Patricia Cornwell biography: Crimes, bribery, scandal, mental illness 1 of 3
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Part 1 of 3.
The Patricia Cornwell Biography -
Crimes, Bribery, Scandal and Mental Illness
by Dr. Les Sachs
The upcoming indictment of Patricia Cornwell could be the celebrity
trial of the decade.
How is it that America's famous millionaire crime writer, has become
in real life, a documented criminal who finances court bribery, buys
influence with FBI agents, hires people to conduct extortion and
threats of murder, and uses her political connections to cover for
crimes of terror? Here is a biography to help answer this question.
"I literally could kill someone and get away with it" - Patricia
Cornwell
(quoted in Vanity Fair, May 1997)
Patricia Cornwell, celebrity author of crime novels; and a miserable,
mentally tormented, but very rich woman ($125 million and counting);
is already known as the origin of much harm and destruction to many
other people. These include past lovers and friends, and also a good
portion of just about everyone who has known her.
The troubled and unhappy Patricia Cornwell has influenced other people
into an amazing list of situations: divorce, theft, kidnapping,
bribery, fraud, extortion, threats of murder, a gunfight, the
destruction of careers, lawsuits, prison sentences, attacks on free
speech and freedom of the press, the funding of terror, and a
right-wing criminal attempt to undermine the U.S. Constitution, to
name some well-documented events in which Cornwell has been involved
over the years.
And the destruction is far from over. Before Cornwell's total of real
life victims can be fully tallied, it looks like there may be a lot
more people going to prison, including Cornwell herself. Cornwell may
also be the cause of the resignation or impeachment of a federal judge
in one of the most embarrassing federal bribery scandals in United
States history.
For a number of months, Patricia Cornwell has been quietly preparing
with her lawyers behind a wall of silence, for the prospect of felony
indictments that could send Cornwell to prison until she is in her
60s, in the now well-known bribery scandal with the hilariously
corrupt U.S. Federal Judge Robert Payne ("Judge Robert Payne is my
name, Federal bribery is my game.") The Patricia Cornwell bribery
scandal is well known and documented on the internet, as well as at
FBI headquarters. A very brief summary of this scandal also follows
below in Cornwell's biography chronology.
Not just wealth, but the highest political connections
- 20 year friend of the George Bush presidential family
- Lesbian affair with an FBI agent, and ties with highly placed FBI
officials; also several scandals with FBI employees
- 12 year history of money, gifts, favors to FBI agents which buy
influence, protection, access, a cover-up of her crimes
Cornwell is not just rich. She has cultivated huge, enormous political
connections inside America, which is part of the reason she was bold
enough to commit serious crimes, and why she is so boastful about
being able to get away with murder if she chooses. She will certainly
need all these connections now.
Patricia Cornwell has been a personal friend of the presidential Bush
family for 20 years, most notably through Barbara Bush, wife of the
first President Bush, whom Patricia Cornwell met in the early 1980s.
Cornwell has also had a good friend of President Bush, former Virginia
Gov. Jim Gilmore, living in her Virginia mansion, and sleeping in
Cornwell's bedroom there.
Patricia Cornwell holds extreme right-wing and, at times, even
neo-nazi views of politics and power, and is a major contributor to
Bush's Republican party. A particular friend of Cornwell's is extreme
right wing Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah. Patricia Cornwell has even
dedicated books to Senator Hatch ("The Body Farm", 1994) and to
Barbara Bush, "with love" ("Point of Origin", 1998).
Patricia Cornwell is obsessed with themes of violence and power. And
she has turned her wealth and celebrity status, into a tool for the
abuse of power with America's government and law enforcement agencies.
Patricia Cornwell loves to be that uniquely powerful person who uses
connections, influence and bribery to get very special favors.
Cornwell's ultimate favor that she seeks and gets, is the favor of
committing crimes and getting away with them, crimes that became ever
more serious as time went on.
Patricia Cornwell has played the most high-stakes of all power games -
committing enormous felonies, crimes for which she could spend life in
prison, in the gamble that her political connections will keep her
safe regardless.
