But Fisher still found plenty of opportunity to torment Winchell. At around two A.M. on July 5, 1999, in the beer-soaked barracks of Delta Company, an exemplary young soldier named Barry Winchell was murderedattacked with a baseball bat while he sleptin the wake of a male malevolent gay-baiting campaign by his roommate, Justin Fisher. That same day, Winchells superiors decide that now is an appropriate time to recommend him for an Army Commendation Medal for meritorious service as an anti-tank gunner. But he had successfully struck his target. He and Fisher are together again, doing time at the U.S. disciplinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He joined the army on October 26, 1998, signing his enlistment papers down in Oklahoma City.. Fisher would not allow Winchell to clean up the blood on the wall, because, as Ruiz put it, he wanted it to be a badge of what could happen again. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Tiefland. Glover misspells many words. During that time frame, Winchell had begun a relationship with Calpernia Addams, a then 28-year-old preoperative transsexual performer at the gay club. As president he almost immediately backed away from that assertion. He was in the army now, and his favorite phrasethe one he used all the timehad come from his drill sergeant during basic training: Suck it up and drive on., If Barry was gay, Pat couldnt have cared less. He couldnt read until he was in the third grade. Calvin N. Glover will begin Thursday. Private First Class Arthur Hoffman said he had heard the same stuff from Glover, and he too believed it, because Glover seemed so wired. After Glover allegedly committed a burglary and an assault, his father, Rue, had him placed in a youth facility. ''But it is an exaggeration to think that every gay at the base is being harassed.''. He is wearing a pair of black shorts, he has a white T-shirt over one of his shoulders, and his clothes are soaking wet. He was able to work him up, provoke him to the point that Glover said, 'Yeah, I'm going to hit him with this bat.'" He put the hair in a storage locker in Florida. An Army investigation of events surrounding the murder of a gay private by a fellow soldier at a base in Kentucky has exonerated all officers of blame and has concluded that no climate of homophobia existed at the base, Pentagon officials said today. On July 8, Fisher is interviewed by Agent Howard Sander of the Criminal Investigative Division. He was drinking, and he was only 13. The guilty verdict carried a mandatory penalty of life in prison, but military jurors did have the option today of deciding whether Glover would ever be eligible for parole. His promotion to lieutenant general was delayed in October 2002 and May 2003. But he doesnt want to leave the wrong impression, so hes flexible. He was heard in this episode in a prison phone interview. In fact, it reinforced his own statements made on the day he left his command. We aint through.. Inside Room 303, Fisher and Glover talk about Fishers roommate, who is sleeping outside on the cot. I had nothing against him. Fisher is not ordered into pre-trial confinement until July 1810 days after his interview. Today, Pat thinks she knows why her son left out the details. "Fisher thought Glover would be an excellent candidate to get Pfc. Fisher hears Winchell making gurgling sounds. In addition to the term of imprisonment imposed, U.S. District Judge Raymond P. Moore ordered Glover to serve three years of supervised release and to pay approximately $591,454 in restitution to the United States. Glover was drunk and telling his usual stories about taking drugs and robbing banks when Winchell finally told him that everyone had heard enough, and that he should take his drunk, cherry ass to bed. The sex symbol confessed that "girls thought I was a jokea happy buffoon," before he met his wife. Its hard to know how many blows there aremaybe three, maybe five. One of the soldiers is Justin Robert Fisher, and he lives in Room 303 with another soldier. The light in the hallway is out. Glover leaves. The conclusion of that investigation, conducted by the Army's inspector general, Lt. Gen. Michael W. Ackerman, and expected to be released on Friday, states that some members of the unit in which the killing took place, a company within the 101st Airborne Division, held anti-gay attitudes. A couple of soldiers think hes an O.K. He was speaking to Glover, but said it loudly enoughand often enoughthat other soldiers heard. But there may have been another reason the most serious charges against Fisher were dropped, one that he himself suggested to a fellow soldier who was guarding him during one of the court proceedings. He dials a first time, and then a second and a third and a fourth and a fifth. His mother, Connie, married a man who, she says, was abusive. Most important, Clark pointed to training programs that are now in place to instruct soldiers and officers about how the Dont ask, dont tell policy should be implemented. Glover is not a robot. Dont take this outside the family.. [5], The harassment was continuous until the Fourth of July weekend, when Winchell and fellow soldier Calvin Neal Glover, 18, fought after Winchell accused a boasting Glover of being a fraud. Justin Robert Fisher, 25, and other soldiers for an excursion to Nashville's downtown bars. guyhis roommate, Private Kenneth Bettencourt, actually requested Glover because he was clean and smoked outside and turned down his redneck music when he was asked to. He is wearing white garden gloves with little black dots on them. He serves in Delta Company of the Second Battalion of the 502nd Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, a sprawling army post which houses close to 23,400 people. He went over to the Fort Campbell PX with Bettencourt and Private Michael Casquinoespirito, where he bought a pair of shorts. Fisher tells Bettencourt