http://911review.org/search.html
Some snips of witnesses. Flight 93
Mainly the coroner
Arlene O'Toole, (coroners wife) was acting as an unpaid
secretary.
usually an environmental health and safety consultant with PPG
Industries Inc.
The coroner and his father are funeral home directors.
i wonder if they had dealings with Bushco family incerators?
Robert Waltrip
http://www.hereinreality.com/funeralgate.htm
Coroner to release Flight 93 site nearly four years after crash
Published: Jul 29, 2005 9:06 AM EST
SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) - The Somerset County coroner will turn
over control of the united Flight 93 crash site to its owners
Monday.
Coroner Wallace Miller has held the site as a coroner's death
scene since Sept. 11, 2001,
when the hijacked plane crashed into an abandoned strip mine in
Somerset County, killing 40 passengers and crew.
Miller and a group of more than two dozen volunteers this week
made a final sweep of the property, looking for debris. The
group found airplane debris near a section of downed evergreens
and a small amount of human remains, Miller said.
The remains can't be identified because of weather degradation
and the size of the sample, he said.
"The volume (of materials found) has dropped off considerably,
to the point that I now feel it's appropriate to close my
involvement in the case," Miller said.
Seven groups own land on or near the crash site, which is just
outside Shanksville and about 65 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
The National Park Service is set to take control of the tracts
for a permanent memorial.
ap.lancasteronline.com/4/pa_flight_93
In the simplest of terms, it said that Somerset County Coroner
Wallace Miller was going to release custody of the crash site
where her mother,
Hilda Marcin, of Budd Lake, N.J., and 39 other passengers on
United Flight 93 died on Sept. 11, 2001.
The 70-acre expanse will be returned to the six original land
owners and eventually purchased by the National Park Service.
During the last four years, Miller became something of a
celebrity in Somerset County.
www.post-gazette.com/pg/05211/546112.stm
Newsmaker: Coroner's quiet unflappability helps him take charge
of Somerset tragedy
Monday, October 15, 2001
Somerset County Coroner Wallace Miller and his wife,
Arlene O'Toole, filling in as an unpaid deputy, work in an
office crowded with files
and paperwork related to the Sept. 11 crash of United Flight 93.
(Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette)
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In the hour before the Sept. 11 Somerset crash, the coroner's
staff in
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neighboring Cambria County had phoned, alerting Miller to the
terrorism in New York City and Washington, D.C.
Now, a month of 18-hour days later, the crash site has been
about as cleared of fragmentary remains
as Miller figures humankind can get it. The high science of DNA
is pairing remains with the dead.
Death certificates have been mailed out for all but the four
hijackers.
Miller continues to escort victims' relatives who trickle into
Somerset County to gaze on the crash scene.
"He's tired, very tired," said O'Toole, usually an environmental
health and safety consultant with PPG Industries Inc.
in Allison Park, but filling in as an unpaid deputy and spirit
booster to the coroner.
His father, funeral director Wilbur Miller, an occasionally
gruff, usually affable soul,
was elected coroner for six terms, 24 years. Wallace Miller was
his deputy for the last 17.
In 1994, he bought the Somerset funeral home from his father
and added another nine miles away in Rockwood. In 1997, he was
elected successor when his father, now 74, retired as coroner.
He makes $35,854 a year as coroner,
After the crash he swore in a cadre of deputies --
helpers such as hospital workers and fellow funeral directors --
but Miller chose largely to go it alone.
"It was as if the plane had stopped and let the passengers off
before it crashed," Miller said.
www.post-gazette.com/headlines/20011015newsmaker1015p2.asp
Photo left: Sister Mary Ann Dillon, President of Mount Aloysius
College, poses for a photo with Wallace Miller as she presents
him with an honorary degree in Social Justice from the College.
Wallace Miller is the Somerset County Coronor who humbly served
our country at the crash site of Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa.
www.mtaloy.edu/smawally.jpg
www.mtaloy.edu/may11.htm
Hundreds of searchers who climbed the hemlocks and combed the
woods for weeks
were able to find about 1,500 mostly scorched samples of human
tissue totaling less than 600 pounds, or about 8 percent of the
total.
Miller was among the very first to arrive after 10:06 on the
magnificently sunny morning of September 11.
He was stunned at how small the smoking crater looked, he says,
"like someone took a scrap truck, dug a 10-foot ditch and dumped
all this trash into it." Once he was able to absorb the scene,
Miller says,
"I stopped being coroner after about 20 minutes, because there
were no bodies there
immediately after the crash, the seeming absence of human
remains led the mind of coroner Wally Miller to a surreal
fantasy:
that Flight 93 had somehow stopped in mid-flight and discharged
all of its passengers before crashing.
"There was just nothing visible," he says. "It was the strangest
feeling."It would be nearly an hour before Miller came upon his
first trace of a body part.
Another 14 victims of Flight 93 identified
Saturday, October 27, 2001
At the same time, the high winds that buffeted the area over the
last few days have dislodged additional airplane parts -- seat
cushions,
wiring, carpet fragments and pieces of metal -- from trees near
the crash site.
"It's all aircraft parts, no human remains," Miller said. "We've
collected them in
10 recycling bin-sized containers and eventually we'll turn them
all over to United."
Yesterday's confirmation of victims' identities by the Armed
Forces Institute of Pathology DNA lab
in Rockville, Md., means that 34 of the 44 people who were
aboard the jetliner crashed Sept. 11. have been identified.
Flight 93 bound for San Francisco from Newark, N.J., had two
pilots,
five flight attendants and 37 passengers aboard when it crashed
in Stonycreek.
Miller said the lab is continuing to test DNA material to verify
the deaths of the last six crash victims.
He said DNA tests won't be able to identify the four hijackers
on board.
"To make a DNA identification we need something from the victims
or their family members
-- personal effects, or blood samples -- to match," Miller said.
"We don't have that kind of information about the terrorists."
Identification of the victims through DNA testing allows the
coroner to issue death certificates
and return the fragmented remains to the families.
Miller said he will identify as many of the remains as he can.
Remains that can't be identified will be interred at a grave in
Somerset County.
"We already have issued presumptive death certificates so
families could begin to take care
of the affairs of those persons we haven't identified," Miller
said.
"Now we can say for sure on 34 of the victims
and that gives the families, some of whom have held memorial
services, more of a sense of closure."