Where did he go?

He's not at the Porter County Jail.

Do a google search, you won't find a shred of evidence that he was even arrested; google appears to have been wiped clean in the 'news' section.

Expert in many fields only an expert in cons

Joe Cafasso aka Robert Stormer in his Porter County Indiana Mug Shot

From that brilliant Andy Grimm at the Post-Tribune who has come the closest of all journalists to the real story:

Robert Stormer was making quite a name for himself in Porter County.

In the few months he lived here, he settled in with a Chesterton widow and bragged of his 18 years' experience as a storm chaser, his decorated career in the military, his successful business in Chicago, his passion for volunteer work, and his connections in New York and Washington.

That's typical of his profile; he is not satisfied being who he is; he needs to be someone else!

He gave well-attended seminars on severe weather at Indiana Dunes State Park in Chesterton, seeking publicity from local newspapers for his speech. He maintained a blog. He planned to host a talk show on a Michigan City radio station.

He gave well-attended seminars on severe weather at Indiana Dunes State Park in Chesterton, seeking publicity from local newspapers for his speech. He maintained a blog. He planned to host a talk show on a Michigan City radio station.

And to those he knew better, he hinted at a darker side to his life of adventure, of the scrutiny from Washington insiders, the FBI and the CIA.

And when a conservation officer stopped him on his way out of the state park Oct. 2, Bob Stormer was the name he gave.

And it turned out Robert Stormer wasn't his name at all.

It's a good thing they found out who he was at this point; and it's a good thing Tony kept searching for his name.

Under his given name of Joseph A. Cafasso Jr., "Rob Stormer" was charged with giving a false name to police, speeding and driving with a suspended license. He didn't show up for his November court date, and was arrested in January at the Jasper County Library in Wheatfield, where he had been scheduled to give a presentation on storm chasing.

Did you get that, "fly"? GIVING A FALSE NAME TO POLICE, along with the traffic violations which Cramer said wouldn't "stick"!

So far, he has not been able to pay the $500 bond, and remains in jail awaiting trial on the false informing and traffic charges.

I'm amazed that no one has bailed him out yet! Cramer, where are you? Or what about the Johnson fellow? There are some people who--no matter what he does--they have a tremendous amount of sympathy and excuses to offer for his behavior!

Conservation officers and the Chesterton Police said they have passed their investigation of Cafasso, ostensibly a traffic stop, to the FBI.

It will be interesting to see if anything comes of it; nothing has happened in the past when people have reported about Cafasso to the FBI.  Cafasso as Lt. Col. Gerry Blackwood was passing his own information to the FBI...he was used as a source by the FBI!

The FBI would not comment on whether an investigation of Cafasso is in the works. Other than the traffic offenses, what crimes Cafasso might have committed in Northwest Indiana aren't clear.

That's the way it seems to be with him, although isn't embezzlement a crime--isn't embezzling money under a false name STILL FRAUD?

But it seems a bizarre reckoning for Cafasso, who in 2002 convinced Fox News executives that he was a retired lieutenant colonel and became a paid consultant on intelligence and military affairs for the network.

How did he do it? People who know him say it's a combination of sheer charisma -- and not just a little b.s.

You said it, ANDY!

After several months, the New York Times reported, it was revealed Cafasso's military experience amounted to 44 days in the Army in 1976. Fox fired him, and Cafasso later appeared in a documentary on the network, still claiming to be a decorated veteran and griping about Fox producers.

Of course, when he's not in control (or he is found out), he gets irritated and angry. That is when he is dangerous.

Cafasso was well on his way to winning over Department of Natural Resources staff at Dunes State Park, convincing them he was an expert on storms and marine salvage.

During his first presentation, Cafasso patched in calls with the mayor of Greensburg, Kan., whose town had been flattened by tornadoes in 2007, and a French yacht owner who had nearly died in a shipwreck in Tropical Storm Andrea, said Brad Baumgartner, a park worker who booked Cafasso for two speaking engagements.

"He was pretty good. There was nothing that he was saying that sounded like an inaccuracy," Baumgartner said. "To that time, we didn't know anything to say that he wasn't who he said he was."

Well, as discussed earlier, when questioned about his credentials he gets angry and considers it harassment. That might be a telling sign...

And who was he?

Fox officials believed Cafasso was indeed a former Special Forces officer who seemed to have connections throughout the Pentagon and on military bases across the country.

But Fox officials learned the truth-he spent only 44 days in the Army before someone figured something out-he was released as "unsuitable for service" from the Army-and for that reason and others (including his pompous attitude)- they fired him.

He met Andrea Ello, a Chesterton widow who responded to his profile on an on-line dating site. His username was "shipdude," and he posted a picture of himself wearing deep sea diving gear that obscured his face, and two photos of shipwrecks.

There are too many pictures of him out on the internet now; and there are too many people who are interested in his being caught and prosecuted. If only more of these women would come forward to declare what it is he did to them!

In his profile, he claimed to be 58-year-old "senior master salvor" from Chicago, who supervised the recovery of ships worldwide, a man with "twin engineering degrees" and an "associates in the culinary arts."

"Most importantly, and the love that I am married to is international humanitarian relief operations," the profile reads. "Yep got under my skin. Yes I like to travel maybe even with a new found love."

It makes no mention of his military experience or his work for Fox.

Well of course not! This man is not stupid! He is a consummate liar and his dating profile was a LURE!

Cafasso's passion for storm chasing also goes unmentioned, but he clearly knew a great deal about severe weather and sailing, said Jean Pierre de Lutz, the French expatriate whom Cafasso included in the conference call for his Dunes weather talk.

De Lutz and his two-man crew survived a harrowing shipwreck in the North Atlantic in 2007 aboard his boat, the Sean Seymour II, a story that was widely publicized in the sailing community both for its drama and because of equipment malfunctions that made the adventure all the more dangerous.

Unfortunately, he jumped right in to save the day - but things unraveled afterward and although he did a lot of things that were helpful, what he did afterward was completely despicable.

Reached at his home in France, de Lutz said Cafasso contacted him later in 2007, using the name Robert Stormer, and began what would become 18 months of intensive research into the wreck, which included complex forecasting simulations, flurries of correspondence with the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration, and de Lutz's team of three Orlando-based attorneys.

Yes, he has the ability to go that far with things undetected under the guise of being a do-gooder! And actually accomplishing some good things!

Cafasso's work, initially, led to changes in NOAA forecasting reports and reforms, de Lutz said. The Post-Tribune was unable to reach anyone from NOAA to confirm they had contact with Stormer or Cafasso.

