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Sweat Lodge Accident
March 17, 2011 by admin
Filed under News Stories
March 17th, 2011
JamesRay.com
On October 8, 2009, at a “Spiritual Warrior” retreat conceived and hosted by Ray, at the Angel Valley Retreat Center in Yavapai County near Sedona, Arizona, two participants, James Shore and Kirby Brown, died as a result of being in a sweat lodge exercise. Eighteen others were hospitalized after suffering various physical problems such as pinpoint pupils, shaking organ failure, and cold/hot flashes. According to medical records not one person exhibited the symptoms of dehydration or elevated body temperatures which are critical indicators for heat stroke. Liz Neuman, another attendee, died October 17 after being comatose for a week.
The EMT’s and emergency room doctors all documented that participants appeared to have signs of organo-phosphate (pesticide) poisoning with some believing it to be carbon monoxide. The sweat lodge structure was provided by Angel Valley Ranch for which Ray’s company, James Ray International, paid over $100,000 to provide in addition to food and lodging for the participants. The contract specifically stated that Angel Valley would provide “a 415 square foot space to accommodate up to 75 people.” On the day of the accident the sweat lodge contained 52 people. Angel Valley Ranch is owned and operated by Michael and Amayra Hamilton, both residents of Yavapai County.
Even though a written contract was presented between Ray’s company and Angel Valley, the Yavapai County Sheriff, Steve Waugh, said October 10 that the investigation was focusing on Ray and his staff in an attempt to determine if criminal negligence was involved. The county sheriff’s office held firm in the belief that Ray’s staff actually built the sweat lodge completely disregarding the contract.
On the night of the accident, Ted Mercer, an employee of Angel Valley Ranch and the man who built the lodge, told detectives that the tarps used were “stored with chunks of rat poison all year long in a shed,” he further told detectives that this was the first year that they used “pressed wood to heat the stones versus tree wood” and that he was “told by Hamilton to do so.” Pressed wood is well known to contain formaldehyde and other poisons and to be toxic when burned.
Less than 48 hours after the accident, the states detectives released the alleged crime scene and allowed the Hamilton’s to destroy the lodge. All tarps, blankets, and stones were burned or completely destroyed. The Hamilton’s were also told by authorities that “they were not under any investigation.”
While numerous indicators from EMTs and emergency room doctors were present and documented of poisons, the state followed up on none of them. A source close to Ray stated that upon arrival at the scene of the accident the detective stated to Ray, “We’re investigating this as a homicide.” After answering a few basic questions, Ray was detained by authorities until nearly 2 AM that next morning. Regardless of the facts, it was reported in the press that Ray “fled the scene” and “refused to speak with authorities.”
When contacted about the lodge, Angel Valley Resort refused comment on the details of the contract. The site owner’s press release said James Ray was the sweat session facilitator in direction and control. Jack Judd, the county building safety manager, said that there was no record of a permit or an application for a permit to build the sweat lodge.
On October 15, 2009, the Yavapai County sheriff’s office upgraded the investigations into the deaths of James Shore and Kirby Brown to homicide probes, officials claimed the sweat lodge lacked the necessary building permit. James Ray arranged for his own private investigation into the deaths. He expressed sorrow and shed tears during a seminar in Los Angeles, although he did not explicitly apologize for the deaths.[32] Detectives executed a search warrant at James Ray International’s offices.[33] confiscating servers, computer equipment and documents worth multiple tens of thousands of dollars to the company.
On October 15, 2009, print media began reporting that Mr. Ray conducted a conference call with some victims, one of which recorded this call and provided it to the AP. During this call, one of attendees from the Spiritual Warrior retreat recounted that Angel Valley Ranch had brought in a self-described channeler post the accident stating she had communicated with the dead and said they “were having so much fun” out of their bodies that they didn’t want to return. While the statement was clearly not from Ray many media outlets attempted to attribute the supposed “channeling” to him.
On October 17, Ray’s spokesperson Howard Bragman said, responding to the investigation upgrade, “I think they are trying to tar my client. Somebody must be running for re-election in Yavapai County.”
On October 27, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar asked the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate the event to complement the local investigations. This did not occur.
On October 28, the family of victim Kirby Brown said that Ray was insincere. They said he assured them he was working with authorities and yet the sheriff hasn’t received an official statement from Ray. The family had previously announced their intentions to sue him.
On October 29, Ray postponed his event schedule and pledged to fully commit himself to the investigation for the victim’s and family’s benefit of an authoritative response for closure. Ray admitted he had been struggling to respond in the right way since the tragedy started. Ray’s attorney placed no responsibility for the lodge design, construction or maintenance on his client.
On October 30, a wrongful death lawsuit claiming negligence, negligent misrepresentation, fraud and other actions on the part of Ray and the site owners was filed for the family of Liz Neuman. A similar action was filed for Sidney Spencer who was seriously injured. The suits sought compensatory and punitive damages alleging that defendants failed to provide adequate prior warnings, to monitor the participants’ well being in the sweat lodge, and to provide medical treatment. On November 10 Dennis Mehravar, an injured attendee from Canada, joined the Spenser suit. Mehravar had been in a coma and his medical records indicated, “heat stroke not the cause” it further went on to say it appeared to be some type of “toxic poisoning.”
In November 2009 Ray closed James Ray International, his company of seventeen years. On November 4, Ray listed his Beverly Hills home on the market for $5,495,000. Ray paid $4 million in March, according to public records, for the 7,234-square-foot (672.1 m2) contemporary Mediterranean home.
Ray was arrested in connection with the deaths on February 3, 2010, and bond was set at $5 million. Ray’s attorney stated that he could not afford the $5 million. After spending nearly a month in solitary confinement, Ray was released on February 26, 2010, after bail was reduced to $250,000.
Ray settled all civil claims with families and participants in 2010 for an undisclosed amount. To date, Angel Valley Ranch has not settled.
On April 2, 2010 a suit filed in Maricopa County Superior Court claimed that Ray failed to refund money paid in advance for seminars which Ray cancelled following the sweat lodge deaths. The suit was later dropped and in early 2010 Ray provided an online replacement program for all who had paid in advance.
On July 14, 2010 the court date of August 31, 2010 was vacated due to another overlapping trial with Judge Warren Darrow. Legal sparring is continuing in advance of the current court date of February 16, 2011.
