5 December.95 …

                                                     5 December.95

                         LISA MCPHERSON
     Lisa McPherson, Flag public living in Clearwater, TL.,
dropped her body this evening while being taken to a hospital in
New Port Richey, FL.
     Lisa had been staying at the Fort Harrison Hotel at 210
South Fort Harrison Avenue after having gone into a psychotic,
break on the 3 8 th of November,, 1995. She had a room in on® of
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the back cabanas, #174. She had attendants with her The
purpose for having the attendants with her was 'to ensure her
safety; to keep her from hurting herself and others and to
provide her with basics such food, rest and hygiene and to assist
bar to come out of the psychotic break.
     This evening whan Janis Johnson examined Lisa she noticed
bruises on her body that were not healing as brusies normally
would which she recognised as a sign of a more severe infection.
She called Dr. Minkoff (David) seeking his advice. He advised
that Lisa be taken to the hospital for treatment. M a i n
explained to Dr. Minkoff the concern ha bad with this which is
that she did not want to end up in psych hands. Dr. Minkoff than
said that Lisa should be taken to his hospital in New Port
Richey, She was immediately taken, but on the way to the
hospital she got worse and died at the hospital. Driver was
Janice Johnson and accompanying her was Laura Arrunada, MLO staff.
     An autopsy will be dona to officially determine tha cause of
death,
     BACKGROUND
      Lisa started Scientology services in 1982 (July)in Dallas,
Texas.. The first Flag service she did was the Keeping
Scientology Working Course in June 1983. Lisa did her lower
Bridge at the Southwest Mission in Dallas, TX. She came to Flag
in 1986 for her CCRD in 1986 but did not attest to tha state of
Clear until September, 1995.
     Lisa was a staff member in the Southwest Mission in 1984 but
it is not known at this time for how long sh® was a staff member
there*
     There is a note that Lisa bad joined the Sea org in 1989 but
did not stay very long (under one year)
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     Specifics on Lisa'a case track are as follows
     Lisa did the Purification Rundown from 26 July 82 to 11
august 82. She has a heavy drug history. She had Life Repair
Objectives (which were quickied and done twice later), Self-
Analysis List 1, ARC Straightwire (which was left incomplete in
1983), a lot of wordclearing, ethics conditions and study
handlings throughout 1984.
     She did her Scientology Drug Rundown in 1585, though this
was quickied at the time and more had to be done on this in 1988
along with further Objectives. She also had the False Purpose
Rundown list 10-A in 85.
     In 1986 (along with her Scn Drug RD review and further
Objectives) Lisa also did a Green Form 40 (quickied) and a CCRD
which found her not Clear. Then had quickied Grade 0, quickied
Grade I and did her Grade II, including a Jo'burg.
     In Dec 86/Jan 87 she had a P T S Rundown (items were Mom, Don
and Theresa), Then she had Grade III and Grade XV (some ser facs
not run as ser facs). This was followed by a large amount of
wordclearing, Falsa Data stripping and O/W writ© up© up to the

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and of 1987.
     In as 88 she had study handlings and ethics handling.
     She. did no auditing in 1989 and 1990.
    in 1991 she got an HCO sec Check for leaving staff. ,
     In May 1991 Lisa came to Flag and wanted to & CCRD. She
received a PTS correction List, PTS C/S l, PTS Interview, Dynamic
Sort out Assessment (old vsrsion) and then did the CCRD. (She
felt she'd gone Clear last life time.) The CCRD found her not to
be Clear. Also in 1991, Lisa her KTL Clay Table Processing.
     In 1992 Lisa was sick and roller costering constantly
despite having done her PTS Rundown, She then did a long assist
program.
     Lisa completed KTL and and LOC in 1993 and than did her
whole NED pgm and attested to NED Case completion. She want
Clear at that point but this was not recognized at the time
Also in 1993 Lisa got Wordclearing Method 1 (very quickied and
got another Green Form 40 done (again quickied)
     In 1994 Lisa did L11 in June 1994, Lisa got LX Lists and
another Green Form 40 was attempted and dropped. She is then put
onto Expanded Grades. She got through her ARC Straightwire and
part of Grade 0, gets an Int handling and gets her PTS Rundown
flattened (items were Sandy, Porter, Dad, Carla Davis, and Kurt
Payne). Then Grade 0 and Gra de 1 were completed and Lisa got
started onto 1-12 which she completed in Feb 95.
     In June 1995 Lisa caved in and actually went into a spin
(psychotic break). She stayed in the spin despite attempts to
handle. Finally, she was gotten out of the spin, completed hers
review and attested to the state of Clear. This was 7 September
1995.
     Since then, up until her psychotic break on 18 November 1995
she had done several ethics handlings at her work, AMC
Publishing, owned and operated by David and Bennetta Slaughter in
Clearwater. She had been writing O/Ws for weeks 'and was acting
strangely the last couple of days prior to her break which was
not reported to Flag.
     On the 18th Bennetta had driven Lisa to where her car was
parked, dropped her off there and expected her to meet her at
Bennetta's home. On the way to Lisa's car, which was parked at
AMC Publishing, they drove past an automobile accident which was
located 1 1/2 blocks away from the office and Lisa's car. The
police were there, the paramedics, etc. What appears to have
happened after Bennetta dropped Lisa off at her car is as
follows:

