Terry Wayne Smith Cover Up

For those of you who don’t know about the cover up of Baseline Killer suspect, Terry Wayne Smith, here’s the Reader’s Digest version to get you up to speed.

Prior to Mark’s arrest September 6, 2006, Phoenix police officer Rusty Stuart was nearing the completion of a long, intensive investigation of Terry Wayne Smith. Based on TWS’s sociopathic behavior, his connection to every single Baseline crime scene, blood on his clothing, TWS family members calling TWS the Baseline Killer, and other factors, Rusty is convinced TWS has something to do with the crimes. He compiles his investigation and produces the entire report to the lead dics on the Baseline task force. Rusty first takes his report to the Carmen Miranda crime scene and he is dismissed. He makes several attempts after that to get it to the lead task force dics and continues to be dismissed. Rusty is appalled at lead dic Alex Femenia’s “dereliction of duty.” Rusty, with four other PPD cops and Phoenix Law Enforcement Association members then take the report to the Maricopa County Attorney’s office and present it to Andrew Thomas’s right hand man, Keith Manning. Manning and Thomas continue to hide the evidence and it is never produced to Mark’s defense team.

Until that is, underground forces surface the report first to me and then Mark’s attorneys. When Randy Craig, one of Mark’s attorney’s, starts shaking trees and making calls to find the entire 180 page report, prosecutor Susanne Cohen coughs it up. Yes, the prosecutors knew of this report since 2006, yet they too kept it under wraps. The grand jury which indicted Mark never heard of Terry Wayne Smith. Prosecutors Cohen and Bill Clayton allowed Mark to go to trial while they hid this evidence.

Well now the cat is out of the bag and only because of good cop, Rusty Stuart, and other individuals the TWS report is now in the hands of the defense team. Had covert sources not brought this information forward, prosecutor Cohen, lead dics Alex Femenia, Mike Mieslish, Mike Polombo, Andrew Thomas, and mayor Phil Gordon would still have had it under the rug. The TWS report was hidden for years.

When Rusty Stuart took the TWS information to Alex Femenia, Alex responded “Why would you want to give this NIGGER an alibi?” Rusty is also concerned, and rightly so, about evidence being planted. You can read more from PLEA’s site - http://www.azplea.com/docs/EEO%20Complaint%20Letter%20to%20Arpaio%20Breakout.pdf%20-%20Adobe%20Acrobat%20Standard.pdf

Flash to August 18, 2010: Rusty Stuart, now under protection of an attorney because of retaliation from PPD, has new TWS evidence and composes a letter to interim County Attorney, Richard Romley. You can read Rusty’s letter here – http://bitsy.me/tx.

Although the prosecutors', lead dics and County Attorney Andrew Thomas conduct is shocking, they continue to try to hide evidence.  Now the prosecutors, Susanne Cohen and Patty Stevens, are trying to prevent the cover up of Terry Wayne Smith from being used at trial. Tobe argued in front of Judge Granville Jan 19, 2011.  Let’s hope justice prevails and this corrupt and dishonest behavior and hiding of evidence is stopped.  I dare to even imagine what other exonerating evidence the State is hiding.