Gonzo Journalist Dustin Reed Terry‘s personal vendetta against Sean Buckner Transparency took an interesting turn this week, as the former somehow managed to land an exclusive interview with President Joe Paul Simon of the Vian school board. The interview, regarding sensitive matters on which President Simon perhaps should not have spoken on the record, served as Dustin’s response to the ongoing coverage by Buckner and his close associate Ron Durbin regarding questionable hiring practices in Vian Public Schools. The immediate controversy generated by the stunt led Dustin to shut down the entire Facebook account on which he had published the interview.
For a solid week now, there has been no activity at Public Crime. All questions regarding the American Hero Project remain unanswered. Since Buckner discovered that Dustin Reed Terry is actually Dustin Demoss of Sallisaw, details are beginning to emerge regarding yet another possible investment scam in Dustin’s past.
An October 14, 2013 News On 6 article states that one of “Oklahoma’s own is raising funds to make a feature film about a young veteran’s struggle with mental illness.” It all started one day when Jonathan Looper randomly got a call from his long-lost childhood friend, Dustin Demoss.
Looper said DeMoss opened up to him about being diagnosed with schizophrenia–this after leaving the Air Force to come home and care for his mother, who was battling ovarian cancer. When his friend said he wished he were a writer, so he could share his experience to help others, Looper, who was working on his master’s degree at Georgetown University, got the idea to make a short film.
According to Looper, Dustin continued his involvement throughout the production of the short movie, which was then immediately used as an investment vehicle for a feature-length Dustin Demoss biopic titled Light Wounds. Looper “started an Indiegogo campaign to raise money for the production” with the goal “to raise $107,000” and “to start filming in early 2014.”
Sources say that the production team created a website in late 2013, on which they continued soliciting donations while offering a rosy outlook for completion by winter of 2014. A major distribution deal was announced that summer, and the production team proudly announced that the Dustin Demoss biopic would be directed by one Max Leonida.
However, that artist’s IMDB page mentions nothing of the Dustin Demoss biopic, and the IMDB page for the Dustin Demoss biopic still lists the movie in a status of “pre-production.” Sources say the website was unceremoniously shut down in late 2014.
How involved was Dustin Reed Terry/Demoss in the soliciting of funds for his own feature-length biopic, Light Wounds? How involved was he with its production team? Was any part of the movie ever produced? What amount of money was raised for its production, and where did all of the money go? Who financed the original short movie? Did Dustin finance the entire scheme with leftover funds from the American Hero Project in the immediate aftermath of the AHP’s collapse? Did Dustin ever truly wish to see his life story in feature-length movie format, or was this an investment scam from the start?