Hi-Line Murders
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Subj: Montana's Hi-Line Murders
Date: 97-11-21 10:13:50 EST
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Drug scandal in Montana ? You bet !!!! A steady reign of terror
is accompanying an international drug smuggling scandal along
the northern border with Montana.
Maybe you can do something to help.
We encourage you to circulate this article afreely.
The 'Hi-Line' Murders
http://members.aol.com/pegpress./hiline.htm
by Chip Tatum
A series of killings along the Burlington Northern railroad in Montana,
commonly known as the "Hi-line," may be tied to Canadian smuggling
operations involving FBI agents and Montana officials. Recent information
received indicates that nation shaking U.S. federal indictments may be in
order shortly, identifying the smuggling ring. However, the most tragic part
of the corruption, a series of related killings along the northern
Montana "Hi-Line," may be felt as aftershocks in Montana for decades.
In March of this year I published an article, 'Northern Exposure' which told
of my knowledge, as a former U.S. intelligence officer, of an 'officially'
sanctioned drug smuggling ring from Colombia through Canada into the
United States. Masterminds of the operation included south Florida FBI
agent Terry Nelson, Mike Huxtable, a Canadian with deep Canadian
intelligence links, and Colombia drug cartel kingpin Fabio Ochoa. FBI
agent Nelson outlined the ring's scheme to me while I was working for
the CIA and OSG-3 in 1989.
FBI agent Nelson also mentioned several of the Montana towns, Sidney,
Chinook, and Havre, as locations where the loads of cocaine and heroin
were delivered by light aircraft. Those small towns were chosen by
Nelson and Huxtable because Nelson had arranged to recruit local
authorities to allow the shipments to pass through.
As this article goes to press, still more indictments involving drug money
laundering at the Whitefish Mountain Bank have been handed down.
Further, the related Oklahoma City confiscation of $100 million worth of
cocaine bound for Dallas from Canada last fall, and the arrests of Richard
Aupine and Siegfried Stumpf, both of Montreal, again underscore key facts
of the story and demonstrate at least part of my assertions.
The far-out, cold blooded cynicism which inspired many of these killings is
astounding. My private inquiry into the reports also dictates that at least
some of the other deaths were accidental or suicides and many of the
killings were only loosely related. For instance, the airplane death of
candidate Jim Waltermire appears to be, at this stage, an accident.
Still, there are solid reports that Waltermire met with persons in Glasgow
on the date of his death and discussed drug corruption issues before
leaving for Helena. The flight ended in a fatal crash.
Likewise, Democrat Chet Blaylock's death prior to last year's campaign
debates in Missoula was explainable. Coincidental, however, was the fact
that Blaylock's campaign workers had been gathering ethics information
and Blaylock was considering widening the corruption issues in the debates
at the time of his death. People die every day by accidents and natural causes.
Journalists who make something out of flimsy evidence betray their
most important occupations and they become polemicists instead.
But...The 'Hi-Line Murders' don't need a spin.
Miles City The death of Rachel Smith Bonham was not self-inflicted.
The autopsy was flawed. A neighbor's statement described a violent struggle
in Rachel's apartment just before her death. This was ignored by
officials. Rachel's death may be related to her assailant's familiarity with
cocaine supplied from the Sidney area by a Sidney lawyer. Until investigators
confront the realities of a past drug-compromised investigation at the
local level, little progress will be made. Rachel's mother continues the
inquiry
and requests information about the killing. She is active in Parents Against
Corruption and Cover-up.
P.A.C.C.
13456 Muirkirk Lane
Herndon, Virginia, 20171-3305.
P.A.C.C. is a human rights group made up of parents, families, and survivors
of persons who have lost loved ones due to official corruption. Rachel's family
has also been greatly assisted by Billings newsman Al Hauf.
