[R-G] COMMENT BY HUNTER BEAR ON THE JULY 4 2007 COURT TV PRODUCTION RE - TURCOTTE MURDER

[Hunter Gray]

COMMENT BY HUNTER BEAR ON THE JULY 4 2007 COURT TV PRODUCTION, "HAUNTING EVIDENCE," WHICH FOCUSES ON THE STILL -- AFTER FIVE YEARS -- UNSOLVED NIGHT-TIME MURDER OF RUSSELL TURCOTTE IN NORTH DAKOTA: 

[This is being placed on our consistently much visited website on the Russ 
Turcotte murder:
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We were not especially impressed with the production.  Bill Turcotte, father 
of Russ, and the other family member, Jacob Turcotte,  definitely handled 
their end of things very well indeed. Our family and many others can 
certainly identify and empathize with their deeply spiritual perspective and 
approach.  The Court TV production has the saving grace of keeping this 
often dangerously obscure case "alive."  It was interesting for us -- who 
spent sixteen years in the Grand Forks setting and the Northern Plains 
region -- to see shots of very familiar local places.  But the Court TV 
program struck us as almost tabloid in nature, far too short in duration [a 
half hour time bloc], skimpy in detail, confused in its presentation -- and 
interrupted by the inevitable several substantial commercials.  The 
production centered primarily on the endeavors of psychics.  There are 
people for sure who are genuinely so gifted, but the psychics utilized in 
the program -- for whom no background was given -- seemed to us 
unconvincing,

To be frank, I have never expected much out of any Court TV segment. I have 
occasionally watched the program casually.  This particular episode, I 
should add, will be replayed a few more times this July.

My own strong hunch has been for virtually all of these past five years --  
and it is indicated at several points in our large website page on the 
hideous situation and in several Internet posts -- that Russ Turcotte was 
killed by an out-of-state passing-through sexual psychopath on a side road 
off Highway 2, not too far west of the Grand Forks Air Force Base where the 
highway then becomes continuously dark and very lonely at night. 
The body was then taken several miles west of Devils Lake [a town 
itself about 90 miles from the Forks] and, as we all know, dumped nude in a clump of trees 
off Highway 2 and partially covered by loose brush. It would not be unlikely 
that the killer then took Russ' possessions and later threw those into one 
of the rivers [e.g., the Missouri] in western North Dakota or extreme 
eastern Montana.

While any lead in this sort of situation obviously has to be followed to its 
limit, I would guess that Russ' killer is a youngish, smooth "professional 
person" -- initially reassuring -- from a setting like Seattle/Tacoma. 
That's been my consistent feeling since soon after the onset of the tragedy 
and I have indicated it numerous times.  

In any case, as we have said for years now, anyone with any even possibly 
relevant information should contact:

North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation

Attn:  Jerry Kemmet
PO Box 1054
Bismarck, ND 58502
(701) 328-5500
bciinfo at state.nd.us

HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR]

 
HUNTER GRAY  [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR]   Mi'kmaq /St. Francis
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