COPY OF LETTER SENT TO SEVERAL PROFESSIONALS

 

August 19, 2000

I have written this letter as an appeal for assistance on the behalf of Virginia Larzelere.  This letter is also intended for reproof and a statement of facts as determined by my personal investigation.

Due to the seriousness and urgency of this topic, I have sent this letter to highly intelligent and respected individuals.  It is my understanding that you hold the spirit of justice above the legal fallacies of the law when twisted by those who appear to be unaccountable.  I respectfully solicit your assistance for a united effort to set into motion a task force to challenge the material set within this letter.  Once in a while something comes along that should not be “paper shuffled” or passed off because of other pressing responsibilities.

I am writing you as a last resort of options. In your good judgment after reading my testimony, I pray you will set up an investigation acquiring resources to bring about effective change.  It is imperative this window of opportunity does not escape as this case epitomizes the current trend of the Florida legal system, the hyperbole of wrongful convictions.  Never before have I seen a case providing a variegated paradigm to examine death row issues.  You are standing at the spatial threshold, the gateway for a new ameliorated topographic model, an abreaction of fulminate restructuring. 

In January, I accidentally by some chance of fate ran across the name of a death row prisoner.  Her story seemed so bizarre, fragmented and intrinsically complicated that it aroused my personal convictions as to her claim to innocence. For there, by the grace of God, could be I.  Out of a sense of some altruistic obligation impinging on my conscious, I began to compile and amalgamate case discoveries separate and independent from Virginia Larzelere, the mention prisoner. 

I contacted and ascertained information from the following agencies: 

1. Gary J. McDaniel, a pro bono investigator who was instrumental in establishing the innocence for Jason Larzelere, her co-defendant son one year after Ms. Larzelere’s conviction.  With equidistant dedication, this investigator has solved the murder with clear and convincing evidence.  Mr. McDaniel’s has furnished the following information:
      
   • A timeline for dissemination. 
   • Letters of correspondence to her present and past defense representation.
   • Letters to John Tanner, State Attorney.
   • Summery of the State’s case
   • His written correspondence to the Edgewater Police Department.
   • His written pleas to an immunized witness.
   • Most important, interviews and written material from a witness who can identify the killer.
   • New evidence of an eyewitness that proves the immunized witness lied.
       
2. I contacted the Edgewater Police Department (EPD) which conducted the investigation that lead to Ms. Larzelere’s arrest.  I requested all relevant records in connection with her case.
   • On 2/25/00 I paid $500.30 for 3,002 pages of documentation, police reports and depositions.  Much of the information was duplicated and missing.
   • On 3/17/00 I paid $434.75 for additional documentation which consisted of 50 audio cassettes, 5 video tapes, 1354 pages of personal files and copies of Polaroid photos. 

·  Two of the video tapes were withheld.  Only 900 pages of documentation arrived, which means over 400 pages missing and much of that was also duplicated, along with missing photos. 

3. On 2/24/200 I ordered records from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. 
   • I received over 200 pages of lab reports, photos and testimony.
      
4. I have had contact with Ms. Larzelere for limited explanation and source of facilitating discovery.

It was soon clear that I stepped into the mist of ubiquitous prosecutor misconduct, tumultuous illegal police activities, defense greed and alcoholically impaired representation,  immunized adolescent pathological liars and police idiosyncratic theories aimed at audacious goal directed fantasies to satisfy department revenge rather then the delineated facts.

• This case exemplifies legal greed.  The attorneys lost interest after raping the estate of available monies and upon learning the insurance policies may not pay.
    
• During trail, Ms. Larzelere attempted to address the Court her valid concerns of being ‘ripped-off’ by defense attorney Wilkins but the Court refused to hear her complaint and refused to allow her to dismiss her attorney citing it was a delay tactic.  Subsequently, Wilkins who was as alcoholic pled guilty to obstruction of justice, perjury, tax evasion and money laundering (21 felon counts). 
    
• Defense attorneys fired a pro bono investigator against the request of their client, who later established the innocence of the co-defendant son and has solved the murder upon pursuing leads that had been provided to Defense counsel a year before the trial.
    
• The weight of the State’s case involves immunities, the testimony of two adolescent admitted liars, who the State claimed lied frequently and gave immunity from prosecution for obstruction and perjury.
    
• The incriminating evidence was based upon 2 lovers of which had criminal liabilities and stated that Virginia expressed an interest to hire a “hit-man”.  I have found that one ex-lover, the primary witness of the two, is known to my brother and uncle who describes him as ‘attention-getting, and loves a big story.”  They have recounted events of being cheated out of money and deceived though the course of business transactions.
    
• Unfortunately, Ms. Larzelere’s independent life style and affaires provided ambiguity to her statements of innocence, giving rise to critical public opinion which the EPD was able to effectively adapt into their fabricated framework.
    
