Justicenow: May 2012

JOSEPH “JOEY” G. DAUBEN
The Ellis County Observer

THE EASIEST, cheapest way to expose “judicial

terrorism” in Montgomery County -- or

really, any county -- is fairly simple: file an open

records request [see sample on Page 3] with

the particular court or the District Clerk’s office

and obtain the “wheel” of court appointed lawyers

and their monthly or annual incomes.

Court-appointed lawyers derive their incomes

from tax dollars, so every dime is public

record.

For those wanting Judge Tracy Gilbert’s

court-appointment list, ask for his court

list for say, the past three fiscal
appointment
years.

The court-appointment wheel (or list) will

and should have lawyers, guardian ad litems,

counselors, social workers and generally, any

officer or expert of the court that is appointed

by the judge on a particular case.

If you want the “wheel” of the court-appointed

lawyers for just the probate courts,

ask specifically for the most recent fiscal year

available for

the court, and how much in weekly, monthly or

yearly income”
“all appointed lawyers, officers ofthey made in that specified
court.

Montgomery County has civil and criminal

courts. The odds of a cabal of lawyers making

tons of money in one particular venue

are very good.

In Ellis County,
The Ellis County Observer
published an article titled “Lawyers at the

Trough.” I posted this court-appointment list

article for the 40th District Court and the Ellis

County Court at Law No. 1, and the results

were huge: for the first time ever, taxpay
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Continued on Page 3

50 Cents

Vol. 1, Issue 3
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Court-Appointment Lists
The family law courts being

discussed in this case involve

the 359th District Court (Judge

Kathleen Hamilton/Anderson

case) and the 418th District Court

(Judge Tracy A. Gilbert/Nick

Morton case.)
JOSEPH “JOEY” G. DAUBEN
The Ellis County Observer

CONROE — It’s not just

who you know, but who you

marry.
Jennie Morton is
Judge Tracy Gilbert Wages

War Against Mom in 2 Cases

Jennie Morton with sons Aiden and Hunter

finding that out the hard way.

The mother of three,

Morton, 37, has been led

before family law court

judges in Montgomery

County in a legal war being

fought on two fronts involving

two of her three children:

Aiden (from ex-

Anderson

ex-
Tommy) and Hunter (fromNick Morton.)
Continued on Page 3
Pedophile Granted Custody

of Little Girls Who Aren’t His

JOSEPH “JOEY” G. DAUBEN
The Ellis County Observer

CONROE -- A child molester who is

not even the biological father of

Deathridge’

granted full custody by Montgomery

County 418th District

Judge

despite filing court records

that he was not the father.

Deathridge, who

informed Montgomery

County officials before taking her two

daughters to New Mexico last year, was

subsequently arrested when Gilbert

signed an arrest warrant on kidnapping

charges.

That arrest followed Deathridge’s

motions to non-suit the attempts to

have her two daughters adopted by a

man not even their father. Deathridge

is divorced with the girls’ father, but she

said he is not in their lives.

Due to
Stephanies two daughters wasTracy A. Gilbert,The Ellis County Observer
unable to contact the man for

comment, his name will not

be used.

But, the man attempted

to get custody of the two

girls, and filed a motion in

Gilbert’s court to obtain them.

Deathridge’s motion for non-suit

was due to the fact she did not live in

Montgomery County; she attempted

to get the matter moved to the county

Continued on Page 2

Trish Shafer Won’t Stop Fighting
Lawyers at the Trough

JOSEPH “JOEY” G. DAUBEN
The Ellis County Observer

MONTGOMERY COUNTY -- The

target on Trish Shafer’s back has

been evident since her uncle was

murdered by sheriff deputies in the

county jail.

The wrongful death and

excessive force lawsuit thrown out

of court, Shafer continues to fight

what she calls a corrupt and evil

system.

Part of that fight centers on

a high-priced custody battle that

saw Shafer’s two children, ages

8 and 5, given to her ex-husband

after he used a protective order as

a pretext against her to deceive

the family courts into severely

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Really Shut Down? Page 5
she lived in, but after informing Montgomery

County that she was taking her

daughters to New Mexico, Gilbert held

an emergency hearing and awarded custody

of the two girls to this man.

Deathridge, who served three months

in jail, told
The Ellis County Observer
that this man knows her family, and even

filed court documents stating he was not

the biological father, but was awarded

custody anyway.

The man and his son are child molesters,

Deathridge said in a phone interview,

citing prior and current cases they

were involved with.

Deathridge contacted CPS in Montgomery

County about the child molestation,

but a case worker said there was no

case on file, and when the CPS official

gave Deathridge her name, it was later

learned that no one with that name

worked in for CPS. So, Deathridge gave

the head supervisor at Montgomery

County CPS a criminal case number

involving the molestation allegations and

was told there was an active investigation

but no reason was given why the man

still had custody of her children.

If the Deathridge case sounds bizarre,

it’s not uncommon.

In Ellis County,
Destiny Briggs’
Pedophile Granted

Custody Cont’d...
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JOSEPH “JOEY” G. DAUBEN
The Ellis County Observer

HOUSTON -- Amy Charron said she didn’t like getting drugged from her stepdad,

a dentist. She didn’t like the sexual advances from him either. However, after

she reported the alleged abuse, her mother and stepdad, appointed by Gov. Rick

Perry to the state’s dental board, called her delusional. Crazy. Psychotic.

Child Protective Services became involved and snatched Amy’s daughter.

Other patients of Gary Wayne McDonald began flooding Charron with

phone calls and e-mails describing the alleged abuse they had undergone in

McDonald’s dental chair.

After CPS became involved, all hell broke loose and Amy Charron found

herself warring against one of the biggest powers and principalities in the world:

the State of Texas.

“Can you imagine we live in a world where an abusive family that harmed

you and your child (evidence based) can steal buy your child and steal your

life,” Amy asked. “I must file something again but remember despite proof that

I was set up by their lies and evil and that they got away with felonies the courts

ignored me even the Supreme Court...”

Charron is not even allowed contact with her daughter Markel, who she has

not seen in years. She tells her horror story to anyone who will listen, often at great

odds.

