astronaut Lisa Marie Nowak set out on a 900-mile overnight drive from Houston, Texas, to Orlando, Florida, on the evening of February 4, 2007, with the goal of attacking and kidnapping a romantic rival. The goal of our scavenger hunt is to list the most items she had with her on her roadtrip! There are just a couple of simple rules and things to keep in mind: 
* Post your answers as a "Comment" to this announcement. You can also post questions if desired and I will answer as completely as I can.
* Make sure you have clicked to "Follow" this site in the upper left corner to be eligible to win (sometimes Blogger requires people to be logged in to a Gmail account to be able to do so).
In honor of the initial date of this post being the 67th anniversary of the World War II Invasion Normandy, I will send the winner a signed copy of my D-Day: The Invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944!
Good luck and have fun!
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ReplyDeleteLeather Whips were reported amongst her onboard items... She did not have good intentions for the other woman.
ReplyDeleteof course that's what wikipedia claims... i assume she had to have directions with her... and we know she had on a wig from police report... poor thing... she must have over the edge
ReplyDeletehey where are the posts... i'm not seeing posts here??? where is everybody... do we need to list everything at once michael?
ReplyDeleteCaroline, you will note that fellow reader Asher posted a detailed list of items right after we announced this contest! He then pulled it down and is holding on to it until just before the Scavenger Hunt ends, to avoid giving other players any hints or an idea of what they need to do the beat him. So, this post is getting a lot of views, and some of them appear to be from people who are playing their cards close to their chests!
ReplyDeletetook me a bit to understand that... but i caught on :)
ReplyDeleteOK here goes....
ReplyDeleteDiapers - official brand is Absorbancies - manufacturer now defunct (but NASA stockpiled thousands of them) An adult diaper laced with an a liquid absorbing chemical called sodium polyacrylate. She denied wearing them.
Handwritten Note on USS Nimitz stationery - listed Shipman's (kidnap victim) flight... info
Sheet of Flight Controller's Log paper - with list of itmes such as contacts , gloves, umbrella, etc.
$585.00 in US Dollars
41 GBP British currency (in cash)
69 Orange pills wrapped in brown paper towels - Pills were identified only as not illegal, but never publicly identified.
2 USB Drives - family pictures, movies and NASA related materials
1 cell phone - provided by Oefelein
Latex Gloves
Black wig
BB Pistol - with Co2 cartridge and extra BBs
Pepper Spray
Tan Hooded trench coat
2lb drilling hammer
...black gloves
rubber tubing
plastic garbage bags
Laptop computer
8inch Gerber folding knife
Floppy disk - contained two photos of Nowak riding in a bicycle race, 15 images (drawings and photos) of an unidentified woman in different stages of undress depicting scenes of bondage.
Sources:
ReplyDeletehttp://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/nasa/flnowak20507aff.html
http://www.cityoforlando.net/police/pio/releases/2007/Afffidavit-NowakAtt1stDegreeMurder.pdf
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,250415,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Nowak
Items:
$41 GBP
$585 in cash
BB Gun (resembled real 9mm pistol, loaded, safety off, CO2 powered)
Black yard trash bag (two used diapers inside)
Black yard trash bag (several, unused)
Brown paper towels (four) wrapping up 69 orange pills)
Buck knife (8” Gerber folding knife, half solid, half serrated)
Cell phone
CO2 cartridge (unused)
Computer
Diapers
Directions from Houston to Orlando (printed from Mapquest, printed on 1/23/2007)
Duffel bag (black)
Emails from Shipman to Oefelein (printed)
Floppy disk (17 images, 2 being Nowak in a bike race, 15 depicting an unidentified woman in various stages of undress, all depicting bondage)
Glasses
Gloves (black)
Latex gloves (3 pairs)
Letter from Nowak to Oefelein, professing love for him
List of items (handwritten, including wig, trench coat, make-up, trash bag, knife, “ammo 9”, food, water, cooler, sneakers, plastic gloves, contacts, cash, an umbrella, black sweats)
Map of interior of Orlando International Airport terminal (printed from internet, printed on 1/23/2007)
Map of parking lot of Orlando International Airport (printed from internet, printed on 1/23/2007)
Map with directions to Shipmans house (handwritten)
Open package for buck knife
Pepper spray
Receipts from her trip, showing she paid only cash
Rubber tubing (3-4 feet)
Schedule of shuttle bus service at Orlando International Airport (printed from internet, printed on 1/23/2007)
Steel mallet (new, also described as a 2 pound drilling hammer)
Trench coat (tan, with hood)
USB drives (2 of them, with family pictures, digital movies, and NASA materials)
Wig (black)
I still don't know that this qualifies as a list per-say but I'm just going to dump it the way I have it Michael because I almost forgot.... bad me... ok:
ReplyDeleteInstructions to where she needed to go.
$585 Cash, a Black Wig, her laptop computer, 8" Gerber folding knifer, BB pellet gun and ammunition, a hooded tan trench coat, laytex gloves, black rubber gloves, a 2 pound ball pen steel hammer, rubber tubing, plastic garbage bags and a floppy disk with the bondage photos.
She carried two hats, a baseball cap and a black fedora. The purse Nowak took to Florida was a very practical beige canvas bag, with multiple pockets for organization to hold A flashlight and pepper spray along with her lipstick and mascara. She also had badges and pins from STS 121, the shuttle mission she flew last summer with the floppy disk and some memory sticks that held photos and drawings of a woman in bondage. Investigators haven't revealed the identity of the woman, but they do say the bondage photos don't seem to be directly related to the case. and some adult diapers.
Thought I couldn't find them listed I'm certain she had to have tissues on board because from her appearances you could tell she had been crying her makeup off for miles.
I would have had more if I'd beed doing the planning but then I'd have been planning to go hunt her cheating boyfriend down and rip him a new one so I wouldn't have needed nearly so much equipment.
Good job to all three of you! Asher clearly has the most comprehensive list and, on that basis alone, would win unequivocally. But the other two participants had great items on their lists that were unique to them, and that counts for a lot as well. Goglesby's identification of the actual brand of adult diapers worn by Nowak, to include the urine-absorbing chemical they were treated with, is terrific! (Plus, he had the courage to tip his hand and publicly post his list first.) And Caroline's inclusion of the shuttle mission pins and her great commentary on how she would have acted in the same situation is nothing short of precious! So, I am declaring a three-way tie, with special honors going to each of the three competitors for their special contributions (e.g., Quantity, Detail, Pathos). Congratulations!
ReplyDeleteHahahahaha... calling me precious for wanting to cause serious bodily harm to the astronaut's dastardly boyfriend is nothing short of precious Michael... i may not look like much of a scrapper but... meow... watch out some guy does something awful like he did... makes my blood boil... but thank you ever so much for thinking it was precious hahah... and a three way tie... that is nothing short of diplomacy in supreme form :)
ReplyDeleteHats off to you... and that would not be a baseball cap or black fedora... teehee :*