Shane Todd's family to pursue case in US

Shane Todd's family to pursue case in US

    By Malcolm Brown
    POSTED: 08 Jul 2013 11:59 AM
   
Dr Shane Todd's family back in the United States is vowing to keep pursuing its position that he was murdered.

MONTANA: There is no sign that the verdict into the death of Shane Todd, the young American electrical engineer found dead in his Singapore apartment, will end the controversy surrounding the case.

On Monday, Singapore's State Coroner Chay Yuen Fatt ruled that Dr Todd committed suicide and was not murdered as his family claims.

His family back in the United States is vowing to keep pursuing its position that he was murdered.

With the grandeur of its landscape of mountains, forests, lakes and waterways, Montana is sometimes called 'Big Sky Country'. It is a very long way from Singapore where Shane Todd died over a year ago.

For his family, neither distance nor the passage of time has diminished the desire to get to the bottom of what happened.

Dr Todd’s parents Mary and Rick Todd keep memories of their son alive, even as they fight to prove their case that he was murdered.

Instead, the Todds have assembled their own evidence, some of which they have circulated in an open letter to "media outlets and elected officials".

Among the supporting documents are photographs of their son's body, including his hands, which they say show signs of a struggle.

Underlying everything the family said is their vehement rejection of official findings that Shane Todd killed himself.

Meanwhile, the Todds try to live something like a normal life.

They point to their Christian faith and the church group which meets weekly on their property as sources of enormous support.

And, as they look to the future, the couple promises further evidence to come from the contents of their son's computer, which they found backed up on an external hard drive which they brought back home.

"The rest of the story will be told because there is a lot on that computer proving what we are contending here," said Mary Todd.

The Todds intend to wage a campaign to get American public opinion on their side. Several US lawmakers have already taken up the case but the family said that the national security implications are so serious that they plan to raise them with President Barack Obama personally.

- CNA/fa

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