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"The state medical examiner's office said the cause of death for all but one victim was drowning. U.S. Army Capt. Andrew Clements, 35, died from blunt head trauma."

Simply coincidence.

If someone wanted to knock him off there are a billion ["literally"] easier ways to do it.

Other than a barge smashing into a bridge and killing a bunch of folks then having a blumbering Army Officer sent to check things out who runs up on a highstrung bossy chic....there is no story here.

No story here?

Why then did he falsely identify himself? Why did he pass bad checks in town or so the accusation goes? and Why is the FBI looking for him?

Strike three you're out!

There's definitely something wrong here

The blunt trauma to the head causing death -- needs more definition -- blunt as in concrete and rebar or blunt as in the proverbial lead pipe to the back of the head?

I'm curious how we are so easily finding stuff on this guy? I don't recall medical examiniers posting on the web their findings.

Its almost like were reading a crafted cover story hat was made to be found. Dig a little here dig a little there and you can find out anything you want about this guy -- try compairing that with info of the victims of the OKC bombing or world trade center --

We know this guy's cars his dog his house where he came from duty sation wis his flight(s) across the US the laptop the briefcase and his coroners report

-- is anyone else amazed???

I am sorry for posting something so late, but this will make you sick when you read it. I could not find anyplace to to tell anybody. The 'Army' officer was looking for a steer-master control unit. A steer-master is a tiny, unmanned, FM radio controlled steering unit that is attached to the lead barge to help keep control in and around rivers and in strong currents. Tiny is not really a proper word but we are talking ships here. They were normally (when I was working in a shipyard a number of years ago) powered by a 12 cylinder 12V892 Detroit two cycle diesel, mounted straight up and down. There are many different various models with differing engines and layouts so I will stick with the ones I worked on. They steer by swinging like a huge outboard. Other models use rudders. The ones I worked on weighed about twenty tons.Normally the push-boat Captain cannot see it so poles with orange flags are usually mounted to give some aid in seeing what is going on. The control unit sits on the dash and has a little stick poking out to steer with. A skilled Captain uses the steer-master to drag the barges back and forth along with steering the tug itself. The control box uses FM radio signals to send commands to the steer-master. Each steermaster has its own frequency to allow several steer-masters to operate close together without interfering with each others control. If you wanted to take control of a string of barges and crash them you would need to have a similar control unit, on the same frequency, and be close enough to capture the receiver away from the push-boat. If you didn't have more watts then you would have to be closer to the receiver than the tug. As the barge draws closer to the causeway you would take control at the last possible moment before the Captain would have time to react or even realize there was a problem. You would be a little too close to get away from a disaster that resulted much larger than you were planning on.Have the barge companies taken any steps to prevent this from happening again? George Herbert Walker Boosh owns Hollywood Shipping, which has more barges and push-boats than anyone else. It is the largest shipping company in the world. Sorry for a late post on this and maybe somebody will let some tugboat Captain know these things.