Three Bodies Found at Sam Donaldson’s Ranch

[peterh]

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/WorldNewsTonight/donaldson_ranch_040707.html

July 7, 2004— Three bodies were found at a New Mexico ranch owned by ABC newsman Sam Donaldson, and authorities said they were treating the deaths as homicides.

The bodies of a male and two females were found Tuesday on Donaldson's remote ranch north of Hondo, the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department said.

"My wife Jan and I are shocked by the apparent triple homicide that took place on our ranch in Hondo, New Mexico, sometime over the Fourth of July weekend while we were away in Santa Fe," Donaldson said in a statement. "We understand the investigation is continuing, and we have been asked by authorities not to comment further at this time."

Donaldson called authorities after he went to the house of his ranch manager and found an "obvious crime scene," Sheriff Tom Sullivan said.





Damn….this is obviously a different type of crime scene than what he is use to seeing….

[Bunny]

1. Holy crap!

:wtf:

[trumad]

2. They must have seen Sam without his toupee....

[Westegg]

3. Sam's eyebrows always spooked me... (n/t)

[Kelvin Mace]

11. He looks like a Vulcan

but without the logic or ethics.

David Allen
www.thoughtcrimes.org
Distrusting the Government Since 1984

[Ruby Romaine]

4. Does anyone know which reporter owns a ranch with rumsfeld?

n/t

[Jim Sagle]

5. Dan Rather.

[Ruby Romaine]

6. Dan Rather co-owns a ranch with Rumsfeld. Is it tin foil time?

n/t

[0007]

10. That's a fact not a tin foil thingie.

[KalicoKitty]

13. Shockingly, it is true....

"Co-Owns New Mexico Ranch with Dan Rather, among others: You would think, especially after Saddam's capture, that Rumsfeld could pack it in, go out on top and settle down in that ranch in Taos, N.M., that he co-owns with, among others, Dan Rather, TIME reports."


www.time.com/time/press_releases/ article/0,8599,565993,00.html

[Snow]

30. Hmmm. What does "among others" mean?

if this is a time-share thingy, it doesn't mean much at all.

[mom cat]

34. Oh Cheney! Rather- Rumsfeld? This is going to take a moment to

digest. I was going to comment that I thought that ABC only buried the truth- not bodies. Now this: the Rumsfeld-Rather Ranch. Is it like a time share? or do they go duck hunting together?

[Rose Siding]

39. Hmmm..."Rumsfeld...co-owns with, *among others*, Dan Rather"

Donaldson could be "among others"

Maybe it's the SAME ranch- Murder on the SecDef's ranch?

[The Stranger]

32. WHAT'S THE FREQUENCY, KENNETH?

[Snoggera]

7. The bodies of three murder victims were found in the desert

and the discussion is about toupee's and eyebrows?

This is a sad story. I have personally been on the road between Roswell and Ruidoso, through Hondo, at least 200 times over the past 30 years.

Maybe I'm just being pissy, but to read no expression of sympathy for the people murdered seems kind of GOP'ish. I don't get the joke on this one.

[fishnfla]

18. welcome to the du lounge

wait 'til they start busting jokes in dead soldier threads, its a laugh a minute

[DrWeird]

21. To each their own. You think three dead people is tragic...

... I think it's a delightful, gut-busting romp of hilarity.

[MnFats]

23. i agree. not to fuggin' funny.

i love a little dark humor like cops do, but hey...we don't even know who they are of how they could have gotten there....it of course is a tragedy....when all is known it may be a bigger tragedy than any of us realize now.

Having said that...... no, no, not gonna do that. No, no. Arrggh. I am torn. but not using the line that came to me. No, I will not do it.

[indigobusiness]

27. Glibness rules

in a culture shallow as a birdbath.

[pinniped]

8. Maybe Sam was doing a story about the * cabal?

In Godfather II the "Don" asked the senator to put up the fee for the gaming license and when he refused a dead body showed up.

[WI_DEM]

9. I see Sam has his alibi all set

"while we were away in Santa Fe" sounds like a job for Columbo.

[tom_paine]

17. "Errrr, Mr. Donaldson, there's something here that is bothering me..."

