KENDRICK JOHNSON: Death of teen at Lowndes High School in Valdosta, GA - 2013 - murder or accidental?

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Johnson’s family has long-suspected the teen was killed by classmates and theorized that their parents conspired with school and law enforcement officials to cover up his death. If authentic, the audio may be one of the first significant clues to emerge since the case’s reopening earlier this month by the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office.

Investigators declined to comment on what's said in the audio but confirmed they’re now tracking down the individual who allegedly sold the tape to Johnson’s mother.
 
Do you know if it has ever been determined who's blood was next to his other shoe?
The Sheriff made a comment about the blood in one of Ash's videos. I'm not sure they even ever tested it.

I didn't like the Sheriff's comment about blood in the gym. Something about "when you play basketball there's going to be blood." I guess it would depend on how much and where, but no. And in a suspicious death investigation, that should be tested no matter where you THINK it came from. Didn't like him in general though. Maybe it was just me but it seemed like he was using the interview as an opportunity to campaign. Look what I've done! Look what I'm doing! I'm a great guy. Nobody ever accused me of lying. Etc.
 
Some of that might make sense or could make sense as for removing clothes so I can see some logic in some of the thoughts. Which brings me back to trying to recall how his arms were positioned when found and how much room he had. That would definitely be a key factor. Even if he kicked off or pulled off his shoes with this feet, I still don't see them ending up positioned that way. They are tucked behind and above his body/leg. How does that happen?

Hot or not though, the priority human response would be to try to 1) be able to breathe, did he have room and air to breathe in his head area and if not, that is where you would be panicking rather than unzipping pants, etc.?; and 2) get out. I can see possibly trying to kick shoes out to get attention (not convinced) but still don't see them coming to rest that way. This was on end wasn't it, with head down first to the floor I imagine? Was it straight up and down or angled, resting one end on a bleacher or something?

If I went head first into a standing rolled mat, my arms are going stretched out in front of me. No? How do you get those arms back down to unzip your jeans without breaking your arms?
As I understand it, the mat was standing on end and flat on the floor and was only a few inches taller than he was, and so the way I imagine it happened is that he held onto one side with one hand while reaching in with the other, essentially lowering himself down and reaching as far as he could, and then for some reason, lost his hold and fell in.
Movement was restricted, no question, but it isn't my impression that he couldn't move at all.
 
One can't see the full bottom of the shoe behind his leg (the right shoe as we look at it, but the left shoe of the pair, the one closest to his leg). It is either tucked behind his leg or his body is on top of it even. In fact it is behind BOTH legs. It's pretty clear and easy to see. How does that happen? And that both end up in such a spot?
I can see the very rear part of one shoe partially behind his calf. It doesn't look peculiar to me.
 
and the shoes on top (white/orange ones) are not Adidas. That is a Nike Swoop logo. Adidas logo has no swoop.
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Those are right and left Nike's, swoosh shows on the outward side of each shoe.
Considering that the left one is on top of the right and that the right foot is 'above' the left, it appears to me that he took off the left one last.
 
Kendrick was found dead in the gymnasium at 10:30 a.m. on January 11, roughly 10 hours after his family reported him missing. He was located in the left corner of the gym, in a rolled-up mat that was lying against a wall. A pair of Nike shoes was found in the mat with Kendrick, and one black and white Adidas shoe was found near Kendrick in a pool of blood. The second shoe was discovered on the floor in front of one of the mats in the gym, according to the local news outlet.

 
same questions here, too. And if Kendricks shoes were the Adidas ones, then stating that he kicked off the orange ones after he was stuck makes absolutely no sense
I stay clearer with saying white shoes and black shoes lol. No confusion that way for me who is easily confused. Lol.

In fact I am confused with this here. Are both pairs of shoes his? That is or isn't the case?
 
I stay clearer with saying white shoes and black shoes lol. No confusion that way for me who is easily confused. Lol.

In fact I am confused with this here. Are both pairs of shoes his? That is or isn't the case?
To my knowledge, both were his.
The black ones (Adidas) are the ones he wore to athletics class; I believe they're the same ones he's wearing in the basketball photo at the start of this thread.
 
Kendrick was found dead in the gymnasium at 10:30 a.m. on January 11, roughly 10 hours after his family reported him missing. He was located in the left corner of the gym, in a rolled-up mat that was lying against a wall. A pair of Nike shoes was found in the mat with Kendrick, and one black and white Adidas shoe was found near Kendrick in a pool of blood. The second shoe was discovered on the floor in front of one of the mats in the gym, according to the local news outlet.

Lying against a wall makes it sound like it was actually lying on it's side on the ground next to the wall rather than standing or leaning against a wall and that just opens up a whole other set of questions. Hopefully that is just bad wording. Lying implies horizontal position.
 
