User:RgWealleans

Robert Grant Wealleans was born in London, England in 1950. In his ninth year, he emigrated to the United States with his mother, a native of Florence, Italy. While living in Manhattan, Robert Grant Wealleans attended Mount Saint Michael elementary. His high school years were spent at The New Hampton School in New Hampton, New Hampshire, graduating in 1968. Returning to New York, he attended New York University and graduated in 1972 with degrees in Dramatic Literature and Earth Sciences/Geology. He capped his educational career by attending and graduating from Western New England University School of Law in 1976. Thereafter, he moved to southern California and the Los Angeles area where he began his career as an immigration lawyer. During his legal career, he distinguished himself with three important wins in the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that were published; additionally, one of these cases had been appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States by the U.S. government who then, before the case was heard, dropped their appeal and allowed the Ninth Circuit's decision to stand (Barretto v. United States; Mawji v. U.S.; Gil v. U.S.).

After his legal career, in retirement, Robert Grant Wealleans rekindled his desire to be a writer. As of November, 2019, he has published fourteen books: 13 fiction and one non-fiction. Included in these works is an eight volume series focused on the character of Gillian Louise Douglas: The Killer Brokers and her adventures as a clandestine, CIA operative and United States Marshal appointed by the president. Three science fiction works include For the Good of the One, Mars Rush! anbd Hadoo Dawn (a sequel to the Gillian Douglas series). Two mystery novels include Murder at Culloden House and By Two; his non-fiction work, Amelia Earhart Final Days, reveals vintage photographs of a reef in the years 1939-1942 which the author claims distinctly show the Lockheed Electra aircraft of Amelia Earhart on said reef - discoveries he made by examining vintage photos while Robert Ballard was exploring the island for any trace of Earhart's Lockheed Electra in August, 2019. The main purpose of publishing this latter work was to put forth his theory that combined her proven landing on the island of Nikumaroro with her subsequent capture by the Japanese, internment as a spy, and her and her companion Fred Noonan's subsequent executions by the Japanese. In his work, he points to the fact that the Japanese ship, Koshu, was involved in the search for the downed fliers in 1937 and may have succeeded in "rescuing" that duo before seaplanes from the USS Colorado flew over and around the island one week after she disappeared, finding no one signaling them from the beaches and no sign of the Electra (which had washed out into deeper water). Wealleans points to National Archive documents and the sworn statement of a WWII Marine stationed on Saipan in support of his theory that her briefcase must have been recovered with her and that it contained information that convinced the Japanese that she was a spy. Currently, (2019) he is working on his 15th and 16th novels and, despite his 70th birthday upcoming in 2020, he plans on continuing to write for the foreseeable future.

An avid Scrabble player, including a series of on-line Scrabble games that have been continuous for nearly four years, he delights in finding "new" words and humorous words that pop up in his Scrabble rack purely by random. For example, "Waghala" as the afterlife for dogs. A lover of palindromes, he has used the moniker "stunnuts" in both email and on eBay for some thirty years. In fact, in Murder At Culloden House, Wealleans weaves Scrabble into the story in a very humorous way.

Another interest is for lost ships and aircraft. In this, he has contributed to the search for the Norseman aircraft that carried the late Glenn Miller to his death somewhere in the English Channel. In 1985, a fisherman caught an aircraft in his nets in the English Channel. The superstitious crew, fearful of human remains, convinced him to release the plane back into the depths. This fisherman subsequently drew, with the help of an artist, his memory of the plane. There was little doubt that he was describing the Norseman. Only one Norseman aircraft had gone missing over the Channel: Glenn Miller's plane. However, while the fisherman accurately described the port-side door, his further description of "parachute cords" streaming from inside the aircraft, gave pause to interested search and recovery organizations and people. Mister Wealleans, who had built dozens of scale model aircraft and radio-control aircraft from both world wars and in between, remembered and pointed out to the concerned searchers that the Norseman, heretofore thought not to carry any parachutes whatsoever, did have an emergency, parachute-equipped radio that was stored on the fuselage wall just forward of that port-side entry door. Having eliminated the "last" doubt about the fisherman's tale, it is hoped that the Norseman will be recovered thanks to an archaic navigation system that recorded the spot where the fisherman released the Norseman back into the waters of the English Channel.

R.G. Wealleans' current interests remain unchanged. He is a follower of the progress of science in astronomy, geology, chemistry, and physics (a subscriber to Scientific American). His science fiction books reflect this as he takes modern-day breakthroughs and expands them, utilizes them, and predicts their evolution and future form(s). He is married to a professor of nursing, Lori, has three grown children in their thirties, and he and his wife now live in Northern California with their three Italian greyhounds, Augustus, Atia, and Penne.