This site,
and the following sites are part of an ongoing effort to help people
fight the psychopaths who prey on all of us. The specific
individuals named below are psychopaths, or highly unethical
individuals working with psychopaths, who joined together in a
conspiracy. Craig
Franklin, Dan O'Dowd and Morgan
Gell – 1997, Alexander,
13th
Duke of Manchester and Laura, Duchess of Manchester
– 2011 joined together to destroy me, which sounds melodramatic, but is actually pretty accurate.
Alexander, 13thDuke of Manchester, entrapped Wendy Buford Montagu in a fraudulent
marriage in 1993 and in 2006 found Laura to help him strip her of
everything she owned. When they joined together they all become
co-conspirators in their attempts to destroy both Wendy and myself,
Melinda Pillsbury-Foster.
Most run
away. We fight back with the truth. We urge you to read their posts
as nothing could be more revealing to their real characters.
It
is essential for our own safety we understand how psychopaths see us.
Believing
what I am about to tell you can be an agonizing realization, I know
that because I have been there. But for your own safety, and for the
well-being and security of those you love who are normal, you need to
wrap your mind around it.
The
psychopath in your life may be to you a child, a brother, a parent or
a spouse, but they see you as a domesticated animal, food, pleasure,
or profit, on the hoof. They'll exert effort to keep you in shape
for what they have planned, but have no doubt where you are headed.
One day you will be simply 'harvested.'
Since
their lives are, essentially and necessarily lived as a long lie to
keep us complacent and producing for them.
Psychopaths
may need, and attach to, normal people who allow them to seem more
normal. That was the case both for myself and Wendy Buford Montagu.
Comparing notes was very illuminating.
Wendy's
husband, Alex, 13th Duke of Manchester, was sofa-surfing,
living on the never-to-be-realized expectations of people who were
hosting him when he managed to grab onto Wendy, who was employed and
had her own car. Wendy was, and is very attractive as well.
Psychopaths looking for a victim generally want resources and
stability. Wendy met his requirements. Additionally, she was young
and of child-bearing age. Alex knew he would receive payments from
the Manchester Trust for each child born.
He
did not hesitate to deceive and then launch attempts to suck her dry,
in every way he could devise. See LINK
For
a psychopath, who cannot fully emulate human emotions having a spouse
who acts as an interface to the world can be essential.
That
was one of the functions I carried out, unwittingly, for my
psychopathic husband, Craig Franklin. But once he saw ways to move
on the transition was carried out with ruthless ugliness. Here is
what happened.
When I met Craig
He
was a software engineer with no savings. That, I knew, what I did
not know was that his psychopathic condition made it impossible for
him to file his tax returns, which left him chronically garnished and
broke.
Craig
positioned himself as a Libertarian. He is not, since he routinely
uses deceit and violence to achieve his ends. He was also was not a
tax protester, he just did not file, thus paying into state coffers
money he did not owe. He was being garnisheed by multiple agencies
without my knowledge, I discovered in January of 1997. Pay
Stub. List
of Garnishments 1987 – 1997
Craig
brought the problem with him and lied to me. I could have filed as
an innocent spouse, but instead I went to work to save Craig, whose
health was failing. At that point he was beginning to soil the
sheets in our bed as well as leaving feces in the bath tub. I solved
the problem for Craig at enormous cost to myself, having spent weeks
of 18 hour days going over the records Craig had hidden from me at
work.
Less
than two weeks after garnishments stopped and refunds began coming
in, these would eventually come to around $250,000, my oldest son,
who Craig had adopted along with the others, at his insistence,
suffered a major brain injury in a motorcycle accident.
With
the problem of the IRS behind him and my attention on our son, Craig
decided to eliminate me. With me out of the way he could live out
his fantasy life.
If
he had just told me he wanted a divorce and split the assets, as was
fair, I would simply have forgotten him and moved on. But his goal
was to get everything and leave me destitute and homeless. This was
part of his fantasy, repeated frequently to both Morgan and Anne
Fisher.
Affidavit
I (Page Two – Paragrahs 4 & 5) “Craig talked
to me all the time. He consistently broght up the same several
subjects, repeating himself nearly every time we talked.
One
of these was his desire to see my mother penniless and pushing a
shopping cart in fuzzy slippers.”
Do
not expect fair play or decency from a psychopath.
Throw Mama from the
Train – Craig and Dan cut a deal
It
was during this period that Craig cut a deal with his boss, Dan
O'Dowd, to create a different
stock option agreement with language recommended by Misho,
“future, future, future,” 1999
Phone Transcript (Page 6 – Seventh Paragraph) so, as he left
me, he could guarantee I received nothing from our only marital
asset. All option agreements for all employees, including Craig's,
acknowledged as the most valuable employee and given the highest
award, were issued simultaneously in 1996, were for past work. I was
told this by Craig in 1996.
Craig
signed the agreement in my presence, having written some additional
language, which I read at the time.
Green
Hills Software successfully resisted discovery on the language of any
other stock option agreement and the court refused to enforce our
demand during the divorce. At this point I began to understand
something was very wrong with the court system.
Dan
needed Craig, who had been the pivotal factor in making Green Hills
Software hugely profitable. Dan also wanted to cut out his partner,
who had provided the original funding, Glenn Hightower. Documents
for Hightower – O'Dowd law suit are available at Just
the Evidence.
