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| Tom Hinze |
Actually, the last post included the text of the FIRST email I sent to both Sheriffs, on May 22, 2015. As I didn't receive any answer whatsoever, I re-sent the same email to both individuals on the first of June.
As of June 15, I've still received no answer from either of them, and I guess I can safely assume that I won't.
I've therefore sent the following email to two Fire Reporting officials from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, namely, Mr. Scott Radke, who is listed on the DPS website as "Incident Reporting Inspector", and Mr. Richard Sellman, who is listed as "Investigator".
You may notice that the latter part of the email below is just a copy and paste of the same old email I wrote to the two Sheriffs. I'm getting a little tired of trying to put the same simple questions into new words!
I've already received an automated reply from Mr. Radke, as follows:
Hopefully, Mr. Sellman will be able to give us some information before next week, but if not, we'll just have to wait for Mr. Radke to return.Out of the Office - Returning Monday 6/22, Response maybe delayed-Thanks Scott Radke
It's damned funny that neither of the Sheriffs would know anything about this matter, though, eh? Duluth Police Chief Gordon Ramsay let me know that the Langenbrunner murder was not a Duluth case, and so he doesn't know anything about it ... It WAS a St. Louis County case, though -- I distinctly remember Sheriff Litman giving a press conference proudly announcing the "solving" of it.
Below is the correspondence I sent earlier today to the State Fire Marshal's investigator and inspector at the Minnesota Department of Public Safety:
Lloyd Wagner
To
To: Scott Radke, Incident Reporting Inspector, and Richard Sellman, Investigator -- Minnesota Department of Public Safety
scott.radke@state.mn.us richard.sellman@state.mn.us
Dear Sirs:
I
am writing regarding a July 6 "arson fire" that was first reported in
the local Duluth/Cloquet media on or about August 1, 2012, at the time
of the arrest of Sandra Couture for having set that fire (which had not
yet in over 3 weeks, been reported in any media).
Sandra
Couture was accused by St. Louis County investigators of having set the
fire in order to intimidate or "tamper with" an unnamed witness in the
Trina Langenbrunner murder case. Joseph Couture was already in jail,
having been arrested in June 2012, and accused of committing the murder
back in 2000.
(A little background information about myself: I am a witness in that murder case, whose testimony relating to someone ELSE having committed the murder has been repeatedly ignored by investigators. I firmly believe that the Coutures were "framed" by manufactured evidence that ALSO never made its way into a courtroom -- as the Coutures both suddenly "confessed", and no trial ever took place. For that reason I've started a blog to relate my testimony that I have not been able to get into a courtroom. I'll link the blog below.)
Both
Sandra and Joseph Couture eventually confessed to this July 6, 2012
"Cloquet arson fire". Sandra confessed to having set it, and Joseph
confessed to having told Sandra to set it. Both were convicted of
"witness tampering" and received lengthy prison sentences in connection
with this "arson fire".
Several
things about the handling of the reporting of this "arson fire" have
raised questions in my mind. I have already written to Mr. Kevin
Shroeder, Fire Chief of the Cloquet Area Fire District, who confirmed to
me what I already suspected: no fire took place on that date in the
CAFD, at all.
I've
also written both to Sheriff Ross Litman of St. Louis County, and to
Sheriff Kelly Lake, of Carlton County, to (1) try to "nail down" the
location of that fire, (2) to determine which entity investigated it and
determined it was indeed an "arson fire", and (3) to determine which
County reported that "arson fire" as an "incendiary fire" statistic to
the Minnesota Department of Public Safety for the year 2012.
However,
neither of the two Sheriffs have made any response whatsoever to my
inquiry. I sent the same email twice, in fact, on May 22, 2015, and on
June 1, 2015, and have STILL received no response whatsoever.
I
will simply paste the text of those repeated emails below, indented, in
quotation marks, and ask for your response to those same questions,
which I will report in a future post in my blog. I will include this
email in today's blog post, as I have already included the emails to Mr.
Shroeder and his reply in the last blog post. Thank you kindly for your
responses in this matter.
Sincerely,
Lloyd Wagner
"Dear Sheriff Litman and Sheriff Lake:I thought it would be easier to send the same email to both of you.I have some questions about the arson fire reported in the media as having occurred in Cloquet on July 6, 2012, (the one that was confessed to by Sandra and Joseph Couture in St. Louis County Court, as a tampering with unnamed witnesses in the Trina Langenbrunner murder case.)I noticed a few things about this reported fire that raised questions in my mind, and I ask for your response:1. It was the first fire I can ever remember that was not reported anywhere in the media the very next morning after it happened, but was only reported a couple of weeks later -- AFTER it had been solved by St. Louis County investigators (based on their having broken a code used in the jail between Sandra and Joseph Couture).2. It was reported that the fire was responded to by "Carlton County deputies", but when I looked up fire statistics for incendiary fires in Carlton County for 2012, the total damage reported for seven incidents was $8,600. This despite the fact that the one fire in question had reportedly destroyed a house, plus two vehicles, plus two dogs (who left no skeletons, but were "missing and presumed dead" in the fire).3. I recently wrote to Mr. Kevin Shroeder, Fire Chief of the Cloquet Area Fire District, who told me that according to his records, no fire took place in that district on that date, nor on July 19, when Molotov cocktails were also reported to have been thrown at the same address, (and also responded to by Carlton County deputies). Mr. Shroeder pointed out that there are some addresses in St. Louis County that do have Cloquet addresses, and also some Cloquet addresses in Carlton County that are out of the Cloquet Area Fire District.A. If the fire was indeed in Carlton County, but out of the Cloquet Area Fire District, then it seems it should have shown up in the Carlton County report as an incendiary fire in 2012.B. If the fire actually took place in St. Louis County, then it seems it should have been responded to by some St. Louis County fire department, instead of by "Carlton County deputies", as reported.5. Why would the address of the fire be kept secret from the public? In fear that the Coutures might find out? That of course makes no sense, because if they really did burn a house, they must have known where it was. (!)6. Which entity initially investigated and made the official determination that the July 6, 2012 fire was an arson fire?7. Was this fire reported to the Minnesota Department of Public Safety as a St. Louis County fire statistic for July 6, 2012, or as a Carlton County fire statistic? How about the Molotov cocktails that were thrown on July 19, 2012? Why can't I find either of these fires in any Northland news reports anywhere, until in August 2012?Sheriff Litman may recall that I have repeatedly offered testimony regarding a certain person who met every criteria the Sheriff's Department said they were looking for in the case, since 2001. My testimony has been ignored, and I have even been called a liar in this case, without any DNA data ever being presented to attempt to PROVE me a liar. St. Louis County investigators refused to DNA test the person I pointed at, or to investigate other forensic information I pointed at. Instead, they let the guy know that I was talking about him, which caused him to threaten MY life. Then he was given a very short sentence in NERCC (just across the road from where I used to live) for his umpteenth DWI, and released right back into the rural wooded neighborhood, despite my complaints he had threatened my life.I've repeatedly attempted to get my testimony into the official record and in front of a jury, and have not been able to do so. For that reason, I started a blog several months ago, to relate that testimony and to present the text of all letters and other communications I have regarding the case.This email will appear as part of the next post in that blog, and any reply (or lack of reply) I receive to it will be subsequently reported, as well.Here are the blog links that relate most directly to that reported fire of July 6, 2012.I thank both of you for your time,Sincerely,Lloyd Wagner"
Thank you to all my readers for your interest, and please stay tuned!
