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CNN visited every funeral home in Puerto Rico, to test the governments death count
Isabel Rivera González survived Hurricane Maria with her boyfriend, but she died weeks later at a hospital that had lost power due to the storm. Deaths such as these are not considered in the government total, even though they are direct results of the storms. Isabel is not the only death uncounted.

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You won't hear about her death from officials investigating the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, but you should know her name and her story.

She was Isabel Rivera González.

Rivera was 80. She loved to dance, and was known in this hilly enclave of Puerto Rico for her Saturday-night merengue moves. In family photos displayed at her funeral last week, she was shown laughing near a shoreline as flamingos tiptoed behind her. In a black-and-white image, she beamed as she held an infant, one of her five children. Those children described their mother as healthy and full of energy late into her years - a woman who lit up a room.

Rivera survived Hurricane Maria on September 20 huddled next to her boyfriend, Demencio Olmeda, 76. The storm's winds tore out their curtains and windows, swirling debris in the sky, knocking out power and water service and killing, officially, 51 people.

"I will remember her every day," Olmeda told me.

On October 15, three weeks after the storm, Rivera died awaiting a procedure at a hospital that had lost power in the hurricane and whose backup generator failed, according to several of her family members. Such deaths - those of people who might be alive if not for the storm - should be analyzed as part of the US territory's efforts to tally hurricane mortality, said Héctor Pesquera, secretary of Puerto Rico's Department of Public Safety, which oversees the count.

Yet Rivera's death was not assessed or counted in connection with Hurricane Maria's death toll, CNN learned after interviewing Puerto Rican and federal officials, as well as funeral home directors and hospital administrators in Rivera's municipality, Arecibo, located about an hour west of San Juan, the capital.

The official hurricane death toll for Arecibo stands at one - a landslide fatality that was autopsied at the Bureau of Forensic Sciences in San Juan, according to government documents. Rivera did not die in a landslide and her body was not sent to San Juan for an autopsy, according to family members and Roberto Jiménez, her funeral home director.

"I view her death as a direct result of what happened" because of the hurricane, said Christina Camacho, one of Isabel Rivera's grandchildren, who lives in Philadelphia.

The hospital where she died disputes that claim.

Rivera's story - and that of her municipality - is the start of a CNN examination of uncounted deaths following Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. If you know someone who died during the hurricane or its aftermath and may have been uncounted by the government, please consider filling out our online form in the story below. You also can message CNN on WhatsApp at +1-347-322-0415. We aim to investigate some of your stories as a way to determine whether deaths are being undercounted.

'The numbers just don't add up'

All hurricane-related deaths in Puerto Rico must be reviewed by the Bureau of Forensic Sciences, according to Pesquera. Interviews with funeral home directors, however, suggest some bodies of people who may have died of causes related to the storm never make it.

To get a sense of how many deaths may have been uncounted by the government, I decided to conduct an informal experiment: Between October 19 and 21, I visited all five operational funeral homes in Arecibo, which is one of Puerto Rico's 78 municipalities, home to about 88,000 of the territory's 3.4 million people. Two additional funeral homes were closed.

I met Rivera's family on this search, along with Jiménez, the funeral home director.

Jiménez, who operates the Cristo Rey funeral home in Arecibo, told me he'd recorded 39 deaths since Hurricane Maria, up about 15 from the same timeframe in previous years.

Some of that increase may come from the fact that two funeral homes in the area are closed, he said. But he suspects four or five of the deaths were hurricane-related.

In total, Arecibo funeral home directors counted 114 deaths in the month since the storm. About 25 seemed likely related to Hurricane Maria, they said, based on their conversations with relatives. Roughly 20 of those bodies were sent to San Juan for forensic analysis, they said.

One of the largest hospitals in Arecibo, Hospital Pavia, declined to comment for this story. On October 5, hospital officials told NPR that 49 bodies had been taken there since the storm, likely including some from neighboring municipalities. José J. Martínez, who owns Funeraria San Luis, down the street, told me he visited the hospital shortly after the storm. Bodies were piled on top of one another in the morgue, which was clearly beyond capacity, he said.

"The vast majority of the bodies were decomposed," he said. "It was a horrendous smell."

José S. Rosado, executive director of Manatí Medical Center, where Rivera died, told me that no deaths from that hospital had been sent to San Juan for forensic analysis. Only blunt trauma, drownings, falls, crime scene victims and bodies that are found dead on arrival should be sent to the capital for analysis, he said. That conflicts with instructions Pesquera told me were distributed to all hospitals in Puerto Rico, which he said included indirect causes of death.

"They were all natural causes of death," Rosado said.

Separately, 112 people are reported missing in Puerto Rico since the hurricane, as of October 18, said José Rosario, the police sergeant handling missing persons reports.

It's unclear if and whether some of those people will be listed as having died in the hurricane, said Pesquera. There's no deadline on that process, he said, and families, funeral homes or hospitals could dispute how a death has been classified even after the person is buried.

As of October 21, the Bureau of Forensic Sciences had analyzed more than 750 bodies, Pesquera told me. Of those, 51 deaths have been found to be hurricane-related, including two more recent deaths connected to waterborne illness, which the government confirmed this week.

Sixty-three bodies were backlogged and awaiting autopsy in San Juan, he said.

It is improbable the official hurricane death toll is high enough, said Martínez, the funeral home owner. His funeral home processed 12 bodies in the month after the storm, he said.

"I suspect most of them were probably from the hurricane," Martínez told me. He cited an example of a woman who died of an apparent heart attack while waiting in line for fuel.

"The numbers just don't add up."

'We took her home all right'

Some particulars of Rivera's death are in dispute.

Manatí Medical Center confirmed the power outage to me but said a pre-existing heart condition led to Rivera's death, not the outage. "She was too unstable to undergo that procedure" to remove fluid from her lungs, said Dr. Luis Rosa, the center's medical director.

The hospital also had the ability to perform the procedure with a small emergency generator but elected not to because she had not responded to other treatments, Rosa said. Additionally, Rivera had been to the hospital before the storm with heart-related issues, he said.

Olmeda, Rivera's boyfriend, meanwhile, told me the procedure was postponed because of the power outage. Relatives said the hospital downplayed the seriousness of the situation. Several of them told me she was in relatively good health before the hurricane hit.

"The doctor kept saying by Monday she could go home," said Miguel Cruz, Rivera's son.

"We took her home all right."

It is sometimes difficult, if not impossible, to determine whether deaths like this resulted from the aftermath of a disaster, but physicians should err on the side of including such deaths for analysis as part of the death toll rather than ruling them out, said Dr. Gregory J. Davis, a professor and director of the University of Kentucky's Forensic Pathology Consultation Service.

Davis said medical professionals can have reasonable disagreement on these matters, but they generally should follow what he called the "but-for" rule, meaning " but for the hurricane, do you think that person would have died when they died?" If they "might have lived another day," he said, then their deaths should be classified as hurricane-related.

"If somebody is dying of a long-term illness and you put a gun to their head, the cause of death is still the gunshot wound, not the terminal illness," Davis said.

Manatí Medical Center administrators maintain they saw no hurricane-related deaths after the storm, and they say they followed guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in deciding to classify these deaths as natural rather than hurricane-related.