Glendive
The death of Jerry Herdt, who lived in the Fairview-Sidney area most of his
life,
is surrounded by suspicious circumstances. Although officially ruled a suicide,
Herdt's death came two weeks after Herdt told acquaintances he was 'meeting
secretly with FBI agents' and was providing them 'information about a Sidney
lawyer.' Herdt was believed to be involved in large scale drug trafficking. The
lawyer Herdt referred to is suspected of being a front man for the
Cali-Medellin
drug shipments into the Sidney area. It is also suspected that FBI agents from
the Glasgow office were meeting with Herdt immediately prior to his
death....hmmmm.
Sidney
Then there is the double murder of Bruce Madsen and Michael Wolfe outside
Sidney on December 15, 1993. These are just two references which ties to
corrupt law enforcement officials. Bruce Madsen's home was fire bombed a few
weeks before his death. Michael Wolfe told his friends that he was about to be
murdered by a police detective only days before his death. The forensics around
the death of the two boys point to a professional murder. Glasgow FBI Agent
Scott
Cruise ridiculed the idea that a Sidney police detective could be
involved in the gruesome deaths. Cruise ignored completely the statements
made by Wolfe only a few days prior to the murder. (Details of the
Wolfe-Madsen
deaths are listed on the P.A.C.C. website.) There are two
other Sidney killings which are related to corrupt officials in Sidney; Donnie
Kukas
and Bob Voss. Both men died under a suspicious pattern of circumstances
officially
determined to be 'suicides.' The investigations of the
Sidney deaths have been hampered greatly due to the confusion around drug
investigations of a Sidney police detective and the Sidney City Attorney. Mike
Roe,
an investigator based out of Phoenix, Arizona published a
report which indicates that the cover up leads directly to Governor Marc
Racicot.
Mike Roe claims that Montana's governor, Marc Racicot, spiked the criminal
investigation of the attorney and detective from his office in Helena.
Malta
As a matter of forensic science, 'suicides' should always be looked at as very
suspicious in Montana. Time after time pathologists are finding unusual
'non-scientific'
conclusions in the coroner's reports. The local funeral home director or a
deputy
sheriff with no medical training will often be tasked as the 'official coroner'
for a county.
Montana Highway Patrolman Loren Anderson was looking into the Canada/ Montana
smuggling allegations involving a Malta businessman prior to his 'suicide.'
Anderson
was a family man who enjoyed life and loved his children. Evidence could
surface
if investigators considered the facts of a large scale cocaine and heroin
smuggling operation involved with law enforcement in the immediate area. The
death
of Loren Anderson cries out for an in depth investigation.
Fort Peck Reservation
The Assiboine-Sioux tribe is only now beginning to understand the genesis of
their
plight. Several tribal groups have obtained numerous statements which recount
small
aircraft landing at night and unloading drugs. These flights are believed to
be from
Canada. Information also indicates that corrupt FBI agents, including Terry
Nelson of South Florida and at least two agents formerly from the Glasgow
office,
were involved in the illegal operations. The federal officers missused their
office
to control drug shipments to the reservations. They also used their criminal
enterprise
to intimidate, coerce and murder witnesses. There are more than 40 suspicious
deaths on the reservation which are complicated by the federal officers'
involvement
in the drug operations. The deaths are also complicated by allegations that
long time
local state District Judge James Sorte (now deceased)
was coerced into cooperating with the enterprise to obstruct prosecutions.
Here are only a few of the victims...
Jody Howard - lived near Frazer - missing since 1991, 'presumed' murdered.
Kenneth Shields, Jr. - Fort Kipp- suspicious drowning at a train bridge just
east of Poplar.
Bobby Weeks - 'murdered,' - body discovered near 'Hi-Line' train tracks in Wolf
Point.
Charlie Cantrell- age ten - Brutally murdered and body dumped near Fort Kipp.
Suspicions
are that the murder was related to attempts to intimidate the boy's father
Newton Cantrell
into cooperation.
Ruben Castro Cantrell - Poplar - Ruben Cantrell was found by hunters after he
had been
beaten to death. The killing appears to be related to officially sanctioned
drug activities
on the reservation.
'Pugs' - Three Stars-Poplar - found murdered in an alley in Poplar. Targeted by
the
criminal enterprise.
Edward Spotted Bird - Brockton - Spotted Bird's badly decomposed body was found
by
a BIA officer after he had been stabbed to death in criminal enterprise
related violence.
