"IT IS WHAT IT IS ... LIFE & DEATH!" BODIES IN THE BAY!

As TIME is growing short for Oba Chandler, I did receive another e-mail 'Last Night' from his attorney Baya Harrison and also; the President of Global Universal Films and another AGENT / Producer who have the experience with another past HBO Series in hopes that Oba Chandler will 'GRANT' that 'LAST' Interview on this planet. Although Baya is asking Oba to 'Please Do the Interview with Mason,' Oba ...is not being co-operative as yet. Who knows what goes on in the mind of a 'Convicted Killer' much less an 'individual' --- but it would certainly be a monumental opportunity for Oba Chandler to 'Open Up' and 'Express Himself' and 'We' could only benefit from the 'Reasons' behind the mind. But as I've been saying; "It is what it is, and what it's going to be."

Even if Oba chooses not to do or say anything ... the story is still 'Something that Happened!' And I have been writing another 'Blog Article' on the varying reasons behind those who have been following the story, and its affect. (I will post a link for those are not familiar with the 'Other Blogs' to the http://masonsmovies.blogspot.com/ ---) Thanks for reading and taking an interest.

I personally believe this story can help in 'Bringing an Awareness' to people who have been 'Too Trusting' - especially when it comes to even ... complete strangers. Yes, it is TRAGIC and I personally did have a sister who was 'Murdered' and found in the water! (Although her death was listed as a Suicide - there are too many unanswered questions that GAVE me the OPINION that she too was MURDERED ... and YES, I have written about the circumstances, since I knew the Characters involved ... and it was ONE of the MAIN REASONS I began a writing career, alongside a career in radio and entertainment.

I have been through that PAIN ... working to 'Uncover' the investigation behind my sister's death. Wanting to know but being powerless to do anything about it, the only other option was to tell the story through 'My Eyes' ... namely for reasons of 'Knowing what was going on at the time, when the story was surrounded by a 'Major Military Operation' on the LARGEST American BASES in the United States, and because of my sister's background in the military ... not to mention 'My Conversations' with Para Military individuals prior to that DEATH.

Those people in that space and time were ... leading me to CONCLUSIONS that to me; were obvious. So, to those who want to believe ... "No ONE wants to know, or cares to know how or why it happened," I do ... and I am certain that others do ... for a variety of reasons. But my reasons? I want to know why? However 'That First Book' remains unpublished, and is just as GRAPHIC in nature as BODIES IN THE BAY... because it surrounds the DETAILS in LIFE!

There is no way I believe that we can 'Pull any Punches' when it comes to the 'TRUTH' --- "IT IS WHAT IT IS!" And, if Oba Chandler is willing to talk before he's executed ... it could help in understanding ... WHY?

I have been trying to come up with a solution, and the only thing I can do is continue on with; 'It will be what it will be!' I can already surmise what will take place, while I continue to 'Move Forward' yet, another communication to Oba's attorney, who has taken time to respond on more than a few occasions. I'm sure the TIME will come and go ... and it will 'Turn out the way it's supposed to' but, I've still got to work on 'Following Through' no matter how uncooperative Oba Chandler remains in 'His Last Days!' It only serves to give people the opinion that; Oba MUST be GUILTY no matter how much he claims to be 'Innocent.' As an 'Innocent Man' - I am JUST CERTAIN 'That' an 'Innocent Man' would be making PEACE WITH GOD and wanting to tell the 'Public' - 'While I am going to DIE ... I am innocent man' --- You can 'Sense' the 'TRUTH' in any person's demeanor, and that may be why he's chosen, 'Not to talk' because he convicted himself a long time ago ... at his trial.

November 16, 2011

For the LIFE of ME - I cannot fathom the thought process of some people, much less someone like Oba Chandler. There is no doubt that Oba Chandler has affected a GREAT many people in this LIFE and has changed the course of those LIVES ... and I am one of those people. Even as Oba and I were corresponding for quite some time, it was my intent and desire to 'Get inside the man's mind' and hopefully get an opportunity to 'Understand' or 'Uncover' some reasoning behind the 'Man,' the 'Murders' and 'LIFE' through an 'Up Close and Personal Interview.'

