“PARTNERS IN CRIME” by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 2, 2018) — On July 17, 2010, 60-year-old businessman, Loudon County, TN Deputy Sheriff and Republican Elections Commissioner Jim Miller was assassinated by gunshots to the head, placed in the trunk of his car, then driven to Sands Road in Sweetwater, where it was set on fire. At […]
COURT-WATCHER AND HOME-SCHOOLING ADVOCATE by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 13, 2016) — Earlier on Wednesday, The Post & Email learned that Gary Wayne Church, a leader of the Appalachian Youth Missions organization in eastern Tennessee who worked with George Joseph Raudenbush III, died in a plane crash on December 12 in Benton. Church, 61, was flying […]
“THE PEOPLE…HAVE TURNED THEIR BACK ON GOD” by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 15, 2014) — Christian missionary George Joseph Raudenbush, III is scheduled to be sentenced on seven convictions from a November 25 trial on Monday, December 15, at noon, but for the second time, he has no attorney. In August 2011, Raudenbush was convicted on […]
MONROE COUNTY TRIAL JURY PERFORMS JUDGE’S DIRTY WORK AGAIN by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 11, 2014) — “I made a choice to get out of that situation,” Christian missionary George Raudenbush said of his decision to drive away from a scene wherein a Tellico Plains, TN police officer who had been fired from the Monroe County […]
BUT HOW MANY ARE “LAW ENFORCEMENT?” by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 19, 2014) — The Post & Email received a report from an individual on the way to the McMinn County courthouse on Tuesday morning for the sentencing hearing for CDR Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III (Ret.) stating that the courthouse is “loaded with people.” While not […]
ABUSE OF POWER LEADS TO PROSECUTION OF THE INNOCENT by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 17, 2014) — Marvin William Young is being prosecuted for two invented crimes by the corrupt Monroe County, TN judiciary, including the members of the grand jury who issued an indictment without any evidence. More than two years ago, Young discovered that […]
WINNER’S ELIGIBILITY IN QUESTION by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 11, 2014) — According to unofficial election returns from Thursday, August 7, Monroe County, TN Sheriff Bill Bivens was ousted in favor of Republican challenger Randy White in a 5,572 to 4,869-vote contest. Statewide local elections throughout Tennessee included those for county commissioners, sheriffs, district prosecutors, judges […]
COULD GET 40 YEARS IN STATE PRISON FROM LOCAL CORRUPTION by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 2, 2014) — Last week, The Post & Email spoke for two hours with Marvin Young, who in 2011 discovered that his father’s alleged Last Will and Testament was forged and later attempted to obtain justice for his father’s subsequently misplaced […]
“A GOVERNMENT HIT” by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 10, 2014) — On November 8, 2013, Judy Walton of The Chattanooga Times Free Press reported that Wallace “Boonie” Stokes incriminated himself in the murder of Monroe County Republican Elections Commissioner Jim Miller, who was killed on July 17, 2010 by gunfire, burned, and found in the trunk […]
MAN SOUGHT BY U.S. MARSHALS FREE AFTER FIVE MONTHS IN JAIL by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 15, 2012) — A Polk County, TN native who turned himself in after U.S. marshals were unexpectedly dispatched to his home in Florida last March has been released from the Polk County Detention Facility after his bond was lowered from […]
FITZPATRICK CASE FRAUGHT WITH LEGAL CHALLENGES PROCEEDS TO TRIAL by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 16, 2012) —The “Monroe County Criminal Court” continues to prosecute a case against Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III despite various defects with the charging documents, indictment, and grand jury. On October 3, 2012, Special Judge Walter C. Kurtz refused to grant motions filed […]
FBI SAYS “NO RECORDS;” DOJ STATES OTHERWISE; MOST REQUESTS GO UNADDRESSED by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 27, 2012) — Since the end of March, The Post & Email has been attempting to obtain documentation through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) on the source of the order to deploy FBI agents and a large number of […]
BUT NOT EVERYTHING THAT WAS TAKEN by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 9, 2012) — Pursuant to Judge Walter C. Kurtz’s order for the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department to return computer hardware seized from Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III on December 7, 2011, the equipment was retrieved today at approximately 1:45 p.m. The mandate stated that equipment not […]
“IT LEADS RIGHT BACK TO THE GOVERNMENT” by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 6, 2012) — On May 11, 2011, The Post & Email published a report written by Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III identifying several men who he claimed were involved in the murder of Monroe County Republican Election Commissioner and businessman Jim Miller on July 17, […]
OF THOSE BEHIND THE CONSPIRACY by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 29, 2012) — Over the past several months, The Post & Email has received numerous letters from Tennessee state prison inmate Todd J. Sweet regarding his conversion to Christ and exposure of corruption in Monroe County. While an inmate at the Monroe County jail, Sweet was […]