Welcome back!! Let’s pick up with that timeline, detailing how Pitt County DA, Faris Dixon, participated in the cover up of Keisha White’s death.
2021-2022
In 2021, I reached back out to Dixon’s office and asked for a copy of the evidence he used to make his 2019 charging decision. I knew he would not show me any actual evidence, but I felt asking for the list of evidence was reasonable. Initially, he responded with an email detailing what others had done previously, while simultaneously ignoring my direct request. I followed with more requests by leaving him voice mails that he did not respond to.
I finally sent a fax to Dixon’s office in early 2022. I then wrote a copy of the faxed letter as a Facebook post and tagged him in it. After someone on his end removed the tag, I received a letter from his office informing me I would receive the list in about 30 days… and I did.
However, to my surprise, the list did not include any evidence I provided after 2014. Granted, I did not give anything else directly to Kimberly Robb or her office after 2014, because I was scared to. I was aware of the stance she had taken and knew I had very few chances to have the case re-opened based on new evidence. Instead, I gave evidence to the Greenville Police Department’s former Internal Affairs Sergeant Tim McInerney and to the Assistant Greenville City Attorney, Donald Phillips.
Here is what was missing and why I considered it missing from the DA’s office:
- Published Consent Order – The NC Board of Nursing had issued this disciplinary document to Linda Brixon in 2015 as a result of their investigation. Brixon signed it in November, and I noticed its publishing on the BON’s website in December. I presented a copy of the PCO during a meeting with McInerney and also provided a copy of NC’s general statute 14-32.2 regarding punishments for patient abuse and neglect. The only thing all of this led to was McInerney claiming he had done all he could do, which really amounted to nothing. But what had he done with the document? I assume that part of “all he could do” included discussing the PCO with Kimberly Robb. Therefore, she should have had a copy.
- Board of Nursing’s Final Report – I received the BON’s 194-page final report in March 2016, though their investigation was completed in July 2015. 🤔 This was the last piece of evidence I had and the last piece of evidence I knew how to obtain. I was quite hesitant to give this away and possibly blow my last chance to have the investigation re-opened. In 2018, I decided to hand it over to Phillips, whom I prayed could help me. Since he agreed to give it to Robb, he at least served as a witness that the DA’s office was given the evidence.
So what happened to these documents? Why were, perhaps, the most damning pieces evidence missing from the DA’s office? And was the missing status the fault of Robb before leaving office? Or the fault of Dixon after taking office? My suspicions lead me to believe the former.
I immediately contacted Dixon to alert him that evidence was missing from his list of evidence. After learning who I gave the documents to, he said he would contact Philips and would send someone to search any files McInerney may have left behind prior to his untimely death resulting from a house fire in 2021. (See link below if you’d like to read more.)
The PCO was not found in McInerney’s files.
Attorney Phillips did still have the BON report and he submitted it to Dixon in the same format I had sent it; split into four emails due to file size.
Dixon said he would review the evidence and get back to me. Fortunately the BON report also contained the PCO in its contents. Meanwhile, I prepared a dossier of what happened to Keisha, connecting all of the dots together myself, and sent it to Dixon in April 2022.
I followed up with Dixon a couple of months later in June. In this phone call he informed that he was still reviewing the information and to give him two more weeks to complete it. I asked him had seen anything in the information to change his mind. He said, no. I asked him what will he do if he does see something that changes his mind. He said he would forward the evidence to the local medical examiner, Dr. Karen Kelly, at the Brody School of Medicine.
Okay… Two weeks later rolls around and Dixon and I spoke again by phone. As before, I asked him if he saw anything in the reports to change his mind. As before, he said, no. This resulted in a heated exchange between him and I. Then he claimed that he could not move forward with charges because he already had a report from the ME. 😮
“In two weeks?” I exclaimed. Yes, he said. This seemed entirely unrealistic. He was telling me that he completed review of the new evidence plus the dossier, obviously changing his former perspective that Keisha’s death was not a criminal matter. (Right? I mean those were his terms.) He submitted all the evidence to the ME, and he’s already gotten her report back… all inside a two-week time frame. The conversation after went pretty much like this:
“Can I get a copy?”
“No.”
“Can I come to your office and see your copy?”
“No.”
“Can you tell me who signed it?”
“No, I cannot”
“Can you give me the date on it?”
“No, I cannot.”
“What if I hire an independent medical examiner?”
“I can not use an independent medical examiner.”
“Why not?”
“Because the jury will wonder why I am not using the same medical examiner I typically use.”
I’m gonna let you guys marinate on that. Part 3 is coming and you should come back, too. Please take the time to comment and share. Thank you!!
