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Something Big Coming… »

My sources tell me that the Pitkin County Sheriff is going to hold a press conference at ten AM today to make an announcement.

Could there be a break in the Aspen Murders case?

Stay tuned – also check often here.

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THE SHOP is a work of fiction, a political thriller by M.J. Hawk.
People, places, and events portrayed on whokilledbriennecross.com
and associated Web sites are drawn from
THE SHOP.

Breaking News! Yellow Lamborghini seen near Crime Scene »

The woman who nearly crashed into a speeding Yellow Lamborghini at the corner of Castle Creek Road and highway 82 has come forward, according to Keith DeLoach of The Galena Weekly.

You can read about it here.

There were plenty of doubters who questioned the existence of the Lamborghini, but this should put those doubts to rest.

Did the Government Play a Role in Brienne Cross’s Death? »

Brienne Cross spoke to a Congressional committee last year regarding a group of Pentecostal volunteers who went into poor countries after catastrophes and “adopted” children, taking them to places unknown. She called it what it was: “human trafficking.”

She made plenty of enemies, including the brother of a man high up in the CIA. A prominent Pentecostal minister, Theodore K. Dorman of Bakersfield, California, and his followers disrupted a number of her concerts, and he was arrested twice.

Dorman’s brother, who is high up in the CIA, recently came under fire for a program he spearheaded which targets Americans abroad.

Did you know it is now U.S. policy to kill Americans in other countries if they appear to have links to terrorist organizations?

Dennis Blair, Director of National Intelligence stated Wednesday that our intelligence community is authorized to assassinate Americans! It has come out in the last few days in a House Intelligence Committee Hearing.

First, JSOC, the Joint Strategic Operations Command trained Blackwater employees to assassinate members of al-Qaida. The government outsourced this job to a private company! And now it comes out that the government has authorized the killing of Americans suspected of al-Qaida ties. No arrests, no judges, no juries.

Is it such a leap to think that the government might authorize assassinations of al-Qaida operatives inside the United States?

What would it take to implicate a well-known singer in an al-Qaida plot? Could you start by incendiery articles and put-up jobs about her ties to the Congo—her work there to save the children?

Ted Dorman’s brother is high up in the CIA. Ted Dorman clearly wants to continue what he’s doing, funneling large numbers of children into this country for God knows what purpose. (I hope I don’t get sued for this.)

The men who were arrested for the deaths of Brienne Cross and the rest of the people in the house had to be released. There was no evidence against them. But they certainly played their part. Most people think they’re still in jail awaiting trial. Never, anywhere, was their release announced by the mainstream media.

The fact is, no one knows who killed Brienne Cross. There are answers, but people aren’t talking. But if there was one person on this earth who wanted Brienne Cross out of his hair for good—

It was Ted Dorman.

The Forbes Celebrity List »

Greg Dawson, The Ute City New Times

Here’s a surprise—-Michael Jackson is not number one on the Forbes Dead Celebs list. Earning 350 million, Yves Saint Laurent is Number One, and Michael Jackson comes in at Number Three with 90 mil. Not to worry, Michael, I’m sure there’s room for growth.

I would have thought pop-star-slash-murder victim Brienne Cross would been at least in the top two or three, but believe it or not, she didn’t make the list at all.

So I have to ask: What do you have to do to make the Forbes celebrity list? How to you break out in a field of famous people still earning money while dead? You would think the brutal Charles Manson murders – style killing of a rising mega-star and five other innocent people on a reality show would yield better results. What can be more real than that?

As a Coloradan, I see this as a snub.

Yes, I can see why Elvis Presley made the list of dead celebrities—he’s always been a staple on the Forbes list, but where did the other regulars go? Where is James Dean? Where is Marilyn Monroe? And how can Michael Jackson, King of the Celebrities, come in third behind Rogers and Hammerstein?

But most important, where is Brienne Cross?

No Photo Retrospective for Ill-fated New Reality TV Show, “Soul Mate” »

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Lining up for Soul Mate auditions

ASPEN. In April 2009, people from all walks of life—mostly young and attractive—auditioned for Brienne Cross’s new reality TV show, Soul Mate. Soul Mate was the second title for the show, after it was learned Paris Hilton had a reality show in the works called My New BFF.

