The following image is from one of the 3"x5" notebooks Crim used to take notes (think Columbo). The note has to do with Bo. It's dated 4/14, so let's look at some info from the case leading up to and including their interview with Bo:
810412 SUN - Murders. Marilyn moves to the Meeks. Bo, Marty, Dee(?) dump Tina at c 18, using Dee's car.
810413 Mon - Marty is in Reno VA.
810414 Tue - Interviews with Bo and Marty; Crimely had spoken with Marty prior Wade takes Bo to bus stop for Klamath Falls
810415 Wed - Notes from Crim's notebook about Bo are dated 4/15? He interviewed M&B the day prior. "May have been deputy"" FFS, at age six? Crim is both a poster-boy for corruption AND stupidity?
Bo and Marty were interviewed on April 14, starting with Bo at 10:27 AM; What's important is that Crimely met Bo at 26 PRIOR to the interview. It's clear from the transcript that they spoke for some time before going "On the Record" in the dining room of the diner.
Marty is on that tape, walking into the interview around 11:15, saying "Oh, hi! How ya doin' there, Harry?" Bo's interview turns into a jokefest. With speed correction, I estimate the tape ended at 11:17 AM.
Marty's interview begins on a separate tape at 11:25 AM, giving the killers and Crimley a further eight minutes to screw the pooch off-the-record. We also have no idea how long they shot the shit at the diner after the interviews, or shot the shit back at 26 (Crimely told Bo they'd point out 28 when they walked him back to 26; they couldn't have walked him back to 26 until AFTER Marty's interview, so where was Bo during Marty's hour-long interview? Keeping a seat at that table warm, or standing outside of the diner, whipping his dick around in the breeze?)
I'll transcribe this note, line for line, with breaks where they occur. My notes are in red.
Prince Albert Crim wrote:22434
(the first date scratched out) .4.15 from Smoot
Per Dept. of Law Enf. Springfield
Ill
Severn John Boubede
7-26-31 1956 did time
Oakland Co. jail attempt 211 (armed robbery)
FBI # 427-855 A
April 59 St. Prison 211
Chi (Chicago) PD 26524 ? may have been
deputy
Neg Alameda SO
Nothin in files - soundex
Let's break this down. I'm guessing 22434 is the CA-DOJ case number, but am, by no means, certain.
Why did Crim scratch out the date and replace it with what looks like '4.5' (April 5) but is actually '4.15'? What did he scratch out?!
"from Smoot" indicates to me that the majority of info, if not all, came from his supervisor in Sac., named Smoot.
"Per Dept. of Law Enf. Springfield"?! I get Springfield, Illinois (state capitol), but wtf is a DOJ 'agent' doing spewing out a nonexistent entity, the "Department of Law Enforcement'? PD? SO? IBI? IL-DOJ? VERY ODD!
"Severn John Boubede" Wrong spelling, wrong arrangement. Is this the info & spelling from Bo's NV DL? Absolutely not. The first lines of Bo's interview is Crim reading off his NV DL: "Crim: This will be an interview with Mr. John S. Boubede, capital B-o-u-b-e-d-e, this the correct address, John?". So this is the TRUE arrangement of his name (Bo switched it to John S Boubede), but still misspelled!
"7-26-31 1956 did time" Birth date;
"Oakland Co.(Alameda Co.) jail attempt 211 (armed robbery)"
In total, these last two lines state his birth date, AND that he served time in Alameda County Jail (not Oakland- perhaps crime was committed in Oakland, but there is no Oakland County. Oakland is IN Alameda Co.)
This bit is GODDAMNED HUUUUUUUUGE! So let's flesh it out. We know from MILITARY RECORDS that Bo was shipped to do his 1-yr mandatory tour of duty overseas in Feb 56. This meant Japan or Philippines. Bo's family have confirmed to me it was the former. From the BO TIMELINE:
- "570107 Due to be released on 19 Feb 57, Bo is discharged from USAF at Parks AFB, Dublin, CA. Reason listed: "SDN-411 COG upon rtn fr OS para 3k, AFR 39-14". Separation Designation Number 411 means early discharge of overseas returnee, COG= Convenience of Government upon return from overseas. AFR 39-14 means the purpose of the discharge was so he would immediately re-enlist for another specific term of time. This discharge indicates he had been in service a total of 8 yrs 10 mos, with a total of 11 mos spent overseas. He was supposed to complete a full year overseas, but was returned home and discharged, then re-upped.
