Tiffany Hartley: A Call To Action: Part 2

by Susan Murphy Milano and Peter Hyatt


On part one here yesterday, we challenged the media to ask some important questions including treating this woman, Tiffany Young-Hartley as at the very least a person of interest.

We have been encouraged by the responses to a call to action thus far, and encourage any journalist who treasures the word "investigative" with their title, to respond.

Levi Page is one such journalist who has committed himself to justice; though not always in step with popular media hosts, he has refused to turn a deaf ear to the obvious and join in calling Tiffany Hartley "courageous" or a "voice" for America. He will continue to cover the case, also seeking justice for David Hartley and his family, on The Levi Page Show on BlogTalk Radio.

Journalists, with dogged determination, can dig and dig until the truth, no matter what it is, is uncovered.

But what of law enforcement?
If a man drove up on a jet ski and called 911 to report that his wife had been gunned down by Mexican "pirates", and he told a tale where he portrayed himself as a hero, even in the face of an onslaught of bullets hailing all around him, but finally, reluctantly, and with the voice of God, was forced to abandon his wife, would a sheriff have simply taken his word for it?

Had he said, "don't bother to search, my wife's on the Mexican side", would law enforcement simply said, "ok, case closed"?

Would Sheriff Gonzalez take one look at him, untouched by bullets (and without a single nick on his jet ski) and said, "I can tell he is an honest man. No need for a polygraph."?

What if he said that ruthless drug cartels "decided" after killing his wife, to just let him go? Would that not raise an eyebrow or two?

How about afterwards: let's say this same man, a day or two later, contacted media and went from talk show to talk show: Would his words matter to you?

What if he announced that his wife was the love of his life, but it was time to move on?

What if he said he knew his wife would have wanted him to see the world, do some serious Black Friday shopping, and "live the life" a month after her murder?

Sheriff Gonzalez, would you feel a bit queasy on this one?What if the same man declined any call for justice for his slain wife, but only wanted her body back.

Would you still be able to retain the respect of your deputies even after ignoring this blaring red flag and all the others?

Sheriff Gonzalez, it is time to think about your actions.

What did Gonzalez have to gain by taking Tiffany's word that her husband's body is on the "Mexico" side; even though they were racing as fast as the jet ski could take them (60mph?) towards home? Was there a sort of marker in the water in which Tiffany could see the demarcation? Would any law enforcement personnel in the country just take a person's word for it, without verification?


For law enforcement here is what must be investigated.


There is an insurance policy within the company David Hartley was employed.

Law enforcement 101: check with human resource people within CalFrac Well Services to see if she inquired as to what they need for a pay-out. Go back 6 months and ask some questions.

And it might also include a double indemnity clause as an insurance benefit provision or addendum. Tiffany Hartley likely is the sole beneficiary. This information is not public record and must be obtained from the company in which he was employed. It is easy enough to get: investigative subpoena will do the trick. Separately check also with the policy holder directly for any communication prior to David Hartley vanishing.


Cell phone records: both those of David and Tiffany Hartley. She also likely used his phone at different times. Also check on the computer activity used from the cell phone and go back as far as 9 months of activity. It is likely you will not see much activity 30 days before David vanished; but go back a bit further. This was not random, but showed planning and alibi building at least a month earlier,likely many months.

Next: Cell phone usage after David vanished.

If his cell phone was in the truck that day and it was a company phone was it returned to the company was it used? Cell tower activity on all phones especially 4 weeks prior to the date she left the area. Current cell phone activity should be investigated.

We still haven't left Investigation 101.

Journalists, are you listening?

Ever hear of the Freedom of Information Act?

Do you want to hear the complete 911 call? Did Tiffany have you at "hello", even though you have read the FBI's own litmus test for guilty homicide callers? Do you still wish to refer to her as "cute"?

Obtain computer activity from David’s computer and Tiffany’s computer. Subpoena email activity records from the Internet carrier. Search for records must include google map activity and skype connect calls (that is often missed in intimate partner crimes.)

