Robert Lindsay Explains Why Dr. Melba Ketchum May Have Asked Justin Smeja To Tamper With His "Bigfoot" Sample
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On several occasions Justin Smeja mentioned that Dr. Melba Ketchum had tried to convince him to contaminate his "Bigfoot" steak. Why in the world would she ask him to do something so shady? Robert Lindsay thinks he knows why:
Ketchum tried to get Justin Smeja to tamper with his Bigfoot sample! Amazing story that is just breaking right now. Smeja is the man who shot and killed two Bigfoots in the Sierra Nevadas of California in 2010. A source has informed me that Melba asked Smeja to tamper with his sample after she realized that she was not going to get any more of it. She had been bothering him for all of his sample for some time.
No one knows why she wanted all of the sample, but the folks around Smeja thought she wanted it so that no one would be able to replicate her results. When Justin refused to hand over the remains of what he had, in January 2012, Melba told him over the phone to tamper with the sample. Several people were in the room – including at least Justin, Justin’s wife and the driver who was with Justin the day he shot the Bigfoots – when she said that, and they all heard her make that statement via a speakerphone.
It’s not known why she wanted Justin to mess with his sample or how she wanted him to tamper with it. One theory was that by tampering with it, it would make the sample, possibly not from a Bigfoot, appear to come from a Bigfoot. But that does not seem to be possible. How do you tamper with a piece of bear meat to make it look like it came from a Bigfoot?
What is more likely is that she spitefully wanted him to tamper with his sample to make it damaged and unusable by any other researchers. Apparently she wanted to be the only researcher to have access to that sample. She was afraid that if he sent it off to someone else, they could publish and usurp her with the Bigfoot DNA data, stealing her thunder.
Melba is all about pure raw ambition, 100%. She has the morals of Bill Gates when it comes to doing or saying anything or using anyone in any way to achieve her single-minded ruthless goals. This type of sleazy behavior – trying to get Justin to basically destroy his sample so no one could one-up her – is exactly in line with what we have come to expect from this viciously competitive and morally stunted woman.
Justin did not take her up on her offer to tamper with his sample. It was this offer that seriously soured Justin and Bart Cutino on Melba. As Bart put it (not in these exact words), they both thought she was a sleazeball and a morally suspect person. Asking Justin to damage his sample was so sleazy and shady that they began to wonder whether this amoral behavior had shaded over into her study. In short, they both began to wonder whether she was morally reputable enough to conduct the DNA study. This was the main reason why they took Justin’s steak to an outside source, where it bizarrely tested for Justin’s DNA and Black bear, results that I cannot explain.
In Ketchum’s defense though, see the comments from Caz in the comments section of this post. Caz suggests that perhaps Ketchum was merely making a request to alter the sample so it could store more properly.Ketchum tried to get Justin Smeja to tamper with his Bigfoot sample! Amazing story that is just breaking right now. Smeja is the man who shot and killed two Bigfoots in the Sierra Nevadas of California in 2010. A source has informed me that Melba asked Smeja to tamper with his sample after she realized that she was not going to get any more of it. She had been bothering him for all of his sample for some time.
No one knows why she wanted all of the sample, but the folks around Smeja thought she wanted it so that no one would be able to replicate her results. When Justin refused to hand over the remains of what he had, in January 2012, Melba told him over the phone to tamper with the sample. Several people were in the room – including at least Justin, Justin’s wife and the driver who was with Justin the day he shot the Bigfoots – when she said that, and they all heard her make that statement via a speakerphone.
It’s not known why she wanted Justin to mess with his sample or how she wanted him to tamper with it. One theory was that by tampering with it, it would make the sample, possibly not from a Bigfoot, appear to come from a Bigfoot. But that does not seem to be possible. How do you tamper with a piece of bear meat to make it look like it came from a Bigfoot?
What is more likely is that she spitefully wanted him to tamper with his sample to make it damaged and unusable by any other researchers. Apparently she wanted to be the only researcher to have access to that sample. She was afraid that if he sent it off to someone else, they could publish and usurp her with the Bigfoot DNA data, stealing her thunder.
Melba is all about pure raw ambition, 100%. She has the morals of Bill Gates when it comes to doing or saying anything or using anyone in any way to achieve her single-minded ruthless goals. This type of sleazy behavior – trying to get Justin to basically destroy his sample so no one could one-up her – is exactly in line with what we have come to expect from this viciously competitive and morally stunted woman.