It's unfortunate.  The NOAA would be somewhat embarrassed - just as it is with the FBI and other agencies he's dealt with in the past.

At any rate, Cafasso's findings took a turn to the fantastic, de Lutz said. Cafasso provided a series of e-mails that seemed to implicate senior NOAA officials and congressional leaders in a cover-up of sorts, de Lutz said. Cafasso and Ello stayed for three weeks in Orlando, hosted at the home of one of de Lutz's lawyers, as they prepared a lawsuit.

De Lutz's legal team was waiting for a key document to be released following a congressional hearing when Cafasso announced he had been called to aid a salvage crew dealing with a shipwreck off the coast of Newfoundland.

Kind of like his story about "I was in the North Sea when I got the call about Hurricane Katrina".  That was when he was using the name "Jay Cafasso" in Louisiana, if I recall.  He got caught up in the big tales he was telling to JP and had no way out except to 'disappear'.  This is his PATTERN.

Cafasso left, and soon after stopped answering calls from de Lutz and his lawyers. De Lutz believes a laptop computer belonging to Cafasso that Ello turned over to Chesterton Police will have dozens of e-mails, many of them likely faked, between Cafasso and officials with NOAA, the Coast Guard and congressional aides.

Oopsie, a little detail you left out there, Andy - that's not Cafasso's computer - that's Cramer's apple laptop which she GAVE Cafasso when he was posing as Lt. Col. Gerry Blackwood. He couldn't be pursued for theft of the laptop or the charges on her American Express card because she willingly gave them to him - but she gave him the card, thinking it was to HOLD the room-not to pay for his staying there for a month- he did all of this to Kathryn Cramer pretending to be someone that doesn't exist - and that is STILL FRAUD.  And what he did to Tony Ello's mother is fraud, too.

De Lutz admits he paid for a hotel room for Cafasso, who claimed to have lost his wallet, and that he believes Cafasso somehow got the card number and used it to make a purchase in Indiana. He also wired money to Ello on Cafasso's behalf, $1,000 Cafasso said he would use to buy a piece of meteorological equipment.

"So he got maybe $2,500 from me," de Lutz said. "And this, for 18 months of work? It doesn't make sense."

No, it doesn't! And he has repeated this act a number of times under numerous aliases!

Cafasso, Stormer and more

Cafasso has declined requests for an interview by the Post-Tribune, but he reportedly has talked to Ello, and to John Johnson, a Tucson, Ariz., minister who said he met Cafasso in the early 1990s when Jones was selling marine equipment and Cafasso was working for a marine salvage company in New York.

There is something very odd about this John Johnson in Tuscon Arizona....if it's the minister I'm thinking of, he's not out of Arizona; he's out of Lombard, Illinois...someone who acted as a surrogate mother for Cafasso and paid for his train tickets.

The two stayed in touch over the years, with Johnson gathering that Cafasso had an engineering degree and may have been in the Delta Force, an elite military unit. Johnson said he never thought to question Cafasso, who attended Johnson's wife's funeral in 1999 and has remained in occasional contact. That year, Johnson had dinner at a Washington, D.C., restaurant, with Cafasso and a man who was a retired CIA officer.

"I don't know anything about his military experience, I don't know how you confirm that," Johnson said. "But it's pretty hard to fool the CIA."

But Cafasso is not a stupid man; he has just channeled his intelligence in a very unique way.

In 2006, Jones said Cafasso was using the name "Jay" and occasionally a last name of "Black or Black-something," to avoid followers of Jonathan Idema. Idema was accused of operating an illegal prison in Afghanistan who also had apparently wildly overstated his military experience, and reportedly believes he was wronged by Cafasso.

Not according to this!  Idema had not "wildly overstated his military experience" - there is no proof of that. There IS, however, proof that Cafasso is not what he claimed to be, let's stay on the subject of Cafasso here!

In the blogosphere, where there are several sites maintained by disgruntled acquaintances devoted to tracking Cafasso's movements, he is believed to have used the aliases Jay Mosca and Gerry Blackwood, the latter a decorated military officer in the mold of Cafasso's Fox News persona.

And that's because he couldn't use his given name any longer; particularly since the New York Times article by Jim Rutenberg "At Fox News the Colonel Who Wasn't" was published.

Johnson put Cafasso in touch with a church in Mendenhall, Miss., where Cafasso would spend several weeks working with the congregation and even helping the church secure a $250,000 grant.

And Johnson also paid for his train tickets and who knows what else?

"He didn't make a dime," said Johnson. "He got roof over his head and what passed for food. And he worked incredibly hard."

For some odd reason, like Andrea Ello, Johnson is enable to see Cafasso for the fraud he is - even NOW.

But Cafasso clashed with church leaders, who eventually found the Times article and the many anti-Cafasso sites on the Internet. Cafasso left town soon after. Church leaders and Mendenhall Police Chief Bruce Barlow did not return calls from the Post-Tribune.

Now why wouldn't they be interested in information on Cafasso at this point? Are they merely relieved he has left and have closed the book? Wouldn't they want to compare notes with other agencies such as the FBI on what it is he accomplished while gallavanting across the country under numerous aliases?

Johnson said he would not hesitate to recommend Cafasso to another church, and he worries about why DNR officers seemed intent on investigating Cafasso. "Knowing the guy, I just don't want to see him get the shaft," Johnson said.

You should want to see him face justice for what he's done, though, Mr. Johnson.

Cafasso and Ello had become daily visitors to Indiana Dunes State Park, and were among the first people to the beach during an Aug. 2 drowning at Kemil Beach. Post-Tribune photographers shot pictures of Cafasso, identified as Robert Stormer, scanning the waves with others two days later.

It would be interesting to lay hands on those photographs.

Cafasso told Johnson he began barking orders to rescue crews at the beach, calling on his lengthy experience in maritime rescue opearations. Others with knowledge of the incident said Cafasso did indeed critique the rescue attempt while at the beach, and may have tried to drive off on a DNR officer's ATV.

He may have tried to drive off on a DNR officer's ATV but Johnson wouldn't like to see Cafasso get the shaft? Something is odd about this.

Cafasso didn't show up for his second scheduled storm chasing presentation in June, and was stopped for speeding on his way out of the park in August.

After giving his real name to police, Cafasso said he was using the alias to avoid the CIA and FBI.

He's afraid of something else; just as Cramer is. Don't worry Kathryn, Idema won't lay his hands on your computer now that it's in the hands of the FBI, but it's rather interesting that the real reason they're both afraid hasn't been identified by the press.

