Kevin Moore Capt Mark Richards Pandragon Plot/ Kerry Cassidy Hoax

About this episode

The episode discusses the bizarre case of Mark Richards, a convicted murderer with ties to a secret organization and fantastical claims about alien battles.

Mark Richards (1953–) is a convicted murderer serving life without parole in California State Prison, SolanoWikipedia's W.svg at Vacaville, California.[1] He prefers to be known as "Captain" Richards, although he never served in the military. After graduating from high school in 1971, he attended the College of Marin and then graduated from Dominican College in San Rafael in 1976. He has spun multiple bizarre yarns about his service in the so-called "Secret Space Program" battling alien forces, in addition to his imaginary service in the US Navy Investigation by a journalist from the Marin Independent Journal revealed a dimension to the murder that was literally incredible. The writer, Erik Ingram, reported that behind the Baldwin murder "may be a secret organization, called Pendragon, that appeared to be planning an armed takeover of Marin." Ingram reported that police detectives had retrieved from Richards' home maps, aerial photographs of Marin County, plans for a laser-gun, instructions for the construction of machine-guns, and "notebooks containing references to a new form of government." He wrote that behind the Baldwin murder "may be a secret organization, called…

People in this episode

Host: The Opperman Report

Guest: Kerry Cassidy

Topics covered

• murder
• secret organizations
• alien forces
• criminal investigation
• conspiracy theories

Keywords

• Mark Richards
• Kerry Cassidy
• Pendragon
• murder
• California
• secret space program
• conspiracy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Pendragon

Places: California State Prison, Solano, Marin County, Marin

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