Justin did not take her up on her offer to tamper with his sample. It was this offer that seriously soured Justin and Bart Cutino on Melba. As Bart put it (not in these exact words), they both thought she was a sleazeball and a morally suspect person. Asking Justin to damage his sample was so sleazy and shady that they began to wonder whether this amoral behavior had shaded over into her study. In short, they both began to wonder whether she was morally reputable enough to conduct the DNA study. This was the main reason why they took Justin’s steak to an outside source, where it bizarrely tested for Justin’s DNA and Black bear, results that I cannot explain.
In Ketchum’s defense though, see the comments from Caz in the comments section of this post. Caz suggests that perhaps Ketchum was merely making a request to alter the sample so it could store more properly.
Justin Smeja, a hunter from Sacramento, CA was out bear hunting near Gold Lake with his friend (the driver) back in October 2010. This is his story:
[via Robert Lindsay]
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ReplyDeleteKEN: Well I guess that is as possible as Bigfoot right now. Why would any one do this? Ketchum, trying to put something together, and be able to prove it, and then be transparent, and be taken serious by the scientific and common folk at the same time. Kind of a stretch even for the bigfoot community. Whatever works I guess.
Deleteis there anything related to bigfooting that isnt completely batsh*t insane? ANYTHING?
DeleteSacramento Ca. Huh? Funny I'm from Marin County not far from Sacramento....
DeleteOne question, can this Justin read?
Haha, true who knows if this guy can even read especially if he's from the valley but I bet he can take a glass air freshener and torch it into a pipe that's for sure !!
DeleteNow Lindsay's really lost it for real, totally loopy.
DeleteWe can never catch moose and squirrel.
DeleteStay away from Willow Ca. !!!
DeleteNot Willows Creek but Willows
Robert Lindsay, you obviously have Borderline Personality Disorder. In the previous post, you idolized Ketchum insofar as comparing her to Jesus. In this post, you vilify her and call her "sleazy". You need serious psychiatric help. It's called splitting and you should read up on it.
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DeleteSo how exactly did the telephone conversation go, "Hi Justin Melba here I just called to ask if you could tamper with your steak for me"
Yeah I know it's suggestive and that is my point how words can lead you to think in one particular direction, so in reality she is unlikely to have used the word "tamper" is she, so what were the words she did use, was it "Could you put the steak in Ehtanol to preserve it better", that of course would have been damning as Ethanol destroys dna fast, or perhaps she said keep it damp another no no, she could have said bleach of course which is used in washing samples in labs anyway but when you use this word "tamper" it can only be interpreted as nefarious, so come on Justin lets have it on the level.
"where it bizarrley tested positive for Bear and Justin's DNA"....wouldnt it have been strange if it ctually tested positive, by an outside lab, as "unknown" primate or unknown human haplotype? But Bigfooters like Lindsay think its strange when identified as something OTHER than the obvious known animals out there!
DeleteWe all knew it wouldnt be Bigfoot, even that absolute idiot Justin Smeja. There was. no conspiracy but by Smeja, Sahebi, Olinselot and Evidence.
Smeja shot 2 bigfoot's... I believe this. I would support him if I knew him, but I don't. He seems truthful and honest to me. Although, I wish Team Tazer would address/clear up this issue sometime very soon. If they already have...did I miss it?
DeleteAnyone??
I am a Team Tazer supporter, but the silence they have displayed regarding this matter goes against everything (I thought) they stood for.
Shawn makes money off my web hits so I want answers dammit!!
DeleteYou know I think you are a dying race, in fact you may be the last of your kind, but don't worry when you finally realise the truth you will feel a whole lot better.
Perhaps she did not want anyone else to have access to the "steak" so she could continue to lie about it without fear of testing exposing her BS.
ReplyDeleteShe can't sink lower my god
DeleteThis makes about as much sense as anything else coming out of this fool's blog.
ReplyDeleteAnd it's repeated twice in case you didn't get it the first time.
BE bias agenda operation in a nutshell.
DeleteThis post may be Lindsay's biggest whopper yet. First Matilda the Bigfoot slut, now this. That's how pathological liars seem so convincing. There is always a grain of truth in what they say, then they start with the lies.
