Settling outside of court also doesn’t say much about the confidence the church has in their own innocence, despite their powerful legal team. Surely they could have proven their innocence instead of just paying money to make it all go away.

Admit it, this is all about money! Why else would you have to pay to get in or to learn the truth? If it’s the truth, tell everyone! I don’t see any reason why you would want to restrict access to it. Sounds very sinister to me.

Lisa McPherson was a Scientologist who tragically died from a blood clot as a result of a car accident. Sadly, individuals tried to profit from the death of this poor girl. That’s why you know about it. Here is what happened:

1. Lisa McPherson died of a pulmonary embolism (blood clot). Allegations to the contrary made about the Church by Medical Examiner Dr. Joan Wood on national TV were unfounded, as she herself would later have to concede when she was presented with all the evidence.

2. None of the top medical experts around the country who have been consulted on this matter agreed with Wood’s conclusions.

3. The only doctor to support Wood’s interpretation on national TV — without examining the evidence — was convicted of witness tampering. He intentionally broke a bone in the neck of a corpse in connection with a New Jersey lawsuit.

4. Lisa’s aunt Dell Liebreich alleged in a suit against the Church that Lisa planned to leave the Church. This is false. Lisa had booked a Christmas/New Year vacation aboard the “Freewinds”, a Church of Scientology religious retreat and had paid for the airline tickets already.

5. Liebreich hardly knew Lisa and admitted in deposition that she never had a meaningful conversation with her in her entire adult life and showed no interest in the living Lisa. Her deposition shows her concern about acquiring Lisa’s possessions.

6. After Lisa’s traffic accident, she was seen by the hospital’s psychiatric liaison, who concluded that she was not a danger to herself or others.

7. When the medical examiner looked at all the facts she came to the conclusion that Lisa McPherson suffered an accidental death as a result of a pulmonary embolism caused by an injury to her leg in the auto accident. All charges against the Church were dismissed by the prosecutor.

8. When the judge in the civil suit was presented the evidence, he ruled that Lisa McPherson was at the Church of her own free will and dismissed a major portion of the case. The remaining part of the civil case ultimately settled. Here is the June 14th, 2000 press release.

She was not mistreated, she was willingly in the care of friends. She did not lose 50 lbs.

The medical examiner determined that Lisa died of natural causes. [The medical examiner initially found the cause of death to be “undetermined” and reached numerous erroneous conclusions wrongly suggesting that Ms. McPherson had been the victim of neglect or abuse. She then compounded these errors by presenting her mistaken analysis and conclusions to the public unlawfully and in a highly inflammatory way. Following correction of her error on Lisa’s death certificate and the formal finding that Ms. McPherson’s death was accidental ,as well as the revelation of other serious errors in her office, she resigned as county medical examiner.]

This was a tragic accident made worse by the Lisa McPherson Trust.