Psychic Says Farron Barksdale Murdered

We here at Shoalanda are evenly divided on the subject of psychic power. Yet even those who do not believe in the ability of those who claim to see beyond the natural realm realize that those who have inside information often use such self-proclaimed psychics to pass on information that cannot safely be transmitted in other ways. Therefore, today we're presenting an edited communication that we received from an Athens area psychic:

I am a psychic. This was one of the hardest cases I have ever worked. Emotionally that is. To hear that someone is going to be murdered and not be able to stop it is very overwhelming. I don't know who you are and this is nothing more than I gave Buck and Jake (attorneys in the case). Also, my promise to Farron "I"ll be there."

Why the state did kill him: The ********** family used insurance money to have Farron killed. I also knew ********** was involved when I shook his hand. I was lost in Capshaw, found a tree cutting business and was asking for directions. They asked me where I lived, and I told them I was staying with the Barksdales. One of the employees told me he was friends with the ********** family and they paid to have Farron killed. Yes, I was lost and found this person.

The call about Farron came at 1:28 am. When the phone was answered no one was there. The caller came up unavailable. I told my companion, I hope that wasn't a spirit call. I explained to him sometimes spirits will ring my phone. The phone started ringing again at 5:30pm on Sunday. Farron was on every news channel, family was calling, and so were the doctors from Baptist Memorial South. We packed and left.

When we got there someone in clergy took us to find Farron. When I saw him I prayed for him and I began to ask him what happened. Although he was in a coma I could hear him in my head. He told me about the guards, he told me they over medicated him, he told me how they beat him. ALABAMA NEEDS TO REVISE THEIR CODES AND STATUTES!!!

He gave me descriptions of the guards, and what they used on him, things they were saying to him while they were cutting off his air supply. The only thing I couldn't figure out was why they kept having to suction blood. My former brother in law is **********, a real medicine man on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Without knowing anything about Farron, he told us where the blood had been coming from and why.

This knowledge was not known before autopsy. Farron gave me the initials of ***. I left the hospital the first day down there and went to CVS drugs and Kinko's. I was right, even before the doctors told the family, I knew other details about this case and the faces of the men who killed him. I think why I didn't know where the blood was coming from is because Farron was already unconscious. And **** is a known medicine man, more gifted than I am.

This was a plotted murder of a mental patient which every state system to protect him and others failed them all. Even though I was not family or legal council the doctors let me in at times disregarding the state guards. Farron had the best legal representation possible--Jake and Buck. Jake promised to do something, and I'm sure he will.

I just wanted someone to know this because of your article. I am a former legislative assistant, I actually cared about constituents. Farron needed help.


The above tale is presented in the "for what it's worth department." We have intentionally not identified the author, but we greatly appreciate her sending it to us. No matter the source of the above account, no matter what mental illness caused Farron Barksdale to do, if any of the above statements are true, remember this could be your relative next. Mental illness is just that--an illness. Until we address those who are no longer able to function in our society, we will continue to have the loss of innocent life, continue to have murders and hatred. Let's lobby our legislators for improved mental health care in the State of Alabama.


Shoalanda

Did the State of Alabama Kill Farron Barksdale?

Lera slammed down the phone, but she knew the Athens police had told her the truth--there was nothing they could do. In the kitchen, Lera's 30 year-old son Lew was throwing flatware onto the floor as he looked for a knife to kill his stepbrother; Lew was schizophrenic and had an IQ of 65.

Lera finally manged to calm Lew with promises of a new radio to replace the one his young stepbrother had broken, but what about next time? The Athens police were familiar with Lew, as were the Limestone County judges. Her oldest child had been committed before, but now there was no more room in the Decatur hospital where such patients were admitted. Lera was afraid that incarcerating Lew for twelve hours in the Athens City Jail would only worsen her son's condition, so she did nothing.

Lera has since passed away, and Lew lives in a group home where he receives the help and support he needs. No one knows what would have eventually happened if Lew had remained with his family in Athens...

Like Lew, Farron Barksdale was schizophrenic and familiar to the Athens Police Department. The basic difference between Lew and Farron was that the latter's intelligence fell within a normal range, and this made him even more dangerous. Apparently no one thought twice about selling Barksdale a gun, a gun that he used to kill two Athens police officers. No one was concerned that this known schizophrenic was left alone during the week to sit and brood in his mother's small west Athens home, a house ironically located only three blocks from the home of Lew's uncle.

Some have blamed Barksdale's mother Mary for allowing her son to live alone during the day, but perhaps she, like Lera, felt frustrated by the system. The same system eventually paid Mary Barksdale $750,000.00 in her son's death, while still denying all responsibility.

If one can believe the official autopsy reports, Barksdale died from hyperthermia (tempertures in his segregation cell in August reached 100 degrees) exacerbated by the three anti psychotic medications being administered by prison physicians. Currently, at least 18 anti psychotic medications bear a warning not to administer unless air conditioning is available during summer months. Why Kilby doctors ignored these warnings is beyond comprehension.

Now, the Barksdale family will return to court seeking more punitive damages--damages that will come from taxpayer dollars. All because state doctors didn't care, because the Barksdale family had grown too frustrated to act, because state judges and law enforcement authorities had too little power to commit a mentally ill man, because...because it might infringe on our freedoms?

The names of Lera and Lew have been changed.


What's up with this: Sarahpalooza--Palin for president; now that's a scary thought.

Shoalanda