Ronni Chasen Murder Solved, Again!

Beverly Hills, CA—In fairness to the Beverly Hills police they don’t have lots of homicides they can use to hone their skills. They must rely on help they ask for from other agencies.

First the BHPD thought that ex-con, Harold Smith’s gun was not involved in the Chasen killing. Today, they’ve changed their story saying that it was the same gun.

It seems on its face that Smith was not a hit man but a habitual criminal that among other crimes served time for robbing two Beverly Hills women in the past. Police now think that Smith shot Chasen from his bicycle in a botched robbery. That is their best guess right now until they finish their investigation.

I have problems with that theory in that it looks like Smith shot Chasen through her closed passenger door window rather than threaten or rob her. I’m not buying the robbery angle.

Smith strikes me as an irrational, dysfunctional and violent criminal. He’d be a really poor choice as a hired hit man. Smith may have had an accomplice and ruling out that angle at this point is as premature as establishing the motive with no more than a guess.

The investigation will continue. Murder investigations are about circumstantial, physical, and eye-witness evidence along with confessions and the ruling out of Reasonable Doubt.

Where is Murder Victim, Ronni Chasen’s Latest Will?

Beverly Hill, CA—When Hollywood publicist, Ronni Chasen was gunned down in her car last month police had a mystery on their hands. The sad truth is that these days with all our technology and tools there is not more that a 35% chance that this or any other murder will be solved.

To get to the bottom of this investigation we have to speculate whether this was, or was not a random crime.

There is at least one woman e-mailing and making comments on my site suggesting that there was a similar random gun assault where she was the victim. There is no such reported attack and I refuse to buy into this diversion.

Crimes like the Chasen murder are almost never random. There is a motive that led to this killing. Greed, jealousy, revenge, hatred are common in every murder since Cain killed Able.

This is no carjacking since Chasen was safely locked in her car. No carjacker wants to take a car with a shot out passenger window and a dead or gravely wounded driver strapped in a seatbelt behind the wheel. Carjackings always happen at the driver’s door that is usually already open.

The suggestion of road rage is also baloney since those events usually happen in areas where traffic is heavy and drivers are frustrated. Gang warfare is also attributed as road rage events when in fact those were premeditated attacks.

Frankly even very disturbed people drive on our streets and never use their car or any other weapon to kill and maim people except in very rare circumstances.

So far only a 1994 Will has surfaced and the suggestion of a more recent will is very unlikely. Unlikely, simply because people of means use probate lawyers to draft such instruments and they have their staff sign as witnesses. Somebody with knowledge of such a document would have stepped forward. The cops would have been making contacts with every lawyer Chasen ever used looking for any information that would indicate a conflicts, insurance policies or wills from day one.

If they have not found an updated will or witness to one actually being made by now, there is no new will.

I am back to looking at all of Chasen’s relationships with enemies, friends, acquaintances and relatives. Perhaps the killer is a boyfriend of somebody who wanted Chasen dead.

Somewhere inside the circle of those close to Chasen is the answer. This was not a random crime.

I also think by now the Beverly Hills police homicide detectives have zeroed in on a potential suspect and are gathering the evidence they need to make their case.

I remain convinced this murder will be solved.

Homeland Security Recruiting Neighborhood Busybodies as Informants

Washington, DC—There were the infamous Gestapo, Stazi and Red Guard. They all sought and maintained civilian armies of snitches to help their rogue governments maintain absolute power. These government thugs wanted any information they could use against the victims they selectively targeted.

Today we have the Department of Homeland Security that is quickly stepping into this role in the United States. They are massively expanding their authority, reach and budget to smash dissent, and any resistance to government repression and violation of our Civil Rights.

If you have not noticed, our government has suspended the Fourth Amendment in the name of anti-terrorism. If you haven’t noticed, It’s our own government that has become the terrorist.

Now Homeland Security is beginning a massive recruitment drive to get people to snitch on their neighbors. When this happens they suggest they want information about crime or terrorism but this always degenerates into what these criminal regimes really want, a hideous form of Thought Police. What they truly want is information about Americans resisting the Police State.

I’m not suggesting that people not report actual crimes as they have always done. We all have the responsibility to warn our neighbors if their house is on fire.

The Homeland Security program is about allowing the government to employ neighborhood busybodies to spy on all of us. Homeland Security just recruited Wal-Mart as a spying partner.