     As Lisa was approaching the accident in her car leaving the
office, she herself had an accident. She ran into the back end
of a boat which was being towed by a vehicle. The motor of the
boat came loose from the boat and some damage was incurred to the
other party by Lisa. She and the other party exchanged
information (names and phone numbers) so that matters could be
handled by the respective insurance companies. According to the
other party who later called Lisa's apartment looking for her)
there was a question as to whether or not Lisa had insurance to
cover the damage to his motor. The other party then left the
scene and it was after that Lisa went into her psychotic break.
She stripped off her clothes in front of them and was walking near
the scene of the other accident. They gained control of her and
had one of the paramedics there take her Morton Plant Hospital,

     From Morton Plant Hospital Lisa phoned the Slaughter

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residence. Bennetta was not there as she'd gone out to look for
Lisa worried because she had not shown up at her bouse. David
Slaughter and a Scientologist living in their home, Mary DeMoss
went over to Morton Plant Hospital to help Lisa. They had no
idea at the time what had occurred earlier at the scene of the
two accidents. An OT VIII chiropractor in Clearwatar also went
to the hospital, Jeanne Dekaiper. DeMoss contacted OSA Flag
with the data about the psych break and that Lisa was in the
emergency room with the threat of getting committed.
     Prediction I/C and Social Reform Off went to the hospital as
well as the Snr C/S/ FSO, 'Alain Kartuzinsky: Two of the MLOs
also arrived shortly afterward. They were Judy Goldaberry~Weber
and Emma Shamehorn. The doctor on duty was r-factored that it
was against Lisa's beliefs to speak to any psychiatrists and that
this was highly unacceptable (to send one to see her). Lisa
was in one of the back rooms at the time, along with Mary and
Jeanne. Alain was gotten back there to see her.
     A psych nurse was sent to examine Lisa as opposed to a
psychiatrist. Lisa assured him that she was OK and would not
hurt herself nor anybody else. She was fairly lucid at the time
He adjudicated that Lisa could be released into the care of Judy
Goldsberry-Weber who the hospital staff and duty doctor are
familiar with. They know she takes care of the Church of
Scientology staff and parishioners who go to the hospital*
     Lisa was than taken to the Fort Harrison and was set up in
Cabana #174. Susan Schurenberger stayed with her. (Susan had
stayed with Lisa whan she was in earlier spin in Aug 95.)
     During her stay in the cabana Lisa did not improve except
for after having been givan aspirin or sedatives. She was
regularly violent with the girls staying with her*
     This evening, she was examined by Janis Johnson (MLO). She
contacted Dr. Minkoff who advised taking Lisa to the hospital.
Current data from Dr. Minkoff is that it appears Lisa's body was
overwhelmed by a sudden infection which might have been
menegitis. The virus could have taken its effect on the body in
as little as 8 -10 hours. The autopsy will be done tomorrow.