Cafasso apparently has not earned a profit much from his schemes. A few weeks in Florida here, a few months with Ello in Chesterton, highlighted by trips to the beach and a few thousand dollars from de Lutz -- and all of it earned not just on strength of his resume, but with spurts of dogged, hard work.

It's pathetic, isn't it.?

A possible explanation

If Cafasso is not, in fact, a veteran special forces officer and wealthy marine salvage expert who chases storms and aids international relief organizations as a hobby, he likely suffers from one or more personality disorders, said Valparaiso University psychology professor Jim Nelson.

"There are several different psychological paths to this sort of thing," Nelson said. "He has an anti-social personality disorder -- basically, he's a person who doesn't have a conscience, who doesn't see that what he does is hurting people, or doesn't care, rather.

"Then there is more of a delusional, psychotic disorder, if he actually believes these things he says."

He deserves to get some mental help, and I hope they have a psychiatrist examine him because he is a unique specimen, to be sure.

Indeed, most of Cafasso's cons seem to fall apart not because he gets greedy, but because can't stop pushing the lies, and struggling to dominate the people he is conning.

At Fox, he clashed with producers, in Mendenhall he crossed church leaders, at Dunes State Park, he tried to show up staffers.

Each time, his attempts to take control prompted the people he was conning to look more closely at his credentials, to question his expertise -- and of course, the personality clashes gave him an explanation for why he had to leave and why his detractors would want to expose him as a liar.

"From what I've seen of him, he's a two-bit con man, but he's capable of pulling much bigger scams.

Most certainly, which is why he deserves jail time and mental help! Hopefully he won't see the light of day as a free man until some of this is unraveled!

"There's this delirium that takes over him, but there is some intelligence behind it," said de Lutz, summarizing his experience with Cafasso.

"He did things that were incredibly good, and all of a sudden, he went off on a tangent and he's writing a novel. My guess is he lives in fantasy land."

Yes he is...but it's a fantasy land that poses severe danger to those who get close to him.

But he is not harmless, Nelson said.

"Many people aren't truthful on occasion ... but it's far different to say that someone only tells the truth occasionally, and when they do, it's probably by mistake," Nelson said. "These people are out there, and the average person is not aware of them, that there are people out there with no sense of obligation to others."

Contact Andy Grimm at 648-3073 or agrimm@post-trib.com. Comment on this story at www.post-trib.com

Overall, very nice job with this story, Andy, although I would recommend not smearing the name of Idema as a fraud until you can provide proof for what it is you're putting in print.  You might end up like Mariah Blake and Columbia University did...on the receiving end of a subpoena. Nothing has been mentioned here about Jack Idema's litigiousness. It is something people should take note of when they are using hearsay and word-of-mouth about people and then turning around and putting it into print as though it were fact.

FBI now investigating 'spy' arrested at Dunes

FBI now investigating 'spy' arrested at Dunes - Gary Post-Tribune

February 20, 2009
By Andy Grimm
Post-Tribune staff writer

An alleged con man who reportedly duped high-profile military and political figures claiming to be a counterintelligence expert and Special Forces officer now is being investigated by the FBI, local officials said Thursday.

It's relatively common knowledge that Cafasso is indeed a con artist. The long history of frauds he has pulled under numerous aliases some of which are listed in the header on this blog- rivals that of the relatively short career of Abagnale of "Catch Me If You Can" fame.

Joseph Cafasso, 52, has been in the Porter County Jail since Jan. 22, awaiting trial for failing to appear in court on charges of speeding and giving a false name to police investigators after he was pulled over in the Indiana Dunes State Park in October.

Conservation officers declined to comment Thursday on Cafasso, stating his case had been referred to the FBI for further investigation. FBI officials declined to say if they are investigating Cafasso.

And I doubt if they will ever make a statement regarding their "friend" and "stool pigeon".

According to an April 29, 2002, report in the New York Times, Cafasso claimed to be a well-connected spy who had a high-rank career in the Special Forces. Alleged victims included the Fox News network, Pat Buchanan's presidential campaign and "several representatives, military officials and activists to whom he had sold himself for years," the Times reported.

Cafasso also appeared as a military and counterterrorism expert during Fox's coverage of the invasion of Afghanistan, even though military records show that his total military experience was 44 days of boot camp at Fort Dix, N.J., in 1976.

Cafasso reportedly had been living for several months with a Chesterton woman whom he met on an Internet dating Web site, where he posted his identity as "Robert Stormer." That also was the name Cafasso initially gave to Conservation Officer Robert Kauffmann, as well as a false Social Security number, before admitting his real name.

The woman turned over to Chesterton police a laptop computer that belonged to Cafasso and investigators there said they might seek a warrant to search the computer's memory for evidence in an investigation of Cafasso.

That laptop is Kathryn Cramer's apple laptop, and I'm certain she would like to get it back.

All that stands between Cafasso and freedom, pending trial, is $500 bond, the Porter County Sheriff's department said.

That's sad and appalling, considering what they should be investigating regarding his escapades in Indiana and Florida.

Cafasso's alleged exploits have garnered him a Wikipedia page, and several other Web sites and blogs devoted to tracking his movements and activities.

Contact Andy Grimm at 648-3073 or agrimm@post-trib.com

That is an understatement, Andy! Cafasso's exploits should garner him a film and a book deal! Perhaps one day he will be in a position to capitalize on what he has done to defraud widows and spinsters out of cash--maybe he could advise people like Abagnale has done - should he ever decide to "come clean" and avoid prosecution for criminal identity theft and embezzlement.

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Marquette International Ltd. should update their blurb about Cafasso

Marquette International, Ltd. has a web page that mentions Joe Cafasso, here, entitled the "Resume Liars Club". I contacted them with further information about Joe Cafasso since this is what they show on their page about him, along with a number of other con artists who haven't been honest:

In late 2001, Joe Cafasso, aka Jay Cafasso, succeeded in becoming a Fox News military consultant during the Afghanistan campaign. He convinced the cable network that he was a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army, had served in Vietnam and won the Silver Star for bravery and was later part of the failed secret mission to rescue US hostages in Iran in 1980. He had previously put forward the same story to the Patrick Buchanan presidential campaign and WABC radio in New York City, both of which accepted the line. Disgracefully, this story was a fabrication. According to published reports about his military records from Fort Dix in New Jersey, Cafasso's entire military career consisted of only 44 days, between May and June 1976, when he was honorably discharged as a Private First Class. Suspicions were raised about Cafasso at Fox when some of the information he provided was inconsistent and his office style clashed with others. An investigative firm was hired by another analyst to look into his background and determined that his story was a fraud. He was fired by Fox News Washington bureau chief Kim Hume in March 2002 prior to the investigative report being disclosed. Cafasso was considered a "gifted storyteller" by some of the people he encountered in his travels. His current activities are unknown.

