Monday, January 5, 2015

Stuart Shipko said that everyone is out to get him in a criminal report to the police, but the odd thing is he may be right


We've recently received a bizarre police criminal complaint from an anonymous source inside the Pasadena Police Department dated around June 12, 2013 in the mail, involving our favorite dishonest psychiatric quack, Dr. Stuart Lee Shipko of Pasadena.

Are some psychiatrists, like Stuart Shipko, quacks?
Apparently, on Monday, June 10 and Wednesday, June 12, 2013, Dr. Shipko received some threatening e-mails from someone making disparaging and insulting remarks about him and his wife, as the police report stated. So naturally, Shipko called the police to file a police complaint. Nothing bizarre so far.

However, when asked by the investigating Pasadena Police officer on the scene, Officer J.M. Longoria, who might have sent the threatening e-mails to him, Dr. Shipko oddly told the officer that he "normally does not bother law enforcement" about such matters, which suggests he gets these sorts of threats and harassments a lot from the general public, but he said he called the police on that particular instance because he was not familiar with the name of the person who sent the alleged threatening e-mails.

Shipko's reasoning on calling the police is quite bizarre on several levels, given the fact it's much easier for the police to arrest someone sending harassing e-mails, if they had a clue or knew who that person was, but Dr. Shipko claims he doesn't call the police if he knows who is threatening him. Very strange. This also suggests that Dr. Shipko often believes, deep down inside, that he deserves the verbal abuse and criticisms heaped up on him from his dissatisfied clientele.

Friday, December 26, 2014

Stuart Shipko again uses same old 'Paxil made him do it' defense on wife-killer when every other psychiatrist who evaluated the murderer determined he suffered from psychosis


What can you say about Dr. Stuart Lee Shipko's lack of knowledge in psychiatry, or as a doctor for that matter?

Dr. Stuart Shipko loses another case based on his belief
Paxil withdrawal syndrome caused someone to die

In virtually every case we have reviewed involving Dr. Shipko as a paid expert witness in the courts, he has used the same one-note criminal defense that all the violent deaths he evaluated were due, in some manner, to some kind of adverse reaction to the anti-depressant drug Paxil.

To be fair though, in the case of kidnapper Dennis Shellhouse, Dr. Shipko claimed that two different kinds of SSRI (Selective Seratonin Reuptake Inhibitor) anti-depressant medications, Paxil and Prosac, and possibly a low-dose of prednisone were responsible for his medication-induced psychotic state of "unconsciousness," wherein the kidnapper methodically planned out and research a kidnap-for-ransom plot over a 6-month period in his home in Alabama.

Somehow, Shellhouse was "unconscious" during this entire time when he researched and put the plan together, according to Dr. Shipko, which is just laughable.

Paxil, like all other SSRI anti-depressant drugs (e.g., Prozac, Lexapro, Celexa, Zoloft, etc.), have some adverse side effects with a small minority of patients when they are are initially started on the drug, suddenly are taken off of the drug, or when the dosage is dramatically changed, (e.g., nausea, vomiting, sensations of shocks, changes in mood, agitation, increased tendency to feel depressed or energetic, etc.), but no one has proven to have suffered from psychiatric blackouts or psychotic episodes from this mood-altering class of drug, especially at the low doses that Dr. Shipko has claimed his criminal clientele have allegedly been using the drug in the criminal cases he testified on.

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Stuart Shipko fails again as he tries to smear victim in murder case to get killer's conviction overturned in Ohio


How low will Dr. Stuart Shipko stoop as a forensic psychiatric expert to try to get his paying criminal clients off the hook from jail?

Psychiatrist Stuart Shipko
How about smearing the character of the victim in a murder case? That's what Dr. Shipko tried, but failed, to do in a murder case in Columbus, Ohio from December 29, 2001.

In June 2002, Kevin Alan Tolliver was convicted by a jury of his peers in the shooting murder of his live-in girlfriend, Claire Schneider, an Ohio State University senior in Spanish and international studies, inside the apartment the couple shared together in the Olentangy Village Apartment Complex in Columbus, Ohio.

On the night of December 29, 2001, Tolliver and Schneider went to a night club. Shortly after they returned to their apartment, a female neighbor overheard a male's voice screaming, "No, no. Don't don't. Oh please. Please." The woman called police, but they were unable to find the source of the disturbance and left the scene.

Thirty minutes later, Tolliver called his ex-wife, Natasha Tolliver, and insisted she bring their daughter to his apartment. When the ex-wife arrived at Tolliver's apartment, she saw blood smeared on the front door, her ex-husband dressed in a blood-stained robe, his hands and legs were soaked in blood, and there was blood on the living room wall and kitchen floor.

Saturday, January 5, 2008

Stuart Shipko testifies in nail gun murder trial and claims the killer was 'unconscious' during the crime from Paxil withdrawal, without actually ever evaluating the accused


To understand just how far psychiatrist Stuart Shipko will prostitute his professional reputation as a psychiatrist to pick up a paycheck as a paid expert witness from anyone willing to hire him as a forensic "mental expert," one needs not look much further than Shipko's embarrassing and dishonest work done on behalf of the defense in a trial involving convicted murderer Richard Glen Williams, 53, of Grass Valley, California.

Psychiatrist Dr. Stuart Shipko is a prostitute for hire
to anyone willing to pay him as an expert 'mental expert'
Richard Williams was convicted in November of 2007 by a jury of his peers in a three-week trial in Napa, California of murdering his estranged wife, Hendrika "Hetty" Williams, by first strangling her, then shooting her twice in the head and once in the heart with a high-powered concrete nail gun on October 22, 2005. Williams then turned the nail gun on himself.

The crime took place in the home the estranged couple had once shared on the 10000 block of Alta Street in the sleepy small town of Grass Valley, not too far from the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Nevada County, California.

Hetty Williams was pronounced dead shortly after the shooting, while the accused, Richard Williams, slowly recovered from his self-inflicted abdominal and chest wounds during a month-long stay at Sutter Roseville Medical Center.

Saturday, December 1, 2007

Stuart Shipko testifies in kidnapping case and claims assailant was 'unconscious' when he methodically planned out and researched the crime for 6 months


How much of an embarrassment is Pasadena psychiatrist Stuart Shipko to the profession of psychiatry?

Dr. Stuart Shipko has no training in forensic psychiatry
which may explain why he has a professional reputation
of incompetence among colleagues
Well, if his so-called "forensic work" in psychiatry in the public record is any indication of his character and competence, then not only does he not appear to know what he is talking about as a psychiatrist, but it appears he will sell out his integrity to the highest bidder to try to give credence to any criminal defendant claiming a drug-induced "state of unconsciousness" plea.

Take for example his work in his first criminal case, The People v. Dennis Elliot Shellhouse, from August 2006 in Thousand Oaks, California. Dr. Shipko was brought in by Shellhouse's attorneys in the criminal trial in August of 2006 as a defense expert witness in psychiatry.

On June 7, 2005, Dennis Elliot Shellhouse, 46, traveled from Phenix City, Alabama to Thousand Oaks, California to carry out a kidnap-for-ransom plot on the Burtzloff family, whom at the time were residents of Lake Sherwood in Thousand Oaks.

Shellhouse posed as a courier delivering legal documents to gain entry into the gated community where the Burtzloff residence was. Once inside, he brandished a gun to threaten the victim Jamie Burtzloff, 35, in order to gain entry into her home and then subsequently threatened her housekeeper with his gun.