As I understand it, the mat was standing on end and flat on the floor and was only a few inches taller than he was, and so the way I imagine it happened is that he held onto one side with one hand while reaching in with the other, essentially lowering himself down and reaching as far as he could, and then for some reason, lost his hold and fell in.
Movement was restricted, no question, but it isn't my impression that he couldn't move at all.
Well if one looks at his legs, there isn't much room with the shoes there from side to side. So one can kind of imagine with his rear end further in the tube, that would be at least the same width as his legs took up if not a little more. Then the shoulders are going to be the widest further down and I think the shoulders would leave no room at all or at least fit fairly snug side to side. With his head beyond the shoulders and the floor below, he wouldn't have much air to breathe and not great air and only coming from the top and it would have to go around his body for lack of a better way to put it. There just wouldn't be great air supply. Is his cause of death due to his own weight on his head and neck and compressing or is it from lack of oxygen in the tube? I think it was positional to answer my own question now that I think about it.

I don't see him somehow going in as you are picturing. If the tube is taller than he was, he could never reach the shoes on the bottom with just one arm, that would be obvious to him I think before even trying...? Both arms spread wide are supposed to be close to our total height if one measures the width span of spread arms. So he'd only be able to reach about halfway down or so with one arm holding onto the side. Stand next to your refrigerator, hands at sides. How far down the frig are your fingertips just standing there?

I am the same height almost exact as the frig here. I just did it. My fingertips at best are 2/3 down the frig with an entire 1/3 to go. If it was a few inches taller than me, it would likely be just past 1/2 and not even 2/3.

I can picture someone holding his feet trying to help him though and losing grip of him. And I can picture others putting him in on purpose. If he went in on his own, it would almost naturally be with both arms extended. And if that was the case, though I can't fathom why he'd do that, he would never be able to unzip his own pants, etc.
 
I can see the very rear part of one shoe partially behind his calf. It doesn't look peculiar to me.
It's hard to put into words but I don't see how anyone thinks he could have gotten them both there like that and behind the leg(s), side by side, same place, same direction. And not only behind the legs but upward and tucked behind. Even if that is accepted, then it is also the totality of everything. I haven't even said anything about the blood on the floor. Into the mat head first, arms out they would almost have to be, or broken, yet he unzips his pants and more. Going down into it alone knowing he couldn't get back out. Didn't he go in to get shoes or was it a shoe? Why were they in there?

For me at least, one thing maybe, two at most I perhaps could get past, but not all these things and more, nope.
 

The document is a summary of files provided by the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, which contain investigative material from the Department of Justice, FBI, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, Washington, D.C. Police Department, Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Lowndes County Sheriff's Office, Valdosta-Lowndes County Crime Laboratory, Lowndes County Coroner, Federal Grand Jury testimony by 58 individuals, and additional autopsies by Dr. William R. Anderson and the Department of Defense.
 
Credle was called in after several local authorities recused themselves from the case — which many believe was due to the primary persons of interest being the sons of an FBI agent. PersonS of interest. SonS of an FBI agent. Locals recusing. Pretty clear and logical to think the POIs were popular kids with important parent(s).

— including the teen’s missing organs and unidentified blood splatter found near his body — the documentary presents a damning piece of evidence that was never before made public: Surveillance stills showing the primary person of interest standing next to Kendrick before he vanished — contradicting claims that he did not see Kendrick the day he vanished on campus. Missing organs??!! He didn't see Kendrick and now they know he did?? And clearly there were persons of interest. (I thought there were initially but it's been so long I wasn't sure I was right).

He was located in the left corner of the gym, in a rolled-up mat that was lying against a wall. A pair of Nike shoes was found in the mat with Kendrick, and one black and white Adidas shoe was found near Kendrick in a pool of blood. The second shoe was discovered on the floor in front of one of the mats in the gym, according to the local news outlet. So there are no shoes missing... One was in a pool of blood. One in front of a mat. Two in the mat with him. What exactly did he go into the mat to get?


...police would not let her or Kendrick’s aunt see his body. While Jacquelyn may have been kept from her son to secure the scene and possible evidence, Pollock told CrimeOnline that Lowndes High School was not placed on lockdown the morning the teen’s body was found on campus. So mom and aunt couldn't see him or even the crime scene but it was not locked down but in other words, it was locked down to just them.

Lowndes County police said they believed Kendrick crawled into the mat to retrieve his shoes, became stuck, and continued to burrow into the mat until he became completely trapped and died. How stupid do they think people are? To retrieve WHAT shoes? Did the white shoes fall upwards from the bottom? Are there now THREE pair of shoes?

As Kendrick lay dead in the gym, the basketball and color guard teams held their night practices. Local newspaper Valdosta Today reported that those children claimed, when questioned by police, that they never saw or heard Kendrick in the gym. It's one thing not to notice him but they didn't notice the pool of blood with his other shoe, nor the other shoe near a mat? Really? Did they ask them about that or just about seeing or hearing Kendrick? So night practices, they thought they might have seen or heard him--then does that mean they don't know a time of death...? Or when he went missing? Really...

