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A prominent Bigfoot hunter who claimed to have filmed the cryptid — and even sued the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to prove its existence — has died. Claudia Ackley, 51, was found dead at her Tennessee home on July 3 following a suspected heart attack, her heartbroken partner Ed Brown confirmed to the US Sun. After allegedly first sighting the mythical, hairy humanoid nearly a decade ago, Ackley devoted her life to showing that the species does exist — and to warn others that the creatures are dangerous. Brown told the Sun that the Bigfoot community had “lost...

AMERICA'S most prolific Bigfoot hunter - who caught a mysterious 800-pound beast on camera and dedicated her life to investigating hundreds of other strange sightings - has been found dead. Claudia Ackley, 51, was so passionate about proving the existence of Sasquatch, she even launched a lawsuit to try and force Californian authorities to take Bigfoot sightings seriously. The mom of two was found dead at her home in Tenessee, on July 3, her partner Ed Brown confirmed to The US Sun. Back in 2018, The Sun spent time with Claudia in the mountains of Big Bear, California, retracing the...

Need to look beyond local area for clarity January 07, 2012 9:00 AM To the editor: The number of letters to the editor, pro and con, regarding Sheriff Ed Brown’s ads is consoling. It indicates that there are citizens who are paying attention to current events; however, this issue pales in the light of a greater issue in which few citizens appear to take an interest — specifically, the survival of America as the democratic republic intended by our founders that most of us love and will protect. Whether or not such ads are constitutional could be academic in the...

CONCORD – One of four men accused of helping convicted tax evaders Edward and Elaine Brown avoid arrest allegedly had a "gun in every room" when agents arrested him in Vermont Wednesday, and another recently enlisted in the U.S. Army and had a pipe bomb and other weapons in his New York home when authorities searched it yesterday, officials said. "We've said from the very beginning ... that people who may be aiding and abetting the Browns are subject to investigation, arrest and prosecution," U.S. Marshal for New Hampshire Stephen R. Monier told reporters after the U.S. District Court hearings.

If federal agents storm Brown's property, he and his supporters will come out shooting. Brown said yesterday that if those agents kill him or his wife, Elaine, his supporters will systematically find and kill Plainfield Police Chief Gordon Gillens, Sullivan County Sheriff Michael Prozzo and others Brown says are sworn to protect him. "Why do you think we know where they live?" he said. Brown predicts the people's war against corruption will begin within the next 18 months. He has spent the last 15 years doing research, trying to identify the culprits of that corruption. "I'm still conducting my investigation,"...

PLAINFIELD, New Hampshire (AP) -- To avoid serving prison sentences for tax evasion, Ed Brown and his wife, Elaine, have locked themselves off from the world on their own terms. From behind the 8-inch concrete walls of their 110-acre hilltop compound, the couple taunt police and SWAT teams and play to reporters and government-haters with references to past standoffs that turned deadly. Residents want the Browns' circus to end before their small town along the Connecticut River becomes the next Ruby Ridge or Waco. The Browns raised the specter of the first case, the 1992 shootout at an Idaho property...

Calling the federal agents surrounding his fortified compound "guns for hire," a New Hampshire man convicted of tax evasion vowed today that he and his wife would fight U.S. marshals to the death if they tried to capture them. "Do not under any circumstances make any attempt on this land. We will not accept any tomfoolery by any criminal element, be it federal, state or local," said Ed Brown in a press conference from the stoop of his concrete-clad home in Plainfield, N.H. "We either walk out of here free or we die." Brown and his wife, Elaine, were sentenced...

PLAINFIELD, N.H. — Randy Weaver, the symbol of everything the government hopes to avoid with convicted tax evaders Ed and Elaine Brown, offered advice to the fugitives and warnings to federal agents at the Browns’ fortified home on Monday. Weaver’s wife and son and a deputy U.S. marshal were killed during the infamous Ruby Ridge shootout with federal agents in Idaho in 1992. He visited the Browns’ hilltop home to raise the specter of the botched federal raid and lend his celebrity to the tax evaders’ cause. “We said, ’This is it, we’re not going to take it any more’...

A federal judge sentenced tax protesters Ed and Elaine Brown to more than five years in prison yesterday, giving them sentences at the top of the range recommended by probation officers but below sentencing recommendations offered by the prosecutor. The couple did not attend the hearing, and Ed Brown refused to recognize the sentence or the federal court that issued it. "I've been convicted of crimes?" he asked in a phone interview yesterday. The couple have been holed up in their fortified Plainfield home for several months, saying that any attempts to arrest them will trigger a violent confrontation with...

Despite the massive show of force authorities displayed last week when they seized the West Lebanon property of convicted tax evaders Edward and Elaine Brown, the avoidance of confrontation with the couple at their Plainfield home suggests law enforcement agencies have learned from mistakes made during earlier federal standoffs at Waco and Ruby Ridge, an expert who tracks militia and radical right-wing movements said. U.S. marshals in New Hampshire appear to be pursuing tactics similar to those used in Montana in 1996, when federal agents successfully negotiated the peaceful surrender of the Montana Freeman after an 81-day standoff, said Mark...

Danny Riley friend of Ed Brown reveals what really happened when he was walking the dog this morning at the Browns. This is an amazing interview I recommend that you all watch it from start to finish. Danny Riley a true patriot and friend of the Browns, was doing them a favor by walking their dog when he realized that there were infiltrators close by camouflaged in ghillie suits preparing to unlawfully raid the property of Ed and Elaine Brown.

Neighbors of convicted tax evaders Ed and Elaine Brown reported police SWAT teams and at least one armored vehicle converging on a field near their Plainfield home this morning. Authorities haven’t confirmed they are moving in to arrest the fugitives, but local police, the governor’s office and the U.S. Attorney’s office referred calls to the U.S. Marshal’s service, which has been negotiating daily with the Browns since their federal tax evasion conviction in January. Susan Williams, who lives a mile or so away from the Browns on Center of Town Road, said she saw police officers, SWAT team members, a...