September 1, 1999 · Villa Grove, Colorado
The "Accident" and The Cover-Up.
Paul A. LeVeille was a Special Agent assigned to the FBI field office in El Paso, Texas. He left behind his wife (Joyce) and their six kids. The youngest was just ten months old. The oldest was eleven.
A few months before Paul died, FBI Agent Patti Rust died in what was ruled a suicide, one our family has never accepted at face value. Paul was working the same case as her, the Toy Box Killer (David Parker Ray) investigation, and her death disturbed him enough that he talked about it with our mother, which was unusual for him. In the weeks after, he began acting strangely. He told his oldest daughters that if he ever died, he didn't want them to be sad forever. He cleaned out his man cave in the attic, telling our mother he didn't want to leave her a mess if something happened to him suddenly. He also discussed creating a will for himself and Joyce.. A few weeks later he died. Shortly after his death, we caught the FBI surveilling us in public.
The FBI lied to our family for years. In-person, they told us the crash was an "accident" and the result of Paul's own choice to fly an aircraft with more leg room rather than a slightly tighter aircraft with better performance. This always sounded completely out of character to our family. Paul's nickname was "Mr. Safety" because he was obsessed with safety. He would never choose comfort over safety. But, we did not have access to the investigative report, the supporting evidence, or even our own case files. Nor did we have the financial resources to hire investigators or lawyers.
This is all because the FBI not only lied about what happened but they actually went so far as to refer an attorney to our mother whom the FBI knew would put the FBI's interests above our interests. This attorney, Philip J. Kolczynski, was referred to our mother by FBI agent "friends of Paul", through Paul's brother Guy LeVeille. He pressured our mother to hire him almost immediately. His introductory letter mentioned his prior DOJ and FBI background, but as a credential, not a warning. Under the ethics rules that governed his California license at the time, real disclosure meant telling our mother in writing what that background could cost our case, and getting her written consent to proceed anyway. Neither ever happened.
While he represented us, the FBI's own Office of General Counsel sent the investigative report directly to him, not to our family, and he was in direct contact with the FBI's litigation defense lawyers the entire time he was supposed to be working for us against the FBI. Kolczynski told us in a letter that he would send us the FBI's complete investigative report but he never did.
Kolczynski retained his own investigator during the case, a firm named "G Force" whose own letterhead says "Investigations by Former Special Agents of the FBI." The FBI shared records with Kolczynski and that investigator/firm without redacting a single name. Those same names and more are redacted in the documents the Bureau has finally released to us. They did that because they viewed both Kolczynski and G Force as friends, not as adversaries representing a family against the interests of the FBI. Meanwhile, the family of the wrongfully killed agent are viewed as and treated as adversaries.
Philip Kolczynski was licensed in California. He brought in a Colorado-licensed attorney named Patricia Jarzobski as local counsel. Jarzobski also had a duty to ensure Kolczynski's conflicts of interest were properly disclosed. She never did so. She also had a duty to represent the interests of our family, which she did not do. She helped Kolczynski ensure that the FBI's interests were served, at the expense of the LeVeille family. Under both Colorado and California law, a legal malpractice claim has to be filed within a few years of the mistake or of finding out about it. That window is long gone. The same kind of arbitrary, immoral, and unjust laws that protect the FBI in this case also block our path to justice against our own attorneys.
Kolczynski structured his contract with us so that he was paid more if the case never went to trial. That is the opposite of what should motivate a lawyer representing a grieving family seeking justice. We also believe he violated contract law in multiple ways. Patricia Jarzobski practiced law under her own website, jarzobskilaw.com. However, her website was immediately taken down when our family began posting about all of this on social media and has remained down ever since.
The Bureau's official report blamed Charles Burns (the instructor pilot) for selecting a box canyon which they claimed was too small. However, our own investigation has blown the lid off this false narrative and has revealed a mountain of lies and omissions which paint a completely different picture than the one the FBI painted. The FBI's lies, omissions, and illegal attempts to conceal the truth will be exposed on this website.
This website exists to set the record straight and to demand that JUSTICE be done.
“The finding of cause for the accident was that the aircraft was flown into a narrow canyon from which it could not escape and the problem was made worse by a probable down draft that existed at the time of the accident.”
