Inside Scientology-The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion by Janet Reitman

Author:Janet Reitman
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Non-Fiction, Psychology, Religion
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2011-07-05T05:00:00+00:00

This is where the log ends. There are no other records for the remainder of December 3 or for December 4 or 5. However, the caretakers later testified that during those days, Lisa’s condition declined dramatically. By the morning of December 5, she was lying in bed and barely moving. “There was one time when she rolled over … and she fell on the floor,” Petzold said. “So I picked her back up and put her back on the bed, of course.”

Lisa also wasn’t talking much, which Petzold immediately noticed. “Prior [to this] it was like a broken record, just all of the time.” Now Lisa was mumbling. “That’s when I got pretty worried,” Petzold said.

That afternoon, Petzold and Laura Arrunada, the other caretaker, decided to give Lisa a bath. She was too weak to walk to the tub, so the women carried her. As they were putting her in the tub, Lisa’s sphincter muscle relaxed. “She shit herself,” Laura Arrunada later said.

A relaxed anus is a sign that the body has begun to deteriorate. Petzold, a teenager with no medical experience, didn’t know this. Arrunada, who had graduated from medical school in Mexico City but was not a licensed physician, might have been familiar with this warning sign. But as she told the police, Lisa “was not looking like she was [going] to die.”

Arrunada was nonetheless concerned, and at six o’clock that evening, she called Johnson and told her that Lisa needed medical attention.

At approximately 7 P.M., Dr. David Minkoff received yet another call from Johnson about Lisa McPherson. The girl for whom he had written the prescription, she said, was suffering from acute diarrhea, had lost an extreme amount of weight, and also complained of a sore throat. Johnson thought Lisa had strep and requested penicillin. This time, Minkoff refused to call in a prescription.

“If she’s sick enough to need an injection, then she needs to be seen by a doctor,” he said. And if she were seriously ill, they shouldn’t bring Lisa to him, but to a closer hospital like Morton Plant.

“No, she’s not that sick,” Johnson assured him. She told Minkoff they’d be there within the hour.

Soon after, Paul Greenwood, a Flag security officer, was dispatched to room 174. With Janis Johnson and Laura Arrunada assisting, Greenwood put Lisa in a van. Johnson got behind the wheel and drove north, past Morton Plant Hospital, where she and the others dared not stop, fearing the doctors might call the psychiatrists. They drove past several other hospitals as well, bound for Minkoff’s facility, the Columbia HCA Hospital in New Port Richey, about forty-five minutes away. No one spoke. “When someone is sick or injured you don’t talk around them because it puts impressions in the mind which create things … later on,” said Greenwood.

Johnson later said she heard Lisa’s breath become labored, then grow faint. Sitting with her in the back of the van, Greenwood monitored Lisa’s pulse. It slowly dwindled. Then Greenwood couldn’t feel it anymore.

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