Okay who on this site knows anything about this? Foley is iin trouble again for writing prescriptions for drugs, but I've heard his name mentioned in connection with a headless body found near I69 and SR13 sometime back.
When did this happen?
Who was it?
How did Foley's name get brought into it?
What lake or body of water was it?
Any other details. . . .
Remember when Ray Stevens came out with the song "The Streak"? I am pretty sure it was at that time. I dont think the head was ever found and no convictions were made in the case.
Quote from: andersonbrent on October 16, 2009, 09:54:22 PM
Remember when Ray Stevens came out with the song "The Streak"? I am pretty sure it was at that time. I dont think the head was ever found and no convictions were made in the case.
They ever identify the remains they found? Who was it?
there was another Dr involved too, .... F. Lee Bailey was also involve with this, If I remember correctly..........I think one Dr involved was a Dr. Lynn....who lost his license in the mater.....a head was surgically removed...and a body was found. Dr Foley managed to be cleared but has been well known for several years for his "liberal" use of writing prescripts for pain drugs...this was back in the late 70's.....I'm thinking but not sure but it was over by or around 53rd street and St Rd. 9/67.....but it has been years since I have thought about this....so none of this is the gospel...
I think it happened around 1969 or 70. The doctor whose name was connected with the "headless body in the lake" was Doctor Lind. Doctor Lind went to jail for a firearms violation concerning dynamite and a plumbing bill. Dr. Lind was at one time in the same medical practice with Dr. Foley and Dr. Doles in Middletown. I don't remember Dr. Foley being connected in any way with the body they found in the lake.
I can't remember what they guy's name was but I thought maybe he had some connection with the young woman who was found shot to death in her car at Linders. That may not right but it is how I remember it.
Indianapolis - Authorities are seeking to suspend the medical license of a central Indiana physician who wrote more than 96,000 prescriptions over a 3½-year period and allegedly caused or contributed to the overdose deaths of at least nine patients.
Indiana's attorney general's office will ask a state panel Thursday to suspend the medical license of Dr. Phillip D. Foley of Middletown for 90 days.
The state contends that Foley poses a "clear and immediate danger" to public health and safety. Investigators say Foley sometimes wrote several hundred prescriptions a day for painkillers, sedatives and other medications during the period between January 2005 and May 2008.
Foley's secretary said Monday he'll speak to reporters after Thursday's hearing.
Can anyone point me to any information on this headless body thing? I seem to remember a story when I was living in Anderson about some doctor whose house was several doors down from mine on VanBuskirk and a headless corpse...
Quote from: Exterminator on October 19, 2009, 03:53:07 PM
Can anyone point me to any information on this headless body thing? I seem to remember a story when I was living in Anderson about some doctor whose house was several doors down from mine on VanBuskirk and a headless corpse...
The only name I have heard surrounding the headless body identification was "Gary Lake". The "head and bullets were surgically removed from the body and the head was never found". Dr. Lind (sic?) was convicted of this.
Quote from: Palehorse on October 19, 2009, 06:52:37 PM
The only name I have heard surrounding the headless body identification was "Gary Lake". The "head and bullets were surgically removed from the body and the head was never found". Dr. Lind (sic?) was convicted of this.
I don't think Dr. Lind was ever convicted or charged with anything concerning the body in the lake. I will try and find some references for you.
Good luck. The HB has nothing online and I couldn't find anything with Google or the IN. State Police.
Here's what memories I have of this.
Disclaimer: It has been over 30 -35 years ago IIRC so don't take the details as gospel.
Victim: Gary Lake, supposed police informant.
Crime: Missing Person case turned into a Murder case - unsolved. Body found in pond by I-69 near Pendleton, head 'surgically' removed and missing with rumors of it being in various unnamed people's freezers.
Suspects: Dr. John Lind, who was convicted on Federal drug, explosive, and firearms charges, and/or possibly one or more of Lind's various associates.
Associated cases: The Plumb-Rite bombing.
Interesting tie-in's: The downtown fire where striking firefighters stood by and allowed the buildings between the 800 - 900 block of Meridian to burn to the ground. This is interesting and ties in because one of those buildings was the law office of the Mad. Co. Prosecutor where supposed records tying many important city personages and politicos to the things in which Lind was involved were destroyed. It was rumored the fire even started there.
