Post by Sandy on Jun 23, 2015 8:26:17 GMT -8
I am not sure why I didn't take my evidence to Napa PD ? That is where I should have taken it , because that is where it was found and I believed at that time , that it pertained to the Lake Berryessa crime.
At that time I still had the bottom half of the costume in a box of mixed pieces of various material above my garage.(I have not given up hope of ever finding it again.) What a different direction this case would have taken, had I known what I had at the time I found it and turned it into the Napa PD.
I am very sure the DNA from the victims is still on it, perhaps degraded, but maybe enough to prove that it was in fact thee killers costume.
Something else that I should have done and this goes for any of you who have any evidence. When you take it to the Det in charge , always ask for a receipt and a case number. I didn't do that in 1990 when I dropped off my evidence at SFPD.
I did call Jim Deasy in 1990 and asked him to please give me a case number for what I brought in to him. He said he would , but he never did.
I know that they still had what I brought in to them a few yrs ago, because I asked them to please check the handwriting on the note I gave, it took a while for them to find it but they did eventually.Or they just said that they found it to pacify me?
I stayed in hiding for a few weeks in Stockton with my boyfriend who was living with young couple who had a small child, the wife was about 6 months pregnant. They didn't seem to mind that I was at their home hiding from a possible serial killer.
One night the young mother went to a video store to pick up a movie for her daughter. When she returned she said that a man had approached her in the children's section of the store and asked her some questions that she felt were odd. She wasn't sure if the man had followed her from the house or not ?
I asked her to describe him to me, she said he was about 5ft9 185 pounds,baseball cap, didn't notice any hair. He had blue eyes , mustache, a space between his two front teeth. That fit the description of my R.H. suspect who is a buddy to the man I have a picture of.
A few days later My boyfriend Mike and I went to the movie theater and while inside I felt I was being watched
( Yes I was a bit paranoid )
Low and behold he was there, about ten rows back and to my left.I wasn't about to leave , but made sure we weren't followed when we did leave.
It really didn't matter anyway , he had already found where I was hiding.
After a few weeks of hiding ,I went back home and checked my guns to make sure they were loaded and ready, in case I had an encounter with the very scary man.
If he had followed me for any amount of time, he had to have seen me practicing at the gun range. I am a very good shot. I also belonged to a hunting club "The American Sportsman Club". When I was a young girl I had a Bee- bee gun that I like to practice shooting cans with.So I have been around guns all of my life.
I have never pulled out my gun other than at a shooting range or while hunting and would only do it if I felt I was in danger.
I would not hesitate to shoot if I had to and I am pretty sure that my stalker knows that. Knowing that this person only targets defenseless people, I don't worry as much anymore. Yes I do carry my weapon with me just in case I may need to use it.
For a long time I felt that the police would protect me , but later learned that they can't always be there in time.Each time I would call 911 , they would miss him by seconds. It was as if he had a scanner and knew when I would call 911. One time when I called because he was in my back yard, I called and they came right away. One officer who was the back up for the first one there, asked me if the man was driving a blue and white SUV type vehicle? I said yes, that was what he had just driven away in. He said that he drove past him on the way to my home. He couldn't turn around and go after him, even though the man was going over the speed limit, because he had to back up the other officer at my home.
It was after that night that I realized I had to fight this fight by myself. I set up traps in my back yard
( Not recommended to do, because it is not legal )But I had to do what ever it took to try and stop this mad man from prowling around my yard late at night.
My two dogs would let me know when someone was there, thank goodness for them. But that all changed when one disappeared and the other was shot in the head, just like Darlene's sister Pam's dog Joey was shot in his head.
I couldn't take another chance that that could happen again to another pet so , no more dogs for me.
My neighbors had dogs and would bark when someone was near.
I sleep with my gun under my pillow and have a deadbolt lock on my bedroom door. I don't drive around at night by myself. I document everything as I have been told by LE to do.
Neighbors would see my stalker sitting in his cars/ trucks day after day on the corner where I live for more than a few hours each day. One did walk up to him one day and asked what he was doing there ? That there was a woman in the neighborhood who was being stalked by someone and wondered if he was that person ? He answered with: That is funny, I am being stalked by some woman !