Sure I'd love to see THAT.

I would also like to know who's bodies they were and who would have motivation for seeing them dead.

[Scairp]

12. Does he actually live there or rent the property out?

The article doesn't say.

[peterh]

15. Sam Donaldson lives in McLean, Virginia with his third wife…..

http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/don0bio-1


probably just splits time between Virginia and his three ranches….




DJ Sam Donaldson Calls In Sheriff: 3 Bodies Found On Ranch

HONDO, N.M. (AP)--Three bodies were found on a New Mexico ranch owned by ABC
newsman Sam Donaldson, and authorities said Wednesday they were treating it as a
triple murder.
Sheriff Tom Sullivan said Donaldson went to the house of his ranch manager on
Tuesday and discovered an "obvious crime scene."
Once sheriff's deputies arrived and searched the area, they found the bodies
of a male and two females, he said. Their identities were being withheld pending
notification of next of kin.
Sullivan said Donaldson wasn't a suspect and was cooperating with the
investigation.
Donaldson owns three ranches between Roswell and Ruidoso. Sullivan wouldn't
say which ranch the murders occurred on.
Donaldson has extensive ties to the state. He grew up on a cotton farm in New
Mexico and graduated from New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell.

[dweller]

42. 3 ranches?

= 1 for each wife?

:wow:
dp

[truthisfreedom]

14. bummer. that's gotta be upsetting.

i'd hate to come back from travelling to find a bunch of dead people in my yard.

[hughee99]

16. I guess ABC is going to have to dump the new

PRIMETIME promotional tagline "Sam Donaldson, he knows where the bodies are buried". Someone was going to say it, I just wanted to be first.

[montana_hazeleyes]

19. Sounds like

something happened at his ranch manager's house since that's where he found the "obvious crime scene"'

[peterh]

22. Dang…didn’t think my subtlety was all that subtle…

:freak:

[montana_hazeleyes]

45. looks like

I missed my calling as a super-detective ,lol.

[Ruby Romaine]

20. remember the killer toupee on The Simpsons"Hell Toupe"

and also from the twilight zone?

[neuvocat]

24. Amazing Stories

did a spoof like that. The guy who's investigating the murders and says "there will be hell to pay...hair toupee..."

He turns around and sees it climbing a hat rack to escape the murder scene.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

25. If it happens on a rich guy's land in the desert, it's news.

If it happens in a public housing development in DC, big effing whoop....

[stevedeshazer]

31. *ding*

There ya go...well said.

[slappypan]

26. Gary Condit, Vince Foster

How cautious was Mr. Donaldson's reporting on these stories? Let's hope the exact same standards of journalism are in effect.

[FredScuttle]

28. Whoops, it is all over for Sam

Nancy Grace just announced on Larry King Live that, as she can plainly tell from the evidence, Sam is GUILTY!

(no, not really...just want to point out what an unethical whore Nancy Grace is)

[Justice]

29. Why is this not referred to as Donaldson's $3.75 million dollar ranch?

sorry for the sarcasm in light of the deaths but I just had to ask.

[daleo]

35. Three ranches, as well as a home in town

He must be loaded with cash. It isn't much of a surprise that media figures at this level seem to have a rightward tilt.

[PsN2Wind]

33. If he was hosting Scarborough

they will probably all be found to have fallen and struck their heads.

[Cocoa]

36. has anyone seen Cokie recently?

[LTR]

37. Will there be a slow-speed car chase?

White SUV?

[pathansen]

38. Isn't he the same newsman who was so critical of Clinton?

[testing123]

41. He probably had some info on the Bush crime family

The Bush crime family lef the bodies there as a warning to Sam so that he would shut his mouth.

I can see the right wing nuts now saying that Clinton did it.

[FlemingsGhost]

40. BREAKING: Police have identified the corpses ...

Police have identified the corpses as Donaldson's credibility, professionalism and self-respect.

[Snoggera]

43. This is one of the sickest fucking threads I've read in a long time

[hightime]

44. 14 YEAR OLD BOY KILLED FATHER MOTHER AND STEP SISTER

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