His "current activities" certainly are known-and much has happened since March of 2002.  This was acknowledged just recently in February of 2009 (but only the Indiana Chapter), and I sent them a link to the Chicago Tribune article mentioning Cafasso's adventures in Indiana as Robert Stormer to at least bring readers current on what is fast becoming legend: the saga of Joe Cafasso, the casanova; con; fraud; and embezzler.

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Joe Cafasso's case is now in the hands of the FBI

Joe Cafasso's fraud case is now in the hands of the FBI instead of the Indiana state Department of Conservation.

Time will tell if they will do the same thing as they did in White Plains New York - which was keep a file open and pretend they were working on it .

The FBI used Cafasso as a source in the past, my instincts tell me it would be very embarrassing for them to admit what a long time fraud Cafasso is. Cafasso just loves to report people to government agencies to stir the pot when he's getting even or has a vendetta against someone.

Reportedly, Ms. Cramer's laptop is now in the FBI's hands as well.

Traffic offenders are never turned over to the FBI t my knowledge, fly! So what, the Porter County Jail said there were no "charges" when you call the automated number. If there were no charges, he couldn't have had a warrant put out for his arrest, and he wouldn't be sitting in the clink for not showing up in court.

Will the FBI just free him and return the laptop to Ms. Cramer?

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International Check Fraud Busted by Police

Let's hope that police and authorities put some resources behind following what Joe Cafasso has been up to since at least 1998.

He has reportedly been embezzling money and forging government documents; and taking unsuspecting single ladies and paramours for their posessions and money.

In the video they talk about check fraud scam by con artists connected with the Russian mafia and that some were hiding in the Republic of Georgia. In January 2008 these people were nabbed.

I would hope that authorities could put together the tale of Joe Cafasso; because to my knowledge he's a two-bit con artist on a lesser scale-whose career doesn't extend outside the United States, but DOES extend to states all over the country.

Mississippi, Louisiana, Illinois, Indiana, New York, New Jersey, Florida and more!

Lt. Col. Jay Mosca and Knightsbridge

The video is very telling from the viewpoint that Ed Artis knew who Cafasso was when he was pretending to be a "Knight".

Ed Artis starred in a film called "Beyond the Call" about his humanitarian exploits, and Kathryn Cramer is peripherally involved in that project even though her expertise is science fiction rather than documentaries. Interestingly enough, though, I cannot find any of that evidence on the web anymore. Still, she reviewed the film and gave accolades to Ed Artis for his heroic contributions to mankind.

Cafasso showed up at the Tribeca film festival where the film was screened as the Lt. Col. Gerry Blackwood persona with an eyepatch and a cane.

In October of 2007, some people had already put this together regarding Stormer, Cafasso and his Gerry Blackwood personas, as you can see from this comment at No Quarter:

Comment by Kinda Wonder | 2007-10-15 00:14:00

So your expert Robert Stormer, “retired lieutenant commander in the Navy Reserve, serving with the Navy’s Supervisor of Salvage,” blames Doug Brooks for Blackwater’s 9/16 nuclear meltdown and its fallout. Over at Brooks’s place, the Yahoo Private Military Company list, the word is that “Robert Stormer” is the same guy as former PMC list regular “Lt. Col Gerry Blackwood, PhD” who left the list in a huff when someone questioned his military credentials, and who was later claimed to be Joseph A. Cafasso, Jr., the military impostor employed by Fox News in the same era as Larry who left Fox News in a huff when someone questioned his military credentials.

Of course, all of this is ancient history by now, but for those who have just arrived on the scene, Knightsbridge International is a "humanitarian" organization headed by none other than the con named Ed Artis, who also claims to be a "Knight of Malta" and have a Vatican passport. He's also willing to get you one of your very own; for a PRICE. 

These are the kinds of ficitious IDs these fellows are capable of conjuring up in order to elevate what they're doing in the eyes of innocent bystanders and observers. They are meant to impress; and I'm certain that is the type of identification that Joe Cafasso produced in absence of his driver's license in Indiana. To a skilled professional, however, these childish imitations are no replacement for the real thing.

The last I heard, the going price for becoming a member of "Knightsbridge" also cost you - about $5,000.

It is worthy to note that the screen grabs of "Lt. Col. Jay Mosca" that Kathryn Cramer has on her flickr set of Cafasso under different aliases leaves out the "Lt. Col" part of the alias he was using. But it was recorded by the Dursts on their web page.

That's about all I knew about my father's career, until I met Lt. Col. Jay Mosca at a recent party at our office. He is a retired weapons expert from the Army.

Unfortunately, Lt. Col. Jay Mosca is just one of the numerous aliases manufactured by Joe Cafasso. Lt. Col. Jay Mosca does not exist; and neither does Rob Stormer or Robin Storm - the supposed tornado chaser!

See Cafasso as Lt. Col. Jay Mosca here in the first film clip at the top of the post.

Joe Cafasso as Lt. Col. Jay Mosca, himself and Rob Storm

This is from the Durst Family web page, that I referred to here.

When I first published that information, I wasn't even aware that there was a video there - my computer didn't open it.  Now that I have a different system, I found that it was a file that I could convert and view, so that's what I did.  It's a touching story the Durst family has about Lt. Col. Jay Mosca remembering their dad's work, but as you can see in the video, it was a stretch of the imagination to believe what he was saying was true.  But notice how convincing he is.  He is very skilled at getting people to believe what he's saying.

For those people who haven't seen Cafasso in action before, this is probably the lengthiest video I've seen of him. Perhaps, though, Andrea's family has taken family type videos that include him talking; I can't imagine film rolling without him inserting himself - no matter what the format is.

The only other one that I'm aware of is - the one where he is HIMSELF, Joe Cafasso, and appeared in the movie "Outfoxed", below.

He has appeared on the podcast "Messing About In Ships Episode 16" as Rob Storm,so we have an audio for him on that podcast to compare to the others. We also get a special little treat: a press release where Cafasso as Rob Storm was going to speak at the Indiana Dunes, courtesy of the Indiana State Park Nature Center. One has to wonder if he was paid in some way or form for that.

Here is the info they had on the press release from "Rob" aka Cafasso:

Indiana Dunes Hosts Severe Weather Program on April 13

The Indiana Dunes State Park Nature Center is hosting a special weather program, titled “Severe Weather and You” on at 2pm, Sunday April 13. The special speaker, Rob Stormer, holds twin engineering degrees and is a Senior Master Salvor handling ship accidents worldwide. He is also a Skywarn severe weather storm spotter and tornado chaser and has spotted and chased storms both shore-side and at sea.