All the contestants were aspiring singers, just as Brienne Cross was when she burst onto the music scene in 2006 with her second-place finish on “America’s Newest Star.”

The show was a mish-mash from the beginning. Not only were the producers looking for someone who could sing back-up on Brienne Cross’s new album, but the real prize was for the person who could become Brienne’s best friend and confident, someone with soul mate compatibility, a far cry from Survivor the reality TV show.

Writer Nick Holloway, who covered the project for Vanity Fair, said in an interview with The Aspen News that the atmosphere was “divisive.” He would not elaborate, but did mention that in addition to writing a series of essays about the everyday workings of this new reality TV show, he took hundreds of photographs. Holloway, in conjunction with Vanity Fair, was planning to produce a photo retrospective of the taping.

In the aftermath of the Aspen Massacre, Vanity Fair has decided not to publish Holloway’s essays, and it is doubtful these photos will ever see the light of day.

The Man Under the Escalade »

By M.J. Hawk, reprinted by permission:

In one of the newspaper accounts—I think it was The Aspen New Times—the subheading of the front-page article said, MAN FOUND UNDER ESCALADE AT MURDER HOUSE.

The man under the Escalade was Nick Holloway, a freelance writer and author of the bestselling political thriller, Hype. Holloway was writing a series of articles about the show. He wrote about “Soul Mate” behind the scenes.

I would love to see the articles, but Vanity Fair decided not to run them—they said out of respect for the dead. I’m guessing it was mostly due to legal issues.

I’m sure Nick’s observations of the cast and crew, and of Brienne herself, will be invaluable to detective on the case, Derek Sloan. I myself am wildly curious about what Holloway wrote. He was like a fly on the wall, watching the interactions among the cast—the flirting, the friendships, the alliances, the flare-ups. I’m sure he gained insight into their characters, seeing them in unselfconscious moments, seeing them at their best and at their very worst.

So Nick is perhaps the most interesting victim, other than Brienne herself.

This is what I really want to know. Did Nick Holloway hide under the Escalade to escape the carnage? Or was he the killer, sleeping it off after an orgy of bloodlust?

With all that Rohypnol in his system, could he have made his way down along the side of the log home and into the garage? Could he have had the presence of mind to crawl under the Escalade, when he was, to all intents and purposes, in a complete blackout?

But if someone did stash him under the Escalade, why was he spared?

Deaths of Hollywood Stars: Brienne Cross Murdered in Aspen »

ASPEN. On the morning of May 25, 2009, rising country-and-pop star Brienne Cross was found dead in a rented McMansion on Castle Creek in Aspen, Colorado. Killed along with her were the remaining contestants of her reality show, “Soul Mate”—Brendan Shayles, Amber Redmond, Tanya Williams, and Connor Fallon. Two of the victims, Balough and Williams, were mutilated beyond recognition.

A week later, two men were arrested and charged with the crime. Donny Lee Odell, age 27, and Ray Arquette, age 39, had a history of criminal behavior, and had been part of the same white supremacist terrorist cell in Hayden Lake, Idaho.

It was believed that Odell and Arquette, angry over the interracial romance between two of the contestants, carried out the six murders.

Late on the morning the murders were discovered, a seventh person was found alive. Writer/photographer Nick Holloway, 42, was writing a series of articles on the show’s taping for Vanity Fair. Strangely, he was discovered unconscious under Brienne Cross’s Escalade in the garage beneath the house. He had massive amounts of Rohypnol and alcohol in his system, which begs the question: did he make it under the Escalade under his own steam, or did someone put him there?

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THE SHOP is a work of fiction, a political thriller by M.J. Hawk.
People, places, and events portrayed on whokilledbriennecross.com
and associated Web sites are drawn from
THE SHOP.

Who Killed Brienne Cross? »

Who killed Brienne Cross? 

Conspiracy Theory Alert!!!!

In most suspicious deaths of Hollywood stars, there’s usually a conspiracy somewhere. This Hollywood star’s death wasn’t remotely suspicious—it was pure, unadulterated, cold-blooded murder.

Check out M.J. Hawk’s website about THE SHOP and her theory on the real story behind the death of Brienne Cross.