• As for the motive, the State claimed it was for insurance monies but could not cooperate their opinions with the policy issuers.  The depositions with insurance agents reflect the normal course of business with both Norm, the victim, and his wife, Ms. Larzelere.  Norm was very much involved with setting up the polices.  The state missiles the jury and lied, stating Ms. Larzelere forged the victims signature on the Will and bought polices  unknown to the victim.  FBI and FDLE lab reports strongly indicate Ms. Larzelere’s innocence and the Will signature is authentic, contrary to State’s confrontational fabrications.
  
  I have examined the polices, depositions of insurance carriers and FBI & FDLE lab reports and have found the State lied to, and confused the jury.
    
• New evidence includes an eyewitness that proves the immunitized witness lied as to the assailant vehicle and gives cooperation as this evidence affirms the eye witness observations of Ms. Larzelere given to authorities within the first hour of the murder.  The eye witness has no relationship to authorities nor the private investigator.  His testimony is viewed to be very valuable.
      
• The identity and motive has been learned of the perpetrators, evidence is strong and the private investigator has tried to present it to authorities who decline an interest.  He asks the question, “Where does one go with evidence of murder?”

·        This case involves no physical evidence that incriminates the defendant, Ms. Larzelere.

• Police admit in transcripts of taped interviews that Virginia offered them the killer's DNA, the fresh blood and skin from under her nails minutes after they arrived.  She had contact with the killer.  Yet, police refused to take skin samples from her saying they could not use them.  This is very disturbing since this evidence would have cleared her. They were not interested.  Further, the DNA could have been used to identify the real perpetrator, while proving the innoccnce of Jason Larzelere and affirming the guilt or innocence of the recently identified suspect.
    
• I have discovered through vestiges of disseminated documents, the vicissitudes of clear on convincing evidence that the EPD set into motion from the onset of the crime, to build and fabricate the framework of this murder around Ms. Larzelere from the moment they arrived on the scene.  The record is littered with these pervasive stratagems and aggressive tactics.  This activity does not appear to be “in the pursuit of justice” but rather in the pursuit of goal directed ulterior motives.
    
• Prior to the murder, I have discovered though intensive work from thousands of police documents and depositions that:
    
  • The Larzelere’s had a pending serious complaint against the investagiting Edgewater Police Department (EPD) for wrongful accusations and false conclusions in an unrelated matter. The EPD targeted this precarious report to hurt the Larzelere’s in subjugation of licensing agencies.
      
  • Emotions heightened toward hatred from both parties.  The Larzelere’s avoided any contact with the EPD in matters needing police assistance.
      
  • Det Booth was the investigating officer of this alleged complaint. I found it disturbing that when Ms. Larzelere was arrested for the alleged murder of her husband, that this same Det. was the authorizing signature on the warrant for her arrest when his participation was not significant in the company of a larger agency.  It certainly seemed the formulation some sort of “pay-back”.  This relevant information was never addressed.
       
  • Grand Jury Transcripts:  It is unbelievable that the presiding State Attorney and staff did not have a Court reporter present during the Grand Jury.  It was not until recently that the State Attorney admitted that there was no Court transcript.  Independently, the Clerk of Court located some handwritten notes that may or may not be released to the Court.  Ask yourself, “Did the conspiracy begin to obstruct justice from day one?”  With a case that was so widely publicized at the time, why would a State Attorney not retain the services of a Court Reporter?

There is more as this amorphous case takes on it’s own design.  It has the underpinnings and derivatives of revenge, scandal and deceit.  It continues to be elusive to those who seek to expose it.

Empirical evidence is mounting as Laurie Goering of the Chicago Tribune writes recently that Florida has reversed the convictions of 20 Death Row inmates, more than any other state in the nation. She says that "Many of the inmates were released from Death Row on evidence of prosecutorial errors, lying by witnesses or confessions by others." The Tribune article states that last year, 75 percent of the  death-penalty cases brought before the appeals court were overturned, and that Florida has by far the largest number of Death Row cases where an inmate was granted a new trial either because prosecutors withheld evidence suggesting innocence or because they knowingly used false evidence.

 

It is imperative that this case should be considered as a cathexis to systematically activate effective change in the functionally defective Florida legal system.  This complex case is expected to be met with strong aggression with all affiliated State and local agencies as it would create further unwanted embarrassment and implicate prominent law enforcement, lawyers and politicians intolerant of exposure.  Yet, using skillful ambulatory legal maneuvers, a united plan in principles would globally effect the entire hierarchy of corrupted legal giants into accountability.   Now is the time for a call to action.

Considering Norman Larzelere’s true killer has not been brought to justice, Ms. Larzelere murdered husband, justice has been held in abeyance far too long.  This multi-facetted crime set Norman’s wife up for execution, caused his two baby children to be adopted out to strangers, robbed his family estate of any financial security and claimed his life. The killer is still free.  

I appeal to you for consideration of dynamic intervention on the behalf of Virginia Larzelere, and as stated, the opportunity to examine death row issues generated by this case.

Armed with the preponderance of this evidence, I too wonder as Mr. McDaniel’s question echoes into the unconscious void of the Florida legal system, “Where does one go with evidence of murder?”

Sincerely,

The Free Virginia Team

 

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