Indirect hurricane deaths are the most subject to dispute, said Davis, from the University of Kentucky, and therefore the most likely to be subject to political manipulation. These deaths - which might include someone who had a panic attack after the storm and died, or someone who died from an injury suffered while clearing hurricane debris - should be classified as attributable to the storm, according to Davis and Puerto Rican officials.

"The politician who is worried about optics, whether he's on the mainland or the island, might say we're not going to include those deaths because that inflates the number," he said.

'Horseshit' that death toll would be manipulated, official says

Some Puerto Ricans find it suspicious that, on October 3, when US President Donald Trump visited the island, the official death toll was listed at only 16 people.

"You can be very proud of all of your people and all of our people working together," President Trump said at the time, refining the relatively low death count. Compared to a "real catastrophe" like Hurricane Katrina, Trump said, "no one has ever seen anything like this."

Shortly after Trump's official visit, the death count jumped to 34.

Tina Cruz, Isabel Rivera's daughter, told me the family feels forgotten by the government.

Pesquera, the head of Puerto Rico's Department of Public Safety, defended the government's efforts to generate an accurate count under extremely trying conditions, in which most lines of communication were cut and many roads on the island were initially impassable.

Any insinuation the count is intentionally kept low is "horseshit," he said.

"You think I care what the government of the United States thinks about the body count? I don't care," Pesquera said. "I could care less what's less embarrassing."

"We work on factual information. Whatever we find that is related or unrelated would be included," he said. "I'd rather include it than not include it. There is no reason whatsoever for us not to include an accurate count. It's the opposite. It's completely the opposite."

When asked about the death toll in Arecibo, specifically, he told me he "can't say if that's fair or not" because he hasn't reviewed the specific cases referenced by funeral home directors.

If Rivera was relatively healthy before the storm - this is her family's account; the hospital maintains she was a repeat patient with congestive heart failure - then her death should have been reviewed in case the power outage contributed to her death, Pesquera said.

"Cases where there's doubt, cases where the hospital referred them for autopsy, cases where the district attorney says, 'I think the institute should take care of it,' those we see," he said.

"If I die and the doctor says 'heart attack' but the heart attack is because I did not receive, let's say, for example, oxygen, or I was supposed to go on dialysis, or I had a panic attack during the storm, or some event that can relate to the [hurricane], then you should write it on the death certificate so that we can count it. Those are instructions from CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]. That's the norm in the States [and was] relayed to all of the hospitals."

'Sometimes it's not known'

In recent weeks, some experts have started to question the veracity of the death toll.

Among the major problems, said John Mutter, a Columbia University professor who studied deaths following Hurricane Katrina, is the fact that all potential hurricane fatalities must be reviewed by a single office in San Juan. Compare that to some - but not all - of the 50 US states, which have coroners stationed locally by county or subregion.

"The storm impacted the entire island, not just San Juan," he said.

Communications issues made that situation worse, especially in the immediate aftermath of the storm, said Héctor M. González, director of the Santa Cruz funeral home in Arecibo.

Pesquera, the government official, places much of the responsibility for the count with hospitals. Perhaps, he said, the government should consider requiring doctors to follow certain criteria when assessing which deaths are sent to San Juan for an autopsy following a hurricane.

"I'm telling you that depending on the day we have different flavors" in terms of which deaths are marked as natural and which are forwarded for review, he said.

Hospitals facing power outages have to make life-or-death decisions about who they can and should treat first, said Davis, the professor from the University of Kentucky. "You do have to make those triage decisions that are really tough in those situations. ... These are agonizing decisions. The pit of my stomach churns just having this conversation," he said.

It's unclear exactly whether or how much undercounting is taking place. González, from the Santa Cruz funeral home, told me he did not think the death rate had risen appreciably.

Other funeral home directors in that municipality did suspect an increase.

Mutter, the Columbia professor, told me he would have expected the death toll in Puerto Rico to be in the hundreds - in part because of the level of poverty on the island, and also because so few people would have been able to evacuate, as they did for Hurricane Irma in Florida.

The death toll is important, he said, because it influences how much money people donate toward disaster relief and it also affects how governments respond.

He acknowledged there always will be uncertainty surrounding some deaths.

"Sometimes it's not known," he said. "They just don't know. The person died on that day and they can't find out what the cause of death was - so there's a question mark."

Other deaths can be investigated by interviewing family members or conducting a forensic analysis. But once a body is buried, Mutter said, much of the evidence is inaccessible.

'In the house of the Lord forever'

On October 20, Isabel Rivera González's relatives opened umbrellas to shade themselves from the Caribbean sun as they prepared to lower her body into a tomb that's yet to bear her name.

Christina Camacho, Rivera's granddaughter, pressed her forehead onto the casket and wailed in agony. She threw a single white rose into the tomb before the body was lowered into the Earth and then covered with cement. Sweat speckling her brow, Camacho and others heaved a granite lid on top of that, rolling it into position with the help of rusty metal pipes.

A pastor read Psalm 23 from the Bible in Spanish.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me ... and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

After the burial, a few family members gathered by another tomb uphill from Rivera's. I walked over to talk with them, crossing through some of the wreckage the hurricane created - stone crosses toppled by winds, a decapitated statue of Jesus. In the distance, trees that had been stripped of their leaves were showing tufts of green - small signs of renewal on an otherwise battered island.

By the second gravesite, I found Rodolfo Rivera, 63. The tomb was his mother's: Mercedes Rivera Areas, Isabel's sister-in-law. She died of heart failure about a week after the storm, at 85, he said - a second death in one family in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.

The sisters-in-law were close, Rodolfo Rivera told me. Isabel was one of 24 siblings. In the 1950s, when Isabel's brother and Mercedes started making a family of their own in Ohio, Isabel moved there from Puerto Rico to help them raise their children. There, she met her late husband. The two couples all shared a house, he said, like one big family.

Rodolfo Rivera believes the stress of the storm led to Mercedes Rivera's death, too.

"She'd still be alive if it wasn't for that hurricane," he said.

Now that she and Isabel have been buried, the family - and Puerto Rico - may never know.

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70 years after The black Dahila's murderer, the culprit has been revealed in new book. Elizabeth Short, also known as The black Dahila, was found one morning one the sidewalk, her body mutilated, wrist cut and a smile was carved onto her face . LAPD never knew who killed but had their suspicions. The killer was seduced to come out of hiding  in 1948.

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Elizabeth Short, 22, was found gruesomely murdered in 1947 in Los Angeles, gaining national attention and was dubbed the Black Dahlia

The aspiring starlet's body was severed, her stomach filled with feces and her body was completely drained of blood

The horrendous murder has not been officially solved, although a break came in 1948 when Leslie Dillon was seduced out of hiding and revealed himself

He knew pieces of information that was never made public, including that Short's rose tattoo had been cut out from her leg and inserted in her vagina

But despite this evidence, Dillon was never prosecuted and detectives never had 'headway with their investigation' because of corruption within the LAPD

It's suggested that the case was never solved because Dillon worked for Mark Hansen, a wealthy and powerful Hollywood man with ties to the police

Hansen had known Short as she lived in a house he owned and is said to have grown tired of her pestering him for money so he told Dillon to take care of her

The case against Dillon is made in Piu Eatwell's new book Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption, and Cover-Up of America's Greatest Unsolved Murder

The notorious Black Dahlia murder in Los Angeles in 1947 is arguably the most gruesome of America's cold cases ever.

