Bondage pics found in astronaut's car
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The former NASA astronaut accused of driving across the US wearing nappies in an attempt to kidnap a love rival had a computer disk containing bondage images in her car when she was picked up by police, according to court documents.
Navy Captain Lisa Nowak, 43, is facing trial for an attempted kidnapping and other charges after allegedly driving more than 1,500km from Texas to Florida to confront US Air Force Captain Colleen Shipman at an airport.
Prosecutors claim she tried to abduct Capt Shipman because both women had engaged in affairs with fellow astronaut Bill Oefelein.
According to the Florida Today newspaper, evidence now being released from the prosecution includes a disk found in Ms Nowak's car that contains images of an unidentified woman in bondage gear.
"Fifteen of them [the images] were depictions of a woman in various states of dress and undress," the police reports said. "Most of the images depicted scenes of bondage. Some of these images were photographs and some were drawings."
The Florida police have said these images aren't related to the charges being made. It was unclear whether Nowak was actually in any of them. Cash - including British currency - and nearly 70 orange pills were also found in their searches of Ms Nowak's car. The pills are being tested to determine what they are.
The freshly released evidence also includes photos of the nappies Ms Nowak allegedly wore to avoid toilet stops on her long-distance dash, as well as wigs and other disguises, weapons and maps. Police said at the time of her arrest that Ms Nowak had used pepper spray on Capt Shipman through a partially open window of her car outside Orlando International Airport.
Ms Nowak has pleaded not guilty to the charges against her. A judge has sealed the results of any psychological evaluations of her, as well as any suggestion from her lawyers that an insanity might be used.
Ms Nowak faces trial in September. She was sacked by NASA a month after her arrest.
COMMENTS
British currency ... hmm
Talk about conclusive damning evidence. All that other stuff - and now a British connection.
Bar-bar-barella
It makes you wonder if she joined up with NASA purely for the outfits rather than the science or the glory. The tight, tight space undergarments; the smothering space suit; the luscious, constricting space hammock etc. Did she do any work at all when she was up there in space? Did she distract her fellow astronauts? How long before Playboy signs her up for a pictorial (or Leg Show)?
Re: Paul
"I further do not see why the police needed to browse the disk?
Any thoughts?"
Now a days if you're arrested for anything and you're found to have computer media of some sort on you, it seems like responsible policing and really just common sense to at least briefly search the media.
She's on trial for attempted kidnap, if the intended victim was a child or even if they "just" found child porn on the disk rather than some bondage pics, I can't see anybody complaining.
If I'm arrested, at the very least I expect to have my wallet searched and if it's for anything serious (such as attempted kidnap), my mobile phone at least briefly looked at and any sort of computer media I have on me checked since they can hold incriminating evidence of whatever I was arrested for or other crimes (not that I've ever committed any crimes, I'm even running a legal version of XP... honest guv). I'm those people who has a habit of going on rants about the big brother state and I'll strongly support my right to privacy, but the police need to do their job.
The real issue here is why this information was leaked/released to the media, before the trail, which is an issue both here (the UK) and in the US.
It did make me laugh and it only hurt somebody that's done what most geeks can only dream of (no, not sex) and if she really wanted to she could sell her story (who wouldn't want to watch a movie about an astronaut who drove across the US in nappies to kidnap somebody?) so I'm not going to lose any sleep over it, but then again I can be a complete bastard at times :)
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