SOMETHING STINKS AT THE FUNERAL HOME AND ITS NOT THE DEAD

On last week as I discussed the death of 58 year old Frank Alexander on my radio show speaking of how Alexander's family believes that his girlfriend Claudette Eldridge poisoned him for his assets and money even going to the trouble to create a bogus will that she claims Alexander made before his death where names are wrong and gives everything to her and her 8 year old son Adriana Harrison gave me a call on my cell phone. I told Harrison that if she wanted to speak with me about what was being said on air we would have to speak on air. She stated that that would be fine so I called the funeral home number and began my conversation with her.

Speaking of Channel 3's story on how Mr Alexander died in his home in Mississippi and the body went to her funeral home and then at the request of the family to N.J. Ford and Sons Funeral Home and went from Ford to the medical examiner in Jackson Ms, and back to Ford,and a funeral and burial is held,and a exhumation in March where the medical examiner states that the organ were missing and that sheets were in the cavity of Alexander.

Adriana Harrison stated that she does not know what happened because the body was only at her funeral home for a short time and THAT THE BODY WAS NOT EMBALMED AT HER FUNERAL HOME. I found this to be very strange since Harrison's Orange Mound Funeral Home filed a death certificate in Ms stating that her husband the late Charles Harrison was the embalmer. if what she stated on air is true that could only mean that the embalmer at N.J. Ford and Sons Funeral Home had to embalm the body which now opens another can of worms in this conspiracy against the Alexander family since the embalmer at Ford's at the time states that he did not do the embalming.

James "Butch" Herndon in 2007 at the time of the death of Frank Alexander was the embalmer for Ford's. I spoke with Herndon today who states that the body was already embalmed when the body arrived in his morgue at the South Memphis funeral home even though Ford's charged the family $850.00 for embalming charges. Herndon states that the mere fact that Charles Harrison signed the death certificate proves that fact.

So why would Adriana Harrison come on air and lie? The answer is very simple I believe that not only did Adriana plot with her sister to steal the assets of Frank Alexander but may have helped with the death as well. The family states that Claudette stated that Frank Alexander died while taking a shower but no water was found on his body or in the shower.

Claudette instead of calling 911 calls to East St.Louis Ill. to tell a nephew what has happen and that she is "Fixing" to call 911. Robert Alexander states that with end moments of his arrival at his brother's home Adrianna, her daughter,and her sister arrived. Moments later Charles harrison arrives with the hearse even though the family has made no contact with him to remove the body. While an argument is taking place with Claudette and the Alexanders Charles takes off with the body.

What I also find strange is the short period of time it took for the Harrisons to arrive. Adriana stated that when she got the call at her home her husband was already at church. Charles attended a church on Knight Arnold near Getwell which means that he had to leave the church drive to Orange Mound get a hearse and get to Mississippi. I question why he went himself and not his regular removal person especially on a Sunday morning. The Harrison's were able to get to the Mississippi home almost as quick as Frank's brother who only lived 15 minutes away. Could it be that they knew he was already dead or how he died and needed to cover up the that fact?

Could it be that Claudette planned to kill Frank who had just told his brother the night before that he thought she was trying to kill him and that the sister was in on it to? Could it be that Adriana needed her husband to embalm the body to cover up the traces of poison if the Alexander family wanted the body to receive an autopsy? The question is what poison could she use that an embalmer could easily cover, METHANOL. This chemical is found in anti-freeze and also in formaldehyde. And Alexander's toxicology report found only this chemical in his body and with the body already embalmed when it arrived at the medical examiner's office in Jackson the M.E concludes that the methanol detected in the body came from the formaldehyde used to embalm.

If my theory is true Claudette took embalming fluid from the funeral home and slowly induced him with the chemical. On the Sunday morning of his death Frank gets sick gets upout of bed and makes it to the shower which is located in the bedroom. He falls to the floor dead,she calls her sister and tells her what has happen. Adriana calls Charles and tells him that Frank is dead and that he needs to hurry and get the body and get it embalmed because her sister is going to be in trouble.

When Adriana tells Claudette that everything is in motion,Claudette to give herself more time calls East St. Louis instead of calling Robert who is only minutes away. When Harrison gets the body knowing that the family is not going to want him to keep the body he immediately embalms knowing that if an autopsy is given the embalming fluid will cover the methanol.

Here's where I think the plot thickens we know that Harrison's funeral home took $13,350 out of Frank Alexander's account using a credit card. We know that they even produced a bogus funeral bill to attempt to cover at least $5,000. My thought is that Harrison paid someone at N.J. Ford's to lie that it was them that embalmed the body and that money passed hands with Dr. Steven Hayne the medical examiner in Jackson who has been recently fired for tainted autopsies.

We know for a fact that Adriana is liable for the $13,350 taken from the dead man's account that her sister was not authorized to use. We know that there is a bogus funeral bill from Orange Mound funeral Home which Claudette sign for. We know that they acquired the money without a signature. We know that the Mississippi death certificate is bogus based on the fact Claudette names herself as the informant or next of kin. We also know that Adriana has a history of wire fraud and embezzlement.

In January 1993, George Mariani, the president of Gem Seal, Inc., traced a shortage of approximately $70,000 to the company's Memphis sales office. He then learned that Harrison, the Memphis employee responsible for reporting sales, had not been following proper reporting procedure. Harrison eventually admitted to Mariani that she had taken some of the company's money.

On February 9, 1994, a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Harrison with forty-seven counts of wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1343. Harrison was arrested on February 16. On May 9, the case proceeded to trial. After three days of trial, on May 12, Harrison plead guilty to the forty-seven count indictment.

At her September 30 sentencing hearing, Harrison testified that notwithstanding her original plea of not guilty, she never denied misappropriating company funds for her own benefit. According to Harrison, she took $32,457.23 from Gem Seal, not the approximately $60,000 estimated in the indictment or the amount to which Mariani testified at trial. Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Russell Gregory, III, testified at Harrison's sentencing that based upon his calculations, approximately $77,000 was missing from the corporate coffers.

The family of Frank Alexander has been out of the Memphis area for about a week due to the graduation of a family member in another state but will be returning the end of this week. It is the family's intent to send Claudette and Adriana to prison and to close down the funeral home. The courts may never be able to prove that Claudette murdered Frank Alexander be there has been enough other crimes committed that should send them away for a while. the transferring of funds from Alexander's account by way of device is the very same crime that Adriana served prison time for before.