The body of aspiring starlet Elizabeth Short was found beside a sidewalk in a vacant lot in a southern Los Angeles suburb and shocked even the most hardened newspaper crime reporters.

The woman had been strung up by the wrists, her face and head severely beaten and a satanic smile cut into her face with deep cuts extending out from the corners of her mouth.

The 22-year-old had been viciously mutilated, with the trunk of her body completely severed, the anal opening had abrasions from the insertion of a foreign object and her stomach was filled with feces, among many other horrors.

Short's murder has remained unsolved for decades, although there was a break through in late 1948 when the killer was seduced out of hiding and admitted to knowing the two things about the crime that were never revealed to the public.

But the case was never solved by the LAPD because of a cover-up by the Homicide Division and lingering fears for years of reprisal by the department.

Now, 70 years later, after an exhaustive investigation author and legal sleuth Piu Eatwell exposes why the truth never out in her new book, Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption, and Cover-Up of America's Greatest Unsolved Murder.

Short's murder captivated the nation, as her injuries 'suggested necrophilia and a fetishism with knives'.

'They were the marks of a sadistic lust murderer ...and it was speculated that the killer either had medical training or experience with handling corpses in a mortuary --- and a manifest fascination with death', writes Eatwell, a historical researcher and legal sleuth.

The young woman's body had multiple deep lacerations to the face and blows to the head that suggested they were delivered while the victim was still alive and possibly what killed her.

The trunk of her body had been completely severed by an incision cutting through the intestine exposing the organs of the abdomen and lacerating the intestines and both kidneys.

There was a gaping cut extending down from the naval to just above the pubis, multiple lacerations in the skin of the hip and an irregular piece of flesh had been removed from in front of her left thigh.

A square of tissue had been cut out from the right breast. The anal opening had multiple abrasions from the insertion of a foreign object.

Her stomach was filled with feces and the corpse completely cleaned and drained of blood.

As the case rose in prominence and no legitimate suspect on hand, detectives dived into the depths of the victim's life in order to track down her elusive killer.

Elizabeth Short, called 'Beth', was the third of five girls. She was raised by her mother, Phoebe, in Medford, Massachusetts, a working class Boston suburb. Her father feigned suicide only to resurface years later.

'She wanted to be someone famous. She had stars in her eyes, dreams rather than plans. I think of her as a very beautiful but very private person, with a sadness about her. A void, something missing', her mother, Phoebe recalled.

Short suffered from an acute bronchial condition and she moved around between Florida, Long Beach, Los Angeles and Chicago - in search of a better climate for her health.

She once worked as a clerk at the U.S. Army's Camp Cooke in Lompoc, California, a small town north of Santa Barbara and won a 'Cutie of the Week' contest.

Her former boss said 'she was one of the loveliest girls I have ever seen - and the most shy'.

She suddenly left the camp after being assaulted by a sergeant at the Army base.

She had been arrested in September 1943 for underage drinking with soldiers in a Santa Barbara restaurant.

The fingerprints filed by the Santa Barbara police were what identified her body.

Her mug shot showed a girl with raven-black hair with 'a look that went straight through you. Nobody had expected her to be so sullenly beautiful', writes Eatwell.

While awaiting trial at the time, the local policewoman, Mary Unkefer, took her into her home.

'She had the blackest hair I ever saw. I noticed that she was a very nice girl and was most neat about her person and clothes'.

She had a rose tattooed on her upper left leg and Unkefer recalled that loved to sit with it showing.

Short was released on probation by juvenile court at the time and Unkefer put her on a bus back to Medford with $10 from the Santa Barbara Neighborhood House for food and cokes on the six-day ride home.

Short stayed in the East for two years and then headed down to Miami Beach where she worked as a waitress and hooked up with an Army Air Force officer. They were to be married but his plane crashed over India.

She dated other men and then headed back to Los Angeles. Although Short was no prostitute, she wasn't innocent.

'This victim knew at least 50 men at the time of her death and at least 25 men had been seen with her in the 60 days preceding her death', according to a police report.

Short teased men, got rides with them, places to sleep, clothes and money but then refused to have sexual intercourse, claiming she was either a virgin, engaged or married.

She connected with no less than four men a day.

'And so, the public image of the murder victim began to change from that of a violated beauty into a "man crazy delinquent, a temptress prowling the rain-soaked streets of an urban film noir"'.

The movie industry in Southern California promised the golden life and stimulated a wave of women to seek their fame and fortune in the movies and Tinseltown.

More revelations about the dead girl came from a pharmacist in Long Beach where she had drifted in the summer of 1946.

She came frequently and wore a two-piece outfit revealing her bare midriff - and 'black lacy things'.

'She was popular with the men who came in here and they got to calling her The Black Dahlia'.

The name was also perhaps the brainchild of a newspaper reporter at a time when homicides were given floral murder tags. Wherever the moniker came from, it sparked a national obsession.

The reality of the young girl's life was that she was in search of a husband, home and happiness.

She got involved with the wrong person when she met 55-year-old Mark Hansen from Denmark who became a wealthy and powerful Hollywood figure.

He owned more than a dozen movie theaters and was a part owner of the Florentine Gardens on Hollywood Boulevard that put on a girly shows that even attracted the aging movie star, Errol Flynn.

A secret gambling casino was hidden within the Florentine Gardens.

'Hansen worked in a shadowy hinterland between legitimate business and the fringes of the LA underworld'.

He operated his own B-version of the casting couch and 'owned two rooming houses where would-be Hollywood hopefuls were groomed for semi-nude careers both on and off the dance floor'.

Back at his house behind the Gardens, he kept a harem of his favorite girls.

In October 1946, Short showed up on Hansen's doorstep with her friend Ann Toth who lived in Mark's home.

Hansen noticed her and came on to her but Short claimed she was a virgin. He finally had enough of her teasing after 10 days and ordered the two to move on.

He was also tired of Short's endless stream of boyfriends.

Hansen couldn't deny he knew the girl. His name was on the cover of Short's address book.

Short's body was discovered one morning in the wet morning grass in a vacant lot in a south LA neighborhood - and a room in the Aster Motel in downtown Los Angeles was found to be covered in blood and human feces. It was Short's death chamber.

Rumors circulated that Short was a female pervert and had indulged in 'unnatural intimacies' with other women. There were unsubstantiated sightings at gay bars.

Folksinger Woody Guthrie, once indicted by New York authorities for sending obscene letters in the mail, was considered a suspect in the ensuing hysteria and possibly capable of such a heinous crime a suspect in the ensuing hysteria until it was discovered he wasn't in LA at the time of the murder.

Over 500 crackpots came forward confessing to the murder in exchange for a free meal and a place to stay for the night.

The big break through in the case came in late 1948 when the chief police psychiatrist who was employed by the LAPD, Dr. Joseph Paul De River, seduced the killer out of hiding and he subtly revealed himself to the doctor.

The murderer came calling after Dr. De River planted a magazine article in a pulp crime magazine, True Detective, in an attempt to lure the killer out of hiding.

'It was his view that the pathology of the Dahlia killer included a deep-seated compulsion to publicize and claim recognition for his act'.

The confessors would continue to come and the police would talk to them but 'the type of mind that conceived the Elizabeth Short murder will some day have to boast about it', according to Dr. De River.

In October 1948, a letter arrived for Dr. De River with a return address of a post office box in Miami Beach.