Aircraft Accident Review Board deliberation, FBI Inspection Division, memorandum 66A-HQ-1255145, dated 10/13/2000. Released to us June 18, 2026, at pages 22 and 23 of a 186-page production.
our ongoing fight for justice
Fighting The Feds
Over the years, our suspicions grew and our family privately discussed the possibility of foul play. But, since we had no records of any kind and no money to hire investigators or attorneys, there was nothing we could really do if the world's premier investigative organization were lying to us. Our mother was widowed with six young children the day after she turned 40. Understandably, she was consumed with grief and depression for many years and did not want to reopen this painful chapter of her life. But, her unwillingness to reopen this matter also meant that the six kids had nowhere to get answers to our questions.
The law places an unjust and immoral statute of limitations on crimes such as this. Essentially, statutes of limitations are the "expiration date" for victims' rights to justice. Once your justice "expires" it's not good anymore and you can't claim it. So, as far as we knew we couldn't do anything through the courts. But, we were never informed that the statute of limitations is tolled for plaintiffs who were minors when the case was decided. This means the statute of limitations was restarted SIX times for our family and yet we never even knew! No one told us! The "justice" system is allowed to have arbitrary and immoral statutes of limitations to protect perpetrators, but there is no legal requirement to inform the victims when those statutes are tolled! This is how the "justice" system works in America. And that is just the beginning of the hurdles we have faced.
For many years, we did not even know of the existence of the Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) which gives us the right to request documents from federal agencies. However, even once we did learn of this right we did not immediately act on it because we were concerned that the FBI would just destroy the damning documents in their possession once we started requesting them. Fast forward a few years and this is exactly what has happened.
In 2022, David LeVeille filed his first FOIA request with the FBI, asking for a broad swath of records in the FBI's possession. The FBI immediately began stonewalling and said it would be years before they could release any of the requested documents. This is absolutely untrue and the FBI is routinely sued for this exact reason, by organizations with enough money to do so. Many of the requested documents were cleared for release in 2001 and should have been immediately released upon receipt of David's FOIA request. As is their usual practice, the FBI did not comply with the law. We however do not have the money to sue the FBI so David submitted a second FOIA request asking for only the FBI's Investigative Report. The FBI illegally never responded to that FOIA request. This later became a pattern as the FBI ignored many of the following FOIA requests David submitted.
Having no other options, we appealed to our U.S. Congress person, Jeff Duncan. One of his office personnel said he sent a letter to the FBI, asking them to fulfill David's two FOIA requests, and received a "No" from them so he dropped the matter and refused to do anything else. Jeff Duncan has now been replaced by Sheri Biggs who refused to meet with us for nine months. Finally, after we criticized her enough on social media she agreed to meet with us. However, she refused to call for a Congressional investigation into Paul LeVeille's death and she refused to sponsor the private bill which we drafted, which would require the U.S. government to pay our family reparations for Paul LeVeille's wrongful death and the decades of pain and suffering we have endured at the hands of the U.S. government. Her specific words to us when we asked for her support on our private bill were "We don't want to mess up what we're working on with President Trump."
In the meantime, Sheri has continued to vote for billions more in funding for Israel's genocide. Apparently, paying reparations to the family of a wrongfully killed American combat veteran isn't a priority. Doing so would have cut into the budget for Israel. We can't have that. Israel first.
There is much much more to our story. This website is merely intended to help people grasp the big picture of what has been done to our family. The media at all levels refuses to cover our story. The FBI has retaliated against us. Attorneys refuse to speak with us. We are legally barred from suing either of our attorneys for willful and intentional malpractice because statutes of limitations have passed. We have appealed to all of our elected leaders, from the President on down to our County Council and we have faced nothing but stonewalling, harassment, retaliation, and even arrest.
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1. We are calling for the removal of FBI Director Kash Patel, and for every other official, past or present, who caused this or is covering it up, to be identified and held accountable under the law.
2. We are calling for the full and complete release of every file the federal government holds regarding Paul A. LeVeille's death, no more delays, destruction of evidence, redactions, or excuses.
3. We are calling on Congress to investigate how our father died and how portions of his file disappeared.
4. We are calling on Congress to pass the private bill our family has drafted, so that long overdue reparations can finally be paid.
