Dave Ortiz (DaveO)

Biscardi continually called my group the Texas Shadow Chasers, or something like that, and if I read your post correctly you said this morphed into the TIMBERLINE BIGFOOT GROUP.

There has never been a Texas shadow Chasers, [Period] TBG, has several field teams. One is called “The Headhunters”, and my field team is called THE SHADOW CHASERS [because most people can see anything in the shadows if they imagine hard enough]

My “limited” association with C. Thomas Biscardi was very much like yours. I played a hand which I was dealt, and got burned.

When I spoke about Tom not spreading the money around, I meant [and surely some understand] that he’s not going to give anyone $50,000 [which is what I understand he paid the Georgia boys, you probably know the amount as you seem to have been in contact with Biscardi many times before the hoax was busted open]. He probably paid for the suit. The story those guys told about walking up and finding the body is something I’ve written on various message boards for years. Think Biscardi doesn’t monitor more than simply this blog? A wolf knows a wolf, and my purpose in associating with him was to find out if what he was claiming to be finding at Pat Mayse Lake was true. IT WASN’T. You do not habitually find pristene, castable tracks in the woods around that lake. Ask your friends from the TBRC.

What neither Biscardi or you and your bloggers knew was that while I may have been the guy everyone was watching, TBG had someone inside the actual Searching For Bigfoot team who observed Biscardi altering a cast.

When in 2007, TBG was asked to join the “live capture” hunt; it was understood that we would be compensated for our time; and we would serve only in a support capacity. Of course none of us believed this would happen, but like you we were hopeful.

We did this because it has always been our policy to help anyone who asks us for help. The promised compensation meant we might be able to purchase equipment which our teams needed. He even held a press conference in Paris, Texas. Those attending had to sign a wavier stating anything they found belonged to SFB, Inc.

Neither my son or myself was there and we never agreed to sign any wavier.

What we got Loren, was a great big ol’ knife in the back. A few nights after his hunt, I appeared on his blogtalk radio show and when asked how I was doing, I told him I had been doing fine until I read the Paris News. He tried to cut me off, but I managed to get my story out. People forget this also.

However, because Cryptomundo printed the Paris News report without considering what might have really happened…we had to sit back and take a lot of verbal abuse.

Neither you or any other of the bloggers, including Craig Woolheater of the TBRC [a gentleman who I have great respect for, and who has spoken to me over the phone] considered asking us what our story was. Why wasn’t I given that opportunity?

People seem to believe the worse about people. What I did for my group; IS NO DIFFERENT than you listening politely.

Regardless…the TIMBERLINE BIGFOOT GROUP has no association now with Tom Biscardi and Searching For Bigfoot, Inc.

The past is in the past, and I am simply one of many who cross swords with Biscardi.

By the way, if you listen to TruthNLies on blogtalk radio, and listen to some interesting tapes [especially one with Biscardi calling David Holley a “piece of s**t”, you’ll understand he has no love for me either.

My thanks to you, but lets get the story straight. You’re an author, and you need to forget what the rest of the Bigfoot Community says about people they disrespect and get to the truth. No one wanted the truth then…no one wants it now.

JC Johnson

As far as what happened and to whom in Texas, please re-read earlier entries here and here.

Texas resident David Holley founded a group called Texoma Bigfoot Research and Investigations in 2002, which morphed into the Texas Shadow Chasers, which changed into the Timberline Bigfoot Hunters group, becoming part of Biscardi’s group for its “November ‘06 Cross Country Expedition” and work in Texas in 2007. Searching For Bigfoot, Inc. (Tom Biscardi’s group), in its “Paris Texas March 2007″ announcement, gives “special thanks to David Holley and the Timberline Bigfoot Organization of Texas.”

Although I understand there has been a break between Biscardi and Holley, what does the above comment mean: “He’s too greedy to spread the money around.”

Were not some players in the Georgia hoax, indeed, paid for their time and travel? JC Johnson certainly says clearly he was an employee of Biscardi’s.

Where is Biscardi getting his money?

Follow the money. Don’t ignore it.

In March 2007, he charged innocent people $375 per person, per day to attend his “live capture hunt’ which he heavily promoted and advertised.
He claimed a film crew would be on hand to film a pilot for a reality based TV series titles “CAPTURING BIGFOOT”.

There was no film crew filming a pilot. There were two Tv stations out of the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex which sent reporters out to interview Biscardi and report on his attempts. They left before dark.

A lot was said in the days that followed that “hunt”. Both myself and TBG took a lot of flack from the Bigfoot community, and many doubted what I reported on my own message board.

Bill Hankins the reporter from the PARIS NEWS was given information about what happened by Biscardi who made our encounter, and the actions surrounding it sound as if we were in peril for our lives; and that he and his “team” were assembled and came into the field to rescue us.

[Never happened the way he says]

I tried unsucessfully to contact Mr. Hankins and his editor to clarify the facts as they were reported, and neither chose to return my email or phone calls.

Each time Biscardi goes to Paris, Texas, he throws some money around…for his motel rooms, meals, etc.
Reporters and certain law enforcement authorities who should be checking for his nonresident hunting license [and his teams] and a type II permit to hunt in wildlife management land.

[He purchases none of these things, and will have others checked. He had me checked, and all my paper work was in order]
He doesn’t throw long green around…just his weight.

Time to move on and concentrate on other matters.