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, connection to every single Baseline crime scene, bloody 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 (nearly 200 pages) to the lead dics on the Baseline task force, Alex Femenia. Rusty makes several attempts to get Femenia to further investigage TWS but is dismissed. At one request, Femenia become very confrontational. Rusty is appalled at lead dic Alex Femenia’s “dereliction of duty.” In 2008, Rusty, with four other PPD cops and Phoenix Law Enforcement Association members then take the report to the 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. When Randy Craig, one of Mark’s attorney’s, starts shaking trees and making calls to find this report, Susanne Cohen, County prosecutor, coughs it up. Yes, the prosecutors knew of this report since 2006. The grand jury which indicted Mark never heard of Terry Wayne Smith. Susanne 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 cops, Rusty Stuart, and other individuals the TWS report is now in the hands of the defense team. Had covert sources not brought this information to us, prosecutor Cohen, lead dics Alex Femenia, Mike Mieslish, Mike Polombo, Andrew Thomas, 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 said this about Mark “Why would you want to give this NIGGER an alibi?” Rust is also concerned, and rightly so, about evidence being planted. You can read more on PLEA’s site - http://bitsy.me/ty.
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.
Even more shocking, androgynous prosecutors Susanne Cohen and Patty Stevens, filed a motion to try to keep the Smith issue out of trial. (Yes, first they conceal this evidence, then once found out try to prevent it from being used in court.) Well they lost and it is likely Smith will be on the stand, among other people that support the actual facts.