The letter was signed 'Jack Sand' and stated he had associated with someone who fitted the 'pattern' of the 'infamous one'.

This 'Jack Sand' said he had associated with the killer for two months in San Francisco and the man had a motive for the killing and 'knew the characters involved'.

Jack Sand was also offering his help in tracking the suspect down.

Meetings were set up between Dr. De River and 'Jack Sand' in Vegas but the location was changed when they couldn't get rooms to a health resort in the San Jacinto Mountains far north of Banning, California, near Palm Springs.

Two other cops, members of the Gangster Squad, accompanied De River, one acting as the driver while Sand talked to De River.

'Jack Sand' was in fact Leslie Dillon, the true killer. He was connected to a prostitution network and a pimp and errand boy for Mark Hansen.

When Hansen got tired of Short's boyfriends and tired of her pestering him for money, he told his errand boy, Dillon to get rid of her - not realizing the man was a dangerous and murderous psychopath.

Dillon knew two things about the murder that had never been revealed to the public: a rose tattoo had been cut out of Short's thigh by the killer and inserted in her vagina. Her pubic hair had also been cut off and pushed up inside her rectum.

Dillon had worked briefly in a mortuary and knew how to make a cut in the leg of a corpse to bleed it out and how to insert a tube to drain the blood.

The man talked about this other individual 'Jeff Connors' he claimed to be the likely suspect for the murder.

Dillon suggested that Short's body had been cut in half so the killer could see how far his penis penetrated into the woman's body.

He inferred that this person named Jeff could have committed the crime in a hotel, a ground level motel, the doctor corrected him, so that he could get the body outside without carrying it downstairs.

De River asked Dillon to take off his shirt. He agreed and had a very muscular build.

The doctor then asked Dillon if he objected to dropping his trousers. Dillon hesitated briefly and then down they came, revealing a 'juvenile penis ... typical of an eight-year-old boy'.

In one of the letters to the doctor, Dillon had said that Short's killer 'had been mocked or threatened exposure by her to his friends'.

The author questions whether Short could have mocked Dillon and exposed him for having such a small penis. Dillon also stated he liked girls with 'big mouths'.

He didn't drink but he did do drugs - bennies or Benzedrine 'for pep'.

'He also told one of the gangster squad with the doctor about how he would grind up the phenobarbital and 'put it on ice cream or food' and give it to women 'as it knocks them out'.

De River knew he had his man.

'And yet, despite the compelling evidence the officers of the Gangster Squad were uncovering, they never seemed to make headway with their investigation. The path was always blocked', writes Eatwell.

Summer of 1949, 'the LAPD became embroiled in the biggest corruption scandal of its history: a scandal that was to change the police department, and the course of the Dahlia case, forever'.

It was a massive cover-up by the Homicide Division that had links to Hansen, according to Eatwell.

The LAPD was rotten to the core and 'let a dangerous psychopath on the loose'.

In an interview with homicide, Dillon told them he wouldn't say a word if they let him go. But if they arrest him, he would talk and 'he knew where the bodies were buried in terms of organized crime. And then he was gone'.

All the key protagonists of the Dahlia case are dead. Most of the documents are gone or locked away in the vaults of the LAPD.

In the aftermath of the 1949 grand jury investigation, there had clearly been a willful campaign to suppress the facts of the case and to discredit and harass key witness such as Dr. De River', writes the author.

And there was an unwillingness by more recent writers and researchers to let the facts tell the story.

'The facts - buried in newspapers reports and court documents are more compelling that any of the alternate facts'.

Dillon was the centerpiece of the Dahlia drama and evil personified in a native boy from the Southern plains. The legal sleuth and author rests her case.

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The professional golfer was arrested in Florida on Memorial Day under suspicion of driving under the influence, after police discovered him stopped on the side of the road with his car still running.

Woods, 41, had pain, anxiety and sleeping medications plus THC -- a compound found in marijuana -- in his system at the time of his arrest on May 29, according to the toxicology report released by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. Shortly after his arrest, Woods released a statement saying he did not realize the mix of medications "had affected me so strongly."

"I understand the severity of what I did and I take full responsibility for my actions," Woods said in the statement.

In August, the golfer entered into a DUI first-offender program, under which the state drops the DUI charge and the defendant pleads guilty to the lesser charge of reckless driving. The defendant must fulfill certain requirements, such as completing DUI school, probation and a ban on alcohol and drug consumption.

Completion of the program does not expunge the defendant's record. Instead, the court withholds the adjudication of guilt, meaning the reckless driving charge will appear on the record but show no finding of guilt.

If the program is not successfully completed, the defendant will have the second-degree misdemeanor on his or her record.

CNN reached out to Woods' attorney, Douglas Duncan, inquiring about a plea but did not get a response.

Woods has won 14 major tournaments, second only to Jack Nicklaus. But the former world No. 1 golfer hasn't won a major since the 2008 US Open and has undergone four back operations in the past three years. He hasn't played competitive golf since he was forced to pull out of the Dubai Desert Classic in February.

On October 15, Woods posted a video of himself on Twitter hitting a drive with the words "making progress." According to his agent, Mark Steinberg, doctors have cleared him to "do as much as he needs to do."

"He got a nice report and is allowed to proceed," Steinberg told ESPN. "He can do as much as he needs to do. Tiger is going to take this very, very slowly. This is good, but he plans to do it the right way."

Woods last won on the PGA Tour at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in 2013.

CNN's Rosa Flores contributed to this report.

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The professional golfer was arrested in Florida on Memorial Day under suspicion of driving under the influence, after police discovered him stopped on the side of the road with his car still running.

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Trump wishes happy birthday to the wrong Lee Greenwood. Trump was trying to tweet to Lee Greenwood, the singer of "God Bless the USA," but tweeted to a New York lawyer instead.

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CNN reported Thursday that Trump told his staff to work with the Justice Department to allow an undercover FBI informant who played a critical role in an FBI investigation into Russian efforts to gain influence in the uranium industry in the United States during the Obama administration to be free to speak with Congress. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has called for the Justice Department to do the same.

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"He believes, as many others do, frankly, that the FBI informant should be free to say what he knows," Conway said on CNN's "New Day."

CNN reported Thursday that Trump told his staff to work with the Justice Department to allow an undercover FBI informant to be free to speak with Congress as Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, called for the Justice Department to do the same.

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A 39-year-old lawyer in Kansas City, Tom Pickert, was shot on October 25. The shooting occurred in front of his home and his wife called 911. The van the suspect was in has been found, but the owner of the van is not a suspect in the death of Pickert. The suspect in the shooting has yet to be found.

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Missouri police are searching for the suspect who gunned down a 39-year-old Kansas City lawyer in front of his home Wednesday morning after he had dropped off his children at school.

Police were called to the home in Kansas City's Brookside neighborhood, where they found the man in the front yard "with no signs of life," the Kansas City Police Department said in a statement.

Partners in the law firm Fowler Pickert Eisenmenger, LLC identified the deceased man as one of their partners, Tom Pickert.

Pickert's wife told officials she heard a gunshot and found Pickert in the front yard, police said. Pickert's wife also told emergency dispatchers that the suspect was in a white van with no back window, according to the 911 call.

After the shooting, investigators were searching for the driver of a white Chevrolet van but later found the van Wednesday afternoon -- unoccupied in an undisclosed location, police said.

