The Diesel Community Looses A Brother Ari Squire
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03-06-2008, 07:13 PM
#22
03-06-2008, 11:44 PM
Ari 'WAS??' a good guy, so we thought. Most of us DMax guys meet him from all around and personnaly down here in Houston for the Drags and sled pulls. Very nice guy, good to drink a beer with.....so we thought. He 'died' and our hearts poured out to him and his family, now we find the truth and it's just heart wrenching.
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Ya, now I PO'ed. Lost a 'friend' to an accedent.......turns out to be an insurance scam and lost a personnal friend to a suicide that may be a homocide... all in a few days.
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Ya, now I PO'ed. Lost a 'friend' to an accedent.......turns out to be an insurance scam and lost a personnal friend to a suicide that may be a homocide... all in a few days.
That is what is sounds like, but I am sure there are details that will still come out. Like Russel said he was a good dude so we thought. Skipp and I were talking about him just today about how we spent several hours with him in Houston last year.
What get to me though is the fact that he emailed his wife and asked how many people went to his service? That is just sick.
What get to me though is the fact that he emailed his wife and asked how many people went to his service? That is just sick.
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03-07-2008, 12:49 AM
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03-07-2008, 01:55 AM
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03-10-2008, 10:47 PM
#29
03-10-2008, 10:51 PM
Wife did not know of scheme to fake husband's death, attorney says -- chicagotribune.com Link to wifes attorney.
Fake message assured mom he was OK
Missouri cop: 'I think I have Ari Squire here'
March 7, 2008
By Shamus Toomey and Dan Rozek SUN-TIMES NEWS GROUP
A financially-strapped Lake Barrington businessman faked his own death by using the body of a 20-year-old man he killed -- and then sent text messages to the dead man's mother, telling her he was OK but would be out of town for a week, police said Thursday.
But it wasn't Justin Newman sending those text messages. It was really Ari Squire using the already dead Newman's cell phone to cover up his crime, which had a potential goal of collecting on a $5 million life insurance policy, police said.
Squire, 39, put a gun under his chin and pulled the trigger in a Missouri hotel Sunday night, leaving investigators to sort out his sinister plot.
Police initially thought Squire died in his own garage Feb. 23 after a jack holding up his truck slipped while he was working underneath. But investigators -- thanks to a huge assist from Eureka, Mo., police officer Bob Watson -- unraveled the deception and figured out it was really Newman under the truck.
Squire killed himself after Watson found Newman's car outside a Days Inn hotel and went looking for the man who signed into Room 133 as "Justin Newman." Watson, a 17-year veteran and former undercover narcotics officer, spends some of his shift running license plates of cars in town, including those parked outside hotels near the local Six Flags amusement park. He's looking for secret meth labs, among other things.
A red, 1999 Pontiac Sunfire that was backed into a parking spot caught his eye thanks to a hanging front license plate. Watson looked up the Illinois plate on his squad car computer and was alerted to its link to a "missing and endangered" man from Illinois named Justin Newman.
Watson said he called Illinois authorities and got in contact with a Lake County sheriff's detective, who told him Newman worked for a man who just died under suspicious circumstances. Watson went to Room 133 and announced himself. But, despite repeated requests, no one came to the door.
Finally, Watson had the hotel management unlock it.
"There was a chain on the door, so we couldn't go any further," he recalled.
"I started to talk, to announce myself and say, 'Hey, we just need to talk to you to make sure you're OK.' And then a shot went off." Watson had to assume he was being fired upon, so he backed off and a two-hour standoff ensued. Watson eventually cut the chain and a police dog was sent in. The dog found the body, Watson said.
In the room was $3,300 in $100 bills, the gun, a laptop, a used box of Just For Men light brown hair dye, and paperwork in the name of Squire and Newman. The body had Newman's driver's license in its back pocket, Watson said.
Watson had photos of Squire and Newman sent to him. The body had a receding hairline and Newman didn't. The body had no tattoos on its forearms. Newman had a Chinese "J" on his forearm.
Then Watson looked at the upper arms of the body. There he found a tattoo of an American flag with a winged lion -- just like Squire's tattoo.
"I said, I think I have Ari Squire here," Watson told a Lake County investigator. "And I have a suspicion that the guy under your truck is Justin Newman. He was shocked." Fingerprints later confirmed it was Squire. And DNA confirmed the Lake Barrington body was Newman, police said.