By the way, if you’ve not noticed, Homeland security is not a law enforcement agency staffed by trained cops. American law enforcement officials are all required to take an oath to defend the U.S. Constitution. Perhaps that’s why nearly 60.000 TSA screeners and their bosses have no problem violating the civil rights of American travelers.
Read Homeland Security’s new snitch program press release here.

FOP Board Meeting: Stripping Disabled Cops of their Protection

Chicago, IL—Tuesday, December 7 at noon inside Plumber’s Hall located at 1412 W. Washington, St. Lodge 7 of the FOP will meet with the membership.

Up for consideration and suggestion at is the return of the right to keep and bear arms of disabled cops throughout the state of Illinois.

We can only guess how this happened. Perhaps it was a police boss that thought by disarming injured cops he’d cure potential malingering and get them back to work quicker.

The Illinois UUW statute is in serious conflict with the Second Amendment since both the Heller and McDonald decisions of the Supreme Court. The days of prosecutions of law-abiding people carrying guns on the streets for self-defense are numbered as various challenges wind their way through the court system.

In the meantime cops who are ambulatory, walking around the city where they worked and were forced to live, are running into violent criminals they’ve arrested in the past. Any one of these criminals could believe that some disabled cop he spots in some mall knows about an existing arrest warrant. The danger to the disabled cop and members of his family are unnecessarily put at risk by an uncaring bureaucracy.

Currently there is pending legislation to cure this wrong and the FOP needs to hear from its membership. Incredibly as it seems Lodge 7 has no plans to support this bill unless the membership demands it.

Every officer is only a gunshot, traffic accident or a slip and fall away from being stripped of their protection like officers suspected of crimes and serious misconduct. This is wrong and you have the ability to demand a reasonable correction to an unreasonable situation. Be heard!

TV Crime News Done My Way

If I owned or controlled a TV station in let’s say Chicago I’d being doing TV news just a little differently.

I have a gritty crime reporting unit that is separated from general assignment reporting. As always the news casts leads off with whatever segment has the most importance of that day. Weather always leads when it’s severe or the broadcast could be hinged on a major sports story. However when it bleeds, it leads.

The crime, courts and corruption segment would have its own name like Crimebeat, special graphics and faces. Reporters in this group need an attitude and style set apart from general assignment correspondents. They’d be using certain cop slang terms such as perp-walk, pinched, collared, and mug-shot. These reporters would be recruited from the ranks of cops, prosecutors and defense lawyers.

TV news viewers need to believe the crimebeat reporter understands his or her business. In the end it’s all about credibility and trust. No news department can function without the trust of those people inside the criminal justice system. Fluff reporters and crime news just don’t mix except in rare stories.

Crimes are by nature sensational and dramatic. The viewers want to know about the newsmaker’s actual prior criminal record rather than what some attention-whore, busybody neighbor has to say about him. Viewers want cold hard facts over gossip any day.

Crime reporters must learn how to use and abuse the court's and other public records to tell these stories.

If they’re leading with an important crime story, than they should put the necessary resources and work into it. Today’s TV new organization all have websites and the anchors and reporters should be promoting it. The viewers can be directed to view the actual court documents and see full length interviews rather than the 15 second sound-bites of the news makers. The website is the place for all those things that can’t possibly get stuffed into a TV newscast.

The Internet is here to stay and the news department’s website must attract both viewers and advertisers.

TV news has seen little change since the days or Edward R. Murrow. TV news is and should be exciting, accurate and interesting. The delivery of this product has instead become lethargic and lame.

Crime news affects everyone. I’m not suggesting we create a product that mimics Orson Wells’, War of The World broadcast. People don’t need panic-peddling broadcasters but they need to know the dangers they face with reduced law-enforcement resources and budgetary induced prisoner releases.

The public should also get the truth about their needs and rights to cope with the reality of violent crime. Providing tips on safety, locks, alarms, firearms training and self-defense is a duty of broadcasters.

Harold Martin Smith, Ronni Chasen and Wild Goose Chases

Hollywood, CA—It was apparently defective information supplied to the TV Show, America’s Most Wanted and talkative but unreliable neighbors that made an ex-con an unlikely suspect in the Ronni Chasen murder.

When police obtain search warrants they are placed under oath. The rub is those who provide such information to police are never under oath. Accordingly search warrants are routinely issued on unreliable hearsay or even gossip. We will have to wait until the Smith search warrant is unsealed to know for sure. California’s public records laws are some of the worst in the nation. It’s unlikely that warrant will ever see sunshine especially now.