Her Stepdad Drugged Her, Gov. Rick Perry Put

Him on the State Dental Board and Then Amy

Charron Lost Custody of Her Daughter

Clockwise From Left: Amy Charron; Gov. Perry; Anita McDonald; Gary

Wayne McDonald; Amy and little Markel
PRESLEY CROWE
The Ellis County Observer

Increasingly, courts, lawyers,

“experts” and counselors are

citing the discredited Parental

Alienation Syndrome (P.A.S.)

in court proceedings, especially

those involving family-law and

custody matters. Richard Gardner,

who coined the phrase, was

sympathetic to pedophiles. Be on

guard if you ever hear of local

courts citing Gardner and PAS.

PAS was created by Richard

Gardner in 1985 based solely on

his personal observation, not at

all on scientific study. Prior to his

suicide, Gardner was an un-paid

part-time clinical professor of

child psychiatry at the College

of Physicians and Surgeons at

Columbia University. He was

also the author of several books

on the subject of sexual abuse

“hysteria” and pedophilia. Here are

some of his thoughts:

Abused Children] may have

considered themselves fortunate

to have had a parent who provides
“[Sexually
them with such gratification.” [

Parental Alienation Syndrome

and the Differentiation Between

Fabricates and Genuine Child Abuse,

P. 145]

sexually abused child is generally
The“At the present time, the
considered to be the victim. I believe

that there are situations in which the

sexually abused child has been the

initiator…Many believe that young

children do not have strong urges

and that they are therefore unlikely

to be initiators in any kind of sexual

encounter with an adult. This

assumption is not necessary valid.

I have seen many children whom I

would consider completely normal

who developed strong sexual urges

during the first few years of life.”

[

the Differentiation Between Fabricates

and Genuine Child Sex Abuse

(1987)]. He also goes on to call children

“wicked” and writes “

the degree of sadism that many of these
The Parental Alienation Syndrome and, P. 165what is striking is
children may exhibit. In many of these

cases I have been impressed by what I

consider to be the innate cruelty of these

children.”

Child Sex Abuse, Pgs. 119-120 (1992)].

As a victim of child molestation,

I can testify to tell the courts how

incredibly harmful and evil the

allowance of the PAS “theory” in child

sex abuse cases is.

When the courts say that it is “in the

best interest of the child” to be placed

in the full time care of abusers, it is the

court’s way of justifying placing an

innocent child with a pedophile.
[True and False Allegations of
The Amy Charron Case

babysitter filed a motion for temporary

custody pending adoption

for her daughter, though no parental

rights were terminated.

The babysitter used her friends

in Child Protective Services to cite

Briggs on child neglect, though

she was babysitting one night

while Briggs went to work.

After an Ellis County judge

bypassed CPS’ attempt to block

transferring venues, a Tarrant

County district judge awarded

the babysitter custody, and then

forced Briggs to pay monthly

child support.

CPS Child-Trafficking Ring

State Sen.
Nancy Schaefer
of Georgia exposed how CPS

trafficked children, taking them

out of family homes and placing

kids with known pedophiles in

foster care.

When she found documents

that showed what CPS was specifically

looking for in children to take out of

homes, Schaefer ended up dead. Three

of her Republican colleagues in Georgia

also ended up dead, including state

Rep.

to abolish CPS in that state.

The Deathridge case mirrors that

of many Schaefer and Franklin were

investigating -- and later died -- exposing.

Could it really be happening in

Conroe?
Bobby Franklin, who led an effort
What is Parental Alienation Syndrome?

Date ___________________________

Dear Public Information Officer/Coordinator:

Under the Texas open records laws, I would like to request the following:

1) Copies (electronic preferred) of any and all identifying information

that would show, depict, chart, plot, and/or list all lawyers, counselors,

officers of the court, their names, firms and their weekly, monthly,

annual court-appointment pay from Fiscal Year ________ in the

[or add the court/district/judge of your choosing]

In other words, I request a list of the “indigent defense

wheel” (some counties have different names for it) for the aforementioned

court on the aforementioned fiscal year(s). Electronic methods

are preferred such as Excel, Word or PDF (Portable Document

Format.)

Please contact me at 555-555-5555 or email@email.com if

I need to pick up the documents. Because this information benefits

the general public interest, I would like to request a waiver o f all fees

for these documents.

YOUR NAME

TITLE/ORGANIZATION (if any)

MAILING ADDRESS

EMAIL ADDRESS

PHONE NUMBER

Public Information

Act Request

Example

Example

ers and the public got to see lawyers and counselors making

six-figure salaries just in taxpayer-funded court appointments.

Those court appointments were made a major issue in the 2006

GOP primary for 40th District Court and again in the 2010 GOP

primary for Ellis County Court at Law No. 1. Knize won, but

Judge Wilhelm was ousted from office on that issue alone.

In one fiscal year, Jim Chapman, who ousted Wilhelm, cut the

court appointment gravy train and saved taxpayers $350,000,

When Montgomery County produces their court-appointment

lists to the public, watch the symbolic feces hit the fan.

Wilhelm’s Ellis County Court at Law No. 1 was simply involved in

a system that had been allowed to fester for years and years. Every

county works about the same. If one cannot afford a lawyer, one

will be appointed to you...at a cost (to the taxpayer.) Many (not all!)

lawyers who do nothing but court appointments have no incentive

to fight for your rights.

The phrase, “don’t bite the hand that feeds you” is one used

commonly, and especially so in these court-appointment lists.

Also, another name for the court-appointment list is the “indigent

defense wheel.” Our Constitution provides for a right to a

speedy trial, the right to face our accusers and a right to “effective

assistance of counsel.” A lot of times, court-appointed lawyers

won’t or can’t put up a solid defense because they are “subsidized

lawyers.”

If you’re making $60,000 or $80,000 (or, in Ellis County’s case,

$100,000 per year) in annual court appointments, why would you

rock the boat?

Knize, the disgraced 40th District Court judge from Ellis County,

would not accept court-appointment applications from the defense

attorneys before campaign finance reports were due in the 2006

primary because he wanted to see which of his appointed lawyers

were supporting him, and which ones, if any were supporting his

opponent.

Every county has these lists. When the people get them and see

who’s on “the take,” understanding what happens in the courtroom

will become clearer. Judge Gilbert’s probably doling out hundreds

of thousands to his friends. And it’s all public record.
Court-Appointment Lists Cont’d From Page 1...