Patricia Cornwell has a particularly strong, deeply-connected, but
also scandal-ridden relationship to America's Federal Bureau of
Investigation, or FBI. Cornwell very quickly began to help destroy
careers at the FBI, but nonetheless was able to maintain unique access
to America's top law enforcement agency. These FBI connections very
much emboldened the criminal side of Cornwell's nature, and Cornwell
now hopes these connections will preserve her, as her biggest crimes
and offenses are now exposed to the public.
When Cornwell was beginning her series of crime novels at the
beginning of the 1990s, she had also befriended an FBI agent in
Richmond, Ed Sulzbach, who provided the introductions that led to
Cornwell's long and deep involvement with that agency, and in
particular at the FBI's famous Quantico training facility in northern
Virginia. An even more powerful contact cultivated by Cornwell after
she met him was Tony Daniels, for a time the Assistant director of the
FBI in charge of Quantico.
Patricia Cornwell's first well-known lesbian affair was with FBI agent
Marguerite or "Margo" Bennett, who was teaching communications at
Quantico. Margo Bennett was married to Eugene Bennett, another FBI
agent, and had two children. Patricia Cornwell has admitted in
interviews that she has given money and gifts and done favors for
these two FBI agents - which is important as a part of Cornwell's
broader history of bribing government officials, and as a part of
Cornwell's influence at the FBI regarding the cover-up of her own
crimes.
The aftermath of Cornwell's 1991-92 affair with FBI agent Margo
Bennett, was that the FBI careers of both Margo and her husband were
ruined; their marriage and family life was destroyed; and Eugene
Bennett was twice sentenced to prison, the second time in 1997. Eugene
Bennett remains in prison to this day, after a kidnapping and gunfight
as part of his attempt to murder Margo.
Patricia Cornwell was named in the court papers as the person whose
adulterous lesbian affair with Margo, was the cause of the destruction
of their marriage, and also of pushing Eugene Bennett into a murderous
rage. Cornwell had encouraged Margo Bennett to end her marriage, and
also encouraged Margo to snitch out her husband to the FBI on vengeful
claims of expense-padding, claims which led to the termination of both
of their FBI careers ,and to the first of Eugene Bennett's prison
sentences.
Another major scandal with an FBI agent, involved Cornwell's
relationship with famous FBI behavioral scientist Bob Ressler. Ressler
is the veteran profiler of numerous famous murderers, including
Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan, the Son of Sam and John Wayne Gacy.
Cornwell was introduced to Ressler in 1990, with the idea that
Cornwell would help develop a book on Ressler's life and work. After a
number of meetings, it was clear the relationship between them was
sour. Disliking each other, they did not pursue the book project
further.
During their meetings, Cornwell had demanded to see material that
hadn't been seen before by the public. In 1995, the United States
Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Ressler, claiming that
secret documents in FBI files had been illegally provided to Patricia
Cornwell. They went after Ressler, but Cornwell's FBI "friends" left
her untouched for the crime of receiving stolen FBI documents.
This, of course, is just one of several scandals of theft of secret
government documents and illegal government influence involving
Cornwell. And for long-standing FBI veteran Ressler, the brief
relationship with Cornwell, was for him, as for other victims of
Cornwell, the encounter that caused dramatic harm and destruction to
his life.
It is a testimony to Patricia Cornwell's political power and
connections, that she has been able to maintain influence and access
at the FBI despite her involvement in several huge legal and criminal
scandals with FBI employees. Despite the fact Cornwell had an
adulterous lesbian affair with one agent, and demolished the
reputations or careers of several FBI employees, and despite the fact
Cornwell was named by the FBI itself as a recipient of stolen FBI
documents, despite the fact Cornwell admits to giving money, gifts and
favors to FBI agents to acquire influence, Cornwell was nonetheless
able to maintain highly privileged access to FBI employees, facilities
and personnel.
Cornwell long remained a highly welcome celebrity visitor at FBI's
famous Quantico, attending confidential events with FBI agents,
despite the fact she is a known security and criminal risk. With
Cornwell having FBI "friends", the FBI has been stalling on known
felony crimes by Cornwell, despite full FBI files on a long history of
criminal scandal involving Cornwell.
