	id AA16006; Sun, 6 Nov 94 19:10:12 CST
Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 2 Num. 69


              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 2  Num. 69
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Tribune Review, 11/4/94- HOSPITAL WORKERS DISPUTE SUICIDE   
FINDING IN PAULA JONES-RELATED CASE- Several co-workers of a 
deceased woman with apparent links to the Paula Jones case have 
serious doubts as to the accuracy of an official coroner's report 
which concludes that she committed suicide.
 
Jones is the former Arkansas state employee who is suing    
President Clinton on charges he sexually harassed her. The 
deceased woman, Kathy Ferguson, 38, was the ex-wife of an   
Arkansas state trooper, Danny Ferguson, who is co-defendant in 
Jones' suit. Jones alleges that it was Trooper Ferguson who asked 
her to meet Clinton at a hotel room; and that it was he who stood 
guard at the door as Clinton made sexual advances toward her. 
Last May, in Sherwood, Ark, Kathy Ferguson was found dead of a 
gunshot wound in the apartment of her boyfriend who himself, in a 
bizarre twist of an already strange case, was to die shortly 
thereafter. Police ruled Ferguson's death a "suicide."
 
But interviews with six hospital colleagues indicate that 
Arkansas officals seem to have overlooked critical information 
relating to her wounds.
 
Police say that Ferguson, despondent over a breakup with the 
boyfriend, Bill Shelton, shot herself while sitting on Shelton's 
couch. They say that Ferguson's clothing was found packed in 
shopping bags. According to police reports, Ferguson was found in 
a sitting position on the couch, slumped slightly to the right.  
A gun, said to be Shelton's, was found on the floor directly 
below her right hand, which rested at her side on the edge of a 
cushion. Just over a month after her death, Shelton 31, a 
Sherwood police officer, was found dead of a gunshot wound behind 
the right ear, with his body sprawled across Ferguson's grave.  
The police say that he too, committed suicide. Ferguson's 
suspicious death, occuring just four days after Jones filed her 
lawsuit against President Clinton on May 6, has been the source 
of much speculation in Arkansas, as well as on the national talk 
radio circuit.
 
But at Little Rock's Baptist Memorial Medical Center, where Kathy 
Ferguson worked as a unit secretary, there is much more than idle 
speculation. On one occasion, three Baptist Memorial nurses and a 
nurse's aide who worked with Ferguson viewed their colleague's 
body at Ruson's funeral Home in Sherwood and their observations 
are in decided conflict with the official ruling: that Ferguson 
fired a .380 semiautomatic pistol into her right temple, with the 
bullet exiting her left temple.
 
One nurse, an RN whose almost 15 years experience includes 
emergency room duty, noted that, curiously, the woman's right 
temple "was pretty much blown away. Usually exit wounds blow out 
and entry wounds are clean," she explained. The three nurses were 
puzzled by what looked to them to be an exit wound in the right 
temple, since they knew Ferguson to be right-handed. This 
prompted them to look for an entrance wound on the left side, 
which they could not find. "It made me go on and look further, 
and I started looking at her hair," said one of the nurses. She 
recounted how her concern had led her to roll the corpse's head 
to the side for verification.
 
Eventually, one of the nurses located the apparent wound.  
Contrary to the subsequently released offical report, it was 
directly behind her left ear about midway between the top and 
bottom of the ear, and was the size of a "quarter and stuffed 
with cotton." All three nurses, one the RN, the other two, LPNs 
also clearly saw this cotton-stuffed wound behind Ferguson's left 
ear.  SEE NEXT  NOTE
 
CONTD FROM NOTE ONE- At least two other hospital colleagues 
subsequently visited the funeral home and made the same 
observation. One such colleague, a trained medical     
assistant, recalled visiting the funeral home shortly after the 
family had left. At the time, the mortician, in response to 
complaints by Ferguson's family, was trying to improve the 
appearance of the body. "It looked horrible," said the colleague, 
who told of volunteering to help the mortican in his task. She 
said she worked on "her hair, dress and everything else" 
including the right temple area, because of "the large gaping 
wound filled with pancake make-up that wasn't smoothed out." 
That's where the bullet came out, she recalled thinking to 
herself, prompting her to search for the entrance wound. "I saw 
it behind the (left) ear, plugged with cotton," she said.
 
Yet another colleague, Sherry Butler, then an LPN with four years 
experience and perhaps Ferguson's closest friend, saw no wound in 
the left temple. She, however, could not verify that there was a 
wound behind the left ear since she did not look for it. Still, 
there are five other hospital employees, three of whom are 
trained nurses with many years combined experience who examined 
Ferguson's wounds. All of them were interviewed on tape for this 
report (and all have requested anonymity, citing concerns for 
their safety.) They agree there was a small circular wound 
typical of an entrance wound behind the left ear, and no exit 
wound in the left temple area, where the autopsy report had it.  
Such an exit wound on the left side would have been difficult to 
miss especially to trained professionals. The autopsy report 
noted that it was a jagged wound of approximately an inch in 
width and height and almost three inches above her left ear.
 
Ferguson's co-workers recalled that when they learned of her 
death they were stunned that she had supposedly committed suicide 
and were confused by the unusual wounds which almost certainly 
would have to have been administered by a gun held by the left 
hand. "For her to use her left hand, and then in an awkward 
place..." said one nurse, her voice trailing off into 
incredulity. "Kathy had these little delicate hands," said 
another. "We laughed about her being right-handed. Kathy said she 
couldn't do anything with her left hand, her curling iron or make- 
up...she just couldn't do it with her left hand."
 
But what started as confusion has turned to outright fear as 
Ferguson's colleagues speculate on the why of the apparent 
inconsistency contained in the autopsy report which has not been 
circulated until fairly recently.
 
A number of others who knew Ferguson have their doubts about the 
suicide verdict. "She was in a pretty good mood, very vivacious, 
upbeat, " said Dr. Samuel T. Houston, recalling the day before 
Ferguson's death. Houston is a highly respected urologist at 
Little Rock's Baptist Memorial Hospital. His patient list once 
included Hillary Rodham Clinton's late father. Houston found the 
suicide ruling "unacceptable" based on his acquaintance with 
Ferguson and the knowledge that women who take their own lives 
don't ordinarily use guns. Vernon Geberth, author of an 
authoritative police text titled "Practical Homicide 
Investigations," held to a similar opinion to that of Houston's.  
"If I have a woman with a gunshot wound to the head, that raises 
the hair on the back of my neck," he said. "Women will usually 
not blow their heads up."
 
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