DeletePathological lying is a symptom of Borderline Personality Disorder.
Deleteanon 3:05 "bigfoot slut" LOL that was f*cking hilarious!! ha ha ha
DeletePsssst Lindsay actually got this one right and didn't even share the half of it. Run melba lovers..run
DeleteWhat, come on man this is getting as silly as a bear riding a motor cycle at the circus and these guys are the CLOWNS!
ReplyDeleteThese guys are clowns alright, that we can be sure of !!
DeleteDignity. Someone please explain this word to these clowns.
ReplyDeleteI hope these clowns got a good price for selling off their dignity
DeleteHi I'm Justin Smeja/Robert Lindsay and I'm here to apply for your job opening".
DeleteLOL
Robert Lindsay is just another cog in the machinery of this DNA hoax. I will bet Roberts favorite finding bigfoot episode is the one with all of the screaming, laughing, prepubiscent campfire girls. I bet he could really show them a weenie roast.
ReplyDeleteRobert Lindsay pretends to be Enoch. Enoch knows this. Enoch ya!
DeleteClown you say? Yeah not hard to prove they are clowns just read & watch!
ReplyDeleteBased upon what I'm reading at the BFF, Tyler and Bart plan to go after Melba hard (most likely on Wally's behalf). Threre is talk that she ran up $500K in expenses for work that could not have exceeded $100K. It should get interesting.
ReplyDeleteMore futile character assasination, boy oh boy the government really is serious about keeping this a secret aren't they.
DeleteSometimes character assassination happens to be the truth.
DeleteKeep us posted on the ravings over at the BFF. I was thinking maybe they would purge some of the skeptics that hammer them on a daily basis.
DeleteThose pussies banned me for nothng...just a believer site
DeleteWell Thank goodness Justin Smeja is a good honest upstanding individual,how many bigfoot kids did he say he shot again?Or was it just a mutant bear?Hard to remember what the right story is.Justin and Melba sound like a perfect match to me.Poor little Justin
ReplyDeleteYeah, Bigfoot killers are notorious liars.
Deleteanyone seen Rictor's newest drawing of Melba with Paullides? ha ha ha!! Shawn NEEDS to post that on this site. It is classic indeed.
Deletehttp://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/stories/bigfoot-evidence-conclusive-says-scientifically-dubious
ReplyDeletecan someone just get some evidence of this monkey thanks
ReplyDeleteThat'll be the zoo for you again, then.
Deletehttp://technabob.com/blog/2013/02/15/bigfoot-dna-evidence-published/
ReplyDeleteWe know Cutino's lab tested Smeja's meat as bear. What did Ketchum's piece of paper say it was?
ReplyDelete(drum roll please)
BE's smear machine is ill-informed with this new diversion attempt, the latest REAL (not fabricated) news is that name scientists are very much interested in the paper now its release has happened.
DeleteNo that's not true!!!! We all know that Smeja was terrified of being arrested for homicide and so gave the lab a screwed up sample because the government told him to do it! You know some one on here actually said this and believed it, this is exactly how crazy some people are. This story doesn't surprise me at all as Curtino and Smeja all but said this last year when they announced they'd hired their own geneticists to examine the sample and maybe his boots. What happened with the boots anyhow?
DeleteI like that..."name scientists".
DeleteLink or stfu.
I'm going to take a wild guess and say Ketchum's paper says Smeja's beef was 110% Grade A Sasfooty.
Link? lol She's confirmed it on her own private fb group.
DeleteIt won't be long before the "name scientists" will be getting a knock on their doors from government agents wearing dark suits and sun glasses who will be making offers that these unknown "name scientists" that they can't refuse.
DeleteOh give me a break already first off they would shut down Melba to start said it a security risk and by now definately her site and her samples would've been missing by now there's no conspiracy folks
DeleteGive me a break for Gosh sakes just how many more twist and turns will the on going story take ? It's like they are making it up as they go adding anything and everything to keep it going.
ReplyDeleteYou got it Paul, it's one big fakey oiled machine from the government's anti bigfoot brigade to discredit and smear, after all character assasination is nothing compared to real assasinations and that's what they're doing here bassically. Attempts to deter and tire her. In other words, they're thinking bodily harm over this subject's not worth it as it's too popular so shit slinging it is with words instead.
