Twenty-Four

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Jack

I talked to the cops. STUFF IS GOING DOWN!!

Will update you when I can.

Ceci

Be careful out there.

Jack

Thanks. I will be careful. ❤️

We got a voicemail from Joe. His daughter Mary was interviewed by the detectives.

Joe thinks he's being stalked by the BSKs.

I debriefed detective Balsam. He expects "cadaver dogs" on site within two weeks.

[Grabbing lunch.]

Cops are taking protective measures with the burial site.

Will send you the details tonight.

Jack

So, this morning we got a voice mail from Joe: Suzanne Willis, one of the prostitutes who hung around his house, said Mary told the police everything! The drugs. The sex.  The bikers.

Joe is also worried about a wallet he found next to his car with an ID from [Large Multi-National Corporation], the same company Carmen's dad works for.

Joe said Suzanne showed up at his house on Sunday. She told him Darren Johannsson and Mary "kissed and made up" and were "engaged to be married." But before that, Mary met with the cops and told them everything, including the full story about the BSKs, prostitutes, Lonesome Pup Kennel, Bunny. Everything.

Joe played dumb. Just listened to Suzanne. The only thing Mary left out was Darren digging up the gun Bobby used to murder the hookers.

Joe thinks he is being set up. He's scared.

Suzanne asked what Joe knew and if he talked to the cops. She asked him three times.

Joe told her, "I don't know shit about anything." Said he hadn't even spoke to Mary. She asked what Joe knew about Bobby. Joe told her he knew nothing and said nothing. Suzanne added that Darren and Mary were going to Court together every morning to do their drug and alcohol screens. Joe just listened.

Eventually, Suzanne left.

I called Detective Balsam. Told him he's the only public servant in America who picks up on the first ring. He said, "It's because I'm only working one case. This one."

Balsam was happy Joe denied everything. Said they have not shared Joe's identity with anybody. Balsam is still not sharing what Mary told the police. But he seemed worried that  she may have shifted back to Darren.

Me: "When I worked for Legal Services in Detroit, we interviewed 5000 women a year who wanted a divorce. Some of the women hated their husband so violently they would have paid me to have him shot. Most of the others were calm, applying for a divorce like buying toothpaste. Almost all of them went through with their divorces. But when a wife would back out, get cold feet, it was always the ones who started out violent and hateful."

Balsam: "Oh yeah, I know. When I was on patrol and doing DV (domestic violence) cases, they would make the call for the arrest, but then, later, we would spend more time chasing down the wife to testify then we did bringing in the suspect. I know all about that, and that's why I'm a little concerned".

I really like this detective Balsam. And his hair is so healthy, shiney, and glorious.

Me: "Darren Johannsson is the one who needs to be in the dark about the investigation. So we're nervous that he seems to know everything. He's got the most to lose, and he is out on the hunt. The snow's melting. Are we gonna get on that property?"

Balsam: "Things are moving quickly, but when there's a search for the bodies, it's likely to draw a lot of attention, a lot of spectators. So, we're going to try our best to do it without Joe on scene."

Balsam added that he spoke to the "cadaver dog handlers". They didn't think a 15 foot deep burial would be any problem for the dogs (15 feet is the maximum depth Joe's backhoe could dig a grave). The dogs have found bodies buried at 70 feet. He said he's been on cases where a dog alerted to a car trunk that held a bloodless corpse for only one hour. He was at another scene where a dog found nothing in the subject car trunk, but as it roamed around the lot, the dog alerted on a car that turned out to have had a corpse in it five years earlier.

The handlers also say that if the body, or bodies, have been buried two years, the dogs will have an easier time finding the remains than if it was a fresh burial. They can also do drillings to help the dogs. Balsam is very confident that if there are bodies, the cadaver dogs will find them.

Balsam has to work out getting permission to go on the land, but he expects to be there in two weeks or sooner.

I asked, "What about Darren? What if the bad guys get there first or have already been there?" He said, "We have taken special precautions."

I told Balsam that even if they don't want Joe on scene, I want to be there. I told him twice. The first time he tried to scare me off by saying, "You want to be a witness?" But the second time he said, "I'll keep that in mind." He sounded genuine, so I figure I've got a shot, but with all the rules and procedures, it's thin.

Bottom line: The bad guys know too much, and there is going to be a dig for bodies.

Thursday, May 12, 2016

Jack

We received the pre-sentencing report on Jason's ax case.

We've got a shot.

Friday, May 13, 2016

Jack

So much going on.

Will try to update, but it's Friday, 7AM. At another crime scene.

Then witnesses all day.

Family all night.

How about you? You good?

Here's another crush, Miko by The Chain Gang of 1974:

Ceci

meh..

So much here too.

Deadlines, lots of work, long hours. Family. Trying to keep up and make some money.

Jack

$$ is good.

Waiting on Friday pizza. Having a Friday beer.

I don't even know where to start.

How about this? Jason, who threatened to chop his friend's head off with an ax, may share a history with the buried hookers.

Jason's mother was a heroin addict who paid for her habit with prostitution. His father spent most of his life in prison, once for trying to kill Jason's mother by chasing her down the street with a knife. He almost caught her and killed her on the road because she was slowed down by the weight of carrying Jason who was only 9 months old.

Another time, while Dad was in prison, he heard that young Jason was being abused by mom and her biker pimps. Dad escaped from prison for the sole purpose of killing his wife and bikers. He confessed everything to police after he was captured five miles from Jason's home.

By the time Jason reached the age of five, he was being regularly abused by bikers and mom's sex clients. In a business transaction he was too young to understand, Jason was kidnapped and held for almost a year before he was returned to his mother.

There is more and worse, but given the prostitution, drugs, bikers, and location, there is a good chance Jason and his mother were victims of the Blue Steel Kings. His mother and father are both dead, killed young by by a diet of drugs and violence. Only Jason is still standing and DA Kelly Thatcher told me this afternoon that she will be demanding he be sent to prison.

Pizza ready. Beer finished. Catch you later.

Saturday, May 14, 2016

Jack

Ruby is coming home tomorrow!

I spent the day washing and cleaning.

Now at a client's wedding. Last year we had a Black Lives Matter protest. Police moved in on the protesters. The protesters were made up of white college kids. There was one black kid protesting. Police arrested the black kid, no one else. The case came to me. Everything worked out well. The kid is free and doing fine. During that case, I met many of the young activists in the area. Two of the activists got sweet on each other and got engaged. A couple months back they were stopped by police....

Hold on ceremony is starting...shhhh!

Happy couple. Catholic priest.  Drum circle. Buddhist monk. Wedding ceremony on a cliff overlooking Boulder.

Ceci

I remember you telling me about that guy. I think this is a sweet story.

Jack

Hors d'oeuvres and champagne!!

I love hors d'oeuvres and champagne and I love that my voice identification program can spell hors d'oeuvres because I cannot spell hors d'oeuvres.

There were two groomsmen. You know one.

Champagne!

He's giving the toast.

Hint: Leader of Occupy Wall Street.

Unlimited bubbles.

I love bubbles.

Bubbles more...

Revolutionaries can party, Dude!

Sunday, May 15, 2016

Ceci

What a beautiful setting, sounds like a party!

[⭐Vote⭐ for way too much champagne!]

Photo 1: Cowboy Gun by Clker-Free-VectorImages, 2012 (Pixabay # 33898).

Photo 2: Taken and owned by authors, 2016.