                                       Much love,
                                       Prediction I/C
                                       OSA Flag




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DEBRIEF OF CALL TO DR. DAVID MINKOFF RE LISA MCPHERSON:


     Tonight I spoke to Dr. David Minkoff regarding Lisa
Mcpherson. Minkoff is an OT 8 who is an MD and he works at the
Hew Port Richey hospital, outside of CW.
     I asked him to relate to me what had happened and he told me
the following.
     He said that tonight about 7:30 - 7:45 PH he received a call
from Janice Johnson, the MLO FSO.
     Janice said that she had seen Lisa McPherson, who was staying
in one of the cabanas at the Fort Harrison, and that Lisa looked
very sick. Janice said it looked like Lisa had a bad infection
and wanted to know if she should be given antibiotics.
     Minkoff .told Janice that it was better to get her to the
hospital and that she should bring Lisa in to see him.
     Janice took Lisa and two staff (the SSO and an assistant
from her MLO office) with her and drove to the Mew Port Richey
hospital, about 45 minutes away.
     When they arrived at the hospital, Lisa was brought back to
the Emergency room where Minkoff was working.
     Minkoff said that he looked at her and he could see that she
was dead.
     He said that Janice Johnson stated that Lisa had been gasping
and had labored breathing, enroute.
     They worked on her for about 20 minutes trying to resusitate
her, giving her CPR and antibiotics, but to no avail.
     He said that it appeared that she had been overwhelmed by an
infection, one which she could not fight off.
     He said that it appeared to him as if there had been some
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     He said that she had marks on her which may be due to the
infection, where the infection discolors the flesh under the skin.
There was bruises on her hands and feet he said.
     He said that he thinks that she may have had meningitis,
which Is an infectious disease.
     He stated that even if she had been brought to another
hospital in the area (ie closer to the FH), he felt she still
would have died.
     Janice Johnson was spoken to by the hospital staff but did
not know Lisa's address, phone number, next of kin, Social
Security number, etc and explained that she had just been the one
to drive Lisa to the hospital and had forgotten to grab Lisa's
purse with her ID etc as she was in a hurry.
     Minkoff spoke to terminals at the FSO by phone and was given
the address and phone number of Lisa.
     Minkoff spoke to the Nursing Manager at the hospital, and she
tried calling the phone number of Lisa'6 apartment in CW (to
get her roommate to get data on Lisa) but that there was no
answer.
     Minkoff said that it is routine in matters such as these,
where a patient dies quickly when coming to the hospital, that it
becomes a Coroner's case. He said that starting tomorrow (Wed) a
Coroner will ask questions about the case, and basically will just
want to get things answered for himself - what happened, how did
she get sick, etc. He said that the Coroner, once through, will
sign the death cert.
      He said that there will be blood tests done Wed.
     He said that since this might be an infectious disease, he
will ensure we get notified tomorrow as soon as he knows, as to
what disease it was and then we should take precautions that
whoever on the Base was in contact with Lisa should get
antibiotics.
     Minkoff is going to contact us first thing Wed as soon as he
hears any data from the coroner and from Lisa's blood tests re
this infection.
ML,   CO OSA FLAG
Heather Hoff -
     starter staying with Lisa l week ago Wednesday. She started
at 400pm and was on flat out till 1:30pm on thursday. While
Heather was with her Lisa vas not vilent, she tried to trip
heather a couple of times but no other real aggression. She ate
some food and took some vitamins at the time. She was very
active at the time and was moving around the room a lot.
     Heather was then off and the next day While the the Sir RAP
and Dir I & It were with her Lisa became very violent. Heather
was called back over as Lisa had not been violent when she vas
there. Once Heather arrived the Dentist was there and got 0 - 1 2
asprin down her throat. Also possibly got her to take benadrii (a
sleeping pill)
     Heather was then off until 3 days ago when she was put back
on. Once she returned to the room she found that Lisa was pale,
weak and slept more. Per heather Lisa has not been active in the
last 3 days.
     During the last 2 days Heather attempted to give her food.
Sometimes she would eat and sometimes she would just spit it out.
     Per Heather she also had a lot of bruises on her legs, feet,
arms, etc from kicking things hitting the walls etc.
     Today, most of the day Lisa was in bed to saying anything or
not moving, she was breathing. She was given a bath.
     heather left to go to dinner when Laura arrived. Laura said
Lisa looked sick and should go to the doctors.
Rita Edwards (Boykin)
     Rita was first on the watch Sunday/Monday 26 and 27 th of
November. At that time Lisa was extremely agitated and active.
She was combative with the other girls staying with her and vquld
ramble on about things, occasionally threatening to attack them.
     Rita was then off for a few days, and then came back onto it
last Thursday, 30 Nov. At that time she noticed that Lisa vas
not walking around much and sat on the bed quite a bit. She
reported that she was weak and not eating much at all. Couple of
days ago she seemed to be doing better. However the last 24 hours
she has noticeably dropped wieght.
     Last 24 hours Lisa had a swollen jaw on the left side of the
face and when attempting to feed her comlained about paid in the
throat. Rita did administer magnesium shots to Lisa including
today.
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Lesly Woodcraft -
     Was with Lisa for 1 night, two weeks ago on 24 November. She
said that Lisa was extremely aggitated and moved around the room
a lot. She got aggitated a couple of times while Lesly was. there
and slapped Janis Johnson several times through out the night.
She did not sleep that night, she was very non-coherent and
would chatter continuously while she was there. She also spent a
lot of time in the bathroom turning the water on and off and
banging the shower hose around. She then got herself drenched and
sprayed water all over the room. Floor got wet. At this point
once Joan arrived Lesly went out to get dry clothes for Lisa.
Joan Stevens -
     She was also with Lisa for one day the same day and came in
to replace Lesly. When she got there, Lisa was awake and
agitated, she became more agitated and became violent towards
Joan, Poking her in the eye and attempting to do it several
times. She then attacked Joan with a potted plant in the room,
which they took away from her. She then started to hit at things
in the room and broke a lamp hanging from the ceiling. There vas
then glass all over the floor. She then became more and more
violent and broke more glass in the bathroom.   She then went and
got back on her bed and then jumped off landed on the wet floor
and then hit her head on the floor. She then attempted to hit her
head again on the floor which the watch prevented her from doing.
At this point security was called in and she was gotten onto her
bed and the room was cleared, all towel bars, hair dryers,
glasses etc were removed. The room was then cleaned up.