After all ... and all those years ago, before Oba was captured, I was 'Fascinated' in how something like that could happen to three woman, who had disappeared within hours of checking into their Tampa Hotel. It was my cousin Robert Neal Davis, who called me one day and said, 'Mason, I had a dream last night that you should write a book about the 'Rogers Murders' and I have the perfect title, 'Bodies in the Bay.' We had long been discussing the story before Oba had ever been captured, and after he was caught ... it only seemed to be the logical thing to do. I had been collecting the articles, and after writing the first 71 (draft pages), the ex-wife threw it down and said; "How can you write something so horrible and disgusting!" And so, I thought better of it and 'Put it aside' until I began going through the separation in the early 90's and gained new inspiration from Randy Elizabeth Fisher who happened to be over at the house one evening, and saw those bound pages, picked it up and before I knew it, she was saying; "Mason, YOU have got to tell this story! I couldn't stop reading it, although I know what happened, I want to know how it unfolded." It was then, that I felt that I could be a writer, although I had been writing for years with other articles, and my first novel, which remains unpublished. So I sat down and immersed myself in the 'Details' of the story and worked at "Putting myself' in the place of not only the killer, but the victims and all those others who were a growing part of this story.

It has been a long road, since we officially copyrighted 'Bodies in the Bay' in 1997 and the first draft copies were published in 1999, and I began working to establish a presence for the story on a mini book tour through Ohio, Florida, Kentucky and here in Colorado with the major chain of book stores like Barnes and Noble, Borders, Independent Book Stores and through ON LINE at Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com and COUNTLESS other appearances in the year 2000 --- only to find later that the A&E Network released a 'Cold Case File' with Bill Kurtis in 2003 entitled; BODIES IN THE BAY based on the this same story.

While I do not believe in coincidences, I called the Network in New York and in Los Angeles hoping to 'Buy' a copy of the episode, only to be told on several occasions that the A&E Network could not sell the program, because they did not own the 'Rights.' So after more than a 'Few' letters back and forth from the 'LAW FIRMS' - they offered to 'Stop using the name, if I would only sign a release.'

Now, how DUMB would a person have to be to do something like that? And so I kept on with my intent to write the screenplay, believing that this story could be told as I had envisioned it, while still hoping that I could eventually interview Oba ... and be lucky enough to 'Get through to him' on some level that no others may have been able to do at the time. And then ALL of a SUDDEN, I found myself in correspondence with the man, who had done those unspeakable things to those innocent women. I had become, again entrenched in the story with that 'desire' to see it 'Told' and this time, the 'REAL STORY' from Oba himself. Believing that Oba, knowing who I was as a writer, and giving me his 'Power of Attorney' was interested in telling his side of the 'Tale' even as he kept professing his innocence.

In my heart, I have always believed that Oba was a GUILTY man, who tried to 'Talk himself' out of the crime, since there really was no evidence, aside from some handwritten directions ... so I believe that; Oba is responsible from his own actions, otherwise - had he not gotten on the stand, there could have been 'reasonable doubt' cast in the mind of the jurors. He may have still been convicted, but may have been doing LIFE, instead of the Death Sentence.

And so after many letters to and from Oba, he suddenly 'Shut Off' everyone from his visiting list, including all of his family. It was a phone call that I had made to the prison to speak with Oba that I was told by one of his jailers, Sgt, Sallie (sp) who said "Oba relayed a message to me," saying; "I'm done with all that shit!" It was another phone call and communications with his attorney Baya Harrison telling me; "Mason, I wish that Oba would cooperate, but he won't, or at least he has not indicated a willingness to do so, I asked him to agree to an interview with you but he has not taken me up on it. BH"