If it could be narrowed down to a month and year, I'd be happy to go to the library and look at microfilm.
Quote from: pariann on October 20, 2009, 12:28:04 AM
If it could be narrowed down to a month and year, I'd be happy to go to the library and look at microfilm.
Summer months maybe early fall of 1974
You're going with me.
Quote from: Exterminator on October 19, 2009, 03:53:07 PM
Can anyone point me to any information on this headless body thing? I seem to remember a story when I was living in Anderson about some doctor whose house was several doors down from mine on VanBuskirk and a headless corpse...
That would probably have been Dr. Lind as both Dr. Foley and Dr. Doles lived over towards Middletown.
I remember a lake called Headless lake. Is this any comparison to what you guys are talking about? This "Headless lake" was surrounded by trailers.. like a trailer park area. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? I had a step mom who lived near that lake in a trailer before she became my step mom, and visiting her when my dad was dating was a big deal. I heard the stories of a body found without a head so they named it Headless lake. We use to go fisihing at this lake.. and I hated sleeping at her house because the nights use to spook me. Maybe it was a made up story.. who knows.
Results 1 - 10 of about 504,000 for headless lake. :eek: :eek: :eek: :spooked: :spooked: :spooked:
My father was a patient of Dr Lind at the time all this took place. Dad was still seeing him after Dr. Lind more or less saved his life in the St Johns Emergency room when he diagnosed dad's leg pain as a bloodclot. To say we were shocked with news of his involvement is an understatement. We more or less followed the news at the time, but since we had relocated to the other side of the state, it was difficult. Once this happened, we stopped making the monthly drive to Middletown for the follow up visits.
In 1972, the body was found in a trailer park lake along I-69, near SR13. It is just east of 13, along the south side of 69. 69 runs east and west in that section. The trailer park was much smaller back then.
Yes, the lake is at the entrance to Carefree Homes (although I believe it has a different name now), right behind the new Rickers on SR 13 @ I-69.
I don't think Dr. Lind was still practicing out of the Middletown medical clinic at the time this happened. He left there and practiced medicine out of an office on Columbus Avenue in Anderson for a year or so before he was arrested for firearms violations.
I thought he was in Edgewood where Ricker's is now.
I am sure he was on Columbus Ave. just down the street from us, another doctor took over his practice, I think he was oriental and he just died in the last year or so.
Quote from: Anne on December 17, 2009, 06:31:31 PM
I am sure he was on Columbus Ave. just down the street from us, another doctor took over his practice, I think he was oriental and he just died in the last year or so.
I can't think of any doctors offices on Columbus other than the chiropractor I used to go to and I think there is a dentist in that same building and that's just south of 38th St. I didn't think that building was there when Lind was still practicing though.
I think that is the place and I think the doctor who took it over was a Dr. Chung. I may be wrong, but that is how I remember it. I don't know where Dr. Lind is now. He tried to get his license back after he got out of jail and was unsuccessful. Seems like someone told me he went out west maybe. His wife seemed like a very nice person. I only met her a couple times.
Quote from: Anne on December 17, 2009, 09:53:38 PM
I think that is the place and I think the doctor who took it over was a Dr. Chung. I may be wrong, but that is how I remember it. I don't know where Dr. Lind is now. He tried to get his license back after he got out of jail and was unsuccessful. Seems like someone told me he went out west maybe. His wife seemed like a very nice person. I only met her a couple times.
Come to think of it I do remember seeing a Dr. Chung sign out there. I think he's on the other end from Baker, the Chiropractor. I went to her because she was close to where I lived at the time and it was on my way to and from work.
Quote from: me on December 17, 2009, 10:19:22 PM
Come to think of it I do remember seeing a Dr. Chung sign out there. I think he's on the other end from Baker, the Chiropractor. I went to her because she was close to where I lived at the time and it was on my way to and from work.
Dr Chung died several years ago, but he was on Columbus ave.
Shameless bump. . .
