The Strange Death of the Woman Who Filed a Rape Lawsuit Against Bush
EARLY ONE Saturday afternoon in July 2003, I made a simple phone call to Margie Schoedinger, a Texas woman who filed a rape lawsuit against George W. Bush in December 2002. I expected to leave a message on a machine, so I was caught a little offguard when Schoedinger answered.
She, too, sounded somewhat surprised I had called, saying she hadn’t heard from many other reporters. But she talked to me for a few minutes about the legal action.
“I am still trying to prosecute [the lawsuit],” said Schoedinger, then a 38-year-old African-American woman who lived in the Houston suburb of Missouri City. “I want to get this matter settled and go on with my life.”
Well, Schoedinger hasn’t gone on with her life. In fact, three months after I spoke to her, she died in an apparent suicide. And this matter remains unsettled and largely unreported by the mainstream media.
When I asked her in July 2003 about the lack of media coverage, Schoedinger said she wasn’t seeking publicity. She said she did not even know about a December 2002 article in the Fort Bend Star, the only U.S. mainstream media outlet that covered this story, to my knowledge. The Fort Bend reporter, LeaAnne Klentzman, said she even went to Schoedinger’s home and talked to a man there, who said she could not come to door. While I reached and spoke to Schoedinger on my first attempt, maybe she wasn’t ready to talk in December. 1
Anyways, Schoedinger said she was surprised the case wasn’t covered more because “it is true......People have to be accountable for what they do, and that’s why I’m pursuing it.”
To be sure, Schoedinger’s accusations - which include being drugged and sexually assaulted numerous times by Bush and other men purporting to be FBI agents - are bizarre and hard for most people to believe. But her story fits in with those told by a growing number of people who say they were used as guinea pigs or whatever by members of the CIA or another U.S. agency who wanted to test out the latest mind-controlling drug or just have a strange form of release.
Bush involved in strange cult ceremonies before
Remember that Bush is a member of the secret order of Skull and Bones, an exclusive Yale-based club for the elite that practices weird, Satanic-like, sexual initiations and ceremonies. Such strange sexual ceremonies are used as blackmail to guarantee Skull and Boners do what the power elite wants. Bush named at least five fellow Boners to his administration, including William Donaldson as head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. 2
Ron Rosenbaum, author and columnist for the New York Observer, was in the same Yale class as Bush and lived next to the windowless tomb that housed Skull and Bones, which he said contains actual human bones, including that of the Native American leader Geronimo. Rosenbaum heard strange cries in the tomb and even filmed an initiation in which someone pretended to slash the throat of another with a knife and other weird actions. Characters dressed up as a devil, the Pope, and others. 3
There are even reports that Bush has had sexual relations with fellow Skull and Boner Victor Ashe, a former mayor of Knoxville, Tn., who has visited Bush’s Texas ranch numerous times. Ashe and Bush were roommates at Yale. 4
As for Schoedinger’s death - let’s just say government agents have made murders look like suicides before. Ironically, the suspicious 2002 shooting death of former Enron executive John Clifford Baxter in Sugar Land occurred not far from Schoedinger’s residence. Baxter’s death was also ruled a suicide by the Harris County Medical Examiner’s office, a conclusion questioned by some, including Judicial Watch. 5
In her court petition, Schoedinger said police in Sugar Land, another Houston suburb where she said some assailants linked to Bush attempted to unsuccessfully abduct her from her car shortly before the 2000 election, refused to take a report or do anything about that incident. She filed a lawsuit against the Sugar Land department and said that in preparing its defense, Sugar Land police found out that she dated Bush as a minor. I didn’t get a chance to ask Schoedinger about that tie and didn’t meet her in person, but her driver’s license listed her as being 5-foot-8 and weighing 125 pounds, for what that’s worth. 6
Local police dispute existence of complaint
The Fort Bend Star story quoted a Sugar Land police captain saying his department had no record of any complaints by Schoedinger. But that contradicted the lawsuit that Schoedinger filed in December 2000 against Sugar Land police, which even had numerous responses by the department’s attorneys in that case. 7
Just wait. This story gets stranger.
