To: CHARLOTTE CALMES and TORI: All I can say to the both of you is BRAVO! You truly are in touch with the truer aspect of this whole situation. As far as the racial aspect is concerned...here you have a young man who is purportedly to be a strong, physically conditioned paramedic-fireman and he's going to supposedly let a 15 year old boy (Daniel Winfrey) half his size pin him to the floor of the bridge? I don't think so. I'm sorry but Tom Cummins is not only hiding the truth about what happened up on that bridge on April 4, 1991, but he is also preventing the world from knowing his culpability and participation in the alleged deaths of his cousins, Julie and Robin Kerry.
On that Friday night, after enjoying an evening with your cousins, why would you feel the need to sneak behind your daddy's back, after everyone's asleep, to be alone with Julie? When you asked your dad if you could go out later, he told you "no", and you said, "Well I guess I better call Julie, then". What were you planning anyways. And, if the girls wanting you to see their poetry so badly on that bridge, why not do it when you had first gotten there in the beginning of the week? Why wait until the night before you're supposed to leave to go back to your home in Gaithersburg, Maryland to allegely look at some unidentified poem (by Julie Kerry) on a cold, moonless dark night around midnight on a condemned bridge (with "NO TRESPASSING" signs all around)...WITHOUT TAKING A FLASHLIGHT?". Why did you encourage your cousin, Julie, to sneak out of the house after everyone went to sleep, if you were so innocent in all of this? Why were you bummed out when you realized Robin had come along when Julie picked you up at the bottom of your block (where you were staying with your grandparents)? But most incredible question of all...Why have a condom in your wallet (when the wallet was found on the bridge)?
Ladies and gentlemen, it is amazing that a tall, husky and athletic male 19 years of age and a well-conditioned fireman would be humanly-able to "jump" from a bridge down 90 feet, hit the water with an impact of 100 mph (calculated) into 14 feet of dark, contaminated river water, travel close to 200 yards over alot of floating timber, very dangerous and rapid whirlpools, eddies...across large rocks (stretching from Illinois-Missouri bank) in 45-50 degree water, pitch dark (no moon), barge traffic, several hidden jetties and gravel bars, spend about 40-60 minutes in cold water with your heavy clothes on, then somehow make it to a bank that is about 6-10 feet deep of Mississippi black mud (like quicksand) and protected by a 5-6 foot inclined embankment of sharp pieces of timber, brush and other seriously-dangerous materials, crawl through 100-200 feet of dense and tangled brush for another 20-30 minutes or so, walk about 100 feet to the side of the road and flag down a trucker...and only be wet from the waist down, with your upper-half torso be completely dry, your hair all neatly combed and the only visible mark on you is a scratch on your face? You must be superman. First of all, if you had truly jumped like you pretend, the impact would have broken every bone in your body. Your body would have then been mangled after traveling through all the large rocks/concrete blocks that stretch across the width of the water in a 10-15 knot current (pretty fast). Hypothermia would have set in within 5-7 minutes under those conditions (the water was about 45 degrees) and the ambient (surrounding) air temperature was about 50 degrees, and you would have drowned anyways. Or, you would have been trapped in the mud if even you had made it that far. All of that, and still you were sitting upright in the ambulance, no visible signs of any serious trauma (shaking uncontrollably, etc.)? Absolutely amazing...ahh but more questions still need to be answered...now does everyone think Tom Cummins is as innocent as he portrays himself to be?