Rob will emphasize severe weather preparedness, and also discuss local severe weather phenomena that is experienced along the Great Lakes. In addition, a real life disaster tabletop exercise using the audience to role play first responders will be demonstrated to fully grasp severe weather response.

Though the program is free, there is the standard park gate fee of $5 for Indiana vehicles and $10.00 for out of state vehicles. Annual park passes are available. For more information about this program or others at Indiana Dunes State Park contact the Nature Center at (219) 926-1390. Keep an eye on Robin Storm’s Severe Weather Watch for more information.

If you have any further information about Joe Cafasso as any of these aliases, please contact me at causalnexus.george@gmail.com

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Andrea Ello is Bunny E Rabbit

What an odd visual that is, particularly when you know that Andrea was Joe Cafasso's love interest and the widow that he victimized.  In light of that, it is very interesting to see how Andrea Ello was helping Joe Cafasso with her own blog.

Bunny E. Rabbit has a blog at blogspot, and the posts are published by "Andrea".

The last post on this blog is from September of 2008, presumably somewhere around the time that he was arrested in October (or at least stopped) while she was sitting in the car alongside him.  The drowning incident that he injected himself into where he raised the suspicions of rescue workers and authorities occurred in August 2008. 

The question remains: who is updating Robin Storm's blogspot blog while Cafasso sits in an Indiana jail? If you have any information you'd like to share, email me at causalnexus.george@gmail.com.

Chicago Tribune picked up on Cafasso's fraud

Laptop may hold key to high-level scam

February 7, 2009
Post-Tribune staff report

A traffic stop at Indiana Dunes State Park has led to an ongoing investigation involving a man whose past includes swindling Fox News and national political figures, local law enforcement agents say.

Joseph Cafasso, being held at Porter County Jail, was the subject of a 2002 New York Times article and has a Wikipedia page detailing his exploits.

Officials declined to talk about the ongoing case, which involves several federal agencies.

I wonder if this might involve the open FBI investigation in White Plains, New York.

"There are a lot of things involved here that I can't get into at this point," said Officer Bob Kauffmann of the Department of Natural Resources, who initiated the investigation.

It's believed that Cafasso impersonated rescue personnel in a drowning at Lake Michigan last year.

"Impersonated" is a rather odd description when you consider that he attempted to take over the rescue operations and began barking orders. And what they neglect to mention is - this article at the Tribune which mentions the drowning quotes Robert Stormer - out of all the rescue personnel who were there conducting search and recovery operations. Inadvertently journalists seem to use Cafasso as a source, even when he's using an alias! Moths to a flame!

In October, Kauffmann stopped Cafasso for speeding and driving with a suspended license.

Cafasso also provided Kauffmann with false information, including the alias "Robert Stormer."

There it is; Cafasso provided false information - a false ID to authorities.  I am told by a reliable source that he produced a military-type id that looked amateur-ish; with the name "Robert Stormer" on it. I don't know specifically, at this point in time, however, what that ID was supposed to be; but he didn't have a driver's license on him and was driving on a suspended license. It was his real identification he was supposed to show in court, which was why he didn't appear in court - as it says here:

And when Cafasso failed to appear in court last month, Kauffmann obtained a warrant for his arrest.

The curious case of Cafasso came to light Monday when a Chesterton resident turned over Cafasso's Apple laptop to Chesterton police. Kauffmann is waiting for a search warrant to access the laptop.

I hope they are able to get into it and find what's on it; that in itself would implicate him in a number of crimes including forging government documents.

The mother of the Chesterton resident had been in a relationship with "Robert Stormer."

She has been living with him for about a year.

She was also in the car when "Stormer" was stopped for speeding, Kauffmann said.

The woman, who resides in Tefft, in northeastern Jasper County, met "Stormer" about a year ago through an online dating service. They later moved in together. According to the police report, he took control over some of the woman's finances before she learned he was a fraud.

And he embezzled money from her, which is the main reason she's losing both of her homes and reportedly has nowhere to go!

According to the Chesterton police report, the woman and her son believe that Cafasso built a case against a man named Jack Idema, who also has a Wikipedia page.

"Built a case?" That's a rather odd description of his vendetta against Idema for ruining the scam that precipitated the New York Times article "At Fox News, The Colonel Who Wasn't". But Cafasso doesn't realize how many people at Fox unrelated to Idema didn't appreciate his brash manner, his rudeness, and his temper. And bringing up those Wikipedia pages is rather interesting when "Pleasantville" aka Kathryn Cramer is responsible for so many of the edits and updates there.

The police report continues:"Idema is allegedly a Special Forces soldier who went rogue and tortured people in Afghanistan without approval from his superiors. He was jailed in a military prison for this and he blames Cafasso for his troubles.

That is inaccurate. Idema is a Green Beret, and it is Cafasso who blames Idema for outting him as a fraud and blames Idema for losing his job at Fox. For the journalists who want to keep touting that "torturer" mantra about Idema, people might want to check out the story that was never told in the media about Idema at Cao's blog. I don't take a position either way, but I find it interesting that it is Cafasso who is in jail, but they keep repeating that "torturer" business as if it bears some type of merit. You need only look at the release photographs also at Cao's blog to see that there is more on the Idema story than meets the eye....and there is much more there than at Cramer's edited Wikipedia page on Idema, also.

Police say Idema knew about Cafasso's laptop. Idema contacted the Chesterton man through a phone search and told him he wanted the computer.

So he and his mother brought it to Chesterton Police.

Cafasso was successful in duping institutions and high-profile military and political figures as a well-connected counterintelligence expert who had a high-rank career in the Special Forces, according to an April 29, 2002, story in the New York Times.

Alleged victims included the Fox News network, Pat Buchanan's presidential campaign and "several representatives, military officials and activists to whom he had sold himself for years,"?

Cafasso appeared as a military and counterterrorism expert during Fox's coverage of the invasion of Afghanistan.

"But records indicate that his total military experience was 44 days of boot camp at Fort Dix, N.J., in May and June 1976, and his honorable discharge as a private, first class."

The article states Cafasso failed to show up to provide military records and other documents to The New York Times as he had promised.

The article continues: "Mr. Cafasso, it appears, has used his story of battlefield glories to make friends, find work, and perhaps most importantly, find acceptance among people who walk the fringes of Washington's power corridors, networking his way through a community of retired military officers to arrive at Fox News."