that someone would have to be sick to do something like that. But she also concluded that the incident with the sergeant had made her aware of the reality of serving as a closeted lesbian in the United States Marine Corps. The reconstruction is based on extensive court-martial testimony against Glover and Fisher, as well as on numerous documents that have never been made publicly available. There are 30+ professionals named "Calvin Glover", who use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas, and opportunities. During the proceedings, Glovers attorneys argue that it was Fisher who had pushed Glover into killing. In another case, involving a navy senior chief petty officer named Timothy McVeigh, a navy investigator allegedly violated federal law by misrepresenting himself in order to obtain confidential information about McVeigh from America Online. A native of Missouri, Winchell enlisted in the Army in 1997 and was transferred in 1998 to Fort Campbell, Kentucky. I think youll be surprized, alongside of the whole nation with who was standing over Winchell with the bat last, and possibly swung the last Fatal Blow!!!. On July 6, 1999, Barry Winchell, a 21-year old infantry soldier in the United States Army, was murdered while he slept, outside of his barracks by fellow soldier Calvin Glover for dating a transgender woman, Calpernia Addams, after a physical altercation between the two. He cannot get through, because, unbeknownst to him or any of the other soldiers, it is impossible to call 911 from inside the barracks. On Aug. 8, 2020, Glover pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States. He didnt talk about Fisher much, and he even indicated they were getting along reasonably well. Wally, who had served in Korea, seconded the opinion. He knew that if he let Glover get up he would just start swinging again. He has found the perfect weapon in Gloverparticularly when Glover picks up a wooden baseball bat and starts mumbling to himself while making chopping motions. Glover walks around Fishers room for nearly 10 minutes with a psychotic look on his face, still mumbling every now and then, still making swinging motions with the bat. The investigation is such that many soldiers will have their statements taken more than once, and many crucial questionsparticularly those involving the true depth of Fishers involvement and the anti-gay harassment of Winchellwill be barely touched on initially by the armys Criminal Investigative Division. Glover is eight years younger than Fisher, and Fisher has been working on him for nearly 15 hours, off and on, goading him, humiliating him, digging under his skinall because of a fight the previous night. Glover was soundly defeated by Winchell, and Fisher harassed Glover about being beaten by "'a fucking faggot' like Winchell. He is joined by Sergeant Bradley Harden, who applies a field dressing. In a further effort to show that Glovers actions were not premeditated, defense attorneys also point to the soldiers drunkenness. A native of Missouri, Winchell enlisted in the Army in 1997 and was transferred in 1998 to Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Private, 101st Airborne Division, US Army. . He told her that he was going to go down to Florida with Medinger, and she told him how much she liked the new job she had started as a psychiatric nurse. Shop for Vinyl, CDs and more from Calvin Glover at the Discogs Marketplace. Calvin Glover We found 70 records for Calvin Glover in ID, IL and 23 other states. Calvin Glover, 18, was found guilty of premeditated murder Wednesday in the beating death of Pfc. But according to Alanna Nashwho spent time with the real Colonel in the 90sthere were times when he was just as scary as what you see onscreen. The relationship never interfered with his military duties, and it seems implausible that Fisher had started the rumor about Winchell out of some sense of duty to uphold the armys regulations prohibiting homosexual behavior. As the S.L.D.N. To me it seems as if the Pentagon brass and the Fort Campbell command are more concerned about protecting themselves than the safety of our soldiers. A 19-year-old private, Calvin Glover, was later court-martialed and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder. Rather, the report described a sort of upstairs-downstairs mentality at the base in which instances of harassment were not brought to the attention of those in command who might have stopped them. Glover was "erroneously" released to a parole program instead of being sent back to the Stateville Correctional Center after a Feb. 24 court hearing, according to the sheriff's office. They see their son in a coma, breathing with the aid of a respirator. According to court documents, Calvin Glover of Parker, Colorado, owned Colorado-based renewable fuel company, Shintan, Inc. Glover conspired with others to file more than $7 million in false claims for refundable fuel tax credits with the IRS. To Arthur Hoffman, he looks jumpy. He drinks all the time, say fellow soldiers who know him. He has also been diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and is being treated with Wellbutrin, an antidepressant drug. He talked about how eager he was to enter warrant-officer school. She had spoken to her son the previous Thursday. But the United States, virtually alone among NATO countries, stands firm claiming that homosexuality in the military can irrevocably damage the morale and cohesion of fighting units. . Record: 0-12-0. A sentencing hearing for Pvt. Given that freedom, Fisher tries to obstruct justice by sending phone messages using code words to his close friend Specialist David Long. He didnt mention that he liked to dress in womens lingerie. But inside Room 303, on the third floor of the building, known as Alpha Module, a disc is put into a CD player. The details herein of the detainment of Calvin Glover are meant to reflect