Marty Rathbun: Scientology's Attorney "Supervised" Destruction of Records in Lisa McPherson Death - 2012-08-24

Marty Rathbun: Scientology's Attorney "Supervised" Destruction of Records in Lisa McPherson Death August 24, 2012, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, Village Voice

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For the last year or more, Mark Bunker has been releasing short excerpts from his upcoming Scientology documentary Knowledge Report, and yesterday, he released a doozy.

Bunker had told me that he'd interviewed former church executive Marty Rathbun, and in this excerpt, we see Rathbun addressing the kinds of things many have wanted him to talk about: what happened with Lisa McPherson, a parishioner who died in a Scientology hotel in 1995? I have a feeling his responses here will cause as much skepticism as anything else, but what he has to say about Scientology attorney Elliot Abelson should cause an uproar.

McPherson died after she was held for 17 days at the Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater, Florida following a mental breakdown. As Janet Reitman describes in rich detail in her 2011 book Inside Scientology, McPherson had been a dedicated Scientologist whose life had increasingly spun out of control. Her death became the church's biggest crisis to that point, leading to a criminal investigation and years of civil litigation.

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{{cite news | author = Tony Ortega | title = Marty Rathbun: Scientology's Attorney "Supervised" Destruction of Records in Lisa McPherson Death | url = https://www.villagevoice.com/2012/08/24/marty-rathbun-scientologys-attorney-supervised-destruction-of-records-in-lisa-mcpherson-death/ | work = Runnin' Scared | publisher = Village Voice | date = August 24, 2012 | accessdate = October 18, 2017 }}