Absolutely priceless! What this article is missing is his masquerade before the Rob Stormer persona as LT. Col. Gerry Blackwood. Robert Stormer is not the only alias Cafasso has used over the years.

Still, this is excellent in terms of allowing people in on the magnitude of Cafasso's crimes and particularly his crimes against women.

I took the liberty of inserting some links into the text for the convenience of my interested readers.

Cafasso's desire to kill people

From a commenter on No Quarter about Stormer's plagiarized article:

Comment by Blunt Force Trauma | 2007-10-08 21:44:48

Yes, Robin. We need answers. Where aren’t you getting them? But, instead you re-hashed a story that has been done by many before you, and a month ago to boot, and sounding all sanctimonius about it too. Perhaps you should follow your own advice and write your own letters to your Congressman and Senator before decided to release a vitriolic diatribe about your need for killing people (ie, euthanasia). This is not the first time I’ve cited you for the need to murder people in vengeful manner.

Also, if you or that Forth Worth rag which published your story were serious about the truth, those questions at the end of the article would not have been left to the reader to search out. They would have been answered by both yourself and that newspaper. It’s called fact-checking. If you wanted to play journalist, you should have posed those questions to those responsible since you, ‘like the facts’ and would not have left it to the reader to have dug them up on their own.

Who, What, Where, When, Why and How. The basics in journalism. You failed on 2 of them and that’s an incomplete.

If you desire to truly provide us a service, perhaps you can, as suggested; ask all of your questions that were at the end of your “article” to someone who can answer them. Once you have the answers to them all, then that is the time to compile that information in a comprehensive article that is informative, thought-provoking and concise. Otherwise, one is left to wonder where the objectivity, the process of the dissemination of information and the creativity is.

Yours reads like a community newspaper back page puppy trainer.

Also, this one:

Comment by Blunt Force Trauma | 2007-10-09 10:10:12

“I do get a kick out of your moniker. Your such a legend in your own mind.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I do appreciate all the all the effort. And I know it take a great deal of effort to charge those neurons of yours, especially the ones that are mis-firing….”

From reading the above that contains improper contractions and terrible sentence structure, I guess you DO know what it takes to get your impulse-conducting cells that constitute the brain, spinal column, and nerves, consisting of a nucleated cell body with one or more dendrites and a single axon. In other words, your Neurons.

Also, I have to ask from reading the above drivel; you didn’t write that op-ed, did you? You may have had the idea, but you didn’t write it.

One signature of Cafasso's writing: YOUR instead of You're. He has a definite problem with contractions.

He is not only the bloviator - he is a plagiarist.

But then what do you expect from someone who would steal and use the social security number of a 13-year-old girl from New Jersey?

Cafasso as "Dr." Gerard Pal Blackwood

Let's roll tape on the previous alias of Gerry Blackwood, which Kathryn Cramer seems to want to forget about.

This is the persona that Cramer fell for, and the persona which absconded with her laptop computer. This is the same persona Cafasso used to stroll the grounds at Columbia University and publish posts on his Stuporpatriots blog from Columbia University servers. At some point, she discovered Gerry was in fact Joe Cafasso, but before that, she was supporting the posts from the Stuporpatriots blog, and personally witnessed his publishing posts on that blog from her laptop computer.

Confidential Bio of Gerard Pal Blackwood, PhD:

Dr. Blackwood or Gerry as he likes to be called is a specialist in strategic weapons systems and issues governing nuclear non-proliferation. Gerry is a retired Lt. Colonel serving with the US Army for 26 years.

Highlights: Gerry served with the 179th Military Intelligence Brigade/MACVSOG Command Control South, SVN 1970-1972. The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) 1972-1980 at various overseas posts. NATO Nuclear Liaison Officer 1980-1985. After Gerry's assignment with NATO he returned to a special assignment at CIA and Center Lane. During the Gulf War Gerry was assigned as the Commander of the G2 elements for CENTCOM. Gerry completed his military career Gwith the DoD Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) assigned to the inspectorate division and liaison with DOD/DOE NEST. Gerry retired in 1996 and worked under contract with both DOD and DOE until 2001 when he was contracted to IAEA. Gerry holds a special position with [REDACTED]

Gerry is a 1970 Graduate of Brown University receiving his Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering. Gerry attended Cal-Tech for both his Master in Nuclear Engineering and his Doctorate in Theoretical High Particle Physic (1989). Gerry is a licensed fixed and rotary wing pilot and avid sailor. Gerry is fluent in Russian, German, French, Italian and Vietnamese. Gerry is also a specialist in Humanitarian Operations and has been "boots down" in several hotspots providing both medical and humanitarian aid.

Gerry currently holds a DOD Top-Secret-SSBI, Yankee White, DOE Q Clearance and Cosmic Top Secret/ATOMAL (NATO)

Gerry Blackwood, PhD
LTC US Army (Ret)
Managing Director
North American LCC Group, Ltd.
POB 1201
New York, NY 10024
POC: 732-453-4647

If you know of a more detailed bio on the Cafasso Rob Stormer persona than the one published at Common Dreams (below), I would be interested in seeing it. Email me at causalnexus.george@gmail.com if you have any information.

Robert Stormer of Chicago is a retired lieutenant commander in the Navy Reserve, serving with the Navy's Supervisor of Salvage, and was a specialist in weapons retrieval. He is a marine engineer and marine salvage specialist.
© 2007 Star-Telegram

And of course we have the original Cafasso resume which was also quite extensive.

Especially when you consider that Joe Cafasso was thrown out of the Army after only 44 days as unsuitable for military service.

This fraud has literally made a living from embezzling money from paramours and widows and other people, too. He somehow manages to lure people into his web with dramatic tales of heroism and military prowess (such as rescuing people from shipwrecks and in military operations). He gets raised eyebrows when he mentions being chased by 'spooks' or having to go undercover or 'disappear for while'; and no one seems to ask questions about his possessing "secret" military awards, honors and medals. If only they'd attempt to verify his tales of heroic and noble humanitarian operations as a Knight of Malta--he wouldn't succeed in scamming them to the point where their lives are left in shambles.

It is my hope that the Chesterton Police will do their due diligence in investigating the magnitude of Joe Cafasso's crimes.

Cramer's fingerprints

Kathryn Cramer's fingerprints are all over this brief article.

Woman learns beau is apparent con artist

CHESTERTON | A 63-year-old Tefft, Ind. woman, whose son lives in Chesterton, told Chesterton police on Monday a man she met through an online dating service claimed to be Robert Stormer, but really was Joe Cafasso, a con artist of such renown he is mentioned on a Wikipedia Web page.

