Wayne Madsen: The Big Bamboozle Author Philip Marshall Suicided By Black Ops Team

March 11, 2013 • 8:48AM

Wayne Madsen spent 8 days in California investigating the death of Philip Marshall. Afterwards he was interviewed on the Kevin Barrett show. The full interview can be accessed at http://noliesradio.org/archives/57581. What follows are excerpts from that interview which indicate the reasons why Madsen has concluded that Marshall was murdered:

* "On two occasions that the cleaners were there, there were SUVs spotted in the driveway, people combing the house inside and outside. One night was with five or six guys with flashlights looking around the grounds behind the house, they were in the house. One vehicle with State of California tags, even though the Sheriff said it was a county matter and it had no state involvement in the investigation. And there was another SUV, license undetermined, with an array of communication antennas bristling from the roof of the vehicle, so there was a lot of attention after the yellow tape was removed and it was no declared a crime scene. There was also an attempted break-in. I was there on the 13th of February, and looked around the house, spoke to a bunch of the people who lived in the neighborhood, and that evening the home was broken in to, somebody got through a sliding door in the back of the house and was after something. It seems like Phillip Marshall had something somebody wanted, and something that somebody was willing to kill for, and he told a friend of his, after his last book he wrote that came out, I believe in November, that he was working on a fourth book, and he said you're really going to be shocked to see what I have in this fourth book.'"

* "I just wonder if somebody handed him something. Somebody he met in the past who showed up and said, hey, you're an author, how about this information?, and maybe he was working on something either directly related to the JFK assassination, or peripherally involved, something, maybe another take on Iran-Contra, because some of the same players were involved in that; notably George H.W. Bush. So, its hard to say, but it had to be something so important that they were willing to kill Marshall and his two children and the dog for."

* "Possibly he was actually interlinking all three events from 1963, through the 80s and Iran-Contra to the 9/11 attacks, because we see some of the same players, of course, same agencies involved, but that's just a guess on my part. Or he was working on something totally unrelated that, again, was maybe something to do with the Colombian drug cartels, and his time with DEA. Maybe he was looking into that. Certainly there would have been a reason for professional assassins to hit him and his family if that's the angle he was pursuing. But without the interesting thing is nobody's sure what happened to his computer; it's no longer in his home, it was ripped from the wall. It may be in the hands of the Calaveras County Sheriff's department, or maybe in the hands of his estranged wife's family, but nobody's really certain what happened to the computer and his files, and it's one of the leads I'm still trying to pursue, to see if he gave information, or handed information to anyone for safe-keeping."

* "Marshall had a 9mm Glock. He was found lying on his back, shot in the left side of his head. One of the things I'm trying to find out is if he was right handed or left handed, I'm still trying to get that. But he was shot in the left side of his head, once, he was lying on his back with the gun underneath. Now, people react differently to gunshots, that could have been the case, you know, if we consider it was a suicide, but the odd thing is that he joked to his neighbors that even though he had this registered 9mm Glock he never had — he said a lot of good it'll do me, because I don't have any ammo for it. Now one of the thing's the Sheriff said he found was a box of 9mm ammunition with Marshall's wedding ring on top of it. Friends and neighbors told me that after his separation from his wife, Marshall never wore his wedding ring, and so, why did the Sheriff leak this? The Sheriff leaked this to a family member, and of course it was picked up by the media, so it looked like there was some sort of attempt by the Sheriff to steer the media in a certain direction, even though, one, neighbors said that, you know, he had no ammunition for this gun, but if it's registered obviously there's a record that Marshall owned a 9mm Glock, so if somebody had a similar weapon they could have shot him with that, made it look — you know, used his weapon, put it underneath, make it look like he did it. Interestingly enough, two reports the Sheriff has not released yet: the toxicology tests to make sure that Marshall and his kids, and even the dog had not been, you know, put under by some sort of, you know, drug, and also the GSR, the Gunshot Residue Report, and that would be very critical to determining whether he shot himself, you know, they do the paraffin tests and all that; whether he did it or it was, you know, another assailant. So two critical reports. And even the local papers having trouble getting that GSR report. The toxicology, the claim is, its being handled by the chemist, you know, the people who do that in Sacramento, so that's delayed because of their backlogs. So two critical reports are out and the Sheriff still, with that in mind, has said conclusively that Marshall shot his kids, his dog and then himself.

* "The children were found on a sectional couch, but on different sections of the couch, and the issue came up is if he shot one of the kids, and the other kid was on the other couch, there would have been some time maybe to respond to it, to escape or do something. Well, that certainly wasn't the case. His front door was open, so when a neighbor went over — some kids showed up on Saturday, because, you know the two kids, Alex, 17 and Macaila, 14, were in constant Twitter, Facebook and all this stuff that kids do these days with their iPhones and whatnot — they were in constant communications. So when they didn't show up for high school on Friday, and they didn't hear anything, they showed up at the house, four of them showed up to the house on Saturday. They saw through the window at the front door that there was somebody laying there, and the neighbor came over and found that the door was open, went in, and found Phillip Marshall at the end of this long corridor, clearly shot, and clearly dead. When the Sheriff came, of course, all those people were shooed off, and the yellow tape went up, and this was Saturday. But interestingly enough, the coroner out there is saying that the time of death of these individuals was the time that the bodies were discovered, even though there is evidence they were shot Thursday the night of January 31st and Friday morning, which was February 1st. The coroner said time of death was when they were discovered Saturday, late, I think, late Saturday morning. So we have a huge discrepancy there as well. Phil Marshall, I am told, never kept his door open, even though many people do that, he had reason not to, but the neighbor walked right through; the door was open. There was a side door that was never used, neighbors told me, never used, always closed; it was also found ajar when the bodies were discovered. So the yellow tape goes up Saturday morning, by the next day, Sunday, the yellow tape goes down. The sheriff completed the investigation, ruled it a double homicide and suicide."

* "Yeah and some of the neighbors, of course, who are retired have relatives in law enforcement, and one told me that one — that a relative heads up the homicide department of a medium-sized California city and said absolutely that did not happen that way, and said that in his particular jurisdiction, they have a lot of cases where murders are made to look like suicides. So that came from somebody who heads up a homicide division in a fairly medium, know, medium to large size city in the San Francisco Bay Area."