Barbro Wenberg
     Came in at the tail end of the above. She also was also with
Lisa for one day. Nothing more happened once she was there other
than Lisa being aggitated.
Patricia Stracener
     Was with Lisa for one night 1 December from 10:00pm to 300
amWhen Patricia arrived Lisa was asleep. Patricia started to
clean the room, Lisa then woke up and started to become aggitated
came up and slapped Patty several times. Patty would push her
arms back down to her side. She was very incoherent and rambling
on. Lisa then got sick and vomited. Patty got scared so she
called in security who said that it was fine. They cleaned it
up. Per Patty Lisa was always moving around.
Kenya Smyth -
     Was with Lisa for 2 nights, 24th of Nov. First night she
arrived Lisa was very agitated and Kenya helped calm her down.
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and then Lisa fell asleep. She then slept for 8 hours. The next
night when Kenya arrived, Lisa was babling on a lot and talking
and was very agitated. She moved around the room a lot. Later
Hiede Sesary arrived, another watch member, to replace Valerie
Demange. She was not as good with Lisa so Kenya got Valerie back
into the room.
Valerie Demange --
     Was with Lisa for a few days within about 3 days of Lisa's
arrival. Lisa was very aggitated at the time and moved around
lot. Valreie was then off for a 2 days and then put back on, when
she got back she noticed that Lisa looked very tired and had only
been getting 3 - 5 hours of sleep per night. She was taking
Vitamins and protein drink.
Laura Arrunada - MLO Asst.
     Laura started with Lisa two weeks ago. Lisa at this time
was very stirng and fighting all the time, walking, talking,
cleaning the walls, sticking her hands in her mouth alot. THere
were 3 staff with Lisa. Lisa was with Silvia at first and later
with Valerie and then with Rita. The first week she was still
very strong and kicking and fighting.
     Lisa was eating at some times and other times was putting
the food on the floor. SHe was eating bits at a time. The girls
helped her to eat and drink and tried to help her keep eating by
offering it to her.
     Laura was off for 5 days and then started again last
Saturday. Lisa was less strong and sitting and walking more. She
was sitting and laying on the floor, rolling around, walking and
talking non-sequitor That day she got a magnesium shot and she
slept and the next day she was better and not talking non-
sequitor. She was only drinking protein shakes and not eating
much solid foods. She was then two days looking better and was
sleeping this week and talking to Laura at times in PT and
watching her. Then two days later - yesterday she was refusing
the protein shake and when Laura arrived today she was looking
bad, she was not moving her body. Laura took her to give her a
shower. After the shower she was sleeping. Laura was watching
her to see that her expiratory range was OK. Her respiratory
range and pulse was OK. Laura told Janis, that Lisa was not
eating and maybe needed an IV. Janis came to see her and saw she
was looking bad. Today her skin color changed to ivory color
and looked septic. Janis called the SNR C/S Office and called to
Dr Minkoff to get Ok to bring Lisa there to the hospital. Two.
days ago Lisa was helping to put her clothes on and then
deteriorated in the last 24 hours very badly. IT was when Laura
arrived today that she noticed her doing bad.
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     Lisa had been sleeping better for the last 3 nights so .had
not been given any chloral hydrate in the last 3 days. £He was
being given magnesium injections however.
Janis Johnson -- MLO
     Lisa arrived at the FH on 18 Nov, after being gotten out of
Morton Plant. Suzanne Schuremberger stayed with her the first
weekend. Lisa was agitated and got violent with Suzanne over the