Police told ABC News that the owner of the van is not a suspect in Pickert's death. Police would not disclose the name of the owner of the van to ABC News.

Pickert had just returned home from walking his children to school around 8 a.m. when he was shot, local ABC affiliate KMBC reported. He had been sitting on his front porch, The Kansas City Star reported. Pickert's wife, a physician at in the University of Kansas Healthcare system, heard the noise and then called 911, according to police.

Pickert specialized in personal injury law with a focus on medical malpractice and nursing home and long-term care abuse cases, according to his biography on his firm's website.

Pickert's neighbor, Deborah Carlton, told KMBC that she was "shocked" and "stunned" at the news of his death.

Another neighbor, David Wesley, told KMBC that he "really feels" for the family.

"I trust and hope this community here will embrace them and gather around them right now," Wesley said.

Kansas City police have asked residents to remain vigilant as they search for a suspect.

"As with any homicide or with any event in the community, we again would just remind everyone to be vigilant," Maj. Donna Greenwell told KMBC. "If people have concerns in regards to their safety, I would ask that they reach out to their local police department."

Additional details on the case were not immediately available.

ABC News' Cheryl Gendron, Rachel Katz and Michael Solmsen contributed to this report.

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Tom Pickert, 39, was dead by the time first responders arrived to his home.

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Follow up-Lenexa storage unit revealed more than just human remains in storage unit

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LENEXA, Kan. -- Deprived of the basics; a dad is in jail for not feeding his two infants. Police say they found the family based on the same call that sent them to a Lenexa U-Haul storage center on reports of someone sleeping in a storage unit.

The new details follow information that police found human remains in a storage shed Tuesday evening. Officers were called there just before 7 p.m. That's when they found Justin Rey and his two infants.

Rey is charged in Johnson County with two counts of endangering a child and two counts of contributing to a child's misconduct.

Police say they'd been staying in the storage unit and the babies didn't have any food, diapers, or a place to sleep. Police would not answer questions about Rey, his wife Jessica or her whereabouts, or the children. Officers referred FOX 4 to the Johnson County District Attorney's Office. DA Steve Howe said Thursday afternoon, "Our office has no comment at this time."

Rey has posted several videos online, many of them including his wife Jessica. In one of the videos, she talks about Protective Services taking their four children.

Rey's online profiles say he's from California and he has about half-a-dozen theft and threat charges in Arizona. He's due back in a Johnson County courtroom Friday.

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Dad charged after police say they found more than human remains inside Lenexa storage unit

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A 39 year old Lawyer was gunned down in front of his home in Kansas City. Investigators searched for a white Chevrolet van, but it was later found unoccupied

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Missouri police are searching for the suspect who gunned down a 39-year-old Kansas City lawyer in front of his home Wednesday morning after he had dropped off his children at school.

Police were called to the home in Kansas City's Brookside neighborhood, where they found the man in the front yard "with no signs of life," the Kansas City Police Department said in a statement.

Partners in the law firm Fowler Pickert Eisenmenger, LLC identified the deceased man as one of their partners, Tom Pickert.

Pickert's wife told officials she heard a gunshot and found Pickert in the front yard, police said. Pickert's wife also told emergency dispatchers that the suspect was in a white van with no back window, according to the 911 call.

After the shooting, investigators were searching for the driver of a white Chevrolet van but later found the van Wednesday afternoon -- unoccupied in an undisclosed location, police said.

Police told ABC News that the owner of the van is not a suspect in Pickert's death. Police would not disclose the name of the owner of the van to ABC News.

Pickert had just returned home from walking his children to school around 8 a.m. when he was shot, local ABC affiliate KMBC reported. He had been sitting on his front porch, The Kansas City Star reported. Pickert's wife, a physician at in the University of Kansas Healthcare system, heard the noise and then called 911, according to police.

Pickert specialized in personal injury law with a focus on medical malpractice and nursing home and long-term care abuse cases, according to his biography on his firm's website.

Pickert's neighbor, Deborah Carlton, told KMBC that she was "shocked" and "stunned" at the news of his death.

Another neighbor, David Wesley, told KMBC that he "really feels" for the family.

"I trust and hope this community here will embrace them and gather around them right now," Wesley said.

Kansas City police have asked residents to remain vigilant as they search for a suspect.

"As with any homicide or with any event in the community, we again would just remind everyone to be vigilant," Maj. Donna Greenwell told KMBC. "If people have concerns in regards to their safety, I would ask that they reach out to their local police department."

Additional details on the case were not immediately available.

ABC News' Cheryl Gendron, Rachel Katz and Michael Solmsen contributed to this report.

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After being lost at sea for 5 months, two women and their dogs were finally rescued by the Navy. Both women were from Honolulu. They got stranded when their boat lost power in a storm in the Pacific Ocean. They were sending distress calls daily, two months into their journey.

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JFK files: Documents reveal new info surrounding president's death.

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The highly-anticipated release of long-secret documents detailing the investigation into the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy have provided fresh fodder to fuel conspiracy theories surrounding the controversial death of the former commander in chief.

President Trump on Thursday released the trove of records, however, the collection was incomplete, with some records being held back. Trump cited "potentially irreversible harm" to national security if he were to allow all records to come out now. He placed the remaining files under a six-month review, but released 2,891 others, racing to honor a deadline mandating their release.

On Nov. 22, 1963, Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas by, authorities contend, a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald.

But a segment of the public never bought into the official explanation of Kennedy's assassination, citing video clips, interviews and science experiments in an attempt to prove Oswald, who was himself assassinated two days after Kennedy, did not act alone.
JFK FILES: FROM 2ND SHOOTER TO MEXICO TRIP, TOP QUESTIONS ASSASSINATION DOCUMENTS COULD ANSWER
The files released Thursday show the aftermath of Kennedy's death included then FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover venting his frustration about Oswald's killing at the hands of Jack Ruby, bellowing that the shooting would cause the public to suspect a conspiracy, NBC News reported.

"There is nothing further on the Oswald case except that he is dead," Hoover said. "The thing I am concerned about, and so is [deputy attorney general] Mr. Katzenbach, is having something issued so we can convince the public that Oswald is the real assassin."

Hoover reported the FBI received a call from the Dallas office stating the caller was part of a cabal "organized to kill Oswald."

Hoover said he relayed that warning to Dallas police and was assured Oswald would be protected. However, Oswald was shot dead the next day by Jack Ruby.

"Oswald having been killed today after our warnings to the Dallas Police Department was inexcusable," Hoover said. "It will allow, I am afraid, a lot of civil rights people to raise a lot of hell because he was handcuffed and had no weapon. There are bound to be some elements of our society who will holler their heads off that his civil rights were violated - which they were."

Hoover suggested that "instead of a Presidential Commission, we can do it with a Justice Department report based on an FBI report."

Hoover's suggestion went nowhere. President Lyndon B. Johnson established the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination the following week.
JFK FILES: 'BIG NEWS' COMING, BRITISH REPORTER WAS TOLD BEFORE SHOTS FIRED
In 1964, the Warren Commission concluded Oswald and Ruby acted alone in their assasinations. No other blame was put on other organizations, actors or foreign governments.

Johnson was mentioned in the files as well. The Soviet Union believed Kennedy's vice president was behind the assassination, the New York Post reported. The Societs also feared they would be blamed for the slaying and attacked in retaliation.

