'We decided to take matters into our own hands'

Eureka CA

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In August 2020, our younger brother, John Wesley Childers, was found dead, in mysterious circumstances. John Childers was a beneficiary of the prestigious Salanave-Runyon estate. Thomas Childers is a trustee - but Thomas Childers is also a beneficiary of the trust, as well. When a death occurs it is standard operating procedure to ask whether the death might have been a murder. The Fortuna Police Department violated this protocol and did not interview anyone or investigate anything. We would need to mount a second investigation to determine why we did not mount the first investigation; but there is no rational reason to assume that the second investigation would be any more effective than the first investigation was. Dispensing with official organs of investigation and relying upon our own native capacity for analysis, we applied the 'categorical trinity - means, motive, and opportunity' to the case. We did this because it occurred to us that, with very little effort, a malicious Humboldt County district attorney might suggest that we had killed our own brother. (We knew that Humboldt County's district attorney is capable of malicious behavior, because Humboldt County Child Welfare Services had already tried, unsuccessfully, to kidnap all four of our daughters, without evidence - see JV160250, JV160275, or the letter we wrote to the California Department of Justice, regarding Oracle Corporation, for more information.) But analysis reveals that while we might have had