Patricia Cornwell - mentally disturbed since childhood
Patricia Cornwell had a difficult childhood and comes from a family
haunted by mental illness and destruction, setting the pattern for
Patricia Cornwell's entire life. Both Patricia Cornwell and her mother
have a history of being committed into mental hospitals for their
psychological disturbances.
Patricia Cornwell was abandoned in delayed sequence by both of her
parents, first by her father, and then by her mother. Today, Patricia
Cornwell is still filled with malice and hatred, and directs that
hatred toward many people who have been close to her or come in
contact with her. In talking to Cornwell at length, you find her
quickly full of venom for what seems like most everyone in her past.
The main character in Patricia Cornwell's novels is troubled by
intimacy, but very attached to guns, death, power, and images of
violence. This is also the nature of Patricia Cornwell herself in real
life.
Patricia was born on 9 June 1956, as Patricia Daniels, one of three
children of Sam and Marilyn Daniels of Miami, Florida. ('Cornwell' is
a name from Patricia's marriage, before she recognized her
lesbianism.) Patricia's father Sam Daniels was a lawyer, now deceased.
Patricia spent her first few years in Florida, in a rocky home where
Sam abused his wife. At the age of about 5 or 6, according to
Cornwell, she was assaulted in a sexually molesting way by a Florida
security guard.
Around the time of the molestation incident, Sam Daniels abandoned
Cornwell and the rest of the family. When Cornwell was about 7, her
mother Marilyn Daniels, who sometimes worked as a secretary, moved the
family to the small town of Montreat, North Carolina, not far from
Asheville.
Montreat did have one great celebrity in town, the famous
Bible-thumping evangelist preacher Billy Graham, who lived there on an
estate with his wife Ruth. Ruth Graham would later introduce Cornwell
to the George Bush family, and Ruth's life would become the subject of
Cornwell's first book in 1983.
In North Carolina, it then became the turn of Patricia Cornwell's
mother to abandon her. When Cornwell was 9, her mother, in the course
of a series of nervous breakdowns, abandoned Patricia and her two
brothers, onto the doorstep of Billy Graham's home. Although Cornwell
was immediately shuttled off to a Christian foster home, it was the
prosperous and influential Ruth Graham in her great estate house, that
became the important adult image of Patricia Cornwell's childhood.
Young Patricia or "Patsy" Cornwell would go in and out of foster
homes, as her mother went in and out of mental disturbances. As a
teen, Patricia Cornwell, abandoned by both parents, and also feeling
rejected by Ruth Graham because she was farmed out to lesser, smaller
foster homes, developed her own pattern of mentally disturbed and
obsessive-addictive behavior. The signs of Cornwell's fascination with
crime and violence, were also showing as well at a young age.
Teen-age Patricia Cornwell was anorexic, bulimic, self-starving, and
full of self-hatred, but she did get through high school, and had some
success in sports. In the 1970s, when time came to go to college,
Patricia was sent off to a small Christian Bible school, King College
in Bristol, Tennessee near the Virginia border. There at King College,
Patricia had a total emotional collapse, dropped out of school, and
had one of the worst phases of her bulimic mental illness.
Patricia was then committed to a mental institution for two months, to
pull herself back from the edge of starving and vomiting herself to
death.
After a while getting herself back together, Patricia Cornwell,
showing an early ability to influence other people, met someone who
was able to wrangle her an admission to Davidson College, whose
entrance requirements normally wouldn't allow for a failed dropout
like Patricia.
At Davidson, Cornwell studied English, and attached herself strongly
to several English faculty members. Already, Patricia made an
obsessive project of influencing those who held some kind of power
that could be used for Patricia's purposes. One of the English
professors was named Charles Cornwell, 17 years older than Patricia.
Not long after graduating from Davidson in 1979, Patricia married this
Charles Cornwell, and so obtained the last name that she still uses.
An acknowledged lesbian today, Patricia now speaks of her ex-husband
as a conquest, one more sign of Patricia's power at a young age. In
interviews Patricia talks about her seduction of this long-time
bachelor professor, as something in which the older man had no choice.