Morton’s the family line giving

Jennie the most headache. His

family is heavily involved in the

community, non-profits and civic

organizations, and has ties to

virtually every judge, politician and

police department in the county.

Anderson is originally from the

northeast Texas area (Longview),

comes from deep pockets and

creeped Jennie out with his

fetishses — three-somes (w/other

men), swinger clubs, etc.

While in the middle of a custody

battle with Tommy, Jennie met Nick

Morton, a persistent new next-door

neighbor.

Things were okay at first,

Jennie said, but quickly, Nick

Morton showed his aggressive

true colors. Jennie subsequently

ended up pregnant with Hunter,

now 3, but not before Nick

used his connections in law

enforcement, the courts and

Montgomery County politics

to prune her into spending

more than $190,000 over the

past three years fighting him in

court. Jennie has been in court

a total of six years fighting two

battles with two exes.

Aside from the constant

harassment, stalking and

verified doctor’s reports that

attest to Jennie’s worries and

fears that her ex (Nick) is

following her, no one listens in

Montgomery County.

State BAR Complaint

Jennie recently turned over

audio recordings of Morton

threatening to kill her numerous

times in a 500-document state

BAR complaint against

attorney

Judge
Kent Shriver andTracy Gilbert. Shriver
was paid more than $186,000

in five years and would not

get a protective order for her

against Morton, she said.

Morton’s complaints

against Montgomery County’s

most powerful public officials

have the feel of a giant

wrecking ball aiming straight

for the evil.

Law enforcement,

meanwhile, won’t pursue

stalking, harassment or

terroristic threat charges on

Nick due to the Morton family

taking them on hunting trips.

(for conspiracy theorists: yes,

the Mortons are Freemasons,

and those ruining Jennie’s life

are as well.)

Not only that, but clerks in

the District Clerk’s office have

been known to remove certain

records and filings from her

case file. Jennie said her and

friends -- who also report the

same thing -- have the original

pleadings and paperwork.

Morton’s links to the

corridors of “MoCo” power allow

him free reign over her life.

“He threatened to kill me

and anyone close to me,”

Jennie said in a recent in

interview in Ellis County.

none at all, but they took my

kids away. I was angry. I was

depressed, and now I’m not

depressed. It's time to get my children back!”

Judge Gilbert Wages War Against Mom Cont’d...
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JOSEPH “JOEY” G. DAUBEN
The Ellis County Observer

CONROE -- Verdicts and family-law

decisions involving child custody are routinely

“traded” in a ring of weekly poker

games involving Montgomery County

judges, law enforcement officers, lawyers

and wealthy businessmen, according to

four sources.
Jennie Morton

for a Mongtomery County office and

a participant in the weekly poker games
, Trish Shafer, a candidate
Judges, Lawyers, Cops ‘Trade Verdicts’ in Weekly Poker Games

came forward with their allegations

after a series of events and published

articles started a domino effect in the

county north of Houston.

Billed as “The Silver Bellies,”

the participants include family-law

judges, lawyers, cops, sheriff deputies,

Texas Rangers and FBI agents, as

well as some of the most prominent

people in Montgomery County, the

sources said.

“Children [in custody disputes]

are sold to the highest bidder,” said

Morton, whose story

Observer

version of which appears on the front

page.)

The participant who provided

corraborating information on The

Silver Bellies does not want to be

identified, but he alleged that the verdicts

before and after a party appears

before one of the family law judges

are in fact “traded.”

“I can tell you it goes on, as I’ve

played poker with these guys,” the

participant said. “By the time you

get to the courtroom, the decisions

have already been made.”

Montgomery County is embroiled

in a myriad of corruption

scandals, most of which occur in the

family-law and custody matters in

Kathleen Hamilton and Tracy Gilbert’s

courtrooms. Will the people

care to do something about it?
The Ellis Countyfirst published last fall (a
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Things Are

Getting Nasty

Joseph “Joey” G. Dauben
The Ellis County Observer

I’m tired of being falsely accused.That’s

why

are so important: though I can’t talk

about my criminal cases in two counties

(Navarro, Ellis), I’ve been falsely accused

repeatedly, but it’s extremely evident that

the local and state governmental agencies
The Ellis County Observer newspapers
I’ve spent 12 years fighting and exposing

want to take me out.

They’re going to have to try harder.

Not that this is easy. By no means is

it easy trying to clear your name that was

indicted by two separate grand juries,

imprisoned in two separate jails, one being

for more than three months.

And during that three-months (Dec.

19-March 22), the most damaging statements,

articles and lies were spread not by

government agents or false accusers, but

by so-called friends. I’ve been down this

road before, though, and never learned my

lesson.

Yes, I’ve turned on former editors. Why?

Because they hacked into

Observer

articles and content without my authorization.

They attempted to seize absolute

control without my permission. Ex-reporter
The Ellis County’s Web site, deleted, altered, edited
John Allen “Jay” Hoskins

in jail in 2009 for publishing a mug shot

of a cop on
had me thrownThe Ellis County Observer.
Megan Van Zelfden

articles I had written -- on her behalf.

Fussell Weatherly

beaten by her live-in boyfriend

Long

status on my Collin County newspapers. I

did it because Long conjured up a “phishing”

scam to hack my readers’ passwords

and put viruses and porn on their computers.

I’m no tech guy and I have no

idea how “phishing” works, but this

was done through

Observer

description of the bizarre program is all

in writing. But, that was dangerous, and

I had to cut the cord.
deleted a battery ofLisa, who has been routinelyDavid, didn’t like me deleting her adminThe Ellis Countyarticles somehow. Lisa’s
Then, my red flags really went up

with
John Margetis teaming up with
Brandy L. Owen
and Barbara Farris
before and after I went to jail.

What they really did was wait for

an opportune time to strike when I

could not strike back. (See Page 5)

Through these newspapers, what has

been bottled up for three months is now

starting to blast to the surface.

I’m not allowed online. People who

want to post these papers on the Web,

please don’t. Makes things worse for me.

But, I can take my hand-written

articles from jail and publish them

through issues of
The Ellis County Observer
newspaper. You cannot silence

Freedom of the Press.