When I started asking Schoedinger about certain details of the case, such as alleged surveillance at her home and if she was still legally representing herself, she politely ended our conversation. “I need to see what has been written,” Schoedinger said. “I feel like it’s best for me to end our conversation.”
Obviously, she had learned to be careful about what she said and to whom she said it. I could understand her being leery about talking about her situation with a stranger over the phone.
But I remember being puzzled by Schoedinger’s attitude after hanging up the phone. I wondered that if she had made up such a wild story, why she didn’t come up with something a little less outlandish, in which people couldn’t necessarily dismiss her as a kook. I wondered why she didn’t seek publicity to at least provide some form of protection.
I’ve long learned that being as public as possible is one of your best defenses against rogue intelligence agents. But she didn’t even seem to want any media to cover her story. I told several writers I knew, some of whom tried to contact Schoedinger. None succeeded, as far as I know.
I remember thinking, “I hope she doesn’t wind up on the wrong side of a gun.” And sure enough, in late September 2003, Schoedinger did.
The Houston Chronicle wrote a bare-bones obituary that stated only that Schoedinger “expired” on Sept. 22, 2003, and her burial was at Houston Memorial Gardens. 8
I called the Harris County Medical Examiner’s office, and a clerk told me the cause of death: a “suicide” by a “gunshot wound to the head.” I hung up amid bombs going off in my mind.
Women more likely to commit suicide with drugs
For one, using a gun to commit suicide is predominantly executed by males, according to psychiatrists and other sources like pharmaceutical firm Merck & Co. Women are more likely to overdose on drugs, although the number of gunshot suicides among women has increased in recent years. 9
Besides Pravda, 10 a British newspaper called New Nation, 11 and Internet ezines, I didn’t see stories on this strange death of a woman who filed a rape lawsuit against the U.S. president and wound up dead nine months later. Mens News Daily originally referred to Schoedinger as “deranged” but then struck that characterization. 12 Disinfotainment Today called the story the “most under-reported of the year.” 13
I wasn’t really surprised about the lack of coverage. Or even angry. All I knew was I was one of the last - if not the last - reporters to speak to Schoedinger, and she didn’t sound “deranged” to me in July 2003. She sounded like someone who had gone through something weird and was trying to sort it out. She sounded like someone who wanted the truth to come out. And now she’s dead.
If this had happened to Clinton when he was in the White House, do you think the story would have been covered non-stop on FOX, CNN, and other right-wing media stations? Do you think reporters would ask Clinton and his aides about this death in press conferences? Is FOX unfair and imbalanced to the point of being “deranged?”
There were some more odd twists to this case. I also found a 2002 criminal case related to Schoedinger in which Christopher Schoedinger, her husband, allegedly struck her. He pleaded no contest and was sentenced to a year in jail. Christopher Schoedinger had also filed for divorce and as heir of Margie’s assets. Then since 1997, Margie Schoedinger had filed for at least five assumed business names for various ventures - including a communications firm, health and beauty business, travel agency and publishing company. Could a “deranged” person start all those businesses or even know how to file a lawsuit? 14
I can really understand media members being intimidated, even frightened, of the Bush administration. As I’ve detailed before, these are not Boy Scouts running the show. The Schoedinger death was just the latest in a string of strange ones surrounding the Bush family - Bush biographer J.H. Hatfield, Sen. Paul Wellstone, Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan, and others that are detailed on various sites. 15
I operate from a spiritual perspective, as well as political. You have to when you do this kind of work, when you try to expose such evil people. Even the most evil bastards have the potential to recognize somewhere inside them that I might, just might, be right about this metaphysical, reap-what-you-sow, karmic philosophy, and they might face dire consequences in their afterlives if they continue on their present courses.
