Gerard J. Sniffen, IIII am grateful to the Mobile Alabama Press-Register and Jillian Kramer for writing an article about my son's disappearance and reported Alabama death. It's unfortunate Ms. Kramer is still young, inexperienced and does not research her stories well enough to be a serious crime reporter. And if Ms. Kramer asks for an interview, never expect a thanks, or the courtesy of notification of when she finally publishes the article. Watch for the article for up to a year after she gets your interview. The article Ms. Kramer wrote can be found
She pointed out that the Alabama state forensics report recording 3-inch scars on each knee, did not match my son's body. The problem is, Ms. Kramer's description of the scars was not quite correct, because she apparently did not view any forensics reports or police reports. Ms. Kramer mentions my son swigged whiskey per the Sheriff, but the autopsy report shows the body examined had no alcohol present. In the article, Sheriff Mack also says he spoke with me several times and "started recording the calls after the first few." I believe all police calls are recorded, so is Sheriff Mack's office different? I may have spoken with him one time, when I believed I was speaking with John Garner, and I have the notes to back it up. I do recall speaking with Mr. Mack's father, the coroner, now deceased. Sheriff Mack never said I could come and view the body. It's not true. Had Ms. Kramer cared about the FACTS she would have investigated further. As it was she got the story, and after about six months published it in a time slot where it would get as few readers as possible, during the Christmas holidays.
While Ms. Kramer may use human interest stories to further her career, for the sake of the innocent, and for her lack of compassion and desire for truth, she should avoid stories which involve facts, families, children, and criminal situations. While she's young and ambitious, only responsible reporters should be assigned such serious subjects.
My son disappeared not long after I had reported information to Brunswick, North Carolina police I had hoped would help solve the the murder of Amy Frink. My son's disappearance and reported death had similar characteristics as Amy's. Both were last known calling at a phone booth. Both crossed state lines and died in adjacent states. Both suffered gruesome deaths. In neither case did the mother identify the body.
I have strongly suspected foul play, even interstate organized crime, and believe since there were no witnesses to his alleged suicide, there should have been a homicide investigation.It is important to note
It is also important to note my divorce attorney, Kenneth Schatten called me to his office Spring, 1999 and advised, in the presence of Billy Carter, Private Detective, that he and Mr. Carter believed my husband may have murdered our son, and as mentioned above, there was motive to make him disappear before he could witness in any court trial.
The past ten years were spent with shock and dismay, confusion, grief, anger and fear fleeing Georgia, while finding more of the same harassments in Kentucky. While attempting to get the truth I was enduring all forms of intimidation, stalking and sabotage to my home and animals.
Below are notes taken March, 2001 in speaking with authorities in Baldwin County, Alabama. Mr. Garner explained I would not be able to get police records without a lawyer and subpoena. He was very rude. He did say he'd spoken to me before and I recall telling him I'd never called him and it must have been someone else. A few years later, in 2004, I learned Jimmy Johnson and not Garner, was sheriff and Mr. Johnson was kind in sending records. I am still curious to know who was driving the truck my son was said to have hitch-hiked on from the phone booth location in Georgia.
Family Affair
It is very important to note there are two "Huey Macks," father and son. Huey Mack, Jr. is presently the Baldwin County sheriff, who replaced James Johnson, sheriff in 1998. At the time of my son's death I believe Mr. Mack, Jr. was a deputy. Huey Mack, Sr. was the coroner, and owner of the funeral home who in 2001 provided much of the verbal information recorded below, including the flight records, body shipment schedule, and shotgun model.
I do not recall speaking with Huey Mack, Jr. but recall 2001 conversations with Huey Mack, Sr. besides speaking to Mr. Garner, 2001. I have since read there was only a cooler at his funeral home to store bodies temporarily, so have wondered if that long-term body storage information given was in error.
There is considerable evidence to open a proper investigation and find the truth regarding the death of my son. Information provided from a suspicious local resident, noted apparently near the same time there was a similar shot gun death in the same area, and the homicide victim's body was decomposing in his roadside car, undiscovered for three days. For the past ten years with an abundance of evidence, I have been unable to convince any authority to unravel the truth. My former husband of twenty-three years, well connected as a railroad executive, and his Atlanta attorney Michael Broadbear were very powerful people in Georgia with far-reaching business and political liaisons.
If the public could please submit any information regarding this tragedy, I would be most grateful, having never lost faith in the good will and integrity of the American People, at-large.
It is very important these tactics are never used again against other Americans––that those of us committed to stand and resist corruption and crime are not punished, ridiculed, stalked and harassed by criminals and ignored by disinterested or misinformed law enforcement.
If anyone should have any information, please feel free to contact me at fm_looney@yahoo.com or feel free to post comments anonymously or otherwise at this blog. You may also submit information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation at this site: https://tips.fbi.gov/
--Private Detective Billy Carter's Website, which has since been taken down--
Where the Mobile Alabama Press-Register article suggested my son had taken "a few swigs" from the whiskey bottle, forensics examiner records challenge the information relayed to Ms. Kramer.
".....When he saw a whiskey bottle on the kitchen counter, the 18-year-old Georgia native took a few swigs, then moved over to the gun rack and selected a shotgun. ..."
http://www.al.com/news/press-register/metro.ssf?/base/news/1230657324316790.xml&coll=3&thispage=1