Had there been a connection between any weapon in Harold Smith’s possession and the Chasen murder, Beverly Hills police would know by now and they’d be interrogating other investigative leads and closing in on the real story.

Smith was already a two time loser and apparently his ongoing criminal conduct was making him a solid candidate for California’s, Three Strikes Law. It looks like he reached the point of no return when he saw police. Just having a gun in his possession was enough to put him behind bars for life. Smith took the easy way out and taxpayers should thank him for that.

Smith became a big time, Red Herring and a diversion in the Ronni Chasen murder investigation. Police have now returned to looking at old conflicts in Chasen’s personal life. Somebody was motivated enough to make her really dead.

Chasen’s killer exercised skill and discipline in committing this murder. On its face it seems like a contract hit. Road rage cases nearly always result in bullets being sprayed everywhere because of uncontrolled anger and emotion. It’s obvious that Chasen’s car was stopped at the time shots were fired. The killer was either shooting from another vehicle or was standing in the street while firing the murder weapon. The presence or absence of shell casings in the street may help shed some light on this angle assuming a semi-automatic pistol was used.

There are big factors that need examination and they are the trade-names, partnerships, contracts, insurance policies and of course litigation of any kind involving Chasen or her business enterprises.

The only thing we know for sure is that someone thought they’d be better off with Ronni Chasen being dead. Ether they’d profit from Chasen’s death or have found some sweet revenge. The murder of Ronni Chasen was anything but a random crime.

Prisoners, cell phones, internet access and communication

Let me say that my blog visitors don’t consider me a bleeding heart or a Liberal by a long-shot. I believe that those who prey upon and victimize their fellow man deserves swift and severe punishment.

There was a recent story of a prison inmate that created a Facebook page with a contraband Blackberry cell-phone. Cell-phones are considered a big no-no by the wardens of our jails and prisons. They are so wrong about this.

These can become privileges that foster good behavior. Inmates can be induced to perform well in educational or job training programs with a small perk like that.

Prison visitation can be accomplished through the use of Skype.com’s free video teleconferencing service. There would be no risk of contraband being brought into our correctional facilities.

Let’s face it inmates will be released someday and it’s better if they have the support of friends and loved ones. Prisons are nearly always difficult for visitors to travel because of distances. Those important bonds can be fostered through simple communications.

Imagine inmates able to communicate well enough to find honest ways to re-integrate with society? We want these people off of welfare and functioning rather than remaining anti-social misfits going off like landmines after their release.

This entire idea of our modern communications must be re-thought. The Russian government has seen the light and they’re doing this right now.

The real punishment of prison is the absence of liberty and being bossed around by prison guards. The food generally is pretty disagreeable and having to live with a bunch of despicable felons has got to be horrible. The absence of any physical contact with the opposite sex must be devastating. Of course the Gay prisoners are never deprived.

I can’t help but think about an, actually innocent women, who’s been in prison for just over 20 years. Her mother lives in Germany and is suffering from cancer. There is no way she can travel and visit her daughter. Aside from the cost are the medical issues that are preventing any visits. Skype.com has a humane answer to this problem. Would a one hour video call every week or two somehow damage society?

No, Murdered Publicist Ronni Chasen Was Not Loved By All

Beverly Hills, CA—When Ronni Chasen was gunned down in her car last month in Beverly Hills it became obvious there was some very bad blood between her and someone else.

TMZ.com has published a report that included a copy of the 1994 Last Will and Testament of the murdered women. This very wealthy murder victim stiffed her niece, Jill Gatsby, a near-do-well actress, singer etc. in the Will.

Chasen willed her a measly ten-spot as quoted in the document, "I have intentionally and with full knowledge of the consequences omitted to provide for my niece, Jill Cohen, also known as Jill Gatsby, except for the gift of $10."

It is customary to leave something to relatives you hate so they can’t later claim they were somehow forgotten and get a piece of your pie from some sympathetic probate judge.

Gatsby chose an entertainment career that has been stuck in park just as many thousands of others seeking fortune and fame in Hollywood. Ronni Chasen had the ability to promote anyone with minimal talent into a lucrative career. It is obvious Chasen was of no help to her niece.

On the other side of the coin Chasen had the ability to destroy a career in the entertainment business. Whatever created this rift seemed anything but insignificant.

As we speak Beverly Hills police detectives are looking for any connection between the dead murder suspect and Jill Gatsby. Any evidence of financial support would of course be incredibly damning. Of course the police are looking at every other possibility too.