“For 11 of my 23 years, I worked cold cases. I’ve never seen a doctor rule on a theory without being able to present facts to me,” Credle told CrimeOnline, claiming the medical examiner kicked him out of her office when he questioned her about her findings. I think this speaks for itself. And fits that they have answered none of the questions and don't have answers and didn't then.

I'll stop there for now. Article is long. Pulled excerpts from article in Post #89 that Ranch provided. Haven't finished reading it yet. Just thoughts. Very hokey.
 
Reading on in the same article. This is such B.S. There aren't only three things wrong, not even just five things wrong, everything is wrong.

TWO independent autopsies that disagree with a medical examiner that had a fit when questioned by a seasoned homicide detective. Inflicted injury/blunt force, not asphyxiation. Lungs didn't support asphyxiation either.

17 inch shoulders.

A shoe in blood but no blood on it.

Another kid saying they didn't lean into or climb into the mats, they lifted/moved the mat to release their things/shoes.

His organs were discarded by the prosecutor. Hmm. So there was a prosecutor involved and he discarded the organs... There were no organs, there was newspaper. But then the GBI said the organs were returned to his body. Boy, it just keeps coming...

Over the years, the Johnsons have publicly implicated brothers Brian and Branden Bell in Kendrick’s death. The three teens were classmates. The brothers’ father, Rick Bell, was an FBI special agent who ultimately resigned after his home was raided and searched for evidence, according to NBC. Credle, who was on the case for eight months, alleged that almost every person they interviewed mentioned Rick approaching them at some point about Kendrick’s case. No, nothing fishy at all in this case.
 
I think this next section should stand on its own, for reading if in years one reads here, from article in Post #89. This defies words. Horrilbe, inexcusable and clearly something very wrong going on here.

The Smoking Gun?​

While the FBI concluded in 2016 that the Bells were in different areas of the school when Kendrick entered the gym, Pollock claimed the agency’s own 2014 analysis report cites surveillance stills that show Brian in the hallway with Kendrick before he died. Brian had told local media in numerous interviews that he had not seen Kendrick on the day he vanished.

“They saw that report in 2014, they saw that photograph of the boys standing next to each other and they let the Bells go television and say they hadn’t seen KJ,” Pollock told CrimeOnline.

“The fact that Brian didn’t see KJ was a huge thing that they used for years against the Johnson family.”

In addition to the photos in the FBI report, the document also included a ledger that specifically said Kendrick and Brian were standing next to each other in the hallway the morning Kendrick died.

Pollock believed the evidence was so crucial that he flew to Georgia to show Kendrick’s parents. During the film, Jacquelyn becomes so overwhelmed seeing the footage that she has to excuse herself, as Kenneth wipes tears from his eyes. Credle is also shown the report and says he also has never been seen this footage — despite being the federal investigator reviewing Kendrick’s case.

As Pollock explained to CrimeOnline, the bombshell evidence did not come from an anonymous source or undercover sleuthing — it was plainly stated in the FBI’s 2014 analysis report. Despite this, the Department of Justice closed the investigation in June 2016, citing insufficient evidence.

“It wasn’t like I did anything nefarious to find it. I Googled stuff,” he said.

“The fact that a filmmaker, who’s basically an artist college dropout…had to do the work that no one did in Georgia for eight years…”
 
Meanwhile, Pollock, who called for a federal probe, said he does not believe justice will find Kendrick’s case in Georgia.

Pollock said, “It’s up to the national pressure. It’s up to us to move the needle for KJ, because they are never going to do it down there.”


Same article again. Last post on it. I'll just say a video and national pressure did it in Arbery in Georgia, and the family, but even then they still tried to cover and excuse and had a review by another DA come back with the same. It took it in Vanessa Guillen's case Fort Hood. Also took some time and pressure and attention and focus on many deaths there and more and even then it was resisted like it would just go away. Maybe this one will take more but hopefully one day... But it is pretty sad there already has been that pressure, two other autopsies, two people, one a homicide detective saying it isn't right and they still just blatantly come back with the same. Some attention on it again now though, I hope people keep it on it and make noise.

Honestly, I don't know how anyone can think any of this makes sense. There is a simple scenario that makes perfect simple logical sense. It isn't the one LE and the med examiner say though--THAT one is far fetched and fits nothing.

Jmo.
 

After extensive investigation into this tragic event, federal investigators determined that there is insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that someone or some group of people willfully violated Kendrick Johnson’s civil rights or committed any other prosecutable federal crime. Accordingly, the investigation into this incident has been closed without the filing of federal criminal charges.
 

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