Here she is congratulating herself on the work she has done on Cafasso's wikipedia page, since she as "Pleasantville" spends an inordinate amount of time editing on wikipedia and propping her own work. She created her own bio, and continues to break the rules of editing at Wikipedia, yet somehow they give her a pass. Kathryn Cramer's intense involvement at Wikipedia is one of the reasons Wikipedia should not be relied upon as a source for information. You can verify it yourself by checking the editing page for Jack Idema, also - she is very busy editing and updating that page, as well.

(It is interesting that now that page is "protected" and can be edited only by administrators. Is Cramer now considered an administrator? Or is she merely protecting the anonymity of her involvement on that page?)

Chesterton police are involved in the case because they took possession of a computer the woman and her son wanted to get rid of because one of Cafasso's enemies apparently wants it.

Police reports state Cafasso took over some of the woman's finances. The investigation into Cafasso continues.

It is common knowledge that Cafasso's been working on Kathryn Cramer's mac laptop. Cramer is able to trace Cafasso's whereabouts because apple computers have a feature that allow the owner to remote into it to review, retrieve files move files and edit contents. 

(That is not to say that it has a homing device, fly!! 

A few definitions of "follow" that apply in this case:

a: to watch steadily <followed the flight of the ball> b: to keep the mind on <follow a speech> c: to attend closely to: keep abreast of <followed his career with interest> d: to understand the sense or logic of (as a line of thought)

some definitions of "trace" that apply here:

2.  To ascertain the successive stages in the development or progress of: tracing the life cycle of an insect, trace the history of a family; or--as in this case-

3.  To locate or discover by searchig or researching evidence: trace the cause of a disease

Trace what Cafasso's been doing and trace or follow his whereabouts through what it is he's been doing on the laptop.  

That's simple enough, isn't it?  That line of thinking is not SIMPLE for some people, I guess.

That means that she knows what files he's creating, what he's writing, etc.-and can even copy these files and/or emails over to her own computer. If Andrea is posting from his laptop and talking incessantly about Indiana, as an example, Cramer can trace or follow it [not literally] and put 2+2 together.  If this doesn't make sense to you, I can only conclude that you do not understand that technology to which I'm referring, or are taking me quite literally-but that doesn't make ME the idiot!)  

I am certain there is a treasure trove of evidence that Cafasso has left in that computer regarding Robert Stormer, and it is my hope that they are examining what is on that computer regarding identity theft and the forging of government documents.

Kathryn Cramer's connection to Cafasso through his theft of her laptop and the fact that she tried to get her laptop back through Andrea Ello's sons and then freaked out that Jack Idema was interested in the laptop is another point of interest.

There would be no harm done if Idema was aware of Cafasso's forging of documents, proof of aggravated criminal identity theft and any number of other crimes. Idema is brash, rude, and uses crude language, but he's a rather formidable presence in the courtroom, and could make sure that Cafasso is put away and stays put away for a very long time.

Cramer's fingerprints are all over that article and it's rather humorous that she would demonstrate such hubris and bias in such a blatant fashion. Cramer is involved in this feud between Idema and Cafasso, and it appears that she is attempting to portray anyone who wants to see Cafasso pay a price for what he's done as an Idema supporter.

As far as I can tell, however, credit card scams, embezzlement, identity theft and other crimes are exclusively Cafasso's ballywick and Cramer is defending not only a con artist and womanizer, but a criminal of epic proportions.

There really should be - at the very least a book written about what Cafasso has accomplished as a con man; he has made a career out of it.

I am also noticing how she re-named pictures of Cafasso pretending to be Lt. Col. Gerry Blackwood and said he was "Jay Mosca". Let there be no mistake; Joseph Anthony Cafasso loves to pretend he's former military, and did the same thing with his Robert Stormer persona.

At "Common Dreams", where Robert Stormer's article was published entitled Nuke Transportation Story Has Explosive Implications you can see how similar his bio is to that of Gerry Blackwood:

Robert Stormer of Chicago is a retired lieutenant commander in the Navy Reserve, serving with the Navy's Supervisor of Salvage, and was a specialist in weapons retrieval. He is a marine engineer and marine salvage specialist.
© 2007 Star-Telegram

Cramer's revisions give one cause for concern regarding Joe Cafasso's producing fraudulent military identification, as he did when Chesterton Police asked him as Robert Stormer for ID.

confirmation in the media: Cafasso = Robert Stormer

Woman learns beau is apparent con artist

CHESTERTON | A 63-year-old Tefft, Ind. woman, whose son lives in Chesterton, told Chesterton police on Monday a man she met through an online dating service claimed to be Robert Stormer, but really was Joe Cafasso, a con artist of such renown he is mentioned on a Wikipedia Web page.

Chesterton police are involved in the case because they took possession of a computer the woman and her son wanted to get rid of because one of Cafasso's enemies apparently wants it.

Police reports state Cafasso took over some of the woman's finances. The investigation into Cafasso continues.

From here.

What's strange about that article is the fact that he committed aggravated identity theft with Robin Storm's social security number, which is a felony, and embezzlement of funds from more people than just Andrea Ello-and instead of prosecuting this fraud, they are interested in his computer and protecting him from his 'enemies'? Something isn't right here.

Are "enemies" those people who would like to see him prosecuted for a 20-year crime spree under different aliases?

Wrong picture on a dating site

Joe Cafasso put the picture at the top on this dating site, calling himself "shipdude" because he's always trolling for lonely hearts to take advantage of...and...because he didn't dare put a real picture of himself up.  If you examine it closely, it isn't his eyes, his nose, or the shape of his face.

In addition, if you examine the scuba outfit, it's the wrong helmet - the school hasn't used this helmet for a good 15 years, although-it's being used around the world right now.  The picture he's trying to pass off as himself diving is a 15 year old pic wearing a Kirby KMB-10 helmet. The one on the left is the helmet they use now.

This is a KMB57 and it's very different.Cafasso isn't as bright as he thinks; he thinks nobody is as smart as he is, so he can go into areas like this and BS his way through and no one will notice.Plus, no lonely heart is going to examine that scuba suit and think to herself...wrong suit, wrong helmet, etc...she's going to maybe wonder why he doesn't have a more flattering picture of himself up, but since he mentions that if they want to see what he really looks like he can send it to them in secret, I suppose they won't mind that he has that goofy scuba picture up.  Here's the rest of what he says about himself in that bio:

Interests: International Humanitarian Operations, Classical Music, Ball Room Dancing and just a bunch of fun....