And, if you don’t want to be exposed,

don’t put the screws to me and

stab me in the back. It’s that simple.

So, Brandy can allege all day long

in phone calls about having “the dirt”

on me, but she neglects to tell people

the three years of

you”

so bad”

married woman of six kids, while her

husband was cheating on her with a

stripper; can’t forget the lesbian tryst

with an ex-reporter. I just didn’t see

Brandy like that. We were friends, but

in the end, we are enemies. Owen and

this army of false accusers over the

past 12 years has made me realize that

you cannot trust anyone. It took several

examples for me to understand that.

I didn’t “turn” on anyone without

cause. These people I trusted ended up

stabbing me in the back.
“I’m in love withand “I want to give you oral sextext messages...while she’s a
The Ellis County Observer is printing

stories about a Florida-based “investigative

reporter” who offered to come

to Texas to help out several individuals

near Montgomery County, but never

came through. This story below is a

sample of others who were filled with

false hope.
PRESLEY CROWE
The Ellis County Observer

Nobody blamed Barbara Farris for

ANYTHING other than the things

she didn’t do that she PROMISED she

would.

She promised to sign documents

(and she did, but in a way that is not

presentable in court), she promised

to come to California NUMEROUS

times, nobody in CA has ever met

her, we blame her for her own actions

because THAT is all she is responsible

for. She led many people on into

believing her bullshit, THAT is what I

am blaming you for Barbara. I cannot

blame you for the judicial corruption,

but I can blame you for what you have

posted, said, promised, and alleged

and never backed up.

On March 10, 2009, dishonorable

Judge Thomas A. Smith granted full

custody of my then-5-year-old sister

Skye, to a documented pedophile. I

got a phone call from Skye’s mom saying

she was in contact with a woman,

Barbara Farris, out of Florida who

claimed had national media contacts

and seemed to have a team of “professionals”

that would help us build our

case.

I got into contact with her and so

began the journey of heartache, lies,

and broken promises.

At the time Farris had a “company”

called Just Bee Aware. The program’s

goal was supposedly to educate not

only children but the general public

on signs of a predator and what to do

if they are being abused.
The Truth About Barbara Farris

According to her website (which

has since been taken down to my

knowledge), her “professional team”

was made up of security, cyber

security, criminal profilers and psychologists,

as well as public relations

experts.

I only saw one overplayed, brief

video of Farris on the Jane Valdez-

Mitchell Show where she was walking

up to registered sex offenders

homes and confronting them if

they had Halloween decorations up,

which is apparently breaking one of

their many restrictions.

After I started sharing my story

with Farris, Skye’s mom began planning

a protest at the California

capitol building in Sacramento titled

“A March for Judicial Reform.”

Once the planning stages began,

Farris, on both her “company” websites

and YouTube accounts, posted

“press releases” and informational

videos about the march.

She made promises to be in

California by February 1, 2011 and

she would be taking a stand at the

Capitol.

She claimed she would stay there

day and night until government

officials started not only hearing

our cases but also make a change to

protect our children!

Sounds like a marvelous woman

right? Wrong! She became “so sick”

she could no longer make it to California

by February.

So she moved her date to May 1,

2011 and she would “TAKE THE

CAPITOL” until our march on May

9.

She promised to stand there day

and night until we began to see

PROGRESS.

May was approaching quickly, and

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Want to Know Why EllisCountyObserver.com

is Down? Brandy L. Owen is Partly to Blame
This article was originally handwritten

(March 11, 2012) while

falsely imprisoned in the Navarro

County jail
JOSEPH “JOEY G. DAUBEN
The Ellis County Observer

BRANDY L. OWEN is

partly responsible for Ellis-

CountyObserver.com being

shut down.

For three months, my family

and I have waited patiently

for her to give back passwords

to
The Ellis County Observer
and my e-mail accounts that

she admitted in writing to

changing. Due to Brandy’s

failure at turning over the

passwords, my family and my

webmaster could not log in to

“renew” the hosting package

from GoDaddy.com that kept
The Ellis County Observer

archived articles online.

See, I fired Brandy L. Owen

and Curtis Butler from their

editor roles on Jan. 14 after I

was made aware of postings,

broadcasts and published

articles that were outright, vicious

lies about me after I was

imprisoned on Dec. 19 on fasle

child molestation charges.

[Note: I’ve since clarified

some of this with Curtis]

Brandy claimed the Ellis

County/District Attorney’s office

“seized the passwords and

changed them.”

This is a lie. Brandy wrote

to my family admitting she

changed them. A former family

friend, as well as a former

personal friend, I gave passwords

to Brandy so she could

keep
’sThe Ellis County Observer
up and running in my absence.

Instead, she teamed up with

John Margetis (who wrote to

me in December seeking editor

control rights, which I denied

him because he has been,

and was, not trustworthy)

and posted publicly that she

had been threatened by a CPS

investigation if she continued

helping me. She should not be

faulted for trying to protect her

kids from the “Corporation

for Protecting Satan,” but she

butchered me with outright

lies and that is what led to

her firing. Curtis Butler has

always been an embellisher (he

claimed the U.S. Navy trained

him in the Superconducting

SuperCollider tunnels), but he

really took it to the extreme

when he palled around with

Margetis and Brandy to spread

the most outrageous lies about

me. (it was originally Butler

who warned me about the lies

and deception of Margetis)
AmberHagerman.org

Brandy had the nerve to

tell my mom that the Amber

Hagerman case updates on
The Ellis County Observer

“gone.”

Well, yeah, because Brandy

refused to comply with multiple

requests and demands

to turn the passwords back

over so I could have my family

renew the hosting package to

keep
wereThe Ellis County Observer
online. Thankfully, the bulk of

the information about the case

was copied and pasted (I like

to “mirror” Web pages) on

Navarro County Observer
Theand
The Tarrant County Observer

sister sites of

Observer

thrown in jail.

AmberHagerman.org

forwarded to

Observer

page, which linked to every

article I wrote since the Feb. 8,

2011 child-porn ring bust that

led me to Amber’s killer.