Patricia Cornwell's origins are in the right-wing, Bible-belt,
conservative South of the United States, and Cornwell's political and
social views are clearly evolved from those same Bible-thumping,
redneck, "white trash" origins. Patricia Cornwell shows the full
spectrum of southern traditional values, the obsessive talk of law 'n'
order and putting people in their place, identifying herself with the
white cops who can shoot people dead.
And at the same time, Patricia Cornwell may be the ultimate
representative of Southern good ol' boy (or girl) corruption. She
preaches publicly about cops and law 'n' order, while at the same time
using every crooked courthouse angle and bribed public official to get
things done like she wants, outside the law. Cornwell's inspiration is
the kind of Southern white crook who gets rich enough to buy the whole
town, like Patricia Cornwell did when she was able to buy the whole
state of Virginia, including its governor, its judges and its police,
and even the local FBI, enabling her to commit whatever crimes she
wanted.
Interestingly, Cornwell herself admits that before she realized she
was a lesbian, she also was the typical gay-bashing, lesbian-hating,
white Southern girl. It seems that it was not till the later 1980s,
when Cornwell's marriage fell apart, that Patricia Cornwell's
lesbianism finally flowered; and not till the mid-90s that Cornwell
was publicly talking about it. Before then, Cornwell was as willing to
spew homophobic insults and venom at lesbians, just like other
Southern women of her background.
Cornwell's early years also showed the self-hating,
addictive-obsessive involvement with alcohol and drugs that
permanently afflicts her. Over the years, Cornwell get an extra kick
by mixing the drugs prescribed for her mental problems with alcohol,
like her sometimes favored alcohol - Prozac cocktail.
Patricia Cornwell's alcohol problem seems to be permanent. Her
psychiatric label finally settled down into that of being
manic-depressive, for which Cornwell has taken lithium. Patricia
Cornwell is acknowledged by the people around her as involved with the
expensive drugs that she can easily afford. At times Cornwell does
look like the longtime drug user and drinker, still an unhappy,
beat-up, redneck woman, visibly someone who has been drunk and high
and messed up on pills far too many times in her life.
Cornwell the lesbian vs. Cornwell the Southern white Christian
Recognizing her own lesbianism did not liberate Cornwell, in the way
this has liberated other lesbians. The self-discovery of her own gay
identity did not bring her peace. For the mentally unstable and
insecure Cornwell, still attached to the white Southern Bible belt
mentality, becoming an active lesbian just shifted the way that the
lines of pain and torment were drawn inside her head.
The pain and conflict of Patricia Cornwell about her adult sexual
identity, is a key to the whole psychology of Cornwell's foray into
major felony crime. Very sadly, Cornwell's lesbianism did not go along
with Cornwell acquiring other progressive and positive features to her
personality. Patricia Cornwell did not move out to San Francisco or
some other progressive place, and start hanging out with cool,
progressive, open-minded people.
Instead, Patricia Cornwell stayed in the South, with all its overtones
of Bible-belt Christian, right-wing, anti-gay conservative mentality.
Though many gay people do all right in the South, it still does take
some inner self-esteem and confidence to be gay, while living in that
gay-bashing redneck Bible belt. But self-esteem and inner confidence
are what Cornwell does not have.
The tension inside Cornwell, between her lesbianism, and her
right-wing Southern Christian affiliations, pushed Cornwell into
trying to become a lesbian version of the right-wing, bigoted,
powerful, crooked Southern male. Far more significant than the
male-style clothes and shoes she began to wear, Patricia Cornwell also
began trying to make herself into a male-style right wing, neo-fascist
crooked bigot. Like all the Adolf Hitlers of the world, the mentally
insecure Cornwell began craving criminal power over other people, to
hide her own feelings of inadequacy and of not belonging anywhere.
For Patricia Cornwell, the key moment in her life, as is obvious from
Cornwell's talk about it, took place when she had been that 9 year
old, unwanted little girl. First abandoned by her father a few years
earlier, and then abandoned by her mother, Cornwell was put at the
door of a great grand Southern home, the home of the most famous
people in the entire area, and Cornwell saw the famous Ruth Graham
there, Ms. White Southern Bible herself, opening the door to a heaven
in which Cornwell could never belong.
