aircraft flight low over Pacific Grove, skimming rooftops, fifty-fifty nearly hitting telephone poles. No i describes anything like a Long EZ.

Pathologist'due south Report

Rumors abound that Denver had a drinking problem, this associated with "a number of boozer driving arrests" (Wiki)  in Aspen. Due to this, he was not supposed to be flight.

The trunk that was delivered to the Coroner in numberless, and was severely damaged, the caput mostly gone, and merely the right half of the torso present. Information technology was identified as Denver's by fingerprints and the presence of sutures on the right human foot where two toes had been severed every bit a youth.

The toxicology report showed no sign of alcohol nowadays in blood or tissue except for .04% ethanol in the liver. This is significant.

Toxicologists accept long struggled with the presence of alcohol in corpses. Information technology is vital data for law enforcement and insurance companies. A trouble arises when a  corpse has laid effectually for a long time prior to autopsy and toxicology reports. Microbial contamination and fermentation occurs,  and the corpse can produce its own ethanol.

John Denver's torso was recovered from sea h2o 3 hours after the crash, and stored for a brief fourth dimension, not stated, earlier delivery to the morgue. At that place it was refrigerated. The autopsy was performed at nine:30 the following morn, or virtually 16 hours after the crash. Given the short time and overnight refrigeration, there was not time for natural decomposition to produce ethanol.

Only even and so, presence of ethanol in the liver and nowhere else is atypical, and indicates that the ethanol in the liver was a product of decomposition. This is evidence that the body examined at the autopsy, unrecognizable and massively deformed, which could only exist identified by potentially circular testify (a right hand fingerprint and 2 toes missing on the correct foot), might well have been a cadaver.

Beneath is a re-create of the toxicology report, furnished on x/15/97 by the Institute of Forensic Sciences in Oakland.

Delight note that the name of the body is non "Deutschendorf, Henry John Jr.", simply rather "Denver, John." This is show of fakery, as official documents around this decease are not going to refer to stage names, but rather for historical purposes, real names. (Did the toxicology written report on the decease of Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr., refers to "The Big Bopper"? Of course not. This is non done. Official and legal documents are going to refer to the real proper noun.)

I propose this document is a imitation.

Photographic show

There isn't much. Internet sites will show u.s.a. what are claimed to be pictures of Denver's corpse, just I incertitude they are real and I would non show them here anyway. As told to us by the autopsy written report, the remains were unrecognizable anyhow. There are photos of the "John Denver aeroplane crash," simply these too are not real. There are no photos of the wreckage, and fifty-fifty though the Monterey Sheriff/Coroner's Study claims that the wing with the airplane ID #N555JD was recovered, there is no photographic testify of that on the Cyberspace. Possibly it is all available in the official archives, only there is zilch available to the public on the Internet to give evidence of a plane crash that day.

There is this:

That looks like Denver, might be real, simply is non of him in the Long EZ, which was a white aircraft. It looks more like he is leaving on a bombing raid for Tora! Tora! Tora!

There are these:

Those are said to be of "John Denver'south trunk being carried ashore." The problem with that, of course, is that Denver's body was said to have been recovered by the Declension Guard and divers, put aboard a ship and taken to a dock and kept under guard. What nosotros see here is a yellowish tarp.

There just isn't much photographic evidence of the crash that twenty-four hour period bachelor to the public, and what in that location is tells us nothing.

What really happened – an culling explanation of events

What follows is a recounting of the events of 10/12/1997 as they might actually have happened, and not the fairy tale recounted in a higher place:

Quondam long before 10/12/1997 the conclusion was made that the public performer "John Denver," widely dearest and having a large fan base of operations, but whose output had slowed and talents had diminished, had to be fake killed. In the music business organization, people who have a large body of work, like Elvis, Karen Carpenter, Prince, Queen, Michael Jackson, for instance, are frequently "killed off" in lodge to maximize the postmortem value of their works. In Denver's case, his post-expiry sales skyrocketed, and are still significant to this day. His later works, songs that did non take hold of on or make it off the cutting room floor of the recording studio to the public, have besides been packaged and sold.