Larry Hopkins- Wolf Point - murdered in conjunction with trailer arson near
Poplar.
Valen Hoptomanie - missing since 1995 and presumed murdered, related to
Reservation
criminal enterprise.
There are another 30 deaths on the Fort Peck Reservation. Deaths which go
unexplained.
Several of these deaths may also relate to attempts to silence witnesses who
knew of the
drug flights from Canada.
Chinook
Richard Cowan and Bernadette Doiron were murdered by
professional hitmen, Loyd Wilson and Richard Bone. Both men
were convicted of the double murders and received lengthy prison
sentences. Former Chinook newsman Mike Perry obtained a statement
from a man who was the last to see the couple in Havre on the night
they were murdered. Richard Cowan told the witness that he intended to
provide information about a large scale drug ring to authorities. Cowan had
arranged to meet with authorities the following morning. For Cowan, the sun
would not rise. Cowan and companion Bernadette Doiron were murdered that
night. But Cowan anticipated problems. Before leaving, Cowan told at least
one witness that he was concerned that the Blaine County Prosecutor would
kill him before allowing him to meet with law enforcement in the morning. There
were six other killings around the Chinook and Havre area related to the
Terry Nelson-Mike Huxtable criminal enterprise. All of these deaths occured
while investigations into the deaths of Cowan and Doiron were at their peak.
Attorney General Marc Racicot took a very public role in investigating the
wrongdoing and could find no 'credible' evidence implicating his personal
friend,
the Blaine County Attorney, in the murders. Arizona investigator Mike Roe later
asserted that Racicot, serving as Montanas' Attorney General, had 'spiked' the
murder and drug investigations in Chinook. Four Chinook police officers who
also
provided damning testimony concerning the drug flights and murders were fired.
During 1996 newsman Mike Perry, owner and editor of the
Chinook Opinion, had to wear a holstered pistol in his print room as he
published his small town newspaper, due to threats for his continued
publications
concerning the criminal enterprise. By October of 1997 Mike Perry had
been forced to sell his newspaper and has since left the state. Agent Scott
Cruise
was tasked with investigating the drug allegations in Chinook in 1994, and
refused
to interview key witnesses. In the months before Perry went out of business, a
staff
member of Senator Conrad Burns (R-MT) called Perry four times requesting
copies of the Perry editorials which addressed the drug scandal.
Fort Benton Mickey Sullivan, an occasional police officer from the
Butte-Anaconda
area, accidentally shot himself three times as he climbed a barbed wire fence.
Let me
repeat that - Mickey Sullivan, an occasional police officer from the
Butte-Anaconda area,
accidentally shot himself three times as he climbed a barbed wire
fence. That was the official finding, but deserves a deeper look. This finding
was indeed
anomalous as Sullivan, a professional police officer, was highly proficient in
the safe use
of fire arms. Mickey Sullivan...was an embarrassment. He had been previously
been arrested in a strong-arm attempt to shake-down the Kurth Ranch marijuana
growing operation. In this
particular case, a Great Falls bank - now a Norwest Bank branch, was
heavily fined. The corrupted officers were not criminally prosecuted in the
matter
handled personally by Montana Attorney General... again...Marc Racicot. This
name
seems to appear quite often when describing questionable events.
Joplin Gene Moore was killed in a gun battle with law enforcement officers on
April 23, 1996, outside Joplin, Montana. The circumstances surrounding his
death
are highly questionable. On the day he was killed Moore told his family that he
was
being targeted for what he knew about the operations of a local 'drug cartel.'
Moore
was killed while allegedly resisting arrest for the killing of Walt Sullivan, a
financial
auditor from Butte, Montana. Numerous inconsistant statements were made by law
enforcement subsequent to Walt Sullivan's murder, and the Moore killing. Gene
Moore's widow claims that she came upon the scene where Moore was
shot that day. But rather than finding a dead husband, she heard Gene Moore
screaming for help, and she was quickly led away. Had Moore actually been
killed
in a gun battle, she never would have heard him screaming
for help. ...dead men don't scream.