I was e-mailed a news

tip on Facebook (Brandy

wouldn’t turn over access to

my Facebook profile either)

that would give the Dallas/

Fort Worth area Bill N. Fry

-- with almost a year’s worth

of investigation and publishing

of articles on The Ellis County

Observer that point conclusively

to Fry as the suspect

in Amber’s death. Ironically,

Brandy’s takeover and betrayal

came after a random reader

from New York stumbled upon

my Amber case articles...[it was

this connection that produced

a friendship that ultimately

resulted in this New York friend

wiring $5,000 to bail me out of

jail on March 22, 2012.] This New

York friend’s uncle is a Supreme

Court justice. Friends in high

places indeed.

It was also divinely ordered,

before Brandy’s mutiny, that

the Amber case updates led me

to Northern California; three

custody and abuse cases I started

investigating led me to my future

wife, who is moving to Ellis

County this month.

Again, all of the issues addressed

in this column are in

writing from Brandy L. Owen

herself, or, on audio recordings

at the NCSO jail. My family read

over the phone in several visitations

what Brandy was posting --

using screen names she admitted

in writing to creating and using.
,The Ellis CountyI launched before beingThe Ellis County’s Amber case updates
Seizing EllisCountyObserver.com

What has compounded the

problem of Brandy refusing to

turn over passwords and access

is the fact the State, or locally, the

Ellis County DA and Red Oak

Police Department, are attempting

to seize [publisher’s note: the

State seized the Web site April 20,

after the Jan. 19 indictment for

publishing photos of documents]

EllisCountyObserver.com. In my

letter to the DA’s office, which is

now a matter of public record, I

told them about Brandy, Curtis

and John Margetis’ three-month

campaign to deny me and my

family access to

Observer

semblance of a defense against

the property forfeiture. So, the

official, public, court record now

mentions and details Brandy’s

“team effort” of betrayal.

Don’t spend the 30 pieces of

silver all in one place, Brandy.
The Ellis Countyin which to mount some
John Margetis

In countless letters and mailed

“public statements” to my family

to post publicly on Facebook, I

had serious reservations about

John Margetis. In fact, my suspi-

Continued on Page 6

soon we started hearing less and less from Barbara.

It was the day of march and Barbara Farris was no

where to be found.

She disappeared and weeks later she resurfaced

claiming a nearly fatal sickness that left her in the

hospital for days on end...

Later that summer, Barbara Farris resurfaced.

From there on out she made promises and statements

that seemed to grow even more outrageous

by the day!

She told me that was going to come to California

to work on cases she was “investigating.”

She promised she was in communication with

“MAJOR NATIONAL NEWS” organizations.

She was caught in lies on MULTIPLE OCCASIONS,

not only in regards to my sisters case, but a

similar case out of Placer County, Calif.

She allegedly had photos of my sister being

raped by not only our abusive father, but also Sgt.

Powers who has assigned to investigate our case, as

well as high government officials.

Recently, she hosted a radio show with her

co-host (and former editor of

Observer

future articles.)

The show was a blatant attack on not only

myself (Presley Crowe) but also Connie Bedwell

(of SaveAaliyah.com), Amy Charron (a protective

mom from Houston whose child was taken from

her by the corrup courts), and Joey Dauben. I will

go into further detail in all my postings on all the

cases listed above, except for Joey’s.

All are welcome to send their own horror stories

involving Barbara Farris, con-artist and pathological

liar.

If you have any additional information you feel

needs to be made public, post it and feel free to

contact me via email or Facebook if you want it

placed in the About section of “The Truth About

Barbara Farris” page.

Like I said, articles are in the works. I will be

posting info about her criminal background, etc. as

soon as possible!

-Presley Crowe

saveourskye@gmail.com

www.the-truth-stands.blogspot.com
The Ellis County) Brandy L. Owen (who I will discuss in
The Truth About

Barbara Farris Cont’d...

Grandma: I Didn’t Trust Brandy

The 81-year-old grandmother of this paper’s publisher

said she has never trusted Brandy L. Owen.

“There was something about her the first day I met

her, but I only tolerated her because of [my grandson,”

said Margaret Hackler. “She called at midnight [when

Joey was arrested] wanting his computer and property.

I said you’ll have to talk to his mom. Then she said she

would ask his sister, and I said, no, his mom has that

authority. She didn’t like that at all.”

Owen, an ex-editor, told many people privately after

the publisher’s arrest last year that she was “taking

control” of
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cions were first raised when him and

his 81-year-old mother burst on the

Ellis County political scene in during

the April primary run-off race for

40th District Court in 2010. No one

had even heard of the Margetis’ until

that run-off when John and his mother

Mickey stood with their brightly

colored “Bob Carroll is a crook” signs.

Despite the early criticism of the

Midlothian bankruptcy family (they

have been in Dallas federal bankruptcy

court since 1996) by my readers and

the public, I wanted to know for myself

mroe about Margetis, so I spent more

than a year interviewing, protesting

with, and mentally documenting the

numerous questionable statements and

cases Margetis had against Carroll and

his various judicial enemies. Much, if

nto all, of what Margetis has claimed,

spoken and lied about on camera, on

air and in print has not come to pass.

When I was thrown in jail, Margetis

was the first to visit and he wanted control

of

followed the visit with a letter seeking

editor rights; he was denied because in

late November 2011, Waxahachie resident

Linda Lewis had some things to

say about Margetis not coming through

on all sorts of promises he made to

her. She exposed this on air. Margetis

was also on air. It was a confirmation

of dreams I had that Linda had also

experienced. Even before Margetis’

publicized con game was thrust on the

Ellis County political scene, I was told

in several conversations that unnamed

defense lawyers were going to put out

all the “dirt” on Bob Carroll that was

out there if he ran for the 40th District

Court. Margetis has repeatedly denied

being “hired” or paid by anyone to do

his public relations damage. I didn’t buy

that then, and I don’t buy that line now.

Then, in early January, Margetis

teamed up with flash-in-the-pan,

fly-by-night “investigative reporter”

Barbara Farris. Barbara told my parents

in January she was coming to Texas

with two main subjects in the Califor-
The Ellis County Observer. He
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nia cases I had been investigating.