Will there suddenly be a parade of witnesses coming forward telling police about this family feud? I don’t doubt for a second this whole ugly affair will become the best current show in Hollywood. The venue will be the Los Angeles County Superior Court.

One thing for sure this case is getting spicier by the minute.

Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen's Murder has been Solved

Beverly Hills, CA—My analysis of the scant publicized facts connected to the November 16th murder of Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen has proven to be correct. I said this was no random killing and that Ms. Chasen had pissed off someone in a big way. I properly predicted police would quickly zero in on the offender and clear this case.

Tonight the Associated Press published the story that the yet to be identified suspect shot himself dead as police were closing in on him to serve a search warrant. I call him a suspect rather than that nebulous. “Person of Interest” term because of the existence of the search warrant.

In order to obtain a search warrant police need to establish Probable Cause under oath that a crime was committed and provide the judge with, the who, what and where facts of the case. There is a very thin line between obtaining a search warrant and making an arrest.

Now we know the police have at least one gun in their possession to rule in or out of the Chasen murder. That search warrant affidavit information submitted by the Beverly Hills homicide detective will tell us about the motive along with the rest of the story.

The motive for the killing will be unfolding along with the name of the dead suspect. I won't rule out additional suspect/s in this case.

I got several responses some of which I deleted strongly criticizing my rejection of the random shooter theory. Somehow I felt that was the suspect trying desperately to promote that phony idea.

What we know right now is the dead suspect was confronted by police in low rent Harvey Apartments on Santa Monica Blvd. in Hollywood. More information below the picture:
Thursday morning UPDATE:

Neighbors at the Harvey Apartments have shared gossip about the dead suspect with local media.

They described the African-American suspect they knew as Harold as somewhat of a braggart and self-described ex-convict. He reportedly told be people he was expecting $10,000.00 and also bragged that he killed Ronnie Chasen.

Was Harold merely a braggart that wanted to seem important who brought police attention on to himself? The reward money did not go unnoticed in Hollywood’s underbelly.

There are a lot more questions than answers right now.

The TSA Tyranny Trial Balloon, an Obama Administration Test

Washington, DC-- The sudden and shocking use of naked pornoscanners and incredibly offensive genital groping of American men women and children at airports is just a test. This has nothing to do with anti-terrorism and everything to do with incremental efforts to establish absolute power.

The TSA controversy has oddly become a loyalty test. Those Americans that favor Barack Obama are generally okay with the new program. The Conservatives and Libertarians on the other hand are preparing for Civil War. It all boils down to the suspension of the Bill of Rights by a rogue President.

You can be sure there are plans to take the pornoscanners to American streets to enforce United Nations Global Gun Control that Obama and his cronies have openly favored.

Obama has control of the Internet and will be soon shutting down loud voices or resistance like Alex Jones and prisonplanet.com.

As the voices of resistance are shut down, brave Americans will have no choice but to use the same tactics that enabled the Bill of Rights as the law of the land. I hope I’m being very clear. Freedom and liberty have never been simply handed out by governments to their people. Freedom cannot be maintained without the use of extreme violence against those taking it away.

Our government has destroyed the free market through the outrageous bailouts. Our economy has been destroyed by government forcing financial institution to make loans to people that can’t or won’t pay them back.

Our government has become a bloated monster that eats its children in order to survive.

Millions of Americans have become entitlement addicted as unemployment benefits have been extended to two full years. Why bother to get off the couch and work since job hunting is too difficult anyway?

State and local governments can’t possibly continue pay for the pensions, criminal justice system and correctional facilities.

When faced with impending doom human beings simply smile and go into denial. A look at history makes it only too clear we are headed for very dark times, of Civil War, anarchy and holocaust.

The Obama Administration is creating the perfect storm or crisis to justify declaring martial Law. We can only hope enough cops and military people will courageously resist orders to wage war on Americans. Americans can either take up arms or line up for the concentration camps.

Government Secrets Endanger Freedom

Chicago, IL—When we think of government secrets we think of intelligence agencies and their spies. Military secrets are paramount to any nation’s defense and that’s not what I’m talking about.

Secrecy in state and local governments is out-of-control. The secrecy advocates are all Left wingers that thirst for power over citizens and their money. Yes, those in government that hate transparency are nearly always on the Left. Those who demand open records are nearly always the Conservatives and Libertarians.