Conrad
Area rancher Bob Krop was murdered in a staged 'auto accident' while
returning from Salt Lake City. Krop had refused to participate in an alleged
scheme
to bribe the Montana Supreme Court. Krop found himself tabbed a
liability...time to go. Krop was attempting to mediate the famous 'Bouma' case
in Pondera County. Ralph Bouma, a stubborn Dutch farmer, had fought a searing
multi-jurisdictional legal battle to recover a wheat farm which had been
fraudulently taken.
The Krop murder is the key to understanding the turn-key Montana bribery and
blackmail
system which allowed Cali-Medellin operations to exist unchecked in Montana for
a
decade. Was Krop's death an accident? I think not. New forensics studies show
that
the Krop vehicle went over the cliff in reverse. Additional evidence shows that
Krop
was beaten after he exited the vehicle. support for this astounding information
can
be found in a recent book authored by Great Falls newsman, Ralph Bidwell. The
book details these events which surrounda the Bouma case. Recently published,
the
book is entitled, 'You Be the Judge.'
Whitefish
Mountain Bank president John Ochenrider fell to his death two weeks before his
trial.
Ochenrider was being tried on federal money laundering charges as a
co-defendant
with Al Luciano. Now that's a familiar name...any relation to the notorious
Lucky Luciano?
You bet. But the criminal enterprise could not risk the possibility of the
banker turning snitch
and exposing the enterprise and its members...so it was arranged for John
Ochenrider
to take-up mountain climbing. Ochenrider plummeted down a mountainside on his
first
and last attempt at mountain climbing. Killing witnesses doesn't always stop an
investiagation,
especially when it involves FINCEN audits. That's why the August, 1997,
indictment of
former Mountain Bank CEO Werner Schreiber for drug related money- laundering
was
anticipated in some circles. Still more indictments are coming as the Mountain
Bank drug-profit money laundering scandal unfolds. As other financial audit
trails are
revealed they will lead to a prominent Helena politician.
Libby-Eureka
Lucky Luciano was a most notorious gangster. He knocked around with Al Capone
and worked closely with Meyer Lansky. Luciano was known during his lifetime as
the
'world's largest heroin dealer.' It was Lucky Luciano's Mafia spy network used
for
smuggling heroin in Sicily and Corsica, that assisted U.S. intelligence during
World War II. The same netwok extended into the Libby-Eureka area, and to
the Al Luciano family living in that locale. One of the earliest of the Hi-line
killings
occurred, near Eureka, when Montana Highway Patrolman Remz was gunned
down after he stopped vehicles entering and exiting an air strip run by Joseph
Bonano. The Bonano and Luciano families had learned that there was a long
standing system in place which would gladly protect their operations in
Montana.
Lucky Luciano loved Montana, but he moved to Hot Springs Arkansas, (and the
home of future Arkansas governor Bill Clinton ) before he was deported. The
killer of
Patrolman Remz remains at large today.
Conclusion
As the criminal enterprise is exposed in Montana, many families will be shocked
to
realize that their loved ones were killed in conjunction with a
Canadian/American
drug ring, orchestrated by corrupt FBI, law enforcement, and one very corrupt
Helena
political figure. Just today, state Senator Casey Emerson was threatened; a
prisoner in the Roosevelt County jail was threatened; a business was burned out
on
the Fort Peck Reservation; all three of these events relate directly to the
criminal
enterprise described above. A Canadian source has informed me that the Canadian
government may try to apprehend one of the U.S. conspirators. To date,
attempts to extradite these criminals to Canada has met with brick walls. It
has been
decided by Canadian officials that an unsanctioned operation into the U.S. to
snatch
these criminals is in order. Wish I could be there.
As the expose' unfolds and prosecutions begin...whether in Canada or the U.S.,
these
notorious thugs will beg for leniency...and then we will find out why the lives
of these
unfortunate Montanans were taken. It is my experience that people of this
caliber, in their
attempt to be first to 'tell all' in exchange for leniency, will equal a
stampede yet unknown
to Montana.
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