Yes, I believe in God, just not the way most in organized religion do. And yes, I’ve had some, er, interesting debates with conservative religious nuts about this matter. None of them have yet to convince me they actually know what will happen in my afterlife.
No cooperation from authorities
For the record, I contacted Bush’s media office about Schoedinger and never heard back. As expected, I didn’t have much luck with the Fort Bend County and other Texas authorities, nor did other reporters who tried.
Christopher Schoedinger’s filing for heirship in November 2003 confirmed that Margie’s death occurred in her home in Missouri City, a Houston suburb near Sugar Land. The document also said she died without leaving a will, something that people committing suicide sometimes complete, and she did not leave any unpaid debts. 16
Another person investigating this case told me that he spoke to a sister of Margie Schoedinger, who didn't buy the suicide ruling. But the sister could not verify that Margie ever talked about dating or knowing Bush before.
Relatively few people, and almost no public officials, want to talk about this case. They just want it to die out, just like Schoedinger died.
For all I know, maybe Margie did kill herself. Maybe she dreamed up a lot of this stuff.
But I don’t know, am I “deranged” to think it’s weird that in this mass-media, detailed-information age, so few people are even asking any questions about how a woman who filed a rape lawsuit against the president could be dead less than a year later?
Footnotes
1. Fort Bend Star, Dec. 11, 2002, http://www.fortbendstar.com/Archives/2002_4q/121102/n_Woman%20files%20lawsuit%20against%20President.htm
2. 60 Minutes, CBS, Oct. 2, 2003, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/02/60minutes/main576332.shtml
3. Ibid., http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/02/60minutes/main576332.shtml
4. Tennessee Independent Media Center, Dec. 22, 2003, http://www.tnimc.org/newswire/display/1131/index.php
5. Houston Chronicle, April 25, 2003, http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/1882978
6. Fort Bend County lawsuit, Schoedinger v. Bush, et al, Dec. 3, 2002. Go to http://ccweb.co.fort-bend.tx.us/localization/menu.asp, then go down to the bottom and click on civil court under court records. Then type “schoedinger” in the plaintiff box and click search.
7. Fort Bend County lawsuit, Schoedinger v. Sugar Land Police Department, et al, Dec. 21, 2000. Go to http://ccweb.co.fort-bend.tx.us/localization/menu.asp, then go down to the bottom and click on civil court under court records. Then type “schoedinger” in the plaintiff box and click search.
8. Houston Chronicle, Sept. 27, 2003, http://www.chron.com/class/obits/archive/qsearch.hts?operation=getdoc&database=Obituaries%3B&databases=Obituaries%3BObituaries%3BObituaries%3BObituaries%3B&docid=76532&docids=76532%3B76200%3B76168%3B46566%3B&query=schoedinger+NOT+3:RSEC&pos=1&numhits=25&start=&type=&user=houston&sview=1&hview=2&dview=1
9. Merck & Co., Suicidal Behavior, http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual_home2/sec07/ch102/ch102a.jsp
10. Pravda, Nov. 12, 2003, http://english.pravda.ru/world/20/91/368/11257_scandal.html
11. New Nation, Dec. 8, 2003, http://www.thoughtcrimenews.com/bushrape.htm
12. Mens News Daily, Nov. 12, 2003, http://mensnewsdaily.com/archive/newswire/nw03/mnd/newswire111203a.htm
13. Disinfortainment Today, http://www.disinfotainmenttoday.com/issue32.htm#Under-reported
14. Fort Bend County records, http://ccweb.co.fort-bend.tx.us/localization/menu.asp
15. The Dubya Debates, Boardhost, July 23, 2001, http://members.boardhost.com/gwbush/msg/362.html
16. Heirship affidavit, Christopher Schoedinger, Nov. 14, 2003, http://ccweb.co.fort-bend.tx.us/imgcache/opr2003162591-1-5.pdf
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