This particular tidbit is not a lot but shows a pattern. A traumatic experience to a young girl is just that, a traumatic experience but the alteration of the facts to fit an agenda is not a poor memory. It raises a question.
In Linda's book, she talks about it.
The Goodbye Man wrote:"Dropping the receiver into her lap, she broke into tears. Helen Towt had been killed in a hit-and-run accident only a few miles from our doorstep!"
Page 88 "The Goodbye Man"
and then this:
The Goodbye Man wrote:"Daddy and Charles arrived minutes later. The police told us that Helen's car, loaded with all of her belongings, had been broadsided and flipped up onto a bank. They said that it appeared that Helen had been making a permanent move. The car had been loaded with her household effects and she was travelling with a kitten."
Page 88 "The Goodbye Man"
In conversations with Linda over the years, she has mentioned, as she does in her book on page 88, that the accident was a "hit-and-run". She further mentioned, in subsequent conversations, that it was by a truck that broadsided her car. She went to say that it was an assassination and implied that Helen was involved in some "spy" thingy and they wanted to shut her up.
It should be noted that a "hit-and-run" is where there has been an accident and the person causing the accident fled the scene and was unidentified.
And now there is this:
Huntingdon Daily News wrote:"West Chester: Helen B. Towt, of Bethesda MD, was killed Sunday when her collided with another automobile near the West Chester Borough line. The operator of the other car, John Wilda, 22, of Yardley, Bucks County, was injured."
http://newspaperarchive.com/huntingdon-daily-news/1962-07-23
The newspaper states it was an automobile. Even back in 1962, reporters knew the difference between a truck and a car. Secondly, the other vehicle is identified. This means that it was NOT a "hit-and-run".
I need not say anymore other than it was not a hit-and-run and the other driver was injured. I will leave it to the reader to make their own determination. My analysis is that if Linda couldn't get this correct and embellished the story then how many other of her stories are the same?
Now I can fairly predict that Linda will say it is all a cover up but Occam's razor can pretty well eliminate that for afterall, that is her excuse whenever something doesn't fit with one of her stories..."it has been faked". Well, I find it very serendipitous or at the very least a joke by the universe....the newspaper this report came from is Huntingdon County, the very same town that the meeting occurred in with Paul in December of 2008. Who knew that TWO events would be linked there.
ref:
Helen's sister obit
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/tucson ... &fhid=2500
Obit:
Helen's obit
http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/localities.northam.usa.states.ohio.counties.fairfield/627/mb.ashx