Craig
made this possible by persuading the other employees to refuse to
cooperate with a Hightower buyout. This is testified to by Wayne B.
Weisman, Partner in an equity fund, Private Equity Partners, LP.
Exhibit
7a (Page 2- Paragraph 9)
Morgan
Affidavit I (Page 2 – Paragraph 7 & 8) “About the
Green Hills buyout, he said he and Dan had a deal, had helped each
other out. He compared it to the movie, “Throw Mama from the
Train” The whole family had seen the movie together so I knew
exactly what he meant.
Craig
said many times, “They could not be caught.”
Morgan
Affidavit
I
(Page 1 – bottom)
“In the summer of 1998 Craig told me gleefully he and other
employees he had been talking to at GHS stood up at a conference and
walked out, right past Hightower. Hightower was Dan's partner and
and was trying to buy the company. It was, Craig said, quite a
confrontation. Craig said many times his stock would be worth a lot
more if they could dump Hightower. Dan made promises to make it
worth their while. Craig also said he was getting extra stock for
payment for cooperation on top of Dan screwing over our mother.
Craig also said Dan was pussy whipped and Amy ran Dan.”
The
offer price by O'Dowd of 47 million to Hightower was far below the
actual valuation of the company at the time, from what I knew from
Craig before he left. I was told by Craig, at the time, the company
was actually worth 350 million.
Green
Hills Software, Inc., is a War Contractor, now making essential
components for drones. They began getting government contracts in
2003. This story involves John Fund, former WSJ Pundit. This story
will appear in the book, now being written. The company is located
at 30 West Sola, in Santa Barbara. See
Drone Free Zone.
One might
wonder why Craig would talk so much about subjects which, clearly
were highly volatile. This happens because Craig's condition makes
not talking about what he is doing impossible for him.
In
1998 Morgan was living in Los Angeles in an apartment I had rented
and decorated for her myself. I bought the material for drapes and
the furniture in early 1998 before the IRS matter was settled through
drastic economies elsewhere. The last time I was in her apartment,
because she became hostile and antagonistic, was late summer of that
year. I had been by and brought her roses for the dining room table
I also bought for her. She was thirty and had never worked, and
never finished school. Looking back, I realize I should have noticed
something was very wrong with her. But I try to make the people I
love happy and I always tried to be understanding.
For
about eight years, from the time she moved in with us, when my
sister, Anne kicked her out, until they broke up, she was pretending
to go to college but actually having an affair with Eddy van Halen.
I did not know about this until years later.
In
1997 she was in a relationship with Eugene Volokh, Professor of Law
at UCLA, who she had met at the conference for the RLC I put on in
Santa Barbara in 1995.
It
was Morgan who found an attorney, Jacqueline Misho, for Craig, as
stated in her affidavit.
“
I
helped Craig in every way that I could. It was I who found his
divorce attorney for him.” Affidavit
I (Page 1 – Paragraph 4)
This
affidavit also gives evidence of the kind of manipulation Craig
routinely used. Morgan states I told her she had to start working.
Affidavit
(page one, paragraph two)
I
did so because, to my surprise, after we no longer had financial
problems because I had solved the tax problem, Craig came to me and
insisted I do so. This was done to set up his use of Morgan. I had
asked she have time to get a job or finish college. He grudgingly
extended support for a full year. Craig's motive was to activate
Morgan as a tool and he did so in spades.
In
late November, 1997, Arthur began rehabilitation, he had survived,
but lost around two years of academic accomplishments. It is true of
brain injuries, I now know, that they change you completely.
Survivors say they count the day of the injury as the first day of
their lives. I found this is also true of any family member who
stands by them.
Craig,
to my surprise, expressed a wish to take the entire family to Hawaii
for Christmas as a celebration. His motives were actually very
different. He wanted me out of Santa Barbara, so he could have the
house to himself. He knew that, having paid off all our massive
debts with the refunds from the IRS, I would want to pay off the
vacation immediately, leaving me with little money at the end of
January. He wanted to force an early settlement by ensuring I could
not afford an attorney or pay my bills.
He
returned to California a week before me and used the time to have his
attorney rummage through my private papers, removing many which were
never returned, and to go through my computer, taking what ever she
thought would be useful to her. Morgan attested to this fact in her
Affidavit
I (Page two – Paragraphs two & three)
Craig
also filed for divorce. The plan seems to have been to claim the
date of grant was after we were separated. This failed because of
the weight of proof I was still paying his bills and he handling his
domestic needs. Checks
written by Melinda January 1998. The phoney stock option
agreement was written by an attorney in Los Angeles, Ruth Fisher and
signed with Craig three days earlier. This is attested to in 1999
Transcript (Page two – Paragraph 5) with Craig supplying the
name of the attorney, Ruth Fisher, and other details.
When
Craig called to tell me he was leaving his just washed dirty clothes
were still warm and had just been put away. The day was January 23,
1998.
Morgan's
next assignment was to work to suborn her siblings, telling them
ugly, and untrue things about me. She also contacted my friends,
telling them the same ugly and untrue stories. Emerling Cloud began
doing the same among my Libertarian friends and acquaintances.
Morgan
is also a psychopath.
It
was like being hit by an invisible tsunami.
There
are rules you can follow which immunize you from becoming a victim.
We'll get into those later here and in my book, now being written.