At that time I still had the bottom half of the costume in a box of mixed pieces of various material above my garage.(I have not given up hope of ever finding it again.) What a different direction this case would have taken, had I known what I had at the time I found it and turned it into the Napa PD.
I am very sure the DNA from the victims is still on it, perhaps degraded, but maybe enough to prove that it was in fact thee killers costume.
Something else that I should have done and this goes for any of you who have any evidence. When you take it to the Det in charge , always ask for a receipt and a case number. I didn't do that in 1990 when I dropped off my evidence at SFPD.
I did call Jim Deasy in 1990 and asked him to please give me a case number for what I brought in to him. He said he would , but he never did.
I know that they still had what I brought in to them a few yrs ago, because I asked them to please check the handwriting on the note I gave, it took a while for them to find it but they did eventually.Or they just said that they found it to pacify me?
I stayed in hiding for a few weeks in Stockton with my boyfriend who was living with young couple who had a small child, the wife was about 6 months pregnant. They didn't seem to mind that I was at their home hiding from a possible serial killer.
One night the young mother went to a video store to pick up a movie for her daughter. When she returned she said that a man had approached her in the children's section of the store and asked her some questions that she felt were odd. She wasn't sure if the man had followed her from the house or not ?
I asked her to describe him to me, she said he was about 5ft9 185 pounds,baseball cap, didn't notice any hair. He had blue eyes , mustache, a space between his two front teeth. That fit the description of my R.H. suspect who is a buddy to the man I have a picture of.
A few days later My boyfriend Mike and I went to the movie theater and while inside I felt I was being watched
( Yes I was a bit paranoid )
Low and behold he was there, about ten rows back and to my left.I wasn't about to leave , but made sure we weren't followed when we did leave.
It really didn't matter anyway , he had already found where I was hiding.
After a few weeks of hiding ,I went back home and checked my guns to make sure they were loaded and ready, in case I had an encounter with the very scary man.
If he had followed me for any amount of time, he had to have seen me practicing at the gun range. I am a very good shot. I also belonged to a hunting club "The American Sportsman Club". When I was a young girl I had a Bee- bee gun that I like to practice shooting cans with.So I have been around guns all of my life.
I have never pulled out my gun other than at a shooting range or while hunting and would only do it if I felt I was in danger.
I would not hesitate to shoot if I had to and I am pretty sure that my stalker knows that. Knowing that this person only targets defenseless people, I don't worry as much anymore. Yes I do carry my weapon with me just in case I may need to use it.
For a long time I felt that the police would protect me , but later learned that they can't always be there in time.Each time I would call 911 , they would miss him by seconds. It was as if he had a scanner and knew when I would call 911. One time when I called because he was in my back yard, I called and they came right away. One officer who was the back up for the first one there, asked me if the man was driving a blue and white SUV type vehicle? I said yes, that was what he had just driven away in. He said that he drove past him on the way to my home. He couldn't turn around and go after him, even though the man was going over the speed limit, because he had to back up the other officer at my home.
It was after that night that I realized I had to fight this fight by myself. I set up traps in my back yard
( Not recommended to do, because it is not legal )But I had to do what ever it took to try and stop this mad man from prowling around my yard late at night.
My two dogs would let me know when someone was there, thank goodness for them. But that all changed when one disappeared and the other was shot in the head, just like Darlene's sister Pam's dog Joey was shot in his head.
I couldn't take another chance that that could happen again to another pet so , no more dogs for me.
My neighbors had dogs and would bark when someone was near.
I sleep with my gun under my pillow and have a deadbolt lock on my bedroom door. I don't drive around at night by myself. I document everything as I have been told by LE to do.
Neighbors would see my stalker sitting in his cars/ trucks day after day on the corner where I live for more than a few hours each day. One did walk up to him one day and asked what he was doing there ? That there was a woman in the neighborhood who was being stalked by someone and wondered if he was that person ? He answered with: That is funny, I am being stalked by some woman !