David L. Angell: Analysing the Public Domain Images

Introduction

Below are a number of public domain images of David L. Angell and his wife, Lynn E. Angell. Although the majority of these images are not available in their original, full-sized form, all contain significant anomalies and clear evidence of digital manipulation. This fact supports my contention that both characters are entirely fictitious 'vicsims', with equally fictitious 'backstopped' personal histories, created by the perpetrators of 9/11 for reasons as yet unknown.

For those who think this completely inplausible, consider that many of these images are sourced directly from The Angell Foundation's website. This organisation supposedly manages the entirety of the Angell's purported $55 million fortune and lists David's sister and Lynn's brother on its Advisory Committee. Given that it seems reasonable to assume that the Foundation must have access to a whole host of high quality pictures of David and Lynn, why does it offer us instead such obvious forgeries?

The Images

There's clear evidence of digital manipulation in this first image, over and above the fact that David and Lynn resemble cardboard cut-outs. There's a visible block copied and pasted over part of Lynn's hair on the left hand side and obscuring a face (reflected in the mirror?) in the background. Notice that the entire left hand side of the image, from David's shoulder downwards, has been blacked out, although we can just see a fleshy part of the woman in the background that the creator mysteriously failed to erase. Although the image is very poor quality and full of the usual JPEG compression artifacts, there's strong evidence of cloning in the halo that surrounds Lynn Angell. Also, it's interesting to note their respective heights in comparison with one of the other images provided below. This image can be found @ Find A Grave.

I found the below image on Flickr. It's very obviously a high quality blowup of the above image and, oddly enough, is without a background. However, it clearly retains the copy & paste disaster that obscures part of Lynn's hair in the first image. In fact, if we compare the two images then it's obvious that this version obscures even more hair than the first image. There seems to be some sort of background object 'resting' on Lynn's right shoulder (it's also visible in the first image) although in this version it's noticeably different, in terms of shape and the angle it seems to be coming from. The image can be found @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/kids-alliance/3197564822/

The following image is taken from the Angell Foundation's website. Note that Lynn Angell's arms seem to be 'floating' over David's jacket and that the highlighting is very odd: David's facial features are 'blown out' - almost to the point of being bleached white - by a very strong light source coming from left of picture. This is in marked contrast to the top half of Lynne's face. Also, notice that there doesn't appear to be anything substantial inside the right arm of David's jacket, giving the impression that the jacket has been hung on one of those armless shop window dummies and the sleeve ends (which would otherwise hang loose) stuffed into the jacket pockets.

In this next picture David appears very much taller than Lynn and generally much more 'massive' than he does in other images. In the absence of a full portrait shot it's difficult to draw any firm conclusions, although we can extrapolate from Lynn's general attire and say that it seems unlikely she was barefoot or wearing tennis shoes when this picture was 'taken'...

Here's another cardboard cut-out shot from find-a-grave. It's also the most disturbing image by far. Notice David Angel's hands. Both appear to have been amputated, the left completely and the right partially. The right hand seems to be cradling the severed left hand and appears to be bloodstained. We can see what appears to be the stump of his left wrist protruding from the table. Am I really seeing this? What on earth is the creator of this image trying to tell us? Is it not the case that amputating the hands is a punishment meted out to thieves in certain Islamic societies? Is this a reference to David being a literary thief (i.e. a plagiarist), inasmuch as he's an imaginary pseudo-celebrity credited for production and script-writing work performed by others? The image can be found @ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6000872

As regards the below image, compare the 'video still' in the bottom right hand corner with the two other photographs. Notice anything different? It seems that Mr Angell grew tired of his rather oddly shaped ears, because he's clearly undergone the photoshop equivalent of plastic surgery! Zoom in a little and it looks very much like the ear in the video still has been cut and pasted onto the side of his head. See http://edition.cnn.com/2001/US/09/11/notable.victims/index.html for this image.

The final image is of Lynn. Notice the very strange 'sawn-off' appearance of her left arm, the decapitated head which just seems to sit on the rim of her polo neck, the crude "Mr Potato Head" wig, the small chunk of missing shoulder just to the left of the polo neck, and the very odd appearance of the items (a toaster oven and briefcase?) on the right hand side of the image. The reflections in the toaster oven are simply absurd and impossible. To my eye, it appears that the creator has deliberately toyed with her left arm in order to draw our attention to this section of the image. A deliberate clue, perhaps? The image itself can be found @ http://hometown-pasadena.com/talk-of-our-towns/remembering-a-911-angell/