This is 1 reason why older musicians fake their deaths. But annotation, the decision to imitation their deaths is probably not theirs. These are not independent people making their own mode through the business world. They are the products of music companies, producers, managers, public relations. Oftentimes they have Intelligence ties. They could be nix more than wage slaves, though the wages are a bit higher than for most of u.s.. (I oftentimes question whether the music they write is really their own, or the product of a group of people assigned that task. I do not believe that John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote everything attributed to them, and have like suspicions about John Denver.)

While Denver was a talented man and a good performer, it was decided that it was 555 time for him, or a new life in anonymity, quietly enjoying his earnings and family unit in peace. So plans were made to stage his death. A script was written.

Since Denver was a pilot, a plane crash seemed the logical end. But staging a airplane crash can be hard. It would have to be done in a place where all the elements were controlled. Monterey County, California, is the centre of the erstwhile Hearst empire, a canton long under command of oligarchs. The Sheriff/Coroner's office is probably under their control too. Having both sheriff and coroner in the same human, an ex-armed forces man, would help.

Then the Pacific Grove location was decided. Several elements would be needed to sell the production. A corpse would be needed, and that corpse would have to be positively ID'd as Denver'south. A plane would be needed, but it would take to be a flawed shipping … fatally flawed I would say. Who better to supply the aircraft than a spook-run aircraft company, Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites. Did they have annihilation sitting on the shelf that could be used?

Prior to the event, Denver wanted to exist sure his assets were distributed to the people he wanted them to go to, and so gifted them to Anna Kate and Zachary, leaving Jesse out. This included his domicile in Aspen. It was a taxable souvenir, which after put the ii children in a dispute with the IRS over valuation.

The Long EZ was called because it was home assembled and and then could easily be lacking. But something else was needed, as there would not be a real crash – a simulation vehicle, a remote controlled light plane. That is what the Pacific Grove witnesses saw, not a Long EZ.

But the critical element was the body. That required a wait, as they needed an unidentified cadaver that could exist mutilated to the degree that it was unrecognizable, and so supplied to canton morgue people. (Most of the staff people involved in the dissection were just professionals doing their task.)

Where to become a cadaver? One might plough up in a machine accident or launder upwards ashore in a river or on the beach. Since the Sheriff, Norman G. Hicks, was compromised and a thespian, he was put on the scout and told to notify the John Denver people when a body was available. Ane turned up, the phone call was made, and the program went into action.

The airplane was flown in and put on display at the local drome, but Denver would not really wing it that day. His chore was to be seen around Pacific Grove, wearing brilliant clothes, happy and chipper, playing golf game, avoiding alcohol, in general merely being visible. Since he had never flown the Long EZ, he might not have actually flown it that mean solar day, if i was flown at all. But again – he might accept. The problem is that when a pilot'southward license is suspended, airports can go far trouble if they let the pilot use the facilities.The suspension is meant to exist enforced.

In fact, he could have merely parked his car at the airport and left the scene. He did go out his wallet.

Presume he did fly that day, and airport mechanic Chris Hadland was a real guy, and not a thespian. In that case, he might have done a couple of take offs and landings, and then flown off into the sunset, landing the arts and crafts at the nearby Declension Guard air base at Alameda. Other landing sites were no doubt also available.

Or possibly Denver made an appearance, merely some other pilot familiar with Long EZ flew it, did some have offs and landings, had some contact with the tower, and and so flew to Alameda. (Coast Guard, we must presume, which too recovered "the trunk", was besides office of the charade.)

Or perhaps Chris Hadland was given a script and told to read it – no Denver, no pilot, no Long EZ.

In the concurrently, the remote-controlled aircraft was flown over Pacific Grove, low enough that people would be certain to encounter it, and so out and over a bunch of rocks, perhaps crashing into the bounding main. Perhaps it was diddled up by remote command, resulting in a loud "Popular!" heard by many witnesses. Notwithstanding, the "Pop!" outcome was later on downplayed and ignored, equally it was not congruous with a plane only hit the ocean at high speed.

That was information technology for the real event. Ron Deutschendorf and Annie Denver knew in advance, and perchance Anna Kate, Zach and the female parent, Irma Deutschendorf. They were told to lay low and non offering anything just grief and regret remarks to the press, and not to worry, that John would exist OK and in affect every bit before long as possible.

Coast Guard higher-ups agreed to let their proper name to exist used in the publicity effectually the event, simply did non recover either plane parts or a body. That is an indication of the source of the power behind this outcome.

