Reading all the Paperwork

We have an appointment with the PCSO for September 2 in the afternoon. That morning I decide to organize and read all the paperwork I accumulated the day of the shooting. I get a three-ring binder, some pocket tabs, and dividers to put all my papers in one spot. I had medical papers, lists of confiscated property, and receipts for the money it was costing me to be out of my house. I also had that mystery paper Slammin Sammy shoved into my chest. It was a very bad copy of a request for a search warrant on my house at 800. There were only two pages even though the paper itself said that there were attachments. The first page of the request for search warrant is crooked and has the bottom of the page cut off. At least one paragraph describing what to search for has been cut off. There are plenty of errors in the part of the form that is readable. The front door of the house faces east and not west is just one example.

Recovering Property from House at 800

September 2 is the day of Arlen’s funeral so Sheriff Fowler thinks it is a good idea to let us get more of our property when the Salters would be gone. We leave the station and meet with more deputies at Ulisi before we go to the house. The deputy assigned to guard Irene and I takes his job very seriously. He is dressed in a bulletproof vest, full uniform, and has a rifle. He will not let us out of the van until he has cleared the area. He goes up the stairs first and then waves us up when it is safe. He stood vigilant on the front porch while Irene and I packed what we could in about an hour’s time. True to form, one of the Salter girls drove in to spy on us. She got so flustered by all the cops, she almost ran off the road madly telephoning for instructions. She was comical in her frustration.

Finding the Rifle Barrel

A few days earlier Bilbay is accusing me of hiding the rifle barrel that shot Robert. While Irene and I pack, Robert finds the missing rifle barrel. Robert, Bilbay and Attorney Kim are at the tractor and road grader. Bilbay has a digital camera and is photographing every inch of the tractor. Bilbay has his cowboy booted foot resting on the road grader while he takes dozens of pictures. Bilbay’s booted foot is what causes Robert to find the rifle barrel. Robert notices that Bilbay has his foot on the rifle barrel. Bilbay has just taken dozens of pictures of the rifle barrel with his fat booted foot right on top of it. All in unison now, “If it had been a snake, it would have bit him!!!” The antics of the Keystone cops never made me laugh any harder. I told that jerk all I did was flee for my life and get my husband to a hospital trauma center. But, Bilbay had a theory. The PCSO spent at least three days in earnest search for the rifle barrel that shot Robert and it was right there under their noses in plain sight the entire time. Great detective work fellows! Instead of jumping to wild conclusions and trying to prove them, how about letting the truth and the evidence lead you to the conclusion? That is asking too much of the PCSO. They don’t investigate.

Getting my Phones Back

Attorney Kim requests that the PCSO return my phones to me as we get back to the station. Bilbay and Slammin Sammy don’t want me to have them until they go through them and get all of our text messages. Robert and I don’t know how to text, so there is no text messages on either phone. That fact really upset Slammin Sammy for some reason. Bilbay was writing down a list of all the voice mail messages on my phone. Slammin Sammy leaned over and asked Bilbay what some of those messages were because he recognized the phone numbers as belong to the PCSO. There were three voice mail messages on my phone from Bilbay. Yes, I said that correctly. Bilbay left me three progressively angry voice mail messages on my phone while he had it in his custody room. He was mad at me for not returning his phone calls, yet he had my phone! Without a doubt Bilbay wrote me up for being uncooperative to make me look bad. Let’s tell the truth. He had my phone! In my phone was stored the last photographs of the meth lab trash and the litter the PCSO left behind. I posted some of those photos earlier. I asked Bilbay and Slammin Sammy if they wanted to make a copy of those photos as evidence. Are you ready for their answer? Are you sure you can take it? Obviously, they refused to look at the crime scene pictures in my camera let alone take copies as evidence. They don’t investigate.