At 01:59 AM 4/30/96 +0100, Ed Carp wrote:

On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, Dr. Dimitri Vulis wrote:

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jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com> writes:

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At 04:06 AM 4/29/96 -0700, anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com wrote:

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CNN is reporting that Colby's canoe has been found on the Potomac and Colby is missing.

Don't tell me, let me guess: The guy who rented the canoe to him has suddenly retired, and has been reportedly seen going on a Park Avenue shopping spree. Right?

Jim, I don't find dumb jokes about dead people I liked particularly funny.

CNN is reporting that although the search is continuing, the authorities are presuming Colby drowned in a boating accident.

I'd like to hear more about the timeline. From a snippet I heard yesterday, he telephoned his wife and said he'd be renting a canoe. Okay, who and why did "they" visit a cabin (?) to find him? (If somebody called me from a cabin, and he had a telephone, I would not consider his failure to later answer the phone to be particularly suspicious...) And one version I heard said that the canoe was at the cabin. How often do fatal canoe accidents occur what might have been a few feet from shore? (You can't sink a modern canoe, especially a rental, because they have floats under the seats to prevent this.) We can't tell, because the information being released is so sparse. Somebody's not telling us the whole story.