Tiffany was employed, but where? Check her computer activity at her place of employment. Also if there is a library where the couple lived or Internet access at a local cafe it should be checked.
David Ramsey- Tiffany sought the assistant of radio and financial expert Dave Ramsey and she met him in person. Also Tiffany thanked Dave Ramsey for his advice. The couple was obviously lived past their means if they went to Dave Ramsey. I would investigate if the jet skis were owned free and clear or did they owe money on them. In an interview, ask Tiffany to explain what "the life" means to her?

You may be surprised at just how much she reveals.

Obtain the registration of both jet skis and put out an alert for the missing skis.

How about a reward?

Investigate which jet skis Tiffany actually has, hers or David’s. Place a stolen warrant in the system for the missing jet skis it is likely it could turn up. Place the warrant for the skis in both Mexico and the United States. The one Tiffany returned to tell her story was indeed registered to David M. Hartley (this information was obtained from the police stop earlier on the video dash cam as it showed the back of the trailer where they were transporting skis.)

Investigate friends of Tiffany Hartley at her work and David’s in the area or other wives whose husbands worked for CalFrac Well Services. I would check both English and non English employees spouses. If she spoke Spanish fluently Tiffany may have kept that quiet.

Investigate any Western Union activity within 60 days of David vanishing. Unusual charges to credit cards both she and David Hartley’s. Federal express records of ingoing and outgoing packages need to be reviewed through the time she left, especially in Mexico.

This is not complicated. It is long, boring arduous work.

It is also something that investigators love.

Why?

Because it is often the tiny, overlooked detail that brings out the truth.

Had a man emerged from Falcon Lake sans wife claiming to have been in a hail of bullets with not a single one of them hitting him or his jet ski, yet scoring a perfect head shot on his wife,

would law enforcement and media turned a deaf ear, and a blind eye, to justice for the missing? 

It is time.

In part 3, if more journalists will not step up and law enforcement will continue to shrug their collective shoulders, then it shall be time for the public to take some action.


Peter Hyatt is an Investigator and an expert on Statement analysis, also called "statement validity assessment", "content analysis", "investigative discourse analysis", and "scientific content analysis" is a technique that can be used to detect concealed information, missing information, and whether the information that person has provided is true or false. Peter Hyatt's blog is http://www.seamusoriley.blogspot.com


[Susan Murphy Milano is with the Institute for Relational Harm Reduction and Public Pathology Education. She is an expert on intimate partner violence and homicide crimes. For more information visit http://www.saferelationshipsmagazine.com/  She is the author of "Time's Up A Guide on How to Leave and Survive Abusive and Stalking Relationships," available for purchase at the Institute, Amazon.com and wherever books are sold.  Susan is the host of The Susan Murphy Milano Show, "Time's Up!" on Here Women Talk http://www.herewomentalk.com/ and is a regular contributor to the nationally syndicated The Roth Show with Dr. Laurie Roth  http://www.therothshow.com/) ]

The Peter Hyatt Show: Jet Ski Forensics the David Hartley case-Sunday November 28, 2010 at 6:00 PM EST

On The Peter Hyatt Show, special guest, Susan Murphy Milano will join author Denny Griffin to discuss two distinct aspects of the disappearance of David Hartley on Falcon Lake, September 30th, 2010. Peter Hyatt uses Statement Analysis to get to the truth of what is happening in some of the most fascinating cases faced in America. Cases that are heavily covered in the media are analyzed for truth or deception and analysis is presented along with commentary on his blog http://www.seamusoriley.blogspot.com/

Radio Show Link:  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/peter-hyatt/2010/11/28/the-peter-hyatt-show"

Questions that may surprise our audience.

Join us today, November 28th at 6PM EST on BlogTalkradio for the latest breaking news on the case of missing American David Hartley.

Susan will address the issue of gender bias in the media, but perhaps more importantly, she is going to address some of the forensics in the case; details that may have been overlooked.

Call-in Number: (619) 789-4315

We will also look at Tiffany Hartley's most recent release, seeking to understand why she has the need to explain why she was at Falcon Lake a month before David's alleged murder at the hands of Mexican "pirates", as well as her reported upcoming appearance on National Geographic, "Border Wars" and her continued pressing of various political issues, which have expanded beyond border security and have gone to economic and employment issues.