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Quote from: Locutus on April 11, 2016, 05:40:47 PM
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I was talking to a colleague today and believe it or not the subject came up! I listened to two of them having a conversation and Dr. Foley's name arose. I then told them about this little tale and the "interest" it continues to drive. . . Then I tried to pull it up on my little phone and could not find it. . . Thus the bump for use tomorrow. . . :biggrin:
Quote from: Y on October 19, 2009, 09:02:22 PM
Victim: Gary Lake, supposed police informant.
Since PH "shamelessly bumped" this thread, I went back and read it again. How ironic that someone with the surname Lake would have his headless body found in a lake. ;D
Quote from: Locutus on April 11, 2016, 07:20:51 PM
Since PH "shamelessly bumped" this thread, I went back and read it again. How ironic that someone with the surname Lake would have his headless body found in a lake. ;D
I did the same thing, and thought the same thing. . . :big grin:
Wish we had some "new" information on this topic. It seems to be a fairly popular "unsolved mystery".
Quote from: Palehorse on April 11, 2016, 07:38:49 PM
I did the same thing, and thought the same thing. . . :big grin:
Wish we had some "new" information on this topic. It seems to be a fairly popular "unsolved mystery".
Well as you well know because of what we've discussed privately, information about old cases tends to die right along with the folks involved. :-\
Quote from: Locutus on April 11, 2016, 07:46:04 PM
Well as you well know because of what we've discussed privately, information about old cases tends to die right along with the folks involved. :-\
Yes indeed. True dat! :yes:
It is a subject that reappears every so often. I doubt it will ever resolved. There were so many rumors, some I know weren't true.
Quote from: Anne on April 12, 2016, 07:02:05 PM
It is a subject that reappears every so often. I doubt it will ever resolved. There were so many rumors, some I know weren't true.
Well, I keep picking up some interesting commentary and unusual perspectives on the topic, even outside of this forum. Today I let a colleague read the thread from my phone at work. . . and that started a 45 minute dialog on the man and the myth. . . :big grin:
Maybe I should write a book? Include full page crime scene pictures and I bet it becomes a minor success in the coffee table book world. :biggrin:
Quote from: Palehorse on April 12, 2016, 07:06:37 PM
Well, I keep picking up some interesting commentary and unusual perspectives on the topic, even outside of this forum. Today I let a colleague read the thread from my phone at work. . . and that started a 45 minute dialog on the man and the myth. . . :big grin:
Maybe I should write a book? Include full page crime scene pictures and I bet it becomes a minor success in the coffee table book world. :biggrin:
Which man?
Quote from: Anne on April 12, 2016, 07:10:48 PM
Which man?
Foley and Lind. . . and at least one that said they thought they knew a guy named Gary Lake. . .
Quote from: Palehorse on April 12, 2016, 07:32:56 PM
Foley and Lind. . . and at least one that said they thought they knew a guy named Gary Lake. . .
I didn't know Gary Lake, but I knew Dr. Foley and met Dr. Lind a few times. A couple of the doctors at the hospital would talk about Dr. Lind. Most of Dr. Linda's patients really liked him.
I took the kids to Dr. Foleyone time 'cause he was the only dr. I could get to give them a gama globulin shot after they were exposed to the chicken pox. Yes, they still got chicken pox but only about 4 or 5 spots and they didn't get sick like the daughter who had them first. I also knew someone who went to dr Lind and took the oldest daughter to him for a shot because she had poison ivy so bad it was almost in her eyes. Don't remember what he gave her but it cleared it up quickly for which both she and I were very thankful. Didn't really care much for either one but they served their purpose at the time.
Never met Foley. Not sure I'd have ever wanted to.
I wasn't even around when this whole headless body thing took place.
Then why am I posting to this topic if I have nothing new to contribute?
Why, just to keep it active of course! :icon_twisted:
It sure gets a lot of traffic. ;D
Quote from: Locutus on May 09, 2016, 06:41:47 PM
It sure gets a lot of traffic. ;D
:devil29: :carrot:
Everybody loves a mystery.
Quote from: Anne on May 12, 2016, 12:38:57 PM
Everybody loves a mystery.
And this is a good one! :yes:
Quote from: Palehorse on April 12, 2016, 07:06:37 PM
Well, I keep picking up some interesting commentary and unusual perspectives on the topic, even outside of this forum. Today I let a colleague read the thread from my phone at work. . . and that started a 45 minute dialog on the man and the myth. . . :big grin:
Maybe I should write a book? Include full page crime scene pictures and I bet it becomes a minor success in the coffee table book world. :biggrin:
I love true murder mysteries. You should write and I would buy it.
