Fraudulently presented MRI image of his “brain tumor” that he used to fool Geri and many others before and after Jan 1999
Pim with Daniel after the fatal shooting
Margaret apprehended after the fatal shooting
Notation: Margaret Crane seen above, is the Canadian woman charged in the shooting death of American Film Maker George Patrick Dubie.
-Hazel.
Daniel in Amsterdam as featured in a Dutch magazine article about his film making career and visions. He is wearing a UN tee shirt. His affliation to the UN has never been confirmed officially and seems to be one of his many adopted identites. He could have won the confidences of Pim purporting such a noble interest and involvement in children in Thailand. He told me lengthy stories of his charitible UNICEF works in Africa and Palestine/Lebanon. He also was involved in Peace Child International an Herbalife supported charity. The pattern of affliation with charitible works and predation on women meeting through those avenues was one of the patterns of his life.
—Hawaiianeyes
Photo’s posted by Hawaiian Eyes.
Hazel Adds;
I have been looking for proof that GPD worked for the UN or on behalf of the UN. In this photo, he is posed beside the recipients of UN money.
While a photo tells a thousand words, I can’t help but wonder what words are being spoken in this photo.
Is there any more to this story?
Hazel.
Former Victoria woman gets 3 1/2 years for Thai murder
“Light” sentence welcomed by the mother of six
Special to the Times Colonist, Times Colonist
Published: Thursday, March 20, 2008
CHIANG MAI, Thailand - A former Victoria woman was sentenced Thursday to three and a half years in prison for the 2006 fatal shooting of her long term lover and father of her six children who currently live in Victoria.
It is considered one of the lightest sentences ever delivered for a foreigner charged with murder.
Margaret Crane, 50, had pleaded guilty to shooting Daniel Dubie, 56, in the chest in the streets of this northern tourist town, 600 kilometres north of Bangkok, two years ago. Dubie had a bizarre past, charming and conning his way through North America and Asia.
View Larger ImageMargaret Crane arrives at the Chiang Mai courthouse.
Reuters
Crane’s lawyer Pongsaporn Peejadee said “this is the best possible sentence in the circumstances.”
Crane stood clutching a Bible during the 40-minute hearing, looking calm and composed as Judges Tanakorn Putsayatpaiboon and Topong Tamneeap read out the reasons for the light sentence for a crime which would normally incur a sentence of 20 years in jail. A member of the local Christian church accompanied her and also acted as her interpreter.
The judges said a potential sentence of five-and-a-half years (including 18 months for possession of a gun and ammunition) was reduced by two years because of Crane’s guilty plea. They also allowed a one month period for an appeal, however Peejadee said afterwards that he does intend to appeal the sentence.
“The court views that the defendant committed the crime as charged, but did it in a rage after being provoked, pressured and beaten,” Pusayapaiboon said as he read out the verdict.
“Therefore the sentence is lower than what is stated in the law.”
It was unclear whether the sentenced will be reduced by the 16 months that Crane has already spent in custody. However, on completion of sentence it is normal Thai practice to deport foreign criminals immediately and declare them ‘persona non grata’, banned for life from returning to the country.
Dubie was shot in the chest after the couple had a heated argument. Earlier, The Bangkok Post reported that Crane told police she and her five children suffered abuse at the hands of Dubie and that the situation had worsened since he began an affair with a Thai woman.
Crane told the court she used a revolver she took from him during a scuffle, but did not know how many shots she fired. A police forensic report said only one bullet was found in his body.
Crane, who never married Dubie but travelled with him across Canada, to Hawaii and Thailand over 28 years, was also dubbed by some as his “most devoted disciple.”
Crane told the court she went to see Dubie at a restaurant to get cash he promised to give her and their children during a stay in Thailand, but he abused her verbally and said their youngest daughter was not his.
Crane’s 23-year-old daughter Angel was in Thailand for her mother’s court appearance on Feb. 29 when she entered her guilty plea but could not be reached for immediate comment today.