Getting close to retirement and starting to think about why the heck i never married. Was it a blessing or curse? Lets see a liitle about me. I am 57 never anchored, about 180 pounds, blue eyes, salt and pepper hair. Enjoy cooking, reading, movies, dancing, life in general. I am a Senior Salvage Master/Master Diver. What does that mean? Well I supervise the recovery of ships (not boats but ships) that have been in accidents worldwide. The pix's here are of me diving and some of the jobs I have been on. (Want to see a pix of me without the gear? Ask me for it). Yes I have lived five lives, learned much, even speak a few languages besides english ( I laugh though because I don't speak spanish I am not considered bi-lingual) Most importantly the love that I am married to is international humanitarian relief operations. Yep got under my skin. Yes I like to travel maybe even with a new found love.

Anyway I am looking for someone simple...complex I got and the job makes complex look like a cartoon. Simple meaning someone who might be my opposite, Someone who does not surround themselves with CNN-MSNBC-FOX , politics all day, all night and even in bed. Someone who appreciates a fine dinner at home as well as going out (yeah I cook, besides having twin engineering degrees I have an associates in the culinary arts), and a quiet night with a glass of wine some music and just the two of us. Someone who is independent and secure with themselves. I can be away at sea for long periods of time. Please I am not a psychiatrist, most problems we can solve together, psychiatric cases please call 911. Someone who really understand what unconditional love means, because that is what they will get in return. Someone silly not always serious... Lawyers, Astrophysicists, Brain Surgeons and MARRIED women need not apply.

Warning: I am 50% extroverted and 50% Analytic... Meaning I can analyze and move faster than you can say your last name and I can make a New York heart attack look like a jog around the block... Every Rose has it thorns....

Profession: Senior Master Salvor

Is this hilarious to anyone else...? Yeah, some rose you got there, Joe. One stinkin' lie after another.

Looking for Andrea Ello

Looking for information such as a physical description and or perhaps a digital picture of the female companion Joe Cafasso is traveling with while he's been pretending to be Robert Stormer.

It would appear as though Andrea is named after a hurricane.

Andrea Ello is her full name, but she allegedly has sufficient identification in order to obtain money from Western Union when it's wired to Robert Stormer.

This convenience keeps Cafasso from being found out, because then he doesn't have to produce a legitimate ID and his true identity remains hidden. 

She may also be involved in some credit card fraud working in concert with Cafasso.

Email any information to causalnexus.george@gmail.com

TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE, PLEASE CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY IF YOU HAVE SEEN HER AND CAN IDENTIFY HER.

Take this with a block of salt since it's at Larry Johnson's blog 'No Quarter' which has used Robert Stormer's writing:

Robert Stormer is Joseph Cafasso, also goes by Robin Stormer, Jay Cafasso, Gerry Blackwood, Gerard Pal Blackwood, Jay Mosca, J. Mosca, James Mosca, Joseph Mosca, Jay Anthony, Tom Adams and Jake Adams. He is a fake. He lived with his mother under she died now he lives of loney windows until he gets found out. HE IS A PROFESSIONAL CON MAN WANTED IN MANY STATES. He lived with my girlfriend and neighbor until he was arrested for impersonating and using the social security number of a 13 year old Rhode Island girl named robin Stormer. He does not have any credintials he claims. He served only 44 days in the military and was never in any positions of importance util the Fox News incident. BUT MY FRIEND, ANDREA ELLO HAS BEEN MISSING FOR WEEKS EVER SINCE HE WAS ARRESTED AND SHE FOUND OUT ABOUT HIS CON-ARTIST WAYS. Co-incidently he disappeared at the same time. I am so worried about her!

There are a lot of questions that need to be answered here, especially if there is a missing girl who was involved and linked with Cafasso before her disappearance.

To my understanding, however, Cafasso was only arrested and jailed on the 30th...so...this leads one to believe there is more than meets the eye regarding his brush with the law in Indiana.

Do you have information?  I will hold it in confidence.  Email causalnexus.george@gmail.com

That information proved to be false.  Andrea Ello is a victim of Joe Cafasso's and is not in cohoots with him.  He bilked her out of her life's savings.

And SHE IS NOT MISSING.

Robert Stormer aka Shipdude

There are a number of aliases that people need to be aware of regarding Joe Cafasso, the changeling.  If you haven't been to KC's website recently, you need to add 'shipdude' (where does he get the money to dive?), Robin Storm and Robert Stormer, and watch out for the writings of Robert Stormer at "No Quarter" (such as this one). I wonder how much of that article written under "Robert Stormer" was written with information provided by KC. According to KC's 2008 update on Cafasso, he has at least 15 other aliases, but interestingly enough, doesn't bother to list them.

She claims she 'cares' about his victims! But upon closer examination what it is she SAYS versus her actions that uncovers her true intentions. She is not providing his victims (and potential victims) with his whereabouts and aliases; she is still covering for him.

See tracking Cafasso for more.

Her editing of Jack Idema's wikipedia page (look for Pleasantville) alongside Robert Young Pelton who is still upset that Idema discredited his claim of being the first person to interview John Walker Lindh- and Cramer's own stalking of Idema's father in her car are particularly worthy of note. KC is entertaining (although I'm sure she doesn't mean for people to laugh at her)-with her section entitled "clown espionage".  That term is an accurate depiction of herself; a clown conducting "covert operations" in order to produce 'scoops' of pure propaganda.  American Mata Hari she is not; and someone sympathetic to - or empathetic to Cafasso's victims and family she is not.  This is a person who is purely motivated by self-interest and narcissm.  She shares a common interest with those who are interested in Idema's whereabouts since he left Afghanistan.

One is left to wonder....why?

If she were truly interested in Cafasso's victims and potential victims, she would have taken more action in order to get him some serious help. The same could be said of his family. Cafasso has surrounded himself with a number of enablers; all of whom need a serious intervention; or perhaps a wakeup call.

As an aside, one wonders what ever happened to her friend SOJ, the blogger in Romania at Flogging the Simian that she fiercely supported until his disappearance from the WEB.  SOJ conned Idema supporters out of thousands of dollars because they thought he had the inside scoop on Idema while he was in Pol-i-charke in Afghanistan. They trusted that SOJ would use the money to help Idema, which of course never happened. Another self-interested con, SOJ disappeared when the name Samuel Eddy Reames emerged; exposed by skeptics of his own political stripe, tired of the subtrofuge and lies about having been involved in law enforcement.  At about this time-KC hysterically trumpeted that SOJ was a woman, in an attempt to throw people off track. The items that were stolen from Idema's cell with a note left by Tod Robberson showed the way on how to connect the dots--when those items were doctored and published on SOJ's website.

What a tangled web we weave.