When you are watching "Morning Joe" and suddenly find yourself thinking "Scarborough's not so bad for a Republican", you may want to remember this.

Lori Klausutis, an aide of Joe Scarborough, was found dead in Scarborough's own office with a smashed skull (multiple fractures, front and back) at the very same time Levy went missing. Official reports of the death of Lori Klausutis, the 28-year-old aide to Joe Scarborough, have been contradictory and suspicious. Initial reports said there were no signs of trauma; the autopsy reported a "scratch and a bruise" where Lori's head hit her desk, a fact which was initially concealed by the medical examiner because "The last thing we wanted was 40 questions about a head injury." Then we learned the examiner, Michael Berkland, had his license revoked in Missouri in 1998, and suspended for six years in Florida in 1999. Now the Fort Walton Beach police are refusing to release reports about Lori's death, citing an "open investigation." Do the police believe Lori was murdered? The Northwest Florida Daily News wants to know, and so do we.

Scarborough resigned right after this incident. The official reason Scarborough resigned from congress, which is really an extraoodinary thing to do anyway out of the blue, was he wanted to "spend more time with his family," which was kind of odd, since he had recently separated from his wife, who had custody. they had a divorce over, you guessed it, an affair.

Scarborough's office is right over a popular waterfront restaurant, the fish house, owned by a friend of his, Collier Merrill. The restaurant has a back room available for private parties, and Joe would use the room for his many extra-marital affairs. The story at the time was: there was a potential scandal when Joe was caught with a much younger woman, so Joe resigned in anticipation.

A young and atractive female employee of one of Florida's Congressmen Joe Scarborough, Lori died unexpectedly in the Congressman's office. There were no witnesses to her death and the cause of death was not apparent. Klausutis' boss, Scarborough, had recently resigned from Congress prematurely and unexpectedly, amid rumors about his marital fidelity and soon after a divorce. The adultery accusations included his former aide, Lori. He had also abruptly resigned as publisher of the Independent Florida Sun, claiming that resigning from Congress and as publisher was necessary to spend more time with his sons.

The results of the mandated autopsy, were deemed "inconclusive" by Dr. Michael Berkland, Medical Examiner. Michael Berkland concluded that Joe Scarborough's aide Lori Klausutis died as a result of a blow to the head because an undiagnosed heart condition caused her to collapse and fall, hitting her head on the desk. But Berkland's credibility is in doubt because his Missouri license was revoked in 1998 for falsifying a report; after moving to Florida, his license was suspended in 1999 for six years. It is a matter of public record that Dr. Berkland's medical license in the state of Missouri was revoked in 1998 as a result of Berkland reporting false information regarding brain tissue samples in a 1996 autopsy report. Berkland does not deny the charges. Moreover, there appear to be inconsistencies in Berkland's report.

Reporters Denis Wright and Chris George of American Politics Journal are seeking answers from Dr. Stephen Nelson, Chair of the Medical Examiners Commission, an appointee of, you guessed it, Jeb Bush.

I am ashamed to admit that I have found myself being less and less irritated by Scarborough's chameleon like ability to slip back and forth from rabid Republican to less threatening moderate.

I was not a blogger seven years ago when this incident took place, so it was not on my radar until kind of recently. I would read some post that made reference to some "incident" in Scarborough's past, but I did not research it. Until today.

I am not going to accuse Joe Scarborough of murder, but I am going to say that there has always been something creepy about him, that the circumstances seem very suspicious, and that this quote ups the creep factor right through the roof: "Conservative MSNBC news host Joe Scarborough was a guest on MSNBC's Imus show last Thursday, May 29. In complementing Scarborough on his sense of humor, Imus said, 'Don't be afraid to be funny, because you are funny. I asked you why you aren't in Congress. You said that you had sex with the intern and then you had to kill her.' To which Scarborough laughed, 'Yeah, ha, ha ha, well, what are you gonna do?'"

If that does not make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up then I don't know what would.