DeleteYou're right, they will unmercifully and savagely destroy Melba. She definitely needs another all expenses paid vacation to Greece to rest and prepare herself for the coming war.
DeleteWhy not, that Merchant dude's doing it his way with jesty stabs because ridicule's the name of the game for the detractors. The enemies and secret protectors of the truth realize the subject's cultural importance and family orientation, so we're not seeing serious physical harm being perpetrated at least.
DeleteWhy give josh gates a break?
DeleteHow anyone even as pathetic as RL can justify ketchum's requesting to tamper with a sample is just unbelievable to me. Have heard rumors of this as I figured something like this was going on with Bart never associating himself with her like the rest of the Oly Project and even testing indepdently. I don't buy the BFRO takedown crap as they can't control what results the labs got.
ReplyDeletegood for him if this is true and yeah, even Smeja for that matter.
Bigfooting is pretty damn despicable right now with the likes of Dyer, Ketchum, Daisy on and on and on
Hi Bart.
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DeletePretty obvious why she'll never upload the data to Genbank for anyone to actually look at. She's smart enough to know that all any doubters with a little backing would need is a swab from Justin and they would get a match for the contamination and the left over "magic" DNA would be from Black Bear.
ReplyDeleteI wonder why people think the Bigfoot community are all crazy? Everyone seems so honest and upstanding to me.Have you ever noticed only the lying freaks are in the news all the time and the few good ones only once in a while?
ReplyDeleteYes I have noticed by the news you mean on here right
DeleteWe can never catch moose and squirrel.
ReplyDeleteAaahhh.that trick never works
DeleteWait... I thought that Melba was up on the cross and that she was taking all of our pain, her torture is our torture, we should cut her some slack and get behind her????? Now she is morally suspect and a sleezeball
ReplyDeleteVery good post on the issues with the paper by a BF witness and scientist on the BFF.
ReplyDeletehttp://bigfootforums.com/index.php?/topic/7225-the-ketchum-report/page__st__14120
Anyone who would believe anything Robert Lindsay would say is just plain stupid..Lindsay has sought to discredit any and everyone he can in order to garner his 15 minutes of fame. He does not care if there is any truth to his accusations just as long as he gets his 15 minutes...I have been involved in Melbas study for 2 years now and have not been asked nor have I seen anyone be asked to lie or tamper with anything...justin only came out with this story after he submitted a specimen to another study. ...so once again anyone giving credence to the lies spewed by lendsay clearly have not been paying attention to his long history of bullsh! T...
ReplyDeleteYou must be calling both bart and derek liars as they both heard this story 14 months ago. Long before any other lab got a piece of sample.
DeleteAnon 3:07 is right about Lindsay but wrong about this.
DeleteI knew about this from the horse's mouth and this caused Smeja to test elsewhere. I'm laughing at Lindsay's answer for this to btw.
and of course no one else was asked to tamper anything because only what three samples were genomes with smeja's sample being one and she didnt have control of it.
I'm amazed at how clueless some of this melab followers are
Plus if im not mistaken didnt Lindsay get in trouble a while back....something to do with underaged girls...
ReplyDeleteLindsay must be under a threat of lawsuit for past writings if he doesn't support her now. He is writing for his trust fund!
ReplyDeleteil give you $10 000 to NEVER EVER post any of that slugs posts again.
ReplyDeleteKeep it up Lindsay, if I were advising Ketchum, and I might,I would have a lawsuit crammed up your ass so fast
ReplyDeletekinky
DeleteYup. She knew Justin could expose her.
ReplyDeleteAnother bullseye for Robert "Sniper" Lindsay!
ReplyDeleteA more logical reason for tampering would be so it came out inconclusive rather than it being not Bigfoot.
ReplyDeleteI hope the kids who read this blog think Justin Smeja is a hero.
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm an adult, and I know he's a hero, so is Cutino, and Moneymaker, Derek Randles, Wally, Paulides, Kulls, Noel, Coleman, Bindernagel, Meldrum, and a few others! Oh ya, and Chuck from Bigfoot Radio! (awesome) There are plenty of researchers out there that are trustworthy, and the real deal!!
DeleteBy hero he means a good liar. :D
DeleteAbout the only "real deal" in bigfooting is Wally Hersom. Biscardi carries the flag over time more than anyone currently.