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Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 15:59:01 -0800
From: Richard Childers <fscked@sbcglobal.net>
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To: Bill Dobberstein <BDobberstein@ci.fortuna.ca.us>, 
 jprimofiore@ci.fortuna.ca.us, David Erler <derler@ci.fortuna.ca.us>
Subject: 137 12th Street: Who Dunnit?
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I was not a witness.

I haven't even seen the body.

However ...

1) I did see a young woman with blond hair, and a pink jacket, in front 
of Building 5, coming out, this morning. From the description of the 
victim, this might have been her.

I'm not sure which apartment she came out of - but I think it was 
Apartment 5D.

If the folks in Building 5 all claim they don't know her ... somebody is 
lying.


2) The owner of the brown pit bull, who lives in 5D, came towards me 
after the murder and said he had seen it, that a woman had "jumped out 
of the bushes" and attacked this other woman.

Right behind him was Bobbie, the former manager, saying the exact same 
thing.

I am puzzled by this description of events because I don't know of any 
bushes that would conceal someone, behind 137 12th Street.

The only possibility I can think of is if this person leaped over the 
fence - in which case, there would be footprints, and other signs of 
that person's passage.

The assailant would also have to be pretty healthy, to go over that 
fence. It's not a very stable fence. It would require some upper body 
strength.


3) I saw the person whom I have been complaining about, known as 
"Bubba", leave Building 5, after the murder, and he was acting oddly - 
hunching his back, cocking his hat to conceal his face from the officers 
watching the scene, and he looked kind of pale, too.


4) The occupants of Apartment 5D would have had a perfect view of events 
in the rear, and would have been in a perfect position to tell if the 
coast was clear to go down and do something bad, too.


5) The placement of Building 5 is optimal for anyone who has done 
something bad in the back parking lot and needs a place to escape to and 
hide within.


6) I saw someone trying to start a truck back there, earlier today. I 
didn't see who was trying to start the truck. But I understand that a 
truck was involved.

Lacking evidence to the contrary, it seems likely that the young lady 
left her truck here with someone's permission - that is, someone 
promised to look after it for her - and then, when she returned, she 
tried to start it, was attacked, and was killed, in the back parking lot.


Regards,

~richard