:nice: :thumbsup:
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Figured this thread needed a shameless bump. ;D
Why? That head is long gone by now and if it was thrown into a lake somewhere even the skull would be gone in all probability.
I'm filling in for Palehorse. ;D
:rolleyes:
Quote from: Locutus on September 20, 2016, 08:43:32 AM
I'm filling in for Palehorse. ;D
Why thank you kind sir! :smile:
Gotta' keep those strange lurkers happy. :wink: :big grin:
Kind of disappointing it still has less than 4k views. . . :'(
The headless body story of the man they say was Gary Lake. It is true he Gary Lake is my Uncle my dad's brother. He was murdered and no Noone was never charged for that which is sad and still to this day upsets my family. I showed my dad these posts and it upset him people posting and not knowing the true story behind my Uncle's death. Gary Lake was no myth he was a good man and didn't deserve the hand he was dealt from a man that took an oath to help people but he didn't he took a man's life and destroyed a family leaving all of us not knowing the reasons for this.
Amyjo
Received your PM and have replied. I'd love to hear about the victim, his life, and the case from the victims family's point of view.
I will be in touch.
Quote from: Amyjo5151 on July 16, 2021, 02:19:39 AMThe headless body story of the man they say was Gary Lake. It is true he Gary Lake is my Uncle my dad's brother. He was murdered and no Noone was never charged for that which is sad and still to this day upsets my family. I showed my dad these posts and it upset him people posting and not knowing the true story behind my Uncle's death. Gary Lake was no myth he was a good man and didn't deserve the hand he was dealt from a man that took an oath to help people but he didn't he took a man's life and destroyed a family leaving all of us not knowing the reasons for this.
Okay. As has been stated earlier in this thread, I would just like to get some very basic facts around this case out into the open. I would like to start with a short list of questions that surround the victim in this case.
Who is Gary Lake? What was he like? Where did he work? Did he have a family? A Wife?
Is there any truth to him being a confidential informant for law enforcement at the time of his death? If so, any details around that would be helpful.
What is the family's understanding surrounding the details of his murder? What were they told?
Was his head ever found?
Which lake exactly, was his body found in?
What was the exact date when his body was discovered? Who discovered it?
Most importantly, I'd like to hear what the family feels over all of this. How has it impacted your lives? Have any of you continued to contact the authorities surrounding progress or the lack thereof in this case?
According to the family of the victim, who is the most likely suspect and why?
What is the true story as the family sees it?
I want to thank you and your family in advance for any information you would like to share. And I want to thank you personally for having the courage to contact us about this.
Quote from: Palehorse on July 16, 2021, 03:44:47 PMOkay. As has been stated earlier in this thread, I would just like to get some very basic facts around this case out into the open. I would like to start with a short list of questions that surround the victim in this case.
Who is Gary Lake? What was he like? Where did he work? Did he have a family? A Wife?
Is there any truth to him being a confidential informant for law enforcement at the time of his death? If so, any details around that would be helpful.
What is the family's understanding surrounding the details of his murder? What were they told?
Was his head ever found?
Which lake exactly, was his body found in?
What was the exact date when his body was discovered? Who discovered it?
Most importantly, I'd like to hear what the family feels over all of this. How has it impacted your lives? Have any of you continued to contact the authorities surrounding progress or the lack thereof in this case?
According to the family of the victim, who is the most likely suspect and why?
What is the true story as the family sees it?
I want to thank you and your family in advance for any information you would like to share. And I want to thank you personally for having the courage to contact us about this.
Hummmmmmmmm. . .
:) My family and I are grateful for those that have shown their concern surrounding my Uncle's untimely death. I know I would like some answers as well as my family to some of our unanswered question s that we may or may not have as well. If at all possible clear up some of these myths. The victim and his family would like some answers as well as to why if we can still get them ifat all possible and I am doubtful that we will ever reach closure in this tragic death or those who did this crime will ever be convicted due to the years that have passed.
I thought you had information to share? :confused: