NCFM asks DoD Inspector General for Referral to U.S. Attorney General for Criminal Probe of JAG Prosecutors in the Case of U.S. Army Major Christian “Kit” Martin, then there’s the triple murder…
By NCFM
For those of you not following this case, you should know that Joan Harmon-Guerra accused her husband Major Christian “Kit” Martin of a number of career ending falsehoods in retaliation for him telling her it was divorce time. She then violently threatened to destroy him and his career, which she has been relentlessly doing with sociopathic fervor, to include fabricating salacious stories about child abuse, sexual assault, and international spying. One investigation after another found no wrongdoing, except for Joan Harmon-Guerra lies. No matter, the Army is vigorously prosecuting Major Martin with damn-the-facts politically correct zealotry.
While married to Major Martin, Joan Harmon-Guerra was screwing neighbor Calvin Phillips, confirmed by witnesses, who on several occasions saw Calvin and Joan Harmon-Guerra pumping away “bare ass naked.” Army prosecutors documented the illicit tryst. Now, both Joan Harmon-Guerra and the Army are together trying to screw Major Martin.
The morning of November 19, local Pembroke Kentucky volunteer firefighters put out a car fire so intense two bodies inside burned beyond recognition. A charred license plate led Sheriffs from the Christian County Sheriff’s Department to the home of the registered owners. Inside, in the basement, with multiple gunshot wounds to the chest was one dead 59-year-old Calvin Phillips. The two badly burned bodies in the car thought to be Calvin’s wife Pam and neighbor Ed Dansereau.
Calvin was to testify against Major Martin about a laptop computer and compact discs supposedly discovered while helping Joan Harmon-Guerra remove things from Major Martin’s home after she secured a temporary restraining order against him. Calvin and Joan Harmon-Guerra gave authorities the computer and disks as proof Major Martin was an international spy. In an Alfred Hitchcock twist of fate and unbeknownst to the prosecution, Calvin would instead have testified on behalf of Major Martin after realizing Joan Harmon-Guerra used and abused him more than sexually.
Either way, Calvin was an interesting study. Records show Calvin was more than a mere adulterer, he also somehow associated with a massage parlor offering more than body oils. A woman other than his wife petitioned for a domestic violence restraining order against him. Calvin sought his own protection order just before his murder. Always armed and surrounded by his German Shepherds, witnesses report seeing Calvin dressed in camouflage and hiding in his back yard with a gun.
If that were not enough, the next day all hell broke loose. The newspaper Kentucky New Era received a tip by an anonymous woman; perhaps Joan Harmon-Guerra about Major Martin’s pending charges and living across the street from Calvin. The not so anonymous Army tipped local law enforcement about Major Martin’s pending charges, witness Calvin, and the close proximity of their homes, as in right across the street from each other.
Major Martin is wrongly charged by the Army with Mishandling Classified Information, Rape of a Child, Assault of a Child Under 16 Years of Age, and Communicating a Threat. His court-martial was calendared for December 1st, 2015 but was postponed indefinitely after Major Martin became a “person of interest” in the triple homicide.
Around noon, gun-waiving CID agents seized Major Martin upon leaving his Fort Campbell office. He was in custody for 10 hours. They impounded and searched his vehicle, confiscated his laptop computer, and took his briefcase containing a treasure trove of notes, documents and compact disks revealing information about his court-martial defense strategy, a valid, court upheld, approach clearly establishing reasons for dismissal.
Accompanied by Army CID agents, Hopkinsville SWAT team and Christian County Sheriff’s deputies stormed Major Martin’s house, broke windows, held his fiancé at gunpoint, and took her to the sheriff’s office where they questioned her without an attorney. Officers seized vehicles including Major Martin’s fiancé’s car, her cellphone, more computers, legal papers and privileged information about his pending court-martial, which was witnessed by several people and captured on security video equipment. They left no receipt of items taken as required by law. Even Major Martin’s fiancé’s children’s’ school was put on alert and closed for the day.
There was no cause for a SWAT team to storm the house and terrify Major Martin’s fiancé and her two children. They knew Major Martin was on base, not even home. What prompted such concern? Did Army agents convince local authorities that Major Martin’s fiancé and her two children were terrorists, making bombs and booby-traps, cleaning an arsenal of assault weapons or assembling shoulder fired guided missiles? They could have knocked instead of raiding like a bunch of barbaric invaders just off the boat.
Major Martin was restricted to Ft. Campbell for a week and issued a two-week no-contact order preventing him from seeing his fiancé. The order lifted only after the Army coerced Major Martin’s fiancé and her two children to be interviewed by civilian authorities. Whatever the reason, the onerous process forced Major Martin’s fiancé and her two children to live in a hotel and completely disrupted and endangered their lives.
Major Martin’s defense team is trying to find out what the Army gleaned from the Sheriff’s confiscation of documents, files and computers, all of which contained privileged information about Major Martin’s defense strategy. Also unknown is the information the Army shared with local law enforcement to cause them to target Major Martin; and, the name of the anonymous tipster who gave the information to local authorities.
Major Martin contends his home security camera system recording shows he, his fiancé and her two children were at home when the murders occurred. The Sheriff’s Department has the system’s hard-drive, has not released the information, but should now have confirmed Major Martin was at home. Nor, to our knowledge, have local police interviewed Major Martin about the murders, though his lead attorney offered the opportunity. We have no information about local authorities looking at anyone else other than Major Martin, not even Joan Harmon-Guerra.
Camouflaged in the backyard with a gun, paranoid, didn’t mean someone wasn’t out to get Calvin, which they definitely did, but whoever is “they,” is not Major Martin. Maybe, Joan Harmon-Guerra, or one or more of her boyfriends used him for target practice, or Calvin was in too deep at the massage parlor, owed a shylock, couldn’t pay the vig, pissed off the local mob. Maybe he got bare-ass with the wrong wife. After all, Calvin’s wife was with another man both badly burned in the car fire after bullets killed them first. Even the Army had a motive to want Calvin gone.
JAG Captain Garrett and Joan Harmon-Guerra initiated processes leading to Major Martin’s court-martial some 18-months after Major Martin separated from Joan Harmon-Guerra, before which civilian and military agencies several times debunked Joan Harmon-Guerra’s false accusations. In 2012, a Hopkinsville, Kentucky judge even denied her an emergency protection order after catching her in a series of lies and coaching her children to lie as sworn witnesses, all captured on video.
Army JAG officers Major Jacob Bashore, Captain James Garrett, and CID agent misconduct compromised Major Martin’s court-martial. All of who knew or should have known that charges against Major Martin stem directly from his ex-wife who violently and openly threatened to ruin him if he divorced her. The facts point to a seriously character disordered woman, maybe even a sociopath capable of premeditated mayhem and murder. It would take an army of analysts to sort out all of her cunning misdirection and lies.
Yet, nonsensically, the Army steadfastly prefers to defame and persecute Major Martin, a highly regarded, competent, and loyal Bronze Star recipient (three times!) and Air Medal rather than his deranged, lying, recently convicted felon bigamist ex-wife. Knowing allegations against Major Martin are false, they apparently exploited the triple murder investigation hoping to further defame Major Martin and opportunistically gain confidential information about his court-martial defense.
As NCFM reported in our original complaint to the Secretary of Defense, the laptop and compact discs Calvin claimed to have found, led to two extensive investigations by Army Counter Intelligence to decide whether Major Martin was an international spy as claimed by Joan Harmon-Guerra. Major Martin passed grueling polygraph tests. Investigators found no evidence of spying. Recently, a nationally recognized forensic computer science expert examined the laptop. Initial reports show tampering, probably by Calvin, Joan Harmon-Guerra, or both. The spy accusation, another fabrication on an endless list of lies by Joan Harmon-Guerra.
Private investigators working for Major Martin’s defense team uncovered a growing number of inconsistencies in Calvin’s story, and learned from neighbors that he left the Army after 17 years before forced out for psychiatric reasons.
The anonymous tipster to the Kentucky New Era claimed, “Major Chris Martin was the killer”, but people in Pembroke knew him only as “Kit.” Harmon-Guerra, her son Elijah, and her then boyfriend William Stokes posted salacious accusations on Facebook against Major Martin and his fiancé. Screen shots confirm the posts existed, though they disappeared from Facebook. Other witnesses saw Harmon-Guerra at Calvin’s house the day before police discovered his bullet riddled body.
To our knowledge, other residents, neighbors, near the Phillips murder have not been interviewed by the Sheriff’s Department – almost two months after the crimes were committed, which is remarkable by any murder investigation standards.
Tennessee State Bar Association complaints filed against the Army prosecutors are ongoing. There are new developments in NCFM’s pending investigation by the Department of Defense, Office of Inspector General. Last week, the DoD investigator asked for more information which was provided. NCFM also asked the investigator to ask the United States Attorney General to investigate Major General Mark Stammer. Stammer was Major Martin’s former commander who we believe insisted on court-martialing Major Martin largely in retaliation for Major Martin requesting a formal congressional inquiry of his maltreatment.
In addition, the NCFM letter requests a criminal probe of Bashore, Garrett and Major Jenny Schlack-White. Major Martin considered Schlack-White a friend and sought her advice. Major Martin contends Schlack-White abused her place by not disclosing she was working with the prosecutors.
Members of Major Martin’s defense team consider his case the military’s version of the Duke Lacrosse Team scandal on steroids. Disgraced Mike Nifong, former district attorney for Durham County, North Carolina was removed from office, disbarred and jailed because of his disgusting harassment and persecution of innocent Duke Lacrosse Team players. He knew their accuser, Chrystal Magnum, had a history of mental illness and deceit. He knew or should have known that Magnum was lying and the lacrosse players were falsely accused, yet he vigorously sought to prosecute innocent men for his own purposes. Nifong earned his fall from grace.
Similarly, Bashore and his team, including Stammer, have known for years that Joan Harmon-Guerra is a dangerous, mentally ill, and a vengeful liar hell-bent on destroying Major Martin. On the other hand, Major Martin is one of their own; is an outstanding soldier, has passed extensive polygraph tests and presented evidence to refute charges against him. Prosecutors Bashore and Garrett have fought vigorously to deny Major Martin his defense witnesses, and Fort Campbell officials have refused to release the transcripts of the Unlawful Command Influence and Prosecutorial Misconduct hearing. Clearly, they are afraid of something, the truth.
Yet, like Nifong, Bashore steadfastly refuses to admit the truth, drop the charges against Major Martin, and work with civilian authorities to hold Joan Harmon-Guerra accountable for her bad acts. Chrystal Magnum went free, was not held accountable and murdered her boyfriend. Like Nifong, hopefully, Bashore and crew will be removed from office, disbarred, dishonorably discharged, even imprisoned; and, Joan Harmon-Guerra will be confined before she can cause no more mayhem or murder someone (else, perhaps).
Nifong and the Army goosestep to political correctness, Nifong then interested in reelection, Army prosecutors and Stammer concerned with promotion, retirement and backlash. Shamefully, Bashore and crew must know bigamist and personality-disordered Joan Harmon-Guerra manipulated them, and the military judicial system. If not, they should be cleaning latrines for stupidity. The Army needs a conviction to save face.
The case of Major Christian “Kit” Martin is a glaring example of the military’s “witch-hunt” for alleged domestic violence and sexual assault male perpetrators. The current administration wants convictions, male heads on a platter anyway they can get them, even if otherwise decent military personnel commit crimes to meet the goal – even if it means destroying innocent, decent, and courageous soldiers.
Defense team lawyers will soon give a motion to the military judge requesting a new hearing because of the prejudicial nature of the triple homicide publicity and prosecutorial misconduct, to include a change of venue and removal of Bashore and his prosecution team. Christian County Sheriff’s Department may now realize CID and JAG officers manipulated them for reasons having nothing to do with the triple murders. In coming months, we shall see whether the DoD holds involved commanders and prosecutors accountable, and whether there’s an end to Joan Harmon-Guerra’s reign of terror and the Army’s wrongful persecution of Major Christian “Kit” Martin. Time will tell.
Fort Campbell JAG prosecutors Major Jacob Bashore and Captain James Garrett seem to have precariously fallen through a politically correct wormhole into the “Mike Nifong Syndrome.” There may be no way back.
Urban Dictionary describes Mike Nifong Syndrome as, “the disgraced Durham County (North Carolina) district attorney behind the 2006 Duke Lacrosse rape hoax,” here meaning destructive deception, ruse or fraud, not funny joke, trick or prank.
There’s nothing funny about any of this.
NOTE: The meme above is Equal Justice for Men. Why here? Everything above, concerns in one way or another, the bad acts of Joan Harmon-Guerra. She’s walking around free to abuse others at will. Had Joan Harmon-Guerra had a penis and been married to a female Army officer there’s a very good chance the story would not be told, the female officer would not be prosecuted, the accuser would not be believed and a restraining order would be issued to protect her, even if there was a triple murder as above. Thus far well over a million dollars has been spent by the Army trying to prove the false accusations of Joan Harmon-Guerra; and, over the years the Army has spent over another million or so training Major Martin to hone him into the fine officer he became. Please, in the future, vote carefully, and not for anyone who supports protections for abusive women and detention for innocent men.
References
121211 FINAL NCFM Letter Whistleblower 121229
https://www.wkdzradio.com/Pembroke-Death-Investigation-One-Week-Later/22219268
https://www.whvoradio.com/print_page.php?contentId=18136512&contentType=4
