Mary Carter

Mary Carter

The one-day retreat, "Reaching the Mountaintop," will be focused on "increasing the spiritual awareness of women," said St. George's warden, Mary Carter.

The one-day retreat, "Reaching the Mountaintop," will be focused on "increasing the spiritual awareness of women," said St. George's warden, Mary Carter.

Mary Jones Carter (Warden)

Phone:

502-776-2030

Contact: Mary Jones Carter (warden)

Mary Carter Warden:

Phone #: 205-252-2994

The caller, acting Warden Marie Carter, asked Wilma's permission to cremate Kenny's remains.
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When Wilma objected, saying Kenny's wife and siblings needed to be consulted, Jesse says Carter expressed surprise that Kenny had family beyond a mother and sister.

"Acting Warden Marie Carter called my mother, Wilma Trentadue, at about 7 a.m. West Coast time on Aug. 21, 1995, and said my brother had committed suicide. She tried to get my mother to agree to cremate the body and even offered to pay for the cremation.

"We now know that BOP (Bureau of Prisons) regulations do not allow for cremation. My mother told Carter that funeral arrangements would be the decision of Kenney's wife, Carmen. When Carter heard that she went ballistic, telling my mother that Kenney did not have a wife, my mother told Carter he did and that I would be contacting Carter to deal with funeral arrangements and that I was a lawyer.

"Carter lost it again, telling my mother that Kenney did not have a brother.
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"Later that morning, I called Carter, who seemed very defensive. I kept asking for an autopsy and she refused, saying that my mother would have to ask for one in writing. I explained to Carter that I was a lawyer and represented my family and that we wanted an autopsy. She still refused. I had to prepare written authorizations for an autopsy, have my mother sign them and send them to Carter."

What the Trentadue family and possibly even the acting warden at the Oklahoma City Federal Transfer Center didn't know was at that moment an autopsy was already under way.

"We did not know that an autopsy was being done as Carter and I spoke," Jesse Trentadue commented.
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After I told Carter we wanted my brother sent home, not cremated, I subsequently learned that Carter called the medical examiner's office to ask what she needed to do to have the body cremated.

The medical examiner's investigator, Kevin Rowland, told Carter she would need our consent. It was then Carter learned of the autopsy and sent over a request to the medical examiner to do an autopsy that had already been done. All Carter or anyone would say was that he had killed himself."

According to Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue, his mother received notification of his brother's death on the morning of Aug. 21 from Marie Carter, acting warden at the Oklahoma City facility.

In response, Warden Mary Carter turned off the air-conditioning.