In a Dec. 1, 1966 FBI memo, sources said the KGB, the world's largest "spy and state-security machine" claimed they had "possession of data purporting to indicate President Johnson was responsible for the assassination of the late President John F. Kennedy."

The memo, titled: "REACTION OF SOVIET AND COMMUNIST PARTY OFFICIALS TO JFK ASSASSINATION" was sent to Hoover.

"KGB headquarters indicated that in view of this information, it was necessary for the Soviet Government to know the existing personal relationship between President Johnson and the Kennedy family, particularly that between President Johnson and Robert and 'Ted' Kennedy," the document stated.

The Soviet Union also feared the U.S. would use the assassination to bolster "anti-Soviet sentiment and even lead to an attack."

Oswald lived in the Soviet Union for three years and married a woman from there. He reportedly had ties to the KGB while in America.

Johnson also believed in conspiracy theories himself, the New York Post reported. Richard Helms, the CIA director under Johnson, said the former president said he believed Kennedy was killed in retaliation for the assassination of South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem.

Diem was arrested and killed by a CIA-backed coup in Vietnam in 1963.

The files also showed that a British reporter with the Cambridge News received an anonymous phone call prior to the assassination, alerting the reporter to "some big news."

"The caller said only that the Cambridge News reporter should call the American Embassy in London for some big news and then hung up," reads the document from former CIA Deputy Director James Angleton.

The reporter, who was not identified in the Nov. 26, 1963, report, "never received a call of this kind before and MI5 said that he is known to them as a sound and loyal person with no security record." (MI5 is Britain's Security Service, similar to the CIA in the United States.)

After Kennedy's death, the reporter told Cambridge police about the call and they informed M15.

Despite the new details unleashed by the files, some felt the bath did not have the "smoking gun" many have urged for following the mysterious death. The full record will still be kept from the public for at least six months - and longer if agencies make a persuasive enough case for continued secrecy.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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The highly-anticipated release of long-secret documents detailing the investigation into the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy have provided fresh fodder to fuel conspiracy theories surrounding the controversial death of the former commander in chief. President Trump on Thursday released the trove of records, however, the collection was incomplete, with some records being held back.

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Tiger Woods expected to plead guilty to reckless driving in Florida

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Golfer Tiger Woods is scheduled to plead guilty on Friday to a reckless driving charge and enter a program for first-time offenders to avoid a conviction for driving under the influence, court officials said.

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Tens of thousands of Puerto Rico residents have fled to Florida after Hurricane Maria hit their island. About 70% of the US territory has no power. Since October 3, 2017, more than 37,000 individuals arrived in Florida through Miami International Airport, Orlando International Airport, and the Everglade Port.

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About 70% of the US territory, which is home to approximately 3.4 million US citizens, is still without power. Many do not have access to reliable drinking water.

"Since October 3, 2017, more than 73,000 individuals arrived in Florida from Puerto Rico through Miami International Airport, Orlando International Airport and the Everglades Port," Florida Gov. Rick Scott's office said in a statement.

The United States approved Florida to host residents with the help of the Federal Emergency Management Agency on October 5, he said.

"This agreement approves 100% federal reimbursement for costs incurred by the state of Florida related to the accommodation of those displaced by Hurricane Maria," he said.

The state has opened three disaster relief centers at the main airports in Orlando, Miami, and the Port of Miami for displaced families from Puerto Rico.

Staff from several agencies, including FEMA and the American Red Cross, are in Florida helping incoming residents, he said.

Those heading to the US mainland are leaving behind an island that's almost in total darkness. Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands are in the midst of the largest blackout in US history, according to a report from an economic research company.

In all, Hurricane Maria has caused a loss of 1.25 billion hours of electricity supply for Americans, according to the analysis from the Rhodium Group. That makes it the largest blackout in US history, well ahead of Hurricane Georges in 1998 and Superstorm Sandy in 2012, the group said.

That 1.25 billion number will continue to grow. More than a month after Hurricane Maria knocked out the electric grid on the islands, the vast majority of residents remain without electricity, and the restoration of that power is months away.

As of Thursday, just 26% of households had power restored, according to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority.

The state-owned utility filed for bankruptcy in July, is $9 billion in debt and is struggling to recover from the hurricane outages. Not coincidentally, several of the top 10 blackouts in US history involve Puerto Rico, including Maria and Irma this year and Hurricane Georges in 1998.

Whitefish Energy, a two-year-old utility firm with ties to the Trump administration, was awarded a $300 million contract to help restore the country's power grid. The huge contract to a small company has drawn questions and criticism.

CNN's Joe Sutton, Sam Petulla and Eric Levenson contributed to this report.

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About 70% of the US territory, which is home to approximately 3.4 million US citizens, is still without power. Many do not have access to reliable drinking water. "Since October 3, 2017, more than 73,000 individuals arrived in Florida from Puerto Rico through Miami International Airport, Orlando International Airport and the Everglades Port," Florida Gov.

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Two women from Hawaii who were lost at sea for nearly five months have been rescued by the US Navy. The group had left Hawaii in the spring, bound for Tahiti, but ran into trouble on May 30 when bad weather damaged their sailboat's engine. The women decided to keep sailing, but strayed off course, according to the Navy.

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Two women from Hawaii who were lost at sea for nearly five months have been rescued by the US Navy.

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Around 9:30 a.m. Thursday, a 10-year-old was in pursuit by the Cleveland police in a high-speed chase. They boy appeared to be driving around 90 mph. The three Westlake officers followed the vehicle for more than 15 miles until the boy entered a toll booth and then the westbound lanes of the Ohio Turnpike. The boy was taken to a hospital (with a legal guardian) after the chase stopped. The boy was later arrested and taken to the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Justice Center and then released to his mother.

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A 10-year-old boy led police on a high-speed pursuit that began in Cleveland and ended miles away along the Ohio Turnpike when state troopers boxed him in, and police say it's the second time in two weeks the boy has taken cars on joyrides.

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Minnesota is getting their first snow storm of the season today.

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The first winter storm of the season is blowing through the upper Midwest and western Great Lakes, bringing blizzard-like conditions and several inches of snow.

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Gusty winds of up to 60 mph produced whiteout conditions Thursday in northwestern Minnesota and eastern North Dakota.

The National Weather Service in Duluth, Minnesota, said this morning that so far today 5 inches of snow have fallen -- breaking the record daily snowfall for Oct. 27.

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The storm will begin to move east today, spreading snow into the Twin Cities, which hasn't seen snow in October in eight years.

The snow will spread into northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan later today, where 8 inches of snow may fall by Saturday morning.

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54 years after the JFK assassination congress decided to release on Thursday.  Over 2,800 documents were released. over 300 documents were no released.

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In the end, what was supposed to be the final release of government secrets about the 1963 killing of President John F. Kennedy wasn't quite the blockbuster splash that President Donald Trump had been promising.

In fact, a day of intrigue and behind-the-scenes maneuvering by US intelligence agencies is likely only to feed the notorious conspiracy theories that the release of the historical trove was designed to quell once and for all.

It's 54 years since Kennedy died and a quarter century since Congress decreed Thursday as the day when all classified records related to the assassination should be thrown open to the public.

Trump, with an impresario's flair, had been building it up for days, as though he was promoting one of his Miss Universe pageants rather than a fresh perspective on one of the most traumatic moments in US history.

