Where to start? What screamed out at me? What was missing? Yes, what was missing?

What year Chevy Blazer was it? "Blazer" or "Chevy Blazer" appeared many times, but the year was never mentioned, Not that big of deal, you say? Well, newspapers usually love this detail. Why not include it this time?

Perhaps they wanted you to think it was an old carbon monoxide puking Blazer? If they gave you the year, you might recognize the fact that this should be a CO₂ puking model, and you might wonder how the cause of death could be monoxide instead of die-oxide (sic).

Cars in the Seattle area must have emissions checks before they may be licensed. The thing that I have noticed is that the vehicles have been making virtually no carbon monoxide for some years now. On the other hand, they make a lot of carbon dioxide, over 15 percent (150,000 ppm) by volume.

When the police were quoted as being concerned about an exhaust system malfunction and wanting to check out all possibilities, does it seem reasonable that the first thing they might have done was to have an emissions test performed upon the Westmark vehicle?

Sure does to me. Did you hear about it? No. Was it done? Yes, it was, and this gets to the reason I distrust the Bellevue Police Department. But, I'm going to keep you dangling on this. Maybe next time. I was told by Bellevue police that the vehicle was a late model vehicle, it was tested, and that it passed its emissions test. Will that hold you for now?

Makes sense doesn't it? Husband and wife both working. New home in the 'burbs. He was a "perfectionist." Not prone to driving an old "beater," like me. (Hey, but I've been accused of being a perfectionist! Yeah, once)!

Perhaps you live in an area where emission testing is not required. Are you aware that it is the law in some areas? What do you think has been going on for the last 20 years regarding emissions? We have been sending the wealth of this nation overseas, particularly to Japan, to insure that we have vehicles that do not make carbon monoxide. Vehicles that make CO₂. Do you still really believe that you must be afraid of monoxide?

The truth of the matter is that "they" have been so successful, and the change has been so drastic that almost nothing makes monoxide anymore. But, "they" don't want you to discover that. Do you think that "they" have failed in "their" attempts to change emissions?

Something else is missing. Remember, the key in the ignition was "on," yet the vehicle had stopped running. Curious. Why? Why did the newspaper articles not explain this? - - - Ah, come on, what do you expect? Who cares?

You might if you knew the answer. (Besides, you get to complete my Junior Detective Course, if you keep going! - - - Ok, ok, I'll make it an advanced degree)!

The most obvious is that it ran out of gas. I don't buy it. Westmark was a "perfectionist." I'll accept the reports on this at face value. He disabled the garage door, he strapped the kids in their car seats, he rolled down the windows. Do you really think he would have done this without enough fuel in the tank? I don't. I think he only allowed for one escape. And that one out was that the wife might have come home just a little early and saved them. I believe he timed it that way. Just a little earlier, and . . . He wanted his wife to have this to ponder the rest of her life. Nope, no proof. My theory. Don't you pay me to theorize? No? Well, why not? Hey, I'm doing all this good work, turning you into a real live detective, maybe even a reporter or writer with some spine, eh?

No, there was gas in the tank. Think about it, If there were not, don't you think the newspapers would have reported that the vehicle ran out of fuel? They couldn't because it didn't. Reporting that it did when it didn't was just too big a stretch even for them.

Some other "malfunction?" Nope! Same reasoning. The malfunction would have been explained ad nauseum by the press. It wasn't. There was none.

Ok, now we are ready for what screams out at me. What do you know about carbon monoxide? Why do you suppose Jack the Ripper, er, I mean Kevorkian, used carbon monoxide in some of his "assisted suicide" cases? Wasn't he supposed to be "humanely" putting people out of their misery? He wasn't supposed to sit there and listen to their dying gasps and coughing, was he?

Did he? Of course not! Carbon monoxide is the "silent killer." It kills you and you don't know it. Westmark's boys were 4 and 2. Do you think they had already been informed about the dangers of running the car's engine in a closed garage? I doubt it. They would not have been crying and screaming just because their dad had the engine on in the garage. They would not have been crying, choking, and coughing if the car were an old carbon monoxide maker. If it were monoxide poisoning, they would have gone quietly to sleep. Imagine.

Now think about the scenario the prosecutor painted to set emotion against Westmark in the courtroom, a courtroom in the United States of America, where truth and justice are supposed to be paramount:

"They were vulnerable," the prosecutor said. "He was deliberately cruel."

"Westmark listened to the boys choke and gasp for air for at least 10 minutes before they died and he lost consciousness."

Now you are ready. The car quit running for the same reason the Westmark boys did. It choked on CO₂ emissions. It could no longer breathe either. It suffocated; it suffocated on CO₂. It did not suffocate on monoxide. Nope. Monoxide is a fuel (for engines but not for people)!

If the car could not breathe because of the CO₂ level, what chance did two little boys have? What do you suppose the level was? We're going to do some work on that question at some future date. For now, I'd like to make clear that there must also have been some monoxide, more than I have let on even if the vehicle was in good working order and made no monoxide under normal circumstances.

To make dioxide instead of monoxide, the car must remove two atoms of oxygen for each atom of carbon burned instead of only one to make monoxide. But, even then, at the time the boys died, there would be enough oxygen left in the garage to live on. It would be like going up in the mountains. But, as the dioxide level rises, it reaches a point where neither the people or the engine can breathe properly. They can no longer utilize the oxygen that is there even though it is sufficient. If an engine can't breathe, what chance do two little boys have? If a CO₂ producing engine cannot breathe, it will begin making monoxide too. Did the engine make enough monoxide to kill the boys before the dioxide killed them or damaged their brains like their father's? I leave the answer to you. Remember the choking and gasping? It is symptomatic of carbon dioxide. I believe that was real. I think that gives you the answer.

How long was the engine running before the exhaust started to choke the boys? Would they really last 10 minutes after the first gasps? What level of CO₂ would be enough to cause coughing and gasping? Death?

I made fun of the Seattle P.I. newspaper. Rightly so, I believe. This once proud newspaper is now just a socialist fish wrapper. I made remarks about truth and justice in an American court room. I am appalled at what is going on in our courts. This is America, people. Since reporting on the Westmark story, the Bellevue paper has changed its name to The Eastside Journal (aka The Eastside Urinal, or just The Urinal). They took the "American" out of it. Suits me just fine. I found nothing of the good, old-fashioned, red-blooded American character remaining in it. Suitable for lining the bottom of your parakeet's cage. Still, they do have their uses, but only if you analyze, compare, disect, and think. Don't trust them. Don't trust me. Can't be American and believe in "globalism" simultaneously. Nope! They realized that and changed the name.

I won't save you. Rush Limbaugh won't save you. Neither will your President. Save yourselves, your families, your friends, and your country. Do it yourself.

Hey, but there's more to this story. Will you come back again? You don't know why I am upset with the Bellevue Police Department. And, there is another avenue to investigate.