The omissions
Secret Omissions
An Aircraft Accident Review Board (AARB) met at FBI Headquarters on August 8, 2000, chaired by a Deputy Assistant Director from the Office of Inspections. Memorandum 66A-HQ-1255145 is the record of that meeting. The items in the left column are quoted from that memorandum and were not listed as causal factors, in the FBI's official findings.
“The pilots explained that in previous years, the ‘box canyon turn’ maneuver was practiced over flat terrain where imaginary canyon boundaries were established by using ground-based landmarks such as barns or other buildings. This enabled pilots to practice this type of flying while ensuring their safety by allowing space for error.”
Memorandum 66A-HQ-1255145, page 23 of 186
The FBI claims the box canyon was too narrow. But, the AARB's own record shows this maneuver was never supposed to be conducted in a canyon at all!
This massively important fact proves that the FBI's lack of oversight over this training was the direct cause of the crash! If the training had been conducted SAFELY, as it was in years prior, this accident could not have occurred because the conditions necessary for this crash to happen could not have existed!
This finding points the blame directly at the FBI.
“the plane being utilized was underpowered for this type of exercise”
Memorandum 66A-HQ-1255145, page 24 of 186. One of four items the board listed as playing a major part in the accident.
Our family conducted thousands of Monte Carlo simulations to test the survivability of each of the three aircraft types that were used for this training. The results of those simulations not only confirm that the Piper Archer was underpowered but that Paul LeVeille would still be alive if he had been in the correctly authorized Cessna TR182. Despite all the other illegal and grossly negligent actions of the FBI, just this one factor alone would have made the difference between life and death.
“The consensus of the investigating team members and the AARB was that the training provided by Colorado Skyways consisted of no curriculum, no checklists, no checks and balances and that training left little margin for pilot error.”
Memorandum 66A-HQ-1255145, page 23 of 186
This was not Paul LeVeille's or Charles Burns' mistake. The decision to have "no curriculum, no checklists, no checks and blances" was made by Anthony Kruczynski. Blame also rests upon those above him in the chain of command - James Shine, Robert Fabie, and Louis Freeh.
Despite the FBI finding its own illegal gross negligence to be directly linked to the crash, they still found themselves not responsible. Is anyone surprised? Why was the FBI allowed to investigate itself? When has the fox ever found himself to be responsible for killing the chicken?
“advised that he was unaware that Colorado Skyways was utilizing a low wing Piper Archer in place of the agreed upon Cessna aircraft.”
Memorandum 66A-HQ-1255145, page 21 of 186. The speaker is the FBI official who set up the course; his name is redacted. However, we know from the few unredacted records which we already posessed that this is Anthony Kruczynski, Director of Flight Training.
Paul was not flying the airplane the FBI had agreed to. The same passage records that Cessna 172s were specified, that larger pilots could opt for a bigger Cessna 182RG, and that the 172 was chosen “in order to provide the pilots with more of a Challenge in flying the course.”
The provision made for a larger pilot was a larger Cessna. It was not a Piper Archer.
“the mountain flying course provided by Colorado Skyways was obtained through Government Purchase Order (GPO) rather than contract due to the less than $25,000 cost. A GPO, unlike the conditions that would be specified in a contract, did not describe a specific course of instruction to be provided, did not set minimum instructor experience or aircraft requirements, and did not set standards of instruction, or any course completion requirements.”
Memorandum 66A-HQ-1255145, page 23 of 186
It seems that the FBI deliberately kept the cost of the training below the $25,000 figure in order to avoid having to contractually specify safety standards, course requirements, minimum instructor experience, or standards of instruction.
The same page says: "This discussion resulted in the recommendation that CIRG approve no training by the use of GPO and that all training exercises be initiated by the use of contracts which define the specific requirements for the training as well as a statement of the work to be accomplished." However, the AARB memorandum doesn't make any mention of what is required under federal law. (You can learn more about this by going to the page of this website titled "THE CRIMES")
The board did not treat this as a small matter, but it did treat it as something to be hidden.
As a direct result of this death, the memorandum records a recommendation that the FBI stop buying training this way altogether: that the Critical Incident Response Group “approve no training by use of GPO and that all training exercises be initiated by the use of contracts which define specific requirements for the training as well as a statement of the work to be accomplished.”
