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Early one Saturday afternoon in July 2003, reporter and published author Jackson Thoreau made a simple phone call to Margie Schoedinger, a Missouri City, Texas woman who had filed a rape lawsuit against President George W. Bush in December 2002. He expected to leave a message on a lunatic’s machine, so he was caught a little off guard when Schoedinger answered.
She sounded somewhat surprised, saying she hadn’t heard from many other reporters. But she talked to Thoreau about the legal action.
“I am still trying to prosecute,” said Schoedinger, a 38-year-old African-American woman. “I want to get this matter settled and go on with my life.”
Well, Schoedinger didn’t go on with her life. In fact, three months after Thoreau spoke to her, she died in what was called a suicide. The matter still remains unsettled.
Schoedinger’s accusations – which include being sexually assaulted by Bush – are bizarre and hard for most people to believe. But as for her death – let’s just say government agents have made murders look like suicides before.
Schoedinger said police in Sugar Land, a Houston suburb where she said some assailants linked to Bush attempted to unsuccessfully abduct her from her car shortly before the 2000 election, refused to do anything about that incident. When she reported the crime to the Sugar Land Police Department, she was harassed by police. She was treated similarly by the FBI. To make matters worse, her bank accounts were frozen, her husband lost his job, her academic records were expunged, and she became the subject of 24-hour surveillance.
She filed a lawsuit against the Sugar Land Police Department. In preparing its defense, Sugar Land police investigated and found out that she had once dated George W. Bush!
Just wait. This story gets stranger.
Thoreau remembers thinking, “I hope she doesn’t wind up on the wrong side of a gun.” And sure enough, in late September of 2003, Schoedinger did exactly that.
The Houston Chronicle wrote a bare-bones obituary that stated only that Schoedinger “expired” on Sept. 22, 2003, and her burial was at Houston Memorial Gardens.
The Harris County Medical Examiner’s office quickly ruled the death a “suicide” by a “gunshot wound to the head” and ordered no further investigation.
Using a gun to commit suicide is predominantly executed by males, according to psychiatrists and other sources like pharmaceutical firm Merck & Co. Women are more likely to overdose on drugs, although the number of gunshot suicides among women has increased in recent years.
The news blackout on the story was unprecedented. I’ll bet you haven’t seen any stories on this strange death of a woman who filed a rape lawsuit against the U.S. president and wound up dead nine months later. There has never been a media blackout like the one on this story.
Someone tried to kidnap this woman on October 26, 2000. Her would-be kidnappers were foiled by a passing DPS patrolman, who broke up the melee, and called Missouri City cops to the scene, who then let her attackers go. She made it clear at the scene that the abductors were planning to kill her and that she knew why. Margie Schoedinger and several members of her family were then taken into police custody for ‘questioning’ while the attackers were let free.
After this she went public with the rape allegations against GW Bush and filed lawsuits Remember that as all of this was happening, Bush was still not President Bush, he was Governor Bush.
Nine months after accusing the President of rape, Margie Schoedinger was dead with a bullet in her brain. The only other fact I know surrounding her actual death is the bullet was a .9mm.
Maybe she was crazy…but if so, why did the media never once try to discredit her? They didn’t even bother to report her existence, or the circumstances of her untimely death. She accused a man who was slated to become the leader of the free world of a heinous crime, and was then found dead with a bullet in her skull and apparently no one thought this might be newsworthy?
I know exactly how they feel, unfortunately this story will not die as easily as she did. It will not die because no one has answered any of the questions.
The scarcity of reporting coupled with the nature of the story make it seem like almost like an urban legend; but every page of the police reports, lawsuits, and death records are a matter of public record in Fort Bend County Texas.
Margie Schoedinger was a businesswoman who owned a communications firm, health and beauty business, travel agency, and publishing company. She had a college degree, and was reportedly working on her PhD at the time of her death. She had never in her life been treated, diagnosed, or accused of any kind of irrational behavior. At the time of her death she was an attractive 38 year old married professional black woman living with her husband in an upscale suburban community – with an admirable academic record, clean credit report, and no criminal history.
Her death was questionable. In view of the evidence, the case should be reopened as a possible homicide.