After the shooting, Angel who was living in Victoria, successfully won temporary custody of five younger sibilings who were with their mother in Thailand. They are living in subsidized housing and were greatly helped by community donations of furniture, household articles and money.
In an earlier interview, Angel said her father had a bizarre outlook on life and manipulated those around him.
“He had my mother convinced that she was responsible for bringing sin into the world and it was now up to them to reset the balance in the world between good and evil,” said Angel in an interview shortly after her mother’s arrest.
“They believed we were at a crucial point in time when either all good will take over the world or all evil — that their love was the greatest love of all time, for it was the first and would be the last. But they could not be together until everything in the universe was set right. That is why he had to be with other women.”
Dubie has drawn comparisons to cult leaders Charles Manson and Jim Jones. He used various names and was said to have been a freelance journalist who worked for CNN and the United Nations in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami.
He attracted controversy and police attention in the past. He was once wanted in connection with a theft ring in Hawaii, where he lived in a $1.7-million waterfront mansion.
An associate of Dubie named Jon Onuma, also known as Jade Yoshino, previously lived at the home and was a person of interest in the mysterious disappearance of a North Carolina woman named Kristen Modafferi, who vanished in 1997 from San Francisco.
The case was featured on an episode of the TV program America’s Most Wanted and is detailed on a website: www.findkristen.com.
“Daniel Dubie is a modern day Charles Manson and Jim Jones,” the website says. “He literally goes around the world telling people he is Jesus and actually convinces them to give him millions of dollars.”
Dennis Mahon, who runs the website to generate tips about the case and is a friend of the family of the missing woman, said Dubie was born in Santa Barbara, Calif., and is a former husband of millionaire Geri Cvitanovich, a co-founder of the Herbalife company, which sells health and weight-loss products.
For many years, Dubie lived at his wife’s waterfront home outside Honolulu near Diamond Head. After Dubie and Cvitanovich divorced, he was rumoured to have been married to a series of women.
“He supposedly has 17 children,” Mahon said. “He lived in B.C. for a while. I’ve known he was in Thailand for a couple of years. He ran a holistic spa in Chiang Mai.”
Dubie and Onuma also made a film about a conference of world religious leaders who met in Bangkok in 2002.
“I know Dubie has about 10 aliases,” Mahon said. An article from a Honolulu newspaper, located on Mahon’s website, said Dubie was also known Sean Dubie, David Hart, Keoki Dubie, Christian Hart and Frances LaRue.
The 1983 article was about a man who sued Dubie, claiming he had been brainwashed, psychologically tortured and beaten by Dubie with a tennis racquet to prove he was a “warrior.”
Mahon said he received an e-mail Tuesday from a man in Thailand who believes the woman who shot Dubie was named Gina Hart, which might have been an alias used by Crane.
FBI Special Agent Dan McLaughlin, who investigated Dubie in Hawaii in 2001, called him “a David Koresh-type figure” – the leader of a Branch Davidian religious sect who was killed in a fire in a 1993 ranch raid along with 53 adults and 21 children.
“I would describe him as a classic fraudster, a swindler with an uncanny ability to capture the minds of individuals who weren’t as strong as he was,” Canada’s National Post quoted McLaughlin as saying in a March 2007 report.
Brian Fujiuchi, a detective in Hawaii when police investigated a cult Dubie ran in the 1980s, told the National Post Dubie brainwashed people into believing “he was Jesus Christ and were handing over their life savings.”
-with files from Canwest News Services and Reuters
Pim, this reminds me wasn’t Pim also GPD’s lawyer?
Is this correct or have I got two people confused?
Pim was not his lawyer. She also does not have any children of her own. She was involved in caring for orphans and that is how Felicia met her.Felicia introduced her to Daniel. Also she was not “common law wife” as reported in the American or Canadian sense of the term. He bought her a house and lived there with her when he was in Thailand. He had many such arrangements in many places including Hawaii.
Thank you very much for the clarification.
Nice icon btw.