Is Thomas Childers An Accessory To Murder? Part 2.

San Francisco CA

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USPS Certified Mail Receipt # 7018 0680 0000 3326 8215 Detective Vincent Ingrassia 300 Congress St Bridgeport CT 06604 Detective Ingrassia, I am writing regarding an investigation you were involved in, on 30 September, 2000. The case is OOD-01299, a ‘sudden death’ case at 112 Washington Terrace, involving one Mary Horvath, who was my grandmother. Through a FOI request to the Bridgeport City Attorney I was provided with a copy of a single page form, titled ‘DEATH INVESTIGATIONS’. I am informed that this single page is – with one exception – the sum of the material available. But the ‘MISCELLANEOUS NOTES & REMARKS’ section, at the bottom, says, “Refer incident report and case jacket for details’. Do you know where the incident report and the case jacket might be? If you do not know where these details might be, do you know whom I might speak to, who WOULD know where the incident report, and case jacket, might be? I believe that the basis for my interest is of official interest to you and your agency. I was the first person contacted by BPD personnel on scene when they entered the building – I was told, at the time, because my name and phone number were prominently posted on my grandmother’s bulletin board. During that conversation the officer mentioned an open safe in the kitchen. Based upon that conversation, when I (accompanied by my mother) entered 112 Washington Terrace, some 72 hours later, I was equipped with a camera with which to record what I saw. Indeed, the very first photograph I took, was of the kitchen, and the open safe – which safe I had not previously been aware of the existence of, despite having been in the house only six weeks before, and many times before that. (I included this photograph in my FOI request to the City Attorney. The photograph was incorporated into the official record, and returned to me, as the OTHER element which is now officially available.) I had been a frequent visitor to my grandparents’ house. This last visit had been different. I had been with my mother, who had not been a willing companion. During that last visit, I had overheard an argument between my mother and my grandmother, over my grandmother’s will. This argument is detailed elsewhere. Suffice it to say that I now think that my mother burgled her mother’s safe, and stole her mother’s last will and testament, so as to insure that she would be the sole inheritor of her mother’s estate. Six weeks later, my grandmother discovered the theft; tore her house apart, looking for the stolen will; and died, of shock. If I am correct, then this should be a murder investigation; verging on manslaughter, except for that element of planning in the crime. And so I have the following questions for you (and your department): 1) Did you or any other officer, to your knowledge, interview my mother, Penny Salanave, regarding her mother’s death, in the days, weeks, or months, following Mary Horvath’s death? 2) If you did interview her, did she disclose, to you, that she had been in the house, six weeks earlier? I ask this because no one ever interviewed me; and I had been there, visiting my grandparents, with my mother, just six weeks before, as well. Now I wonder: did my mother conceal our visit from the police? That would suggest guilt, to me. The answers to these questions lie in your own personal notes. And so I add this third question: 3) May I have copies of the page(s) from your notebook for 30 September 2000 which relate to case OOD-01299, as well as any other pages that contain related information? For your information, my mother died in October, 2015. However, she caused a lot of damage in her last years. I am trying to discover the extent of the damage that she caused. Any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated. You're probably wondering: what kind of detective finds a dead body and an empty safe and doesn't SAY ANYTHING about it in his report? But it's probably best to suspend conclusions until those missing pages are located. You're probably wondering what kind of a conservator would turn their back on events like these. You'd need to talk to Thomas Childers in order to get an explanation for Tom's shocking indifference to his own grandmother's death and his own mother's role in the death of Tom's grandmother. And Tom's not answering questions. Did Penny Salanave's success at stealing from her dying mother, Mary Horvath, inspire Tom Childers to marry a dying woman and do something similar? Two words: 'Nancy Jones'. I remember, one day - maybe around 1976 - when Tom had just returned from his classes, at Lowell High School, he announced that he had just learned of a perfect way to commit murder. Tom said he had learned, in chemistry class, about a chemical that absorbed all the oxygen in the atmosphere - and all he could think of, apparently, was how to use this to kill someone. I don't mind saying that this stuck in my mind and I made a note to never let my older brother lock me in a room with any unidentified chemicals. So when I learn that my brother's brand new wife died... right about the same time that Tom was deeply involved in secretive, stealthy, Game-of-Thrones-like maneuvers to evict, and disinherit, his own family members... I cannot help but wonder, if there was MORE foul play. To be fair, I heard that Nancy Jones had been diagnosed with leukemia. But that makes it a lot easier to explain her death, too, doesn't it. Why, the coroner might not even bother looking for anomalies. It wouldn't be the first time. (For a fascinating case of official coroner misconduct, concealing the beating death of a homeless man from public knowledge by misdiagnosing it as an LSD overdose, please see http://www.google.com/search?q=eureka+martin+cotton+lsd - but let us not get distracted from the main focus of this article - which is misconduct on the part of a conservator and the implications such misconduct may hold for other circumstances that may be of interest to the authorities.) Was Tom growing marijuana, for instance? Did Tom have CO2 tanks in his house? Hmmm? Are there any indications that Ms Jones' room might have been flooded with carbon dioxide while she was sleeping, for instance? Any purchases of dry ice? At one point Tom created a website (www.childersjones.com, if I recall correctly) showcasing a cabin that he and Nancy Jones now owned together - on a small island, in the middle of a small lake, in Maryland, I think, or maybe just across the border, in Canada. Nice, eh? Knowing how such things come into existence, I suspected that maybe Nancy Jones had a family, and that maybe she didn't own that cabin quite the way Tom might have thought she owned the cabin. And so I wondered, when I heard that Nancy Jones had passed away, whether Tom had tried to claim that island, and that cabin, as his... and what had happened, as a result. I wonder - were there any irregularities with the will, after her death, where Tom was unexpectedly provided, by Nancy Jones' will, with more than one might expect? Inquiring minds would like to know. I would not put it past Thomas to do such a thing, if a large amount of money was involved. Tom has betrayed my trust so many times I've lost count. I stopped trusting in Tom Childers to do the RIGHT thing a long time ago. Tom Childers cannot be relied upon to do the right thing. In fact, he can almost be relied upon to do the WRONG thing. Now, I'm starting to think that he can be trusted... but, trusted to do the WRONG thing... not the RIGHT thing. It's entirely possible that others came to that conclusion about Tom long before I did and that Tom has been involved in some dirty dealings over the past decade or two; just sayin'. But even if I am a day late, and a dollar short, I am, unlike Tom Childers, not the sort of person to turn my back and say, "Not my problem." Which brings us to the present; the here-and-now. This article you're reading. It doesn't seem so far-fetched any more, does it? Tom would demand the benefit of the doubt. But he has withheld that very benefit from his own family members, consistently, over a period of decades. Time's up! No more benefit of the doubt for Tom. He took it all, and there's nothing left. Wake up, America... you're sleeping. And I haven't even BEGUN discussing the house in Mill Creek. That's in Part 3.