'Missing Candidate' Convicted of Faking Post-Crash Disappearance for Attention

[bijou]

DOVER, N.H.  —  A businessman was convicted Wednesday of faking his disappearance after a car crash two years ago to draw attention to his long-shot congressional campaign.

A jury in Dover convicted Gary Dodds of falsifying evidence, causing a false public alarm and leaving the scene of the April 2006 crash. He showed no emotion as the verdicts were returned on the first day of deliberations after a 15-day trial.

Dodds, 43, claims he injured his head in a crash on the Spaulding Turnpike and nearly drowned in a river before being rescued 27 hours later from the snowy woods. Prosecutors say he spent part of that time soaking his feet in cold water to make it appear he spent the night outdoors, all to boost his faltering campaign.

"He had a story that he was going to stick to," County Attorney Thomas Velardi said during closing arguments Friday. It would've been a heroic story. It would've been a great story — all the people who hadn't heard of him before ... really would've known who he was."

...Dodds continued campaigning for the Democratic nomination in the 1st Congressional District after the crash but came in third in the four-way primary.

 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331608,00.html

Wonder what his DU name was?

[NHSparky]

Oh, trust me, he's still got a shitboat full of people who think he's STILL innocent:

http://www.seacoastconnects.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4724

[bijou]

Oh, trust me, he's still got a shitboat full of people who think he's STILL innocent:

http://www.seacoastconnects.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4724

Perhaps they could form a support group with Seiglman supporters.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Rove disappeared him because he was a threat to the BFEE Illuminati.