My best understanding of these regulations is that Bo was sent home from overseas early for some reason (family emergency, health reason, etc) and, because there was too little time left on his enlistment to permanently re-assign him to another duty, they proceeded with the AFR 39-14, honorably discharging him on the premise he will re-enlist within 24 hours."
So, his military records state only that he served overseas, came home early, re-upped in 1957, and then went AWOL.
Yet this note, and other REAL DOCUMENTS, confirm Bo was actually in the Alameda County Jail for attempted armed robbery AT THE SAME TIME the USAF SAYS HE WAS IN JAPAN.
So, after a stint in the county jail while also serving a tour of duty in the USAF, Bo gets released from Alameda Co Jail, is returned from Japan early, and he and his magic twin re-up at Parks AFB in Dublin, CA. Not too surprisingly, there's an Alameda County Jail listed in Dublin, CA, 2 miles SW of the air base.
I think this explains why Bo went AWOL: I bet, as a condition of his release for the armed robbery, he had to re-up. A few days later, he skipped. Came back to the USAF 179 days later to avoid stiff military punishment, and got away with screwing his parole conditions. My bet is he was back in Chicago for those days, and returned to the Bay to turn himself in- just as he lied about his address when entering the AF.
This is NOT the last time US LE have Bo in two places at the same time. Nor is it the only time he was imprisoned at the Alameda Co Jail. He was released from there shortly before the murder of Lyn Mollath, in nearby Piedmont. Bo had ties to the Bay area as early as the 50s. It's where his de facto dad, Jimmy Rini, went to hide when Rini and chief Outfit money man Hyman Larner, were hiding from Robert F Kennedy. San Fran is also where Bo claimed to be living and working as a mechanic when he first joined the Air Force back in Illinois.
Back to Crim's note:
"FBI # 427-855 A" Not sure what it refers to, but it's probably the file number for this next crime. Although I Do have Bo's IBI (Ill Bureau of Inv) ID# as 689061.
"April 59 St. Prison 211" 211, again, is armed robbery. The State Pen is Joliet, as in Jake & Elwood
"Chi PD 26524" Not certain what this refers to. Case # or ID #, most likely.
"may have been deputy Neg Alameda SO" I believe this means Alameda County LE (again who? DOJ? Dog Catcher?) confirmed (negative) that Bo was never a cop when he was 12 years old.
"Nothin in files - soundex" Soundex is a tool LE used to ID people by name pronunciation. From wiki: "Soundex is a phonetic algorithm for indexing names by sound, as pronounced in English. The goal is for homophones to be encoded to the same representation so that they can be matched despite minor differences in spelling."
The way they looked for Bo is screwed. There's about 50 ways to pronounce, spell, or look for his name(s). I still mispronounce Boubede (BOO-buh-day) after years guessing it was boo-BAY-dee. Strike one. They misspelled 'Severin'. Strike two. Bo, by this time, had switched his names around to be John S Boubede. Strike three.
Now, on the surface, this is bad enough. The most important things, on the surface, to me are admissions that he had a doppelganger in jail in Dublin, CA, while he was a USAF truck driver in Japan. And the scratched out date.
According to the SECOND date on this note, Crim wrote it the day AFTER he interviewed Bo and Marty. The trouble is, according to where this particular page is in the intact notebook, this particular note was written PRIOR to the 15th, perhaps even prior to the interviews. The SOLE indicator to me that it may have been written after the interview is the line, "may have been deputy" at age 12. No matter WHERE that stuff comes up chronologically in the notes, it's still a major red flag to stupidity / corruption!
I also have it 'on good authority' that the Crimey & DT camps were exchanging delicate info about the killers VERY early on, and a fix was ongoing.
Sorry, I've been putting this together for two hours straight, and I've run out of steam just as I'm winding up for the final punch. I'm too tired to remember how I was going to tie this all together and put a bow on it. But I've also been promising this for weeks. So I'll publish in it's current form, then edit this post later with an ending commensurate with the impact it all holds. For now, there should be enough here for you to chew on and get pissed off about. One big thing to draw from this is, if this was postdated, the most obvious damage is they INTENTIONALLY let Bo skate, which has always been hypothesized but never 'proved' with a 'smoking gun'. Is this it?