Is Tiffany Hartley qualified to address the nation on such issues?

[Susan Murphy Milano is with the Institute for Relational Harm Reduction and Public Pathology Education. She is an expert on intimate partner violence and homicide crimes. For more information visit http://www.saferelationshipsmagazine.com/  She is the author of "Time's Up A Guide on How to Leave and Survive Abusive and Stalking Relationships," available for purchase at the Institute, Amazon.com and wherever books are sold.  Susan is the host of The Susan Murphy Milano Show, "Time's Up!" on Here Women Talk http://www.herewomentalk.com/ and is a regular contributor to the nationally syndicated The Roth Show with Dr. Laurie Roth  http://www.therothshow.com/) ]

"Time's Up" Stop Being a Victim

There are no more excuses to stay in a relationship where your safety continues to be hanging by a thread. Waking up day after day without a plan of how to leave the relationship can be deadly. The Institute for Relational Harm Reduction (http://www.saferelationshipsmagazine.com/) offers exit planning strategies to prevent you from becoming an abuse statistic or the victim of Intimate Partner Homicide. If the Institute can help you strategize to get ready for disconnection, please let us. Most of all, be safe.


Before you announce your thoughts about how unhappy you are or that the relationship simply is not working for you any longer, have a solid plan in place. Women often fail to plan ahead in leaving, underestimating what the abuser can and actually ends up doing.

Susan Powell Example

Susan Powell, a married stockbroker and is a devoted mother to two young sons. Over time, Susan’s husband Josh became more and more controlling. Their marriage deteriorated. At this point in a relationship, many abusers begin to formulate a plan born of anger and desperation.

This plan remains in the abuser’s mind until they notice subtle signs of movement. Perhaps Josh walked into the room as Susan whispered into the phone. When she realized he was in the room, she quickly changed her tone or ended the phone call. Perhaps he learned Susan set up a bank account, and decided she was hiding money so she and the kids could leave.

The signs of movement spark Josh, or any potential abuser, to think of the next level. They think to themselves, “OK, she is going to leave me. I will not let that happen”. He acts as though nothing is wrong. When she goes to sleep, however, Josh leaps into action. He may:

•rummage through her car looking for evidence of her plan–a bank receipt or an unusual transaction or charge
•check her cell phone for any unusual numbers he does not recognize
•search her computer, checking to see which websites she visited

He finds something. Inwardly his anger skyrockets and his heart races. Outwardly, he remains calm and says nothing to Susan. A smile comes to his face. He “caught her,” and he figures in the future, she will pay one way or another.

Susan begins to email a trusted circle of friends about Josh’s abuse and threats. Maybe she keeps a detailed log containing dates and times of the incidents.

Next, Josh does what I label the “smell change.” Susan acts strangely. Josh, like most abusers, literally senses, or “smells” when his environment has shifted. Perhaps Susan verbalizes her unhappiness more often. Maybe she stands up for herself during a fight, where months before she would have backed down and gone to her room without incident.

Most abused women have difficulty hiding that “spark of empowerment” from a clever abuser. The abuser smells the spark, like a fox scents prey as he enters a coop full of chickens.

On December 7, 2009, Susan Powell of Utah disappeared. Law enforcement personnel consider her husband Josh a person of interest.

Susan Powell’s case appears no different from millions of cases of intimate partner violence we never hear about, until women disappear and someone finds their bodies. Often no “official documentation” of the abuse exists because the terrified women did not contact police or obtain a court order of protection. Why? Better than anyone, the victims know the court order of protection would not help. The court order of protection would only escalate the level of danger.