Watson's theory is that Squire intended to leave a paper trail in Missouri pointing to Newman and then disappear. "To have everything in the world, and to take the life of a 20-year-old to cover your own debts and problems, you'd have to be a cold-hearted killer," Watson said. "Makes you wonder, if he's willing to do that, what else has he done?"
Contributing: Stefano Esposito, Mitch Dudek
Fake message assured mom he was OK
Missouri cop: 'I think I have Ari Squire here'
March 7, 2008
By Shamus Toomey and Dan Rozek SUN-TIMES NEWS GROUP
A financially-strapped Lake Barrington businessman faked his own death by using the body of a 20-year-old man he killed -- and then sent text messages to the dead man's mother, telling her he was OK but would be out of town for a week, police said Thursday.
But it wasn't Justin Newman sending those text messages. It was really Ari Squire using the already dead Newman's cell phone to cover up his crime, which had a potential goal of collecting on a $5 million life insurance policy, police said.
Squire, 39, put a gun under his chin and pulled the trigger in a Missouri hotel Sunday night, leaving investigators to sort out his sinister plot.
Police initially thought Squire died in his own garage Feb. 23 after a jack holding up his truck slipped while he was working underneath. But investigators -- thanks to a huge assist from Eureka, Mo., police officer Bob Watson -- unraveled the deception and figured out it was really Newman under the truck.
Squire killed himself after Watson found Newman's car outside a Days Inn hotel and went looking for the man who signed into Room 133 as "Justin Newman." Watson, a 17-year veteran and former undercover narcotics officer, spends some of his shift running license plates of cars in town, including those parked outside hotels near the local Six Flags amusement park. He's looking for secret meth labs, among other things.
A red, 1999 Pontiac Sunfire that was backed into a parking spot caught his eye thanks to a hanging front license plate. Watson looked up the Illinois plate on his squad car computer and was alerted to its link to a "missing and endangered" man from Illinois named Justin Newman.
Watson said he called Illinois authorities and got in contact with a Lake County sheriff's detective, who told him Newman worked for a man who just died under suspicious circumstances. Watson went to Room 133 and announced himself. But, despite repeated requests, no one came to the door.
Finally, Watson had the hotel management unlock it.
"There was a chain on the door, so we couldn't go any further," he recalled.
"I started to talk, to announce myself and say, 'Hey, we just need to talk to you to make sure you're OK.' And then a shot went off." Watson had to assume he was being fired upon, so he backed off and a two-hour standoff ensued. Watson eventually cut the chain and a police dog was sent in. The dog found the body, Watson said.
In the room was $3,300 in $100 bills, the gun, a laptop, a used box of Just For Men light brown hair dye, and paperwork in the name of Squire and Newman. The body had Newman's driver's license in its back pocket, Watson said.
Watson had photos of Squire and Newman sent to him. The body had a receding hairline and Newman didn't. The body had no tattoos on its forearms. Newman had a Chinese "J" on his forearm.
Then Watson looked at the upper arms of the body. There he found a tattoo of an American flag with a winged lion -- just like Squire's tattoo.
"I said, I think I have Ari Squire here," Watson told a Lake County investigator. "And I have a suspicion that the guy under your truck is Justin Newman. He was shocked." Fingerprints later confirmed it was Squire. And DNA confirmed the Lake Barrington body was Newman, police said.
Watson's theory is that Squire intended to leave a paper trail in Missouri pointing to Newman and then disappear. "To have everything in the world, and to take the life of a 20-year-old to cover your own debts and problems, you'd have to be a cold-hearted killer," Watson said. "Makes you wonder, if he's willing to do that, what else has he done?"
Contributing: Stefano Esposito, Mitch Dudek
#30
03-10-2008, 11:02 PM
Well.are we really to believe
Here is my two cents...
I knew Ari too. And everyone, including people that he employed on the construction site says the same thing. He was not capable of hurting someone. Do we really know who planned and did what? Denise was the ADMINISTRATOR of his medicare/health care practice! She is 10 years older than him, and worked for his father when he was in his 20s.
Stop second guessing your man code! You might have been right about him. Maybe him taking the bullet was for Denise's sake rather than his own.
I knew Ari too. And everyone, including people that he employed on the construction site says the same thing. He was not capable of hurting someone. Do we really know who planned and did what? Denise was the ADMINISTRATOR of his medicare/health care practice! She is 10 years older than him, and worked for his father when he was in his 20s.
Stop second guessing your man code! You might have been right about him. Maybe him taking the bullet was for Denise's sake rather than his own.