The Bureau changed how it buys pilot training because Paul LeVeille's death exposed the fact that the FBI was violating federal regulations. The FBI did not mention that fact in the cause finding, and it did not say so to our family. In fact, the FBI told us the Mountain Flying program was permanently shut down after Paul's death. However, our FOIA request to the FBI asking for records confirming this has not been fulfilled.
What the report leaves out
The Aircraft and The Canyon
The AARB memorandum says the FBI's investigation of itself “determined that there were no engine problems or malfunctions which contributed to the accident.” However, the FBI's Investigative Report fails to mention the dramatic difference in performance between the unapproved Piper Archer and the approved Cessna TR182. The Cessna TR182 had a turbocharged engine, retractable landing gear, a service ceiling 4350ft higher than the Piper Archer's, and a rate of climb that was more than 1.5X better. None of these massive performance differences were listed as causal factors, by the FBI or NTSB, in their official reports.
“SA Name Redacted explained to the group that the model of aircraft being utilized was operating near its maximum performance capability on the day of the accident. He further emphasized the fact that any aircraft equipped with a reciprocating, normally aspirated engine, such as this one, does not perform as well as altitude increases due to "thinning air", as compared to one with a larger and/or turbo-charged engine. For instance, the plane being flown by SA Leveille and his instructor, with a four cylinder engine, had a service ceiling of approximately 12,000 feet and information revealed that the plane was flying at 11,800 feet before impact. By comparison, a typical Bureau Cessna R182, which has a six cylinder engine, has a significantly higher service ceiling. However, despite the performance limitations of the aircraft, the investigation determined that there were no engine problems or malfunctions which contributed to the accident. The finding of cause for the accident was that the aircraft was flown into a narrow canyon.”
Memorandum 66A-HQ-1255145, page 22 of 186. The speaker's name was redacted by the FBI.
So, despite all the evidence pointing at the aircraft being both unauthorized and underpowered, the FBI comes to the conclusion that the canyon is to blame? There are a few problems with this conclusion. First, it ignores the facts that the correctly authorized aircraft had dramatically better odds of survival, conducting training inside of box canyons is reckless, and this box canyon appears to be the single largest box canyon in the area... A quick check of a topographical map will quickly confirm this.
The crash occurred at 11,700 feet and the FBI claims the Piper Archer was flying at 11,800 feet before the crash. A powerful downdraft is blamed for the loss of elevation. If the tree tops were 40 feet high then the aircraft only had 60 feet of clearance, which is absolutely insane. Also, note the elevation of the canyon wall where the Piper Archer entered the canyon. The aircraft must have been at least 11,900 feet above sea level, but it would most likely have been above its service ceiling of 12,000 feet! And that is before taking into account the density altitude, which would of course mean this aircraft was being pushed well beyond its actual service ceiling, in an unforgiving and extremely hazardous environment! How on earth could any honest person claim the choice of aircraft was not a bigger factor than the choice of canyon?
Furthermore, Anthony Kruczynski essentially admitted that even the Cessna 172s were not sufficiently powerful for this training. Kruczynski's FD-302 says: "Mr. Kruczynksi chose the Cessna 172 in order to provide the pilots with more of a challenge in flying the course." In other words, safety was not Kruczynki's top priority... Now, consider the fact that the Piper Archer's service ceiling and rate of climb were both lower than the Cessna 172's! So, if the Cessna 172 provided "more of a challenge", what does that say about the Piper Archer? In reality, no aircraft should have been entering box canyons at all! Period. But, if any aircraft were to attempt such a foolhardy and reckless act, the Cessna 182 was the only authorized aircraft whose performance could provide any significant margin for error. How did the FBI, NTSB, Aviation Law specialist Philip J. Kolczynski, Patricia Jarzobski, and G Force all miss this blatantly obvious conclusion? Maybe they didn't...
Still outstanding
The FBI Destroyed Evidence
In July 2026 the FBI admitted two separate things. Some records that may have answered our request were destroyed, with no date given, no description, and no schedule cited. Others are simply not where the Bureau's own index says they are, and two searches failed to find them.
Those admissions, and everything still withheld, are set out on the "WHAT IS MISSING" page.