Corruption in government is always rampant wherever records are buried from public view. The excuse always offered for the secrecy is a bogus claim of privacy. What they really want is privacy from prying eyes that will expose waste, mismanagement, theft, extortion and bribery. Hiding public records promotes the abuse of Americans by power hungry and corrupt bureaucrats.

The Left fought the release of sex offender records for decades, again citing privacy. What they really were doing was covering up the ineffectiveness of wildly expensive and failed programs to rehabilitate these incurable predators.

Billions of taxpayer dollars were given to government contractors that were pals of those using our tax dollars to pay the crooks that in-turn, fund their political campaigns. Releasing those records would also lead to releasing yet more records.

Every rogue government on earth, lock government records from public view. There should be no secret records in America at state and local agencies.

The criminal conviction records of all Americans kept by the FBI should be a public record.

Medical information and misdemeanor juvenile arrest records perhaps are reasonable exceptions. Felony crimes and court proceedings involving juveniles should always be public records

Court records including information of the names of every victim or witness in criminal cases must be a public record. It is un-American to imagine public trials using hearsay testimony or testimony is received in secret. All criminal trials in America must be public and every person accused has the absolute right to confront and cross-examine witnesses against them.

Ongoing police investigations should be exempt from disclosure but the moment a case is closed or is being prosecuted all records of that incident should be open. Despite long standing practices the records of government informants and snitches don’t deserve any government protection from disclosure. We know that Gestapo and KGB agents would hate that idea of public disclosure along with too many inside American law enforcement agencies.

Every dime of taxpayer or government fine money deserves absolute sunshine. That same goes for money and property seized under government RICO laws.

Allowing state and local governments the ability to hide records invites and enables endless corruption and abuse.

Florida, Texas and Arizona are states with a fairly solid history of keeping open records. They sky has not fallen because of this. The very worst jurisdictions where public records are kept secret are New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.

The news media used to file lawsuits to gain access to unlawfully blocked records but for the most part that no longer is the case.

It’s almost laughable when politicians create laws to shield public records from view they put names on the bills like “Freedom of Information” on them to mislead the voters.

Keeping government records open is essential to basic liberty.

Public Information Officers Have a Dirty Job

Los Angeles, CA—He was a Public Information Officer (PIO) for the Los Angeles County Superior Court. It was a well paying job with great benefits. His job was to provide public information to the masses through the media. This sounds simple enough until the public records being revealed have a certain odor to them.

His name is Allan Parachini and he came from the ranks of working reporters at the L.A. Times to be named as PIO for the court. He was hired to do a sort of tap dance between judges and administrators who often hate each other. They all demanded that Parachini be their personal cheerleader.

The most infamous PIO of all times was a real media genius we remember as Joseph Goebbels, who was the Minister of Enlightenment and Propaganda for the Third Reich. Goebbels kept the secrets and fed the world’s news media a steady diet of disinformation. Instead of serving the German people, he served and was a huge part of a criminal regime.

When it comes to American court records, and the operation of the related bureaucracy there is no room for secrecy. We are not supposed to have secret, Star Chamber style proceedings and hidden contracts in any American Court. The only small exception is over sealed records involving juvenile and mental health related court proceedings.

Then there are judges that order the PIOs to make it difficult or impossible for reporters to get their electronic news-gathering equipment near prosecution witnesses. Prosecutors know their witnesses love the media limelight and will derail prosecutions with their inconsistent statements. Some judges will do everything and anything prosecutors ask.

For Parachini, figuring out just who his boss is, is not an easy task. Ultimately Parachini’s real master is the public, or least it should be that way.

Parachini’s duty was to field questions from reporters, producers and those bloggers like me and of course TMZ.com. Again there are no secrets in the courts business affairs but they fired Parachini claiming he passed on secrets to TMZ for pay.

If they had any evidence of bribery, Parachini would be criminally prosecuted. They can prove Parachini talked with TMZ’s people, but of course that’s precisely why he was hired. They unceremoniously disgraced and put Parachini out on the street.

Parachini has offered a more understandable reason for his firing and that was because he sought to release certain public spending and contract records tainted by an ugly odor. That was an unforgivable sin unless you take the position that the Public Information Officer works for the public.

Now, Parachini will have to seek protection for his rights in some courtroom. I see a problem in that those judging the merits of Parachini’s claim will all be part of the same judicial fraternity that put Parachini on the street.

For Allan Parachini I have a saying that I live by, “If justice ever happens it’s usually by accident and for all the wrong reasons.”

Good luck Allan.