While I have been working on developing this story for the Big Screen, I have been contacted by very reputable producers like; Larry Donnizetti who represented the company with Bob Eubanks, Jamie Farr, Loretta Swit, Tim Klott and others like Frank DiLeo (Michael Jackson's former business manger) who is just recently deceased - and others from Global Universal Films - but they have all produced nothing but 'AIR' and worthless talk. I know what this Story is about, especially from the 'Unspoken' words of the man who just went to his death, believing that 'He was still controlling' the events as an innocent man. Yet the story will show that an innocent man, will act differently ... especially if he knows he is going to DIE after losing all appeals in this SO CALLED JUSTICE system. Don't get me wrong, after 'Living' my own reality, I have come to understand the 'Common' sense of 'Understanding' and placing myself in that position knowing that; IF I WERE TRULY INNOCENT of the crime for which I am about to DIE ... I would want to speak to anyone who would be willing to 'HEAR MY STORY!'

Oba did not do that, and because he didn't ... it only speaks volumes in 'His Testimony' that Oba was a GUILTY MAN! And what kind of man orders two Salami Sandwiches on white Bread, Peanut Butter & Grape Jelly and a cup of coffee for his last meal? Since he was a 'Post World War II' child, and a feral one at that ... has got to say something about his 'Thinking.' But, we'll never really know as Oba more than likely took it to HELL. At this point ... I could care less, but I had been thinking, and telling those around me for a long time ... Oba is getting off easy.

Imagine how much anxiety he would be under, if he knew that not only was he going to die, but that he was going to have his 'Head Cut Off' or 'Cinder Blocks' wrapped around his neck and thrown overboard in the Bay after being brutally raped and sodomized. Oba Chandler had no remorse, and did not fear being put to death, because he wasn't under 'the pressure' knowing that he would be 'Sleeping' when his heart stopped. He felt nothing in Death, just like he felt nothing in LIFE.

From the reports of the MAJOR Mainstream media covering the 'Story' or now trying to 'Tell the Story' from a 'Human Interest' point of view ... they're only able to do so because of their economic influences, I was disheartened to read what Hal Rogers felt, along with his niece, who were looking for JUSTICE who FINALLY decided at the last minute to watch a 'man go to sleep,' and believe it to be Justice and feel appeased.

I guess, I am a little upset over the manner in which 'Those Feelings' have been portrayed in the 'Media' because I would not have only wanted to watch him DIE, I would have been pounding on the WINDOW of the Death Chamber, smiling ... flipping him off, but wanting to 'Have His Head.' I'm certain that the mainstream media wouldn't print or run the 'Attitude' that I would have given them or the 'Public Officials.' Of course Christian beliefs are; "Revenge is Mine, sayeth the Lord!" Now that's a tough one when you're only Human even as I have a tough time, living the 'Story' in my own reality. It was Joan, Michelle and Christie who suffered an agonizing reality - but, things happen for reasons that we are uncertain of in this realm, and had Joan been more cautious and followed her instincts, much less Michelle who had been repeatedly 'taken advantage of' by her Uncle in the years before her death ... and were watching for the EVIL in their path, I wouldn't be here ... writing about this horrible event. But I am, and I am still trying to ponder why?

Even as I have had criticism for writing such a story, even though my own sister was murdered in 1990 after the Rogers women in 1989 - I too want Justice, but there is none, unless it becomes a sensational story and comes to the 'Hearts and Minds' of those who are 'Passionate' enough to do something about the EVIL that FLOURISHES. For we know the old saying; "For EVIL to Flourish, GOOD men need ONLY do NOTHING!" (Or something like that) I can only tell some that have come to know me as a 'Common Man' that my story and adaptation of this CRIME may 'Save a Life' and cause some innocent women or men to really think about the possibility of facing Death, if WE don't follow our INSTINCTUAL feelings and SENSES.

It's what I have been becoming ... I don't know if it will do any good, or go anywhere ... but at least I have tried to 'see it through' and that's all I can do. I am going to continue on with my plans to bring this story to more of a 'Reality' for others, than the ones who are involved, because I do believe it to be that important. But as the wise man said; "We'll See!" I for one, am glad to SEE Oba leave the planet, knowing that HE will stand in Judgment and he will pay the 'Real Price' when he stands before GOD, because it does seem that Oba was not repentant in the END, but we won't know until we too leave the Planet.