Kathleen M. Dickson is still on the loose

Featured in Court & Police
The New London Day
Published on 5/8/2004

Kathleen Dickson, 46, of 23 Garden St., Pawcatuck, was charged
Thursday with being a fugitive from justice.

Featured in Court & Police
The New London Day
Published on 5/9/2004

Kathleen Dickson, 45, of 23 Garden St., Pawcatuck, was charged Friday
with second-degree harassment and threatening.

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Lyme Disease Activist Told To Stop
Judge Offers To Let Charges Drop
By HILDA MUÑOZ
Courant Staff Writer
Page B3
October 5 2005

NEW BRITAIN -- A 47-year-old woman accused of threatening an
assistant attorney general may have harassment charges against her
dropped if she stops barraging state officials with information about
Lyme disease.

Superior Court Judge Patrick Clifford said Tuesday that Kathleen
Dickson's criminal case will end if she discontinues a massive e-mail
and fax campaign detailing her complaints about the scientific
community's approach to fighting Lyme disease.

"I'm willing to let my activist friends take over," Dickson said.

In 2003, the Department of Children and Families removed Dickson's
children from her custody because the department contended that she
was spending so much time campaigning for changes in Lyme disease
care that she neglected their needs, Dickson said. Dickson and her
children have Lyme disease.

Dickson went to court to regain custody, but Assistant Attorney
General Jessica Gauvin successfully argued that the children should
be in the custody of Dickson's ex-husband.

Dickson was arrested in 2004 after allegedly deluging Gauvin with
insulting and threatening e-mails. She was charged with two counts of
second-degree harassment and one count of second-degree threatening
and was granted accelerated rehabilitation*, a special form of
probation.

Gauvin told police that she had received approximately 600 e-mails,
one of which said, "IF ANY HARM comes to my children, Jessica Gauvin
could get the death penalty and I will never let up. ..."

Dickson is also accused of mailing Gauvin a package of information
that included a map with directions to Gauvin's home, according to an
arrest affidavit.

Dickson claimed Gauvin lied during the custody hearing and lied to
police about the e-mails.

One of the conditions of Dickson's probation was that she was to show
her probation officer any e-mails or faxes to state agencies before
she sent them out. But she violated that condition by faxing hundreds
of pages on Lyme disease to the chief state's attorney's office and
the attorney general's office, Deputy Assistant State's Attorney
Brett Salafia said.

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Date: 2000-11-19 02:30:18 PST
......I was psychotic 20 years ago.

Date: 2000-11-22 02:47:38 PST
I can't watch TV. The images make me too emotionally all over the
place, but books you can take at your own pace. 'Works for me to have
my head focused on a deliberate reading project. Otherwise I am so
scattered I chase my tail all day long. It's really kinda funny how
I
spin around and
pick up things and go off onto something else. Also, loud music
drowns out some of the [c]onfusion. I hate the meds, but at least
I'm somewhat more deliberate about each task. I went off and now I
am back to being a spastic electron getting out of orbit and nothing
done. So, I may have to trade back my free-floating autonomy to be
more grounded.

Date: 2000-11-26 16:45:06 PST
I was doing fine until I sorta lost it this summer. Then I
remembered all the crap that happened when I was a kid and I started
having Sz signs. Then I found out I had been taking atipsychotics
before.
Then I realized I was psychotic before. THAT was like a kick in the
stomach.

Date: 2000-11-26 16:45:06 PST I just have my Lyme people and we are
having a war right now. So, even people like me get to be players.
I'm harmless. Just really immature and naive.

Date: 2000-11-23 19:56:44 PST
....think my house needs to be wrapped in tin foil. Like, it's a big
satellite dish. I wish it would stop collecting all these noises and
conversations from umpteen miles away.

I hear sounds that I think are coming from far away and are somehow
amplified by how my house is located. I think the terrain does
something to the sound waves.

I know that sounds totally PsYcHiAtRiC, but there's no way for me to
tell if this is happening or not. Often I hear the sounds like of a
ship's steam room. But it sounds far away. So, I wander around the
house, wondering what the hell is running in the house that is making
a motor sound (this is really true).

But I have never heard anyone talking to *me* that was a
hallucination; real auditory, although I've heard the TV going or
radio going in the house when they weren't.

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