Part 1of the article Here- http://saferelationshipsmagazine.com/caution-relationship-lane-changes-part-1



[Susan Murphy Milano is with the Institute for Relational Harm Reduction and Public Pathology Education. She is an expert on intimate partner violence and homicide crimes. For more information visit http://www.saferelationshipsmagazine.com/  She is the author of "Time's Up A Guide on How to Leave and Survive Abusive and Stalking Relationships," available for purchase at the Institute, Amazon.com and wherever books are sold.  Susan is the host of The Susan Murphy Milano Show, "Time's Up!" on Here Women Talk http://www.herewomentalk.com/ and is a regular contributor to the nationally syndicated The Roth Show with Dr. Laurie Roth  http://www.therothshow.com/) ]

Tiffany Hartley: Murder in Mexico and President Obama

A cold blooded person usually takes their victim and kills in familiar surroundings.  Whether it be places where they grew up, vacationed, hiked or lived, it is specific to either their life or where they spent time together before a murder. In my opinion, Tiffany Hartley is no different from the men who murder their wives.

I understand people deal with trauma differently, and I am here to tell you that anyone who had just witnessed their husband murdered before their eyes is not able to articulate anything other then inaudible speech.  As I have always said, and this also applies to myself, victims of this type of trauma have a total recall to detail.  A person's trauma is attached and associated directly to the event.   I understand forms of grief and reaction are not a gauge to point fingers or accuse a person of murder, but when you have been looking at cases of intimate partner violence as many years as I, you can smell it on someone when their story is bullshit as sure as you can smell a skunks scent.

A person who has experienced a violent death says, "please help me, my husband, oh my God we have to find him,"  and total focus is only on the loved one. Tiffany and David Hartley were sweethearts since high school!  The sentences she speaks are rehearsed words by someone who is covering up for what really happend to David, period. The words are not of a traumatized person who, moments before, looked death in the eye (her words) down a gun barrel herself. It is not possible.

In addition, Tiffany was very familiar with the area and she spoke the language.  She and her husband lived not far in Texas from where David Hartley died in foreign waters. What did Tiffany do with her time? Was she employed? Did she have a lot of free time to herself? Did she get involved with groups that advocated changes to our borders? Were she and David involved in something over their heads and something went wrong?

I can tell you from first hand experience, Tiffany's sudden expertise on borders issue, pirates and the drug cartel, and saying, in the same sentence, what President Obama needs to be doing, is from an individual who has long been involved in the movement, behind closed doors.  Watch as the unlikely widow articulates foreign policy, listen to the enthusiam in her words during interviews. Now she is doing presentations with law enforcement in Colorado and other places on border patrol issues and our government. In less than 30 days Tiffany Hartley has gone from "International Widow" to an expert on our waters and borders? 
She also has an amazing website titled "Bring David Home" ( http://www.bringdavidhome.com/ ) and although I agree we should understand the implications to Americans as it relates to our borders-- using David Hartley to further ones cause and solicit donations, speaks volumes to what her motive is to switch gears by disarming the country away from the truth of what really happend with her husband. 

Although you could believe after reading yesterday's and today's post that I am on the attack, that is not my objective. It is to merely show the facts and to inform the general public that no one is immune from killing their loved one, be it a woman or a man. 

Wendy Murphy, former prosecutor and now a Fox News legal analyst, has also been under public attack for writing and discussing the Tiffany Hartley case.  Many who commented on the article at Fox felt that Wendy Murphy, without facts, is in attack mode of the "poor grieving widow." 

Another blog site by the name of Statement Analysis (http://seamusoriley.blogspot.com/) did an analysis HERE on the Hartley case and I am hoping you will take time to read it to understand the real issues behind this so called "grieving widow."

There are other experts who have come to the conclusion that Tiffany Hartley is lying, such as Dr. Lillian Glass and others who you can find by simply googling. 

In real time, we have watched a story unfold, literally before our eyes, of a woman "claiming" her husband was murdered in a random isolated incident.  If we had watched the exact same story unfold, and it was a man talking about his wife, the public's reaction would be very different.  


And folks, that is my point!


(Susan Murphy Milano is with the Institute for Relational Harm Reduction & Public Pathology  Education.  For more information visit http://www.saferelationships.com/  She is the author of  "Time's Up A Guide on How to Leave and Survive Abusive and Stalking Relationships," available for purchase at the Institute, Amazon.com and wherever books are sold.  Susan is the host of The Susan Murphy Milano Show, "Time's Up!" on http://www.herewomentalk.com/ and is a regular contributor to the nationally syndicated The Roth Show with Dr. Laurie Roth on http://www.therothshow.com/)

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