Chuck Matthews wrote:
I find this entire discussion absolutely fascinating. It is like an old fashioned mystery that is just begging to be solved. It looks like we are assembling a team with a clue here and a clue there from across the USA. It is like a jigsaw puzzle that is starting to come together.
The last pieces of the puzzle have come together for me with a few key posts in the past two weeks, with some research going back to posts from January. This will be a long post so bear with me.
The summary of all this is confirmation of what I’ll call the ‘brother accomplice theory’ which was suggested first by ‘narf’ back on 1/11/11 (p. 13, 2:34 pm)”
“…has anyone brought up the possibility of a twin brother Litton? I mean, he'd probably be named Kim or Ken or something.”
‘Florida oldtimer’ then added “There is a Kurt Litton that ran Crim in 2005 and 2007. From Michigan.” Additional posts discuss that they appear related, but not twins.
They are related, and are brothers, not twins. The Crim race results show Kurt’s city. I found an internet article about Kurt’s business identifying him from that same city which includes a quote from Kurt referencing his “dentist brother”. (Note: as the article is about Kurt’s business I am choosing not to link it here and recommend similarly not link it. It is easily found by searching; article is from 2007.) From the 2007 Crim 10 Mile race results, it is seen that Kurt is 3 years younger than Kip.
http://results.active.com/uploads/txt/47395.txtNow back to the recent posts that led me to re-explore this angle. On 10/21 (p. 108, 3:39 pm), “No mystery” wrote: “only read a few pages of this thread & yes, I already solved the "how" part. For those of you that guessed he has an accomplice that looks like him, you were almost right- he has an accomplice that looks EXACTLY like him- his twin brother! His brother is a pretty damn good runner also (obviously), although he doesn't run races "officially". His name is Kent and he is on Facebook.…
I am certain this post was from Kip himself and was intended as a red herring with regard to who his brother was, and perhaps to get us to ‘ridicule’ the accomplice idea instead of seeing it as the truth. There were 4 days of posts after this which got deleted. Almost immediately after posting was allowed to resume, the first of two posts (thus far) by ‘I am sorry’ appeared. I am convinced that these are indeed from Kip. Something must have happened which caused him to realize that he had to start answering our questions. The first of these posts (p. 108, 10/25, 2:30 pm), was a mild apology without any specifics: “I am sorry. What more do you want?....“ Shortly after this, the Vermont City Marathon race director (‘d2xccoach’, who had a long post on p. 94 about the VCM course) replied (p. 109, 10/26, 9:22 am), asking how Kip cheated in the 2010 VCM. 3 days later, there was finally a reply from ‘I am sorry’ (p. 114, 10/29, 11:29 am). “To d2xccoach: Your Vermont course was very easy to cheat. It was easy to navigate between mats because we didn't have to. I started the race & then jogged straight to mile 20. My brother was waiting at mile 10 & ran to the halfway mat. At the right time I easily ran downhill from mile 20 to the finish. All this could not have been easier, once we made a duplicate of the chip. Sorry, KL”
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