Don’t Get Burned by St. Lyndee’s Fire

On Friday Lyndee Wall Woodliff, told the jury tales of bonfires, shredders, and countless other ways in which ARC staffers worked furiously to hide or destroy evidence after reporter Dee Hall visited the ARC offices, but today on cross examination, Woodliff’s former boss Jason Kratochwill gave a very different version of events.

Kratochwill told Attorney Steve Meyer that he informed Scott Jensen of Dee Hall’s request to visit the ARC office and that Jensen had no problem with the reporter coming to the ARC for an interview. Kratochwill also said that contrary to Woodliff’s testimony, there were no bonfires, no destruction of records and no efforts to hide documents after the newspaper articles were published. Kratochwill said they complied with open records requests and that when Jensen learned of Woodliff’s allegations, he hired a private investigator to look into the matter. The investigator found no evidence or witnesses to corroborate Woodliff’s story.

The bonfire story sounds good doesn’t it? In our heroine’s imagination, she can picture the whole gang there getting drunk and reading excerpts from various memos before tossing them into the flames. She wonders what actress will be chosen to play her in the movie.

And Dee Hall of the Wisconsin State Journal reported it all, without documentation or corroboration. That puts her closer to Jayson Blair than Bob Woodward.