Case Closed but the Mystery Remains; Police in Little Rock, Arkansas, Closed the File On the Strange Death of Garrick Wales Last Week, but What Really Happened to the Scottish Businessman with a Secret Life and a Passion for Snakes? His Friend Joanna Jet - a Transsexual Porn Star - Thinks She Knows. Investigations Editor Neil Mackay Reports

Sunday Herald › June 07, 2004

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EVERYTHING about the strange secret life and bizarre death of the Scottish businessman Garrick Wales is shrouded in mystery. How did a middle-aged man from a sleepy hollow like affluent Kilmalcolm end up dead, apparently bitten by a black mamba, in Little Rock Arkansas in mid-May after buying a boxful of deadly snakes? Why did US police close the case on Friday without any real answers. And how did this happily married, straight-laced father-of-three end up in a relationship with a transsexual porn star?

There's only one person really talking about the death of Wales and her name's Joanna Jet. While Jet is the only one to turn to for answers, she also just happens to be the transsexual porn star with whom Wales was having secret trysts.

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Case Closed but the Mystery Remains; Police in Little Rock, Arkansas, Closed the File On the Strange Death of Garrick Wales Last Week, but What Really Happened to the Scottish Businessman with a Secret Life and a Passion for Snakes? His Friend Joanna Jet - a Transsexual Porn Star - Thinks She Knows. Investigations Editor Neil Mackay Reports

Jet has written extensively about his death. But, in keeping with the extraordinary circumstances surrounding this case, her words appeared in her regular column for Adult Video News (AVN) magazine - the trade bible of the porn industry. Jet is a pre-op transsexual who says she likes her gender to be defined as "she-male". She's starred in and produced a series of lucrative hardcore titles and runs her own adult website, which costs mem...

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