Photos of men carrying a stretcher with a yellow tarp were staged, once more out of sync with the official script, which had the trunk transported by the Declension Guard to a dock.

The cadaver, in cold storage, was delivered to the autopsy squad on October 13th. It was already known that it was missing two toes on the right foot, and so a story was planted that Annie Denver told them that John was missing those ii toes. He was non. She said nothing of the sort.

Finger prints were crucial, and had to get through channels. A set of prints was taken off the cadaver, and in the meantime, Colorado authorities supplied the real John Denver prints to Sheriff Hicks. He switched them then that technician Susan Clark indeed could match them and report that the identity of the corpse was John Denver. Such an act, switching of finger prints, requires real juice to brand them wait authentic. The new prints, made to look like they came from Colorado, might have been prepared at Langley. Susan Clark was non a player. (This is the but attribute of the faux expiry that might involve illegal activity. It is NOT a offense to imitation your death. If insurance fraud is involved, that is a crime.)

The NTSB study was fake, which is why they had no reference to it in their files. Information technology was probably written past people at Langley, who would accept the necessary muscle to force NTSB to go on. The Monterey County Sheriff and Coroner's report was genuine, and the witnesses, with perhaps the exception of Ellis, Dilling and Burshinger, were real. Or possibly they were all fakes reciting a script. That's why the people who prepared the NTSB report in advance did not name them. They did not know who they were going to be.

But suppose they were existent. If then, they saw the remote-controlled vehicle, and not a Long EZ, equally there was no Long EZ to be seen that solar day, far likewise high in the sky to identify.

Various county officials tried to practise their job, simply in the end, knew they had to shut up if they wanted to keep their jobs. They did manage to smuggle some clues to us, enough to tell us the issue was faked, nearly notably the presence of ethanol in the liver of the cadaver. Medical personnel would know that to be an anomaly.

Denver was said to accept died without a will, equally fifty-fifty in a corrupt surroundings as ours, it is nonetheless impossible to probate the will of a living person. There was no life insurance, as that kind of fraud brings in powerful insurance companies and their investigators. The Pitkin County Courts had to exist strong-armed into silence, forced to seal the records, and I exercise not know how that was washed other than sheer fauna force, again indicating the source of the ability backside this result. The Coroner's report was never made office of the official records of Monterey County, and is only now available electronically. Equally with NTSB, people of integrity knew to go on serenity and back abroad from it.

Denver himself made his escape. He might live in New Zealand, now 71 years of age. But similar others before him used to the spotlight, he could not assistance himself, and with friends staged the Fly Line-fishing in New Zealand video in 2009. Information technology was a message to his fans.

He was telling us "I am nonetheless here."

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*Spook marker: There are (at least) hundreds of thousands of Intelligence agents around the globe, and they have plainly designed a shorthand method of communication with each other, part of which is numerology. Several numbers have significance to them, among them 8, 9 (3*3), 11, 27 (3*iii*three), 33 (specially and in many forms), 47 (iv+vii=xi), and Denver'south age at death, 53 (5+3=8). The number "555" has significance to them.

**Windstar Foundation airtight its doors in 2013.

[Footnote, 10/20/sixteen] Several interesting points have come from the comments below. Lux brought in childhood photos of the Deutschendorf family unit, and it appears the John has been pasted in. As with Jim Morrison, he is apparently not a fellow member of the war machine family whose name he bears. Daddieuhoh notes that his post-death sales are 33 1000000, that he got his kickoff guitar at age 11, additional spook markers. And we learn that divers the day afterwards the crash miraculously recovered his band from the body of water bottom. A pilot with a suspended license would not have been allowed to wing – those rules are enforced, so that the Monterey Airport would exist culpable had JD actually flown that day.  He is said to accept a nephew by brother Ron who is also Henry John Deutschendorf Two, indicating that John Denver did not ain that name. And so it gets fifty-fifty weirder. Thanks to all who chimed in.

[Footnote, 10/25/sixteen] Immediately after the autopsy and at the request of the family, the body was cremated, thereby forever disposing of evidence of fraud. There were public memorials and remembrances, but never a formal death ceremony for John Denver. Since, every bit I contend, it was non his body and he was non really dead, is anyone surprised?

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