Two witnesses, a male and female who were in Fort Marcy Park shortly before Foster's body was found, told FBI agents for Fiske they saw two men in and around Foster's Honda when they arrived, according to their statements. The female told investigators she saw a man, possibly bare-chested, sitting in Foster's Honda. The male stated he saw another man with long blond hair standing near Foster's Honda with the car's hood up and the engine on. Despite those statements, Fiske, in his final report, inexplicably stated the couple saw "nothing unusual."This is why this couple [I have known their names and a lot about them for a lonnng time] was not harassed the way Knowlton was. They changed their stories (for reasons which I am sure were made quite sufficiently clear to them by Starr's people when these witnesses were re-interviewed) to one that is more compatible with the "suicide verdict."When a prosecutor for Starr's probe noted the couple's observations, agents assigned to Starr's staff re-interviewed the couple. The Tribune-Review recently reviewed those new interview statements prepared in January 1995. The male and female now state they saw no one in and around Foster's Honda. The female witness now claims not to have a clear recollection.
In contrast, Knowlton stuck to his story all the way through, telling the same thing to the Park Police (he called the U.S. Park Police about 30 hours after Foster's body was found and when he first learned of Foster's death), Fiske's FBI guys (twice -- in April and May 1994), and to the Starr grand jury looking into the Foster death (November 1995).
For a variety of reasons, the interrogators did not have the leverage over Pat Knowlton that they did over the couple referred to above (this is not to say that someone did not try quite hard to get Knowlton to change his story -- if this had happened 30 years earlier, my guess is that Pat would have met with a fatal accident within months of Foster's death).
This is serious business.
Warm regards,
Hugh Sprunt