Question: Who is Mr. Ripin?

Question:
Is Mr. Ripin a kind man who travels to other countries to doctor the sick children?

Answer:
this is what he says

Question:
Does he work for National Security?

Answer:
this is what he says

Question:
Where does Mr. Ripin get all of his money to travel from the Florida Keys to Asia, from Asia to the Florida Keys and all over again?

Answer:
I have no idea, however his ex-wife and current good friend said he's never had any real job.

Question:
Where did Mr. Ripin live in July, 1981 at the time Diana Harris disappeared?

Answer:
100 Tortuga Lane on No Name Key, FL. (this is what he said)

Question:
Who lived with Mr. Ripin in this house?

Answer:
1981 wife,
oh.....this is what he said
....however...Diana Harris's 1995 case files said that Diana Harris and Gary Argenzio lived at 100 Tortuga Ln. at the time of Diana's disappearance.

Question:
Was Mr. Ripin ever good friends with Gary Argenzio?

Answer:
According to again....what he said...he was never good friends with Gary Argenzio. Mr. Ripin trusted Gary to use the boat that Mr. Ripin co-owned with Attorney Mitchell Denker...without Denker's permission...in 1981...and Mr. Ripin says this also.

Question:
Why was Mr. Ripin at Gary Argenzio's bedside in Feb. 1992 when Gary died?

Answer:
Again no idea, but According to what Mr. Ripin said trying to reassure me...Gary died a long and agonizing death...not sure what kind of assurance I was supposed to get from hearing this. Gary was a suspect in my Mother, Diana's disappearance in 1981, however he was never charged with her disappearance and her body was never found.

Question:
Was Mr. Ripin questioned in the disappearance of Diana Harris?

Answer:
Yes, in the re-investigation in 1995 he was questioned.

Question:
Was Mr. Ripin questioned in the disappearance of Tom Stump?

Answer:
Yes, he was questioned in 1995 when Tom Stump disappeared and in the middle of the re-investigation into the disappearance of Diana Harris.

Question:
Was Mr. Ripin paid Big Money to sit in the woods for two weeks and look for Tom Stump after he disappeared?

Answer:
Yes....this is what he said....his ex-wife(Tom Stump's wife at the time)....paid him big money to sit in the woods and look for Tom. Apparently this happened after the ex wife asked Manny the shark hunter and he turned her offer down. (info. located in realcrimes.com) (Tom Stump and Diana Harris message board)

Question:
Why was Mr. Ripin's memory so vague about the people who knew Diana Harris in 1981?

Answer:
Mr. Ripin knew 1st names, where these people lived, but didn't know last names or their address....he did offer to take me to the homes if I was ever in the Keys.(kind gesture) He even remembered that on the day he saw blood splatters and a hole in the wall...he and Attorney Mitchell Denker came home on a Sunday afternoon and he saw the blood and hole by the sliding glass doors in the kitchen about waist high.
Denker remembered the blood and hole in his own bedroom. This was never told to police in 1981 and was never heard of until 1995.  They said Gary Argenzio told them he smashed her head into the wall....Gary was dead by then. 1981 police said they checked the house and found no blood or hole, only my Mom's clothes and photo albums underneath a stairwell.

Question:
Did Diana Harris show Mr. Ripin and ex-wife(Tom Stump's 95 wife) photos of her children?

Answer:
Yes, this is what he and his ex-wife both say. I knew my Mom had photo albums of my brother and I with her. We never did get those pictures. Denker told police he mailed them to us. Police told me they sent them to Miami with Gary Argenzio's articles.

Question:
Why did Mr. Ripin send me an email that stated that he killed his vietnamese wife and her mother?

Answer:
He pretended to be someone else when he sent it with his own email address and some time later he told me it was sent as a joke so I'd post it on the Real Crimes Site realcrimes.com  he said he sent it out of anger, then he said he was having a Malaria attack at the time and he was delusional. At least he said Sorry.



*********************************************************************


BELOW ARE POSTS FROM MARK RIPIN LEFT ON THE REAL CRIMES MESSAGE BOARD FOR TOM STUMP AND DIANA HARRIS - WWW.REALCRIMES.COM

Mark Ripin posts on Tom Stump message board:

Sat Apr 5 23:36:52 PST 2003

Im the Mole ,just check my computer address.Bernadett cant be every post.remember Bobby Knuckles,and Johnny Roe and the God Father,lets not forget ....Bristol....,Scar nose and Big red.anyway Bunny said that she used to do Tom on the nights he could get away. This was going on for 2 years. Bunny thinks Louie did it. Not big Louie but eat a bag of shit joes friend Louie. causre he was mad about the last weed shipment. I got aids now so I dont care if they kill me for talking now. those murdering bastards,Poor old tom all he wanted was a littl Im the MOLE dam it and dont you forgeyt it

Sat Mar 22 06:02:55 PST 2003

Mre. Stump, for your own good..do not go into ....New Orleans......it was a few years earlier than 1995...and it isnt anything good about Tom..you could be very disappointeed in you son..leave it go..or suffer...Mole

Thu Nov 7 23:49:56 PST 2002

Tom Stump case Bernadett and Bill both passed a lie-detector test and since they are not proffesionally trained to beat the test lets assume that they didnt kill Tom. So who else would stand to benafit from Toms dissapearance? His partener Scott Haskel to the tune of a 180 thousand dollars. I for one would like to see him take a lie -detector test.And if he refuses that would speak volumes. He had motive , oppertunity and a wonderfull smokescreen (Toms wife giving Tom the boot) Also interesting but not relavant,is, Where did Tom and Scott get the money in the first place.Why was Tom traveling to Belize on a regular basis?Diving ,I dont think so.  THE ALCHEMIST

Hi ,its me Mark Ripin, And yes I have nothing better to do than interact with this board. Im living in the Boonies with no TV and NO native english speakers. T^he heat is killer too.When my maleria kicks in you can expect some bizzare posts. Sorry when the feaver wakes in my bones I get delerious. When people call my daughter a liar I get really pissed off. The day Bonnie called me I was there in 22 minuets. I dropped everything and sped up there.As far as Bill Becker goes , I love him like a brother .I new him befor I knew Bernie and he has been a consistently good friend for 23 years

Sun Apr 27 06:12:11 PDT 2003

"Wakes the feaver in my bones"Its a figure of speach , It comes from Rudyard Kiplings famous poem, "On then Road To Mandalay".Oh and how right you are when a bout is in fu;ll swing you cant do much..But in the early stage befor you get too bad ,your still out there running around free.and how about 3 days later ,ok feaver gone but do yout think your running on all 8 cylinders. Anyway whats your point ,that Im a liar, that your full of hate. Im learning to speak Viet Namese ,,,,OO mau May,Muck Yai.,,,,Mark

Fri Nov 29 22:05:53 PST 2002

this is in reference to the unsigned reference of Nov. 9 th to the Alchemist:If Tom had ties to the Mob (..New Orleans.. and ....Ohio....)and was involved in smuggling and cocain dealing then it most certainly would have a bearing on his disapearance,DUH. Before the presidential Task Force sent to cleaN UP theKeys took effect the Keys were wide open gangster haven. Oh and I doubt he s sitting in heaven with God more like you know where.,down there. To sell Cocain is a major sin.We be talking mucho.Come on you investigators do your job.check around a little. signed the Green Hornet

Mon Apr 7 03:28:37 PDT 2003

yall couldnt find Tom becaus..e hed a went to a kentuky melia where his folks are from..in the hills..waiting..waiting.. he was a nut case ak47 andall..ready to overthrow the govurment..i know.did construction with tis guy in the 80s..way out there!