Death in slow motion: Part 2 of 3 in a special report on the Church of Scientology - 2009-06-22

Death in slow motion: Part 2 of 3 in a special report on the Church of Scientology June 22, 2009, Thomas C. Tobin, Tampa Bay Times

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The night after Lisa McPherson died, the leader of the Church of Scientology sent word for one of his top lieutenants to wait by a pay phone at the Holiday Inn Surfside on Clearwater Beach.

When Marty Rathbun answered the ringing phone in the lobby, David Miscavige let him have it:

Why aren't you all over this mess? The police are poking around. Do something.

"Yes sir," Rathbun said.

McPherson, a 36-year-old parishioner in apparent good health, had spent 17 days in a guarded room at the church's Fort Harrison Hotel. Scientology staffers tried to nurse her out of a mental breakdown, but she became ill. She drew her last breaths in the back seat of a van as they drove her to a hospital in the next county.

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