weekend. Janis also knows that Lisa got violent with other
people who were staying with her (including Janis) · People were
staying with Lisa to make sure she did not hurt herself and that
she ate and slept. Lisa thought Janis was a psych and would get
very enturbulated and violent when Janis came to check on her, so
Janis would just check with the people staying with Lisa how she
was doing. Janis got Lisa herbs and chloral hydrate to help her
sleep, which she was starting to do the last 3 days, until she
got sick.
     Tonight, Janis was given a message when she got into the
office at 7:00PM that Laura needed her. She went to the cabana
and saw that Lisa was septic and had bruises on her body which
looked like they were from and infection and were not healing
properly. Laura said she had looked like that when she first saw
her today at 5PM. She ran and talked to Alain at that time and
discussed with him what they could do. They both called Dr.
Minkof f and told him that Lisa was septic and that she needed
antibiotics. He said that he would have to see Lisa before
giving her antibiotics and that they should bring her to see him
at New Port Richey hospital, but that he would only be there
until 10. Janis went and got directions to the New Port Richey
hospital from Emma and arranged for Paul Greenwood to come along
to help. She went back to the cabana and helped Laura get Lisa
ready to go. Lisa had had diarhea, so Janis helped Lisa change
her. Janis noticed that Lisa had lost a lot of weight. Janis
told Lisa they were taking her to Dr. Minkoff. Lisa acted like
she hurt everywhere, but was not hostile and acknowledged Janis
in a friendly way.
     Paul and Laura lifted Lisa into Janis' van and sat inthe
back with her. Janis drove. It took 45 minutes to get to the
hospital. At one point, janis heard Lisa's breathing get fast
and harsh for 10 - 15 seconds.and then go back down.
     When they got to the hospital Janis opened the door to the
van and saw Lisa. . She thought that she still had some
circulation from the was her skin looked. She got an orderly and
nurse to come and get her. They put her in a wheelchair. Janis
could see that Lisa's blood pressure was very low. Her skin
still had color and she thought she saw Lisa breathing. Later,
she was standing outside the emergency room where Dr. Minkoff was
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life.
     Because of the way Lisa's skin looked, Janis thinks she had
a severe infection, like meningitis. Minkoff thought the same
thing and is having a blood test done. Minkoff asked Janis why
she hadn't brought Lisa In earlier and Janis said that Xisa had
not looked this sick before today.
     The hospital staff wanted to know basic information about
Lisa, social security number, address, etc but Janis had left in
such a hurry she forgot Lisa's purse and did not know any of this
data. This had to be called in for.
Paul Greenwood:
     SSO Paul Greenwood was called tonight and told to go assist
Janis Johnson take someone to the hospital who was sick. He went
to the cabana, saw Lisa there with Laura A. Janis had gone to
get the car. When he saw Lisa she was awake, but looked very
sick and was breathing heavily. He asked Laura what they were
going to do and she said they were going to take Lisa to the
hospital. He and Laura tried to have lisa walk between them, but
she was too sick, so he carried her to the car. He sat in the
back with Lisa and Laura and Janis drove. Paul did not know
which hospital they were going to. It took about 45 minutes to
get there, on the way to the hospital, Lisa's breathing became
labored and then got fainter and fainter just before they
arrived. When they got to the New Port Richey hospital Janis
went in to get a doctor. An orderly took Lisa into the hospital
in a wheelchair. That is the last he saw her.




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