In one of several visits by Margetis,

I told him of these Texas trip plans,

and Margetis quickly replied, “

I know.

an online reputation for uncovering

sex crimes in high places; she had

the nerve to talk down about Alex

Jones and Infowars.com on one of

my radio programs [FOTPRadio.

com], but it was Infowars.com that

linked to Farris’ multi-part series

of sex crimes that drove 75 percent

of

traffic for two straight days. Farris

has since disappeared from online

(the Farris trip never materialized,

but in February, I would meet my

future wife, who did come to Texas

to visit twice without Farris.)
oh” [emphasis his] Farris hadThe Ellis County Observer’s
Jeff Baron Case

Margetis also teamed up with my

former Internet company business

partner. My two Internet companies

-- Texas International Property

Associates and Privacy Protection

Services -- were mere “front companies”

to shield Baron’s Ondova Limited

from lawsuits and to keep Baron’s

name out of headlines. Baron

was the computer programmer that

wrote the program to mass-register

dot-com names -- 700,000 of which

my two companies managed (in

two separate portfolios.) I had no

control over these dot-com names;

I merely managed two portfolios

and kept Baron from testifying in

court. I thoroughly enjoyed the

courtroom experience and having a

monthly check for basically getting

sued and suing companies (or, in

the 2009 Dallas County case, suing

the British royal government), but

Margetis spread the most outrageous

rumors, which his minions

Brandy and Curtis helped parrot. I

know Margetis was the originator of

the rumors because two days after a

rare January Friday night visit. My

mom came to visit and asked about

what she had heard from John

Margetis. My book (“

the Press

of these rumors; but many people

have written to me telling what

the latest accusation on the street

was. Brandy also wrote to me in

jail to “cool off” on going after

Margetis. This came after another

columnist posted an article I had

written titled “Time to Expose

John Margetis,” only to have it

deleted; that columnist was also

banned by Brandy without my

authorization.

It should be noted that I have

sit in countless visitations with

family and friends restraining

a desire average people would

possess to “get even” with Brandy

Owen. Quite the opposite, I

have written and spoken of my

patience and mercy to give her

enough time to turn back over

my passwords, which as of this

column on Sunday, March 11,

still have not been turned back

over. Brandy posts under various

screen names (“Lori Lee,” “B”)

confused as to my “threats” of legal

action. For the record, I have

only sent her one more letter

notifying her of “network intrusion,”

which is the legal terminology

for “hacking.” She claims

not to understand all of these

“threats.” Well, for three months

now, I’ve been locked up and

unable to defend myself against

people I considered friends and

colleagues, who still have access

to my passwords to be able to do

what they want...these threats of

filing a police report are and have

been subdued because (as I have

written and spoken) I did not

want to risk Brandy going to jail

and her children being seized by

CPS. My theory is that Brandy

can’t give the passwords back

due to her giving them to either

Margetis, Farris or Collin County

resident Megan Van Zelfden, my

second lesson in not trustnig people

enough to give them editor access.
Freedom of”) will have the full list
Megan Van Zelfden

Megan Van Zelfden publishes

“The Ellis County Observer Sucks

Blog” and “Occupy Collin County.”

She openly threatened to hack

Ellis County Observer

inflicted much of her damage when

she deleted numerous articles on The

Ellis County Observer without my

authorization or permission. Brandy

posted most of her lie-filled material

on Megan’s blog. After my letter in

January about a three-day ultimatum

to hand back over my passwords,

I alluded to the bald-faced lies she

posted on Megan’s blog. Shortly after,

those lies were magically deleted.

Now days, Brandy’s

Times

defense. She probably figures people

will forget what she, John Margetis,

Curtis Butler, Barbara Farris engaged

in for months as I was locked up with

no way to defend myself. The false

accusations that put me in jail were

overshadowed by the lies that my

former friends spread. Brandy posted

that I admitted to “everything.” She is

and was a liar, just like Margetis, just

like Curtis Butler. She should be a

real woman and admit she lied about

me. Her lies and association with

demons to engage in what she did

kept the Amber Hagerman case updates

from remaining online; it also

severely damaged my family’s efforts

to raise money through PayPal for

my legal defense and bail. The PayPal

button (a special thanks to those who

have contributed) was located on the

sidebar of

I’m thankful these efforts occurred

after I was able to meet my

future sould mate, though, without

the Amber case, my New York friend

and I would have not crossed paths,

and I would not have had money for

my freedom. “Brandy Van Hoskins”

contributed to, and had help from, an

effort to kick me while I was down.
The. She laterEllis Countyblog is back sounding myThe Ellis County Observer.
The Information I Have Been Sitting On for More Than a Year

For more than a year, T

County Observer

information provided by a source

that alleges some of the most

prominent political and business

people in Ellis County of trading

child pornography. The evidence,

my source has knowledge

of, was compiled by her exhusband,

a prominent lawyer

who also is an expert forensic

computer technician.

The lawyer, she said, withheld

material on several hard

drives of the most prominent

business people in

Waxahachie and elsewhere.

He has not released it publicly,

my source said.

This lawyer was also

no-billed last year in a child

molestation case. If proved to be
he Ellishas withheld
true, this would be the confirma

of eight years worth of telling

friends, family and co-workers

that I knew a massive child-porn

ring was in Ellis County, and that I

would be the one to expose it.
tion
“Exposing the Unfruitful Works of Darkness.” Ephesians 5:11
7
restricting her visitation. It started like

this:

Text messages between Shafer

and her father-in-law were presented

before a jury that showed Shafer

discussing “kicking” her ex-husband.

After paying $4,000 to attorney

James “Jimmy” Jones to present the

full context of the text messages, he

did the opposite. In exhibits Shafer

was presented before 418th District

Court Judge Tracy Gilbert’s jury, the

text messages did not encompass

the entire conversation: that Shafer

kicked her ex-husband out of the

house, not a physical “kick.”

Blindsided, Shafer couldn’t

believe her attorney revealed only

select pages of text messages. She

does not dispute slapping her exhusband’s

hand, but kicking him out

“didn’t mean I wanted a divorce. It

didn’t mean I physically kicked him.”

Yet, it was that ruse that allowed

her ex-husband (he’s the one

that filed for divorce) to obtain a

protective order, which allowed

Shafer very limited access to her

children.