Patricia Cornwell still envies that house, that woman. She wants to be
a part of a house and life like that, but yet knows she can never fit
there. Patricia Cornwell, world famous celebrity lesbian, may now be
richer than Ruth and Billy Graham ever were, but as a lesbian,
Cornwell will never be the admired, securely situated White Christian
Southern Woman (or Man).
And despite Cornwell's having become a Rich White Southern Powerful
Person, she still is unable to possess a true Ruth Graham in her life,
Cornwell feels she can never can be worthy of that great Southern lady
at the door. Cornwell remains trapped in her own tortured mind:
self-hating, lonely, thrown out of one family home, and not worthy to
enter another.
Patricia Cornwell has locked herself in a mental trap from which she
cannot escape. This conflict inside Cornwell, between being a
celebrity lesbian, and trying also be a right-wing, man-style, white
Christian Southern Republican, is an endless war in Cornwell's brain,
it is the recipe of Cornwell's self-destruction and psychological
doom. It has sunk Cornwell's ability to relate to others with any
comfort or authenticity or good will.
Cornwell feels in advance that everyone will abandon her, just like
her father, and mother, and Ruth Graham. Cornwell never stops fearing
that the lesbian lovers who enjoy her money and favors now, secretly
despise her, just like so many other people. Cornwell knows that the
cops and judges that she has bribed, the lawyers and FBI agents she
has paid, they will all abandon her in the end, scorning Cornwell with
contempt, despite all the money she paid, all the favors she did them.
(Continued in next post. This is the most definitive biography of
Patricia Cornwell to date, by Dr. Les Sachs. This is part 1 of 3.)
Jess Askin
"Legal Filings" <legalf...@usa.com> wrote in message
news:b35d6cd7.04092...@posting.google.com...
> A particular friend of Cornwell's is extreme
> right wing Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah.
The problem with calling Orrin Hatch extreme is... there are so many
gradations to the right of _him_. Then what can you call those?
Jr@Ease
pondered, weak and weary:
Nazis?
John P - poor attempt to kill thread
Zeb Quinn
news:cjf077$9p2$1...@news.netins.net...
I think you hit on something there. This poster, "Legal Filings," has been
obssessing with this Cornwell story for months, posting about it and nothing
else, and he/she/it always mentions that Cornwell is a republican, and
usually tries to tie in Ashcroft and Bush too. It doesn't take a weatherman
to know that he/she/it is nursing some kind of partisan grudge, and
labelling Hatch as "extreme right wing" amply fits in with that.
su-texas, susan
> committing enormous felonies, crimes for which she could spend life in
> prison, in the gamble that her political connections will keep her
> safe regardless.
>
> her father, and mother, and Ruth Graham. Cornwell never stops fearing
> that the lesbian lovers who enjoy her money and favors now, secretly
> despise her, just like so many other people. Cornwell knows that the
> cops and judges that she has bribed, the lawyers and FBI agents she
> has paid, they will all abandon her in the end, scorning Cornwell with
> contempt, despite all the money she paid, all the favors she did them.
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Su_Texas writes:
Moral Disorders
Maybe she gets-off on being a sociopath & hypocrite, on hating &
harming others, on destroying, ... & on bragging about it, on
strutting & displaying her abuse-of-power & inner-ugliness with pride?
This moral disorder is common.
What isn't as common (among the general public), are her wealth &
very-convincing cons, which have enabled her to do major damage to
many over time.
This (abuse of power, doing major damage to many) does seem to be
"standard operating procedure" among some politicians, such as judges
& district attorneys (esp. in Texas & Louisiana), & among some of the
wealthy.
Susan, Su_Texas my opinions
PS Choices
Many children have extremely bad childhoods.
However, each gets to choose what they value & don't, what they get
high on, how they'll treat others. And they/we are responsible for
these choices.
AKA
> Anyone want to buy a signed hardcover of "Last Precinct?"
Does this look like EBAY?
angel
scandal". I don't think that PC is perfect by any means, no one is,
but she is doing a lot of good things and tries hard to help other
people and animals but all that is left out in this...what do you call
it? "Biography".
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angel
Cornwall :-)
(or is he still in jail?)
Cheers!
Morgs"
I also thought it was him, in the beginning.
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