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^If he had a degenerative brain disease affecting his thinking and judgment, then there would be no reason to suspect foul play. It also wasn't the first time that he displayed paranoia of being followed- http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2013/07/documents_detail_ex-gvsu_quart.html "Jennifer Finnerty told investigators that it wasn't the first time her husband, Cullen Finnerty, had a "paranoid" episode. Eighteen months earlier, she said, he drove 150 miles to Grand Rapids from Detroit because he feared the FBI was following him." Instead of driving home from Detroit a year-and-a-half earlier, he took off for Grand Rapids in western Michigan due to fears the FBI would follow him, she said. According to Jennifer Finnerty, her husband remained in a state of panic for four to five days. Cullen Finnerty had a past addiction to painkillers, said his wife, who believed a pill he was given by an acquaintance may have caused the paranoia that spurred his trip to Grand Rapids." So he had a past experience where he took painkillers and had a paranoid experience that lasted several days. This outdoors trip sounds no different: "Jennifer Finnerty told police her husband called her around the same time. Cullen Finnerty called out, "Hey, are you there?" three times, she said. He said he was talking to "that guy" and believed someone was 20 feet behind him. She heard rustling noises on the other end of the line and asked her husband what he was doing. Finnerty told his wife that he was taking off his clothes. She told him to stay put, and the call was disconnected. Jennifer Finnerty said she then sent her husband a text message that instructed him not to move, because her brother and father were coming to pick him up." ^^More paranoid experiences after taking painkillers. I don't think it's any coincidence. This guy had a brain injury and combined with painkillers made him go off his rocker.

His bigfoot belief seems to have done nothing to stop his full tenure at ISU. Bud, you need to read the article. They tried to have it revoked...

Regarding the downside of Bigfoot, it was once used against me in an attempt to take over a contract I had with a Fortune 10 company. Some of you know that after leaving the military, I repurposed my experience in nuclear, biological and chemical defense into anti-terrorism consulting in the private sector. I started doing this in '98 right after the African Embassy bombings and had three lean years. Then 2001. Within three years I was consulting full time for the world's largest insurance company. The contract expanded massively and I needed more engineers with military experience, so I reached out to a friend from the military who was running a successful government contracting company. Anyway, one afternoon, I get asked about my bigfoot experience, and he's grinning ear to ear. I explain it and move on. But that's not the end of it. The next day is the steering committee meeting for the project. I walk in with one C-level staff officer present and three who are in position to take over C-level staff positions, and it's brought up again. I then relate my Class A encounter from Washoe County Nevada as clinically as possible. And then move on. In the end, it didn't hurt me, but that was only because I was forthcoming about it and they had already developed a high level of confidence in me. But, It's a good thing to consider that if someone thinks they can use it against you to their advantage, they may well do so.

Yes, I asked Hart here because Jayjeti had questions, and some of the answers that were coming in seemed very uninformed and lacked actual facts. If wanting the facts brought forth makes me anti-Ketchum in the eyes of her supporters, so be it.