Though her ex-husband agreed to

letting her have visitation three days

a week, his high-profile attorney,

Grady James, argued that that would

no longer be acceptable.

That’s despite Gilbert ordering

the three-day visitation schedule that

Shafer and her ex agreed to.

Shafer’s $4,000 lawyer was no

match for her ex-husband’s $31,000

payment to James in four months’

worth of work.

Even before the temporary

hearing, her ex had already pulled

the children out of their schools

despite standing orders prohibiting

such moves.

(it might be a good time to

mention that Grady James and his

family are big backers of Gilbert’s

campaigns)

This on top of her ex-brother-inlaw

having the cops called on him

while he attempted to break in her

home while the two kids were being

babysat to get the kids. (this was

prior to any custody arrangement)

Despite getting a hand-written

promise from him that he would

return the children after a Father’s

Day weekend, Shafer said she

was not allowed to see her kids

for more than 10 days, because

when she dropped them off

for his Father’s Day weekend,

it coincided with a protective

order that was issued.

“I didn’t know what hit me,”

Shafer said.
Uncle’s Death

In 2003, Shafer’s

uncle, James Mitchell, was

incarcerated in the Montgomery

County jail.

In an event that would later

be thrown out of court in the

form of a wrongful death and

excessive force suit, evidence

pointed strongly to deputies

killing Mitchell deliberately.

Much to her surprise in her

future custody trial, the lawyer

who successfully argued for the

dismissal of the Mitchell death

lawsuit, J.D. Lambright, was

sitting in the audience.

Judge Gilbert asked

Lambright what he was doing,

and the lawyer -- who is

running for county attorney in

the May 29 GOP primary --

replied, “I am commentating.”

Legal Troubles

After her family court torture

of having her children taken

from her, Shafer got caught up

in two separate DWI cases.

Though she admits the

cases are costing her dearly,

she takes responsibility for

them in the middle of her

turmoil in family court.

“That’s 100 percent my

doing,” she said. “And I’m

paying dearly for those.”

However, whether that

should affect her seeing her

children and being constantly

harassed, stalked and

contacted by anonymous

individuals who know the

intricate details of her cases

while no one else does, that

remains the question.

“The [district attorney]

won’t investigate, refuses

to investigate, constant

harassment,” she said.

Shafer points out that at

the time of her divorce or

custody hearings, she had

none of the DWI or current

legal issues that result in

her reporting to a probation

office often.

In what Shafer said

could be retaliation for filing

numerous complaints and

grievances in the past on

Gilbert, James and other

officers of the Montgomery

County judiciary, she was

told to report to the probation

office for a routine drug

test on a Saturday, despite

the fact the office is closed

during the weekends.

The DA sought to have

her bond for the DWIs

revoked.

To get her in cuffs, one

of Gilbert’s clerks called her

one day asking her to come

to the courtroom so they

could “help” with one of her

cases.

Skeptical, Shafer said

she had to work and couldn’t

make it in that day. But the

clerk persisted.

When Shafer agreed

to come into Gilbert’s

courtroom, a woman led her

to the jury room where police

awaited her. They arrested

her on the spot.

Montgomery County

officials later set a $10,000

bond on her DWI arrest,

despite her already having

been bonded out on that

same charge.

Shafer believes the protective

order was used by her exhusband

in an underhanded

attempt to gain custody of her

children.

During a recent court hearing,

officials asked her about an

e-mail she distributed that talked

about her untimely death, and her

stance against suicide.

“Don’t you think you’re a little

paranoid,” one lawyer asked her.

Shafer responded with a

summary of a fight she has waged

against the Montgomery County

officials who “killed my uncle in

the county jail.”

They reacted with stone-cold

silence, she said.

Still, Shafer refuses to give up

hope and, with nothing left to lose,

continues to fight for her children.

“I don’t care how bad it gets,

how tough it is, what they try to do

to me, I am going to fight for my

children every single day,” Shafer

said. “What more do I have to

lose? They’ve taken my children. I

can’t give up.”

Publisher’s Note: This is an

excerpt from a wide-ranging

interview with Shafer. If the

popularity of this newspaper in

Montgomery County warrants it, a

full-version of the Shafer interview

will be published.

Due to current legal restrictions

on the publisher, it is advised

that readers make copies and

distribute the paper free of charge

rather than post the contents

online.

Trish Shafer Won’t Stop Fighting Cont’d From Page 1...
“Exposing the Unfruitful Works of Darkness.” Ephesians 5:11
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This is

Houston-area edition, but if the

popularity warrants the printing of

another issue, then I am confident readers

can help make it happen

charges $200 for 700 copies.)
The Ellis County Observer’s(my print shop
Due to restrictive Internet bans the

State of Texas has placed on me, I’m

unable to get online, check e-mail, etc.

So, I did this paper, as well as the two

issues before it, the “old fashioned” way:

notepads, pens, phone calls and one-onone

interviews.

This eight-page “guerilla” issue is

designed to do two things: be easily

Xeroxed and distributed before the May

29 election, and ignite a populace in the

Houston area to the child-trading, childabusing

and judicial corruption taking

place in their own back yard.

Most of the population is focused on

the presidential race, but for the past 12

years in the news business, I’ve hammered

this point home: “How can you even think

to change Washington when the worst

abuses of governmental power are taking

place at the courthouse?”

I typically get a bunch of nods, but

hardly any action.

This newspaper is the beginning of
taking action

anonymous and use your own name, but

make copies of this paper and distribute

them to friends, families, cops, lawyers,

judges and neighbors. It will cause an

uproar.

Controversy need not be a “bad thing.”

If it’s the truth, the byproduct is going to

be controversial. People will get angry and

do something about it (some will even

indict you for it, or imprison you, as they

have done to me recently), or they will

gripe and complain that I’m attacking

their favorite politician, or favorite pastor,

or favorite businessman, or whatever.

Frankly, I don’t care who I offend. If

you’re a public official allowing this

corruption to go on, you’re part of the

problem!

Don’t like it? Resign! Get lost! Stop

allowing the judicial raping of fathers,

mothers and children in motions and
. I don’t care if you’reexparte
hearings and in your weekly poker

games with cops, sheriff deputies, Texas

Rangers and feds.

