I've been reworking Timeline Z and, in doing so, revisiting all the documents on hand. As time permits, I'll update appropriate threads with new info and/or interpretations.
Josh posted the following just over six years ago, and I believe
he's lying in his OP about getting it via email. I believe it's one of the many documents he stole. Refer to the OP for the full text.
First, there was absolutely no reason for Josh to delete names of members of LE. It's their job, and their IDs are pertinent. Josh is such a maggot. No clue when the document was written, as he didn't bother transcribing such important details. Likewise, we don't know what else he may have held back, as his wont was to often delete important passages or details wholesale without informing readers they were getting compromised information.
They got many things wrong and many things right in the report.
► The only relative I know involved in Gary's lunch alibi is the former Asst Atty Gen for Nevada, his uncle. I've uncovered plenty of dirt on that maggot and posted it on the forum.
► The report doesn't make clear many points about how Lyn was found, exactly where she was found, or what
s known to have happened during the attack. Had they done so, the similarities between Piedmont and C28 would look far less significant. IMO, they'd almost evaporate.
► While the report states Lyn was "a quiet modest girl that didn't go out much", she left work early that day from her father's workplace to prepare for her date that night.
► There's another couple errors I can't discuss without giving out too much info on the Mollath case.
Unfortunately, the report also does not state where the curtain came from, other than it was NOT the shower curtain, as has been repeated many times in the past.
I'll try to safely point out the many ways Lyn's murder is significantly different than Keddie, without getting so specific as to compromise details in the Mollath case. First, as with Keddie, it appears the culprit(s) were familiar to the family or at least the vx. And, apparently, the dog, but in the age of home security vid, many guard dogs are now on YouTube playing with burglars, so...
There's multiple reasons to still believe the killer(s) knew the family, or were at least TOLD how to leave things, including where Lyn was placed. We've all been told she was attacked in the shower and pulled down the stairs (which is how the curtain became a shower curtain?), but her hair appeared to me as dry and not matted. No signs her hair had been wet. Either she wore a shower cap, or hadn't been in the shower. But she was nude.
I believe the neck bruising was from the assault, and all the knife wounds were meant to kill, with the unneeded coup de grace being the neck wound. LE also seem very certain the knife found washed and left in the dish rack is the sole weapon. I'd like to see the knife and match it to the wounds, but it's already certainly a very different scenario than 28.
In Sue's case, the knife used to stab her in the chest and neck was not found in the cabin. The only one that comes close is the Buck-type knife taken into evidence last April.
UPDATED TO ADD: See this post about the bent knife as potentially responsible for Sue's neck wound. Also, as I've stated so many times over the years, there's two neck wounds at 28 yet only one aortal spray. I believe Johnny was killed with the neck stab, but Sue's chest and neck stabs were all postmortem. The ME concluded the neck wound was deadly, as Sue had aspirated blood, but failed to take into account her jaws and teeth had been pulverized by the hammer and the gags must have made it impossible not to aspirate. He also failed to note what Forcino's autopsy photos show: very little blood coming from those wounds prior to her body being washed.
Lyn was not bound prior or after death. Sue was both. Sue was posed, whereas Lyn was not. However, I believe there is great significance in where she was dragged prior to execution. The killers knew it would be the first thing someone saw when entering the most-used door to the large house. She was relocated from where she was attacked, and executed where she was found.
In Keddie, there was no attempt to stage a burglary. The staging consisted solely of equalizing damage to the vx left in the house while trying to shift focus to Tina as target. 28 seemed to be a frenzy of over-the-top violence, whereas Lynn appeared to be controlled (bruising), then moved to where she was murdered. In Piedmont, the only signs of frenzy, apart from the staged burglary, is the description of the drapes being 'ripped' from the window. A helluva difference to 28.
In the CS photos, I don't recall ever seeing the curtain under Lyn. I did notice from the wounds, amount of blood, and the location of the pools, that she had been taken to that location and executed. Unlike Keddie, no dragging around, leaving Piedmont as a comparatively immaculate crime scene.
The Mollaths were very powerful people, with their fingers in many pies: real estate, construction, publishing. All of those pursuits usually bring ugly baggage: graft, corruption, payoffs to scum from mob-controlled factions to corrupt politicians. You don't get variances with just a firm handshake, a smile, and a spotless record. We're talking about a family who, within one generations, went from immigrant construction workers noted for falling off scaffolding (Lyn's grandfather and grand-uncle fell off together once and survived; the great uncle fell off again outside a hospital, dying when he nearly landed on a doctor) to becoming real estate and publishing magnates living in a Piedmont mansion... and apparently letting Keddie deteriorate once the shift in FRC's plans made the 'resort' nothing but a tax windfall as a financial disaster.
The short and skinny is I see no real similarities between Lyn and 28. I can't even be sure there was a warning message in 28 because the staging was such a shambles, whereas it's pretty clear whoever was in Piedmont may have left a clear message to the family. Given how a family of such power and wealth appears to have done everything possible to bury the case alongside their beautiful daughter, one can't help but consider the message was received.
We now know Bo was in the Bay area at the time of Lyn's murder but, in my considered opinion, Piedmont and 28 are two entirely different scenes- and cases. 28 was a convoluted mess, so polluted by multiple killers, motives and methods, exacerbated by incompetent staging, it's impossible to compare MOs. I can't draw any connection, other than the Mollaths. It would take a bombshell to tie 28 to Lyn, along the lines of proof 28 was in some way meant to send another message to the Mollaths. I don't see it, because the murders in 28 actually destroyed the Hogaboams and Albins dreams, and resulted in the property shifting back to the Mollaths. In the short term, it was a gain to the Mollaths... and is still, evidently, a tax dodge waiting to be sold off for a profit when (and if) the land becomes pricey. Gary's still doing well enough, but his property developments seem to mainly be in Reno- where his alibi is still thriving as a real estate lawyer.
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