only that Calvin Glover was suspected by a duly sworn member of a law enforcement agency in Florida of committing a crime. He enlisted in the army in April of 1997 and achieved the rank of specialist. Still, an age exception was approved, and he was allowed to enlist even though he wasnt yet 18. Once, when he saw a patch on a soldiers flight jacket, he mistakenly thought it meant that the soldier was a skinhead. According to Sanders report, Fisher admits that he taunted Glover about being beaten up by a faggot. He admits that when Glover said that he should go outside and fuck Winchell up he had urged him to go for it. He admits that he washed the bloody bat. In 1999, Fisher and others took Winchell to a Nashville club, The Connection, which featured transgender performers, where Winchell met a trans woman showgirl named Calpernia Addams. Fisher is still maintaining the fiction that he tried to save his roommateto such an extent that Pat and Wally Kutteles want to personally thank him. Winchells head faces the wall, leaving the left side exposed to Glover. Winchell insisted he didn't want to fight, but something drove Glover to keep provoking one. Murder Victim. Dont worry, said Fisher. After the fight, Winchell tried to avoid further altercations. He even acknowledges that he has just hung himself for conspiracy, and he wonders if he is going to be placed in jail that night. For perhaps the first time she felt that he was where he belonged. Calvin Glover of Parker signed at least 23 false tax returns. But their legacy will be differenta sickening spray of blood which will constitute perhaps the single greatest act of disgrace to occur at a modern military installation on American soil. [2], Calvin Neal Glover was born in Sulphur, Oklahoma. The army has no ethics, she says. Subsequently, in the early hours of July 5, 1999, Glover took a baseball bat from Fisher's locker and struck Winchell in the head with it as he slept on a cot outside near the entry to the room Winchell shared with Fisher. He and the other grunts played Wiffleball, but at one point Glover took the Wifflebat and started smashing the keg holder with it. When he isnt in the field, he is boning up on manualsto the point where he can actually point out mistakes in them. I'm deeply sorry for the pain I've brought your family. Its a Catch-22 everywhere you turn.. When soldiers were asked whether any of them wished to file a formal complaint against Winchell, no one wanted to, and under military regulations, investigations into sexual orientation cannot be initiated unless a formal complaint has been filed. And as one witness told investigators, he certainly didnt mention that he had once started stroking Winchells feet in the middle of the night when Winchell was sleeping. How does your face feel? asks Fisher. Hell take $50,000 for his story of how he murdered an American soldier in his sleep. Winchell was born on August 31, 1977. MMA news, interviews, pictures, videos and more since 1997. In some of the messages, Fisher seems buoyant and almost giddy, as if he knows a wonderful secret. But with the macho code of the military, where excessive drinking appears to be a merit badge all its own, no one in their chain of command seems to care very much. This same day, soldiers will be ordered to clean Alpha Module, according to one soldiers written statement, even though it is a crime scene. The roommates name is Barry Loren Winchell. He is the best shot in the company with a .50-caliber machine gun and has received honors for his marksmanship. The information contained on this website was released by various Sheriff's Offices in and around Tampa Florida and is being displayed lawfully . His credentials for the army were inferior at best. He told her just about everything, but he never mentioned anything about the possibility of moving toward a different sexual inclination. Private Christopher Matthews, hearing screams for help, runs up the barracks stairs to the second floor. The other person in Room 303, Calvin Neal Glover, is 18 years old and was born on January 30, 1981. The comments are routine: Die, fag, Kill all fags, and If I ever find out for sure youre a fag, Ill kick your ass., In September 1998, a navy R.O.T.C. But when Glover told him to let him hit Winchell, Fisher stepped out of the way. Fisher shares it with a roommate who is sleeping on a cot outside with the company mascot, an Australian blue heeler named Nasty. The next morning, Pat Kutteles gives doctors at Vanderbilt permission to turn off the respirator so her son can die in peace. Theyre one of Hollywoods brightest starsand most troubled actors. Over the next hour, Fisher and the other soldier, Calvin Neal Glover, will make their own contribution to that history. And at the party, Fisher dug deeper. ''It's been so devastating. He could have walked away, but he didn't. "I saw an immediate change," his mother said. A psychologist testified that he'd gotten along with black youths and gay youths at his youth home, in contrast to previous claims that he was a racist homophobe. Glover said he was drunk at the time of the murder and was recovering from alcoholism, and that he didn't know why he attacked Winchell. Thats why Winchell had been crying, they said. Joyce goes upstairs, sees blood coming out of Winchells mouth, hears him choking, then runs back downstairs and calls 911. Blades of grass are stuck to his face. Army leaders need to deal with this problem head on, and stop the harassment. Fisher began to spread rumors of the relationship at Ft. Campbell. . The 68-minute film follows Shields through her childhood and complex relationship with her mother and manager, Teri Shields. At that point, Glover and Fisher apparently began messing with Winchell, punching him in the head and running back to Room 303 before Winchell was fully awake. The first blow. 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