Why the Houston Area?

For the past 12 years I’ve stuck to

exposing judicial corruption in the Dallas/

Fort Worth area.

And for the past eight years of my

investigative political journalism

career, I told friends, family, coworkers

and readers that I felt

strongly there was a childpornography

ring in Ellis County

(south of Dallas County) and that it

was my mission in life, my calling if

you will, to expose it and smash it

open.

On Feb. 8, 2011, on my 30th

birthday, I received an e-mail tip on

Facebook of a child-porn ring in

Ennis, which is located up I-45. It

would be that child-porn ring that

produced clues leading me to

Fry

suspect in the Jan. 13, 1996

disappearance, rape and murder of

9-year-old

we get the “Amber Alerts” system

from.

Fry’s victims and that ring were

leading me to various cases in Texas

and the country. Child-porn rings,

trafficking rackets and governmental

entities that are not only aware of

what’s taking place, but are actually

involved in it.

Montgomery County and the

surrounding area is a hotbed of just

that very thing.

Don’t believe me? Read the
Bill N., the newspaper-designatedAmber Hagerman, where
Franklin Cover-Up

former Nebraska state Sen.

DeCamp

(White House level, that’s how high

it goes) child-prostitution, childpornography

rings in Omaha.

Austin-based radio show host
, a book written byJohn. He exposes high-level
Alex Jones

government-sponsored trading of

children for sickening purposes.

Not much attention is focused

here at home, in the front and back

yards of Texas’ 254 counties. That’s

what I’m here for. I’m going after

every courthouse that engages in the

practice of openly giving children to

people, some who are child molesters

and some who are child molesters
also delves into the
and not even the biological father

the

the front page.

So, through the child-porn ring

that I broke last year, one of the cases

I stumbled across involved

Charron

Montgomery County. Her stepdad

drugged her in his dental office, as

well as other patients. When

Charron reported this, her daughter

was snatched from her and Gov.
! SeeStephanie Deathridge story onAmy, who isn’t too far from
Rick Perry

the state dental board.

Then, through Charron’s story, I

came across

Through Morton the Montgomery

County (“Mortgomery”) cases

started trickling out like a spigot.

Jennie was the pop-off valve to

scores of “MoCo” horror stories,

some of which are presented here

for the first time in print.
appointed her stepdad toJennie Morton.
Trish Shafer

of a MoCo horror story. Some of the

powers-that-be have it out for her.

Her uncle was savagely beaten in the

Montgomery County jail, and she’s

got the evidence that it was “an

inside job.” Shafer has since been at

the brunt of excessive police

harassment and the target of an

insane amount of legal troubles for

her custody battles and her efforts to

expose the sick evil in Montgomery

County.
is another example
Pete Hartman

example. The Huntsville resident

beat the stuffing out of a man he

caught molesting his daughter.

Then, oddly, Hartman is the one

indicted. What’s strange is that his

wife had an affair with a guy who is

linked to the district attorney. The

guy she had an affair with was who

also molested his daughter. The DA

handles the grand jury. Hmm.

Hartman was indicted. Hmm.

Hartman faces a legal fight. Hmm.

THere are many risks for getting

involved, don’t let anyone try to

convince you otherwise.

But, without the courage of a

select few in each county, nothing

will ever change.

This paper is just the start.

Hopefully it jump-starts a revolution

in Montgomery County and

elsewhere.

Just because some judges and

lawyers call it “custody orders”

doesn’t mean that

My goodness, the kids are being

traded right in the 418th District

Court!
is anotherisn’t trafficking.(or really, on the poker table)
My guess is that when the people

see how much money the individual

lawyers are making in courtappointments

in the 418th and the

other courts, eyes will open and a

chain-reaction of (hopefully) actionoriented

people will launch.

You know, Judge Gilbert has a lot

of nerve. Fathering a child 18 years

ago, owes back child support, gets a

judicial “brother” to wipe his

responsibility to pay the lovechild’s

mother, and then has the nerve to sit

in on others’ custody cases and

direct them how to run their lives or

treat their children.

We typically call those kinds of guys

deadbeat dads. Gilbert is a deadbeat

judge.

What, exactly, is the difference

between Gilbert and that judge from

South Texas who savagely beat his

daughter in the infamous YouTube

video? Not much.

The Houston area has been waiting

for a newspaper like this, a publication

not afraid to ignite a wildfire of political

activism.

For too long, public officials have

escaped accountability, and worse,

media scrutiny.

Not for long. This will be fun :)

Barbara Spare-Us

All of these cases aren’t without

obstacles. From indictments to

imprisonments (I was arrested in 2009

for publishing a mug shot of a cop on
The Ellis County Observer

million bond; the State of Texas seized

EllisCountyObserver.com in January

and shut it down, then banned me from

the Internet) to assaults and to

undermining by former writers and

editors, there are many obstacles in

exposing these pedophiles, crooked

judges and evil cops.
; had a $1.5
Barbara Farris

investigative reporter who claimed to

have gone to Houston to help Charron,

Hartman and others. She lied. Never

came to Texas. Ever. Gave false hope to

many mothers and fathers that she

would assist them and then stabbed

them in the back. Wouldn’t sign court

documents (and still won’t) when she

said she would and then had the gall to

accuse several of

Observer

for their loved ones’ abuse. Outrageous.

Be on the lookout for this Farris scamartist

(see Page 5 for more on her.)

The Next Issue

The popularity of this pre-election

issue should skyrocket. Why? Because

the truth sells. There’s a market for the

truth. And
is a so-calledThe Ellis County’s sources of being responsibleThe Ellis County Observer
wants to do for the state and the

individual counties what Alex Jones

does on a global scale.

With 50 newspapers and other

media properties under my belt,

nothing is going to intimidate and scare

me into taking on these crooked, evil,

demonic good ‘ol boys.

The Houston area may be humid, but

it’s time for some fresh air, and for too

long, the corruption has been

suffocating people. It’s time to stop it,

and the way to do that is to expose it.
Through this paper.

“I was the only one in this entire

case with no criminal record,
person

Are MoCo Lawyers Making 6-Figure Salaries?

Justicenow

Saturday, May 26, 2012

letter from witness of which is notarized

Friday, May 25, 2012

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