At the center of his own self-directed drama, Trump, a noted peddler of conspiracy theories and who is prone to secrecy himself, especially over his refusal to release his tax returns, was going to strike a famous blow for transparency and blow the lid off everything the government was still hiding over what happened in Dallas on November 22,1963.

"The long anticipated release of the #JFKFiles will take place tomorrow. So interesting!" Trump had tweeted on Wednesday.

Once the 2,800 documents finally hit the website of the National Archives at just after 7.30 p.m., there were some fascinating historical nuggets surrounding Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, his murderer Jack Ruby and even a tantalizing walk-on part by Marilyn Monroe.

But the bigger story lay in what is still missing, unknown and secret.

The big reveal didn't live up to its billing because spy agency officials successfully pleaded with Trump to hold back 300 or so files, forcing him to set up yet another classified review process -- this one lasting six months.

The drama around the release of the documents was like so much of Trump's nine months in power, involving a big promise that he struggled to fulfill and a rush of last-minute chaos inside the White House.

There was also a glimpse of the tenacious bureaucratic blocking maneuvers favored by big centers of power in Washington -- in this case the CIA and the FBI -- that have made it so difficult for Trump to drain the swamp.

Friday, Trump couldn't commit to full disclosure of every file.

"JFK Files are being carefully released. In the end there will be great transparency. It is my hope to get just about everything to public!" he tweeted.

Cynics have suggested all along that the spy agencies would intervene to leave at least some of the historical record surrounding the assassination obscured.

They were right. With the clock ticking down to the deadline on Thursday, the spooks jammed the White House with hundreds of last-minute requests for redactions, leaving the President with an impossible choice to either release everything and further alienate the espionage community, or allow himself to be strong-armed by his own spies.

Given that the FBI and the CIA have been able to see this moment coming for 25 years, it's difficult to see the last-minute requests for secrecy as anything but an attempt to perform an end run around the President.

"I think it's shameful," CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said. "This is something that the intelligence agencies have had not years, but decades to deal with."

He added, "This instinctive desire to keep things secret is so engrained, that even relating to events in the early 1960s, the idea that they can't be released at this point is absurd."

Defenders of the intelligence community argued that some of the information at issue could center on US informers and intelligence assets in places like Cuba and Mexico who could still be alive and at risk of reprisals.

It's also possible it could embarrass intelligence services which still have a relationship with the US clandestine community.

But such is the never-ending swirl of intrigue and and grassy knoll conspiracy theories around the Kennedy assassination that any equivocation by the government was certain to set off the rumor machines again.

"Withholding this stuff is just going to add to the crazy conspiracy theories and they are everywhere," Robert Baer, a former CIA operations officer who is now a CNN intelligence and security analyst, told CNN's Erin Burnett.

Roger Stone, the political provocateur and Trump ally, quickly blamed the "deep state" for covering up damaging information.

"The issue is it shows the treachery of the Central Intelligence Agency who recruited (Lee Harvey Oswald), who trained him and who placed him," Stone told CNN's Jeremy Diamond.

Earlier, Stone had tweeted: "The truth is out there. #JFKFiles #LBJKilledJFK http://bit.ly/LBJKilledJFK."

The White House made clear that Trump was not happy that his plans for a comprehensive document release failed to pan out, with a senior White House official admitting that the process had been "messy."

"He was unhappy with the level of redactions," another White House official said, adding that Trump believed the agencies were "not meeting the spirit of the law."

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders added in a statement that Trump "has demanded unprecedented transparency from the agencies and directed them to minimize redactions without delay."

Given the 11th-hour intervention by the spy agencies, no one would bet that the White House can avoid a similar mess next April when Trump's review process is due to conclude.

Still, among the 2,800 documents released Thursday, there was some intriguing bounty to feed the Kennedy assassination industry.

A 1975 report indicated that the CIA attempted to hire mobsters to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

In an memo, then-Attorney General Robert Kennedy was warned that a forthcoming book would allege he had an affair with Monroe.

One of the documents included a transcript of a conversation involving J. Edgar Hoover in which the then FBI director revealed that the bureau had received a call the night before nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot Oswald, warning that the Kennedy assassination suspect was a target.

It also contains details of Oswald's contacts with the Soviet embassy in Washington and conversations in Mexico City, that offered information about his state of mind.

"Hoover is explaining why he does not want an independent investigation of Ruby's killing of Oswald, and of Oswald's killing of the President," said CNN Presidential historian Timothy Naftali.

"It just shows you the level of federal bungling and the extent to which the FBI, within two days of Kennedy's assassination, was already thinking of a cover-up, not because it had killed Kennedy but because it hadn't done what it should have done to protect the President."

There is also testimony from former CIA director Richard Helms, saying that President Lyndon Johnson used to say that the reason Kennedy was shot was that he had ordered the assassination of President Ngo Dinh Diem, the president of South Vietnam.

Raising some eyebrows as well: records from a 1975 deposition to the Rockefeller Commission with a lawyer probing Helms on potential CIA involvement in a variety of global assassination attempts who asked whether Oswald might be connected to the CIA.

"Is there any information involved with the assassination of President Kennedy which in any way shows that Lee Harvey Oswald was in some way a CIA agent or an agent..." before the document suddenly ends, without his answer.

The sense that secretive institutions deep in the US government still, all these decades later, have something to hide, will only be exacerbated by the 300 documents that Trump held back on Thursday.

The JFK conspiracy theorists just got a new lease on life -- for six months at least.

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In the end, what was supposed to be the final release of government secrets about the 1963 killing of President John F. Kennedy wasn't quite the blockbuster splash that President Donald Trump had been promising.

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Simon Cowell was taken to the hospital after fainting, and then falling down the stairs. He is now in a stable condition, but has not been released from the hospital.

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Simon Cowell was rushed to the hospital Friday morning after falling down the stars oh his London home, a rep for the star told People.

"It's been a scary morning," Cowell's rep said. "It was very early and Simon was going down his stairs to get some hot milk because he couldn't sleep."

He added, "He fainted and is thought to have fallen down the stairs.

According to People, the "America's Got Talent" judge is in stable condition and remains in the hospital.

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Simon Cowell was rushed to the hospital Friday morning after falling down the stars oh his London home, a rep for the star told People. "It's been a scary morning," Cowell's rep said. "It was very early and Simon was going down his stairs to get some hot milk because he couldn't sleep."

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A $22 million U.S. Air Force F-16 jet crashed near Joint Base Andrews earlier this year due to a mechanical issue. The engine was improperly put together. It was missing main parts of the engine control.

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The crash occurred April 5 during a routine surface attack training mission.

Shortly after departing Joint Base Andrews, the aircraft "experienced an uncommanded engine acceleration, followed by a loss of thrust," forcing the pilot to execute "critical action procedures for low altitude engine failure," according to an Air Force press release.

The pilot was able to safely eject and did not sustain any injuries but the aircraft was destroyed as it hit the ground.

Large portions of the aircraft, including a wing and the fuselage, were found intact after the crash, allowing investigators to identify it as an F-16, police said at the time of the incident.

An investigation into the mishap revealed evidence that "the main engine control was missing a required 600-degree training ring and the anti-rotation pin," according to the Air Force.

"The misassembled differential pressure pilot valve caused the main engine control to incorrectly meter abnormally high fuel flow to the engine," the service said. "This led to severe engine overspeed, severe engine over-temperature, engine fire, and, ultimately, a catastrophic engine failure."

The pilot was able to extinguish the fire but not before the engine sustained considerable damage that rendered it unusable.

"Because the distance to the nearest suitable recovery airfield was beyond the aircraft glide capabilities, the pilot directed the aircraft toward a nearby open field prior to ejecting," the Air Force said.

The jet ultimately crashed in a wooded area.

The Air Force is treating the mishap as an isolated incident, according to spokesperson Maj. Malinda Singleton.

According to the investigation report, the engine was improperly assembled due to procedural failures on the part of the Commodities Maintenance Squadron at the Air Logistics Complex in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

The engine component was sent to Tinker Air Force Base to be overhauled by the squadron.

But the maintenance group was faulted in the report for having inadequate procedures for keeping track of spare parts which was described as a "substantially contributing factor" in the crash.

The group completed a full end-to-end process audit on the F-16 Main Engine Control production line following the crash in April, Air Force spokesperson Jerry Bryza told CNN.

"Process improvement measures were taken and additional quality checks throughout the assembly and test portions of the overhaul process were added to include two-step visual verification that 100% of required replacement items had been installed during overhaul," he said.

Despite the error, investigators found that the engine did ultimately pass standard testing procedures before it was sent back to Joint Base Andrews and reinstalled into the aircraft.

Both the pilot and aircraft involved in the incident are assigned to the 113th Air National Guard Wing at Andrews. The report did not find evidence faulting the 113th's maintenance personnel.

Known as the "Capital Guardians," the 113th Fighter Wing is charged with defending the nation's Capital and also provides fighter, airlift and support forces capable of local, national and global employment, according to the Air Force.

Lockheed Martin's F-16 Fighting Falcon is a multi-role aircraft, built to carry out a variety of missions. The US Air Force currently has just over 1,000 F-16s in its inventory.

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The crash occurred April 5 during a routine surface attack training mission. Shortly after departing Joint Base Andrews, the aircraft "experienced an uncommanded engine acceleration, followed by a loss of thrust," forcing the pilot to execute "critical action procedures for low altitude engine failure," according to an Air Force press release.

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Runner sacrifices race to carry teammate

A high school cross country runner carried a teammate with a broken leg across the finish line despite knowing that he would be disqualified for making contact with another racer.

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Runner sacrifices race to carry teammate A high school cross country runner carried a teammate with a broken leg across the finish line despite knowing that he would be disqualified for making contact with another racer.

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2,891 documents have been release surrounding the investigation of JFK's assassination. Though 300 of the documents were not released, and will be reviewed and redacted through the next 6 months

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The highly-anticipated release of long-secret documents detailing the investigation into the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy have provided fresh fodder to fuel conspiracy theories surrounding the controversial death of the former commander in chief.

President Trump on Thursday released the trove of records, however, the collection was incomplete, with some records being held back. Trump cited "potentially irreversible harm" to national security if he were to allow all records to come out now. He placed the remaining files under a six-month review, but released 2,891 others, racing to honor a deadline mandating their release.

On Nov. 22, 1963, Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas by, authorities contend, a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald.

But a segment of the public never bought into the official explanation of Kennedy's assassination, citing video clips, interviews and science experiments in an attempt to prove Oswald, who was himself assassinated two days after Kennedy, did not act alone.
JFK FILES: FROM 2ND SHOOTER TO MEXICO TRIP, TOP QUESTIONS ASSASSINATION DOCUMENTS COULD ANSWER
The files released Thursday show the aftermath of Kennedy's death included then FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover venting his frustration about Oswald's killing at the hands of Jack Ruby, bellowing that the shooting would cause the public to suspect a conspiracy, NBC News reported.

"There is nothing further on the Oswald case except that he is dead," Hoover said. "The thing I am concerned about, and so is [deputy attorney general] Mr. Katzenbach, is having something issued so we can convince the public that Oswald is the real assassin."

Hoover reported the FBI received a call from the Dallas office stating the caller was part of a cabal "organized to kill Oswald."

Hoover said he relayed that warning to Dallas police and was assured Oswald would be protected. However, Oswald was shot dead the next day by Jack Ruby.

"Oswald having been killed today after our warnings to the Dallas Police Department was inexcusable," Hoover said. "It will allow, I am afraid, a lot of civil rights people to raise a lot of hell because he was handcuffed and had no weapon. There are bound to be some elements of our society who will holler their heads off that his civil rights were violated - which they were."

Hoover suggested that "instead of a Presidential Commission, we can do it with a Justice Department report based on an FBI report."

Hoover's suggestion went nowhere. President Lyndon B. Johnson established the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination the following week.
JFK FILES: 'BIG NEWS' COMING, BRITISH REPORTER WAS TOLD BEFORE SHOTS FIRED
In 1964, the Warren Commission concluded Oswald and Ruby acted alone in their assasinations. No other blame was put on other organizations, actors or foreign governments.

Johnson was mentioned in the files as well. The Soviet Union believed Kennedy's vice president was behind the assassination, the New York Post reported. The Societs also feared they would be blamed for the slaying and attacked in retaliation.

In a Dec. 1, 1966 FBI memo, sources said the KGB, the world's largest "spy and state-security machine" claimed they had "possession of data purporting to indicate President Johnson was responsible for the assassination of the late President John F. Kennedy."

The memo, titled: "REACTION OF SOVIET AND COMMUNIST PARTY OFFICIALS TO JFK ASSASSINATION" was sent to Hoover.

"KGB headquarters indicated that in view of this information, it was necessary for the Soviet Government to know the existing personal relationship between President Johnson and the Kennedy family, particularly that between President Johnson and Robert and 'Ted' Kennedy," the document stated.

The Soviet Union also feared the U.S. would use the assassination to bolster "anti-Soviet sentiment and even lead to an attack."

Oswald lived in the Soviet Union for three years and married a woman from there. He reportedly had ties to the KGB while in America.

Johnson also believed in conspiracy theories himself, the New York Post reported. Richard Helms, the CIA director under Johnson, said the former president said he believed Kennedy was killed in retaliation for the assassination of South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem.

Diem was arrested and killed by a CIA-backed coup in Vietnam in 1963.

The files also showed that a British reporter with the Cambridge News received an anonymous phone call prior to the assassination, alerting the reporter to "some big news."

"The caller said only that the Cambridge News reporter should call the American Embassy in London for some big news and then hung up," reads the document from former CIA Deputy Director James Angleton.

The reporter, who was not identified in the Nov. 26, 1963, report, "never received a call of this kind before and MI5 said that he is known to them as a sound and loyal person with no security record." (MI5 is Britain's Security Service, similar to the CIA in the United States.)

After Kennedy's death, the reporter told Cambridge police about the call and they informed M15.

Despite the new details unleashed by the files, some felt the bath did not have the "smoking gun" many have urged for following the mysterious death. The full record will still be kept from the public for at least six months - and longer if agencies make a persuasive enough case for continued secrecy.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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JFK files: Documents reveal new info surrounding president's death

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The highly-anticipated release of long-secret documents detailing the investigation into the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy have provided fresh fodder to fuel conspiracy theories surrounding the controversial death of the former commander in chief. President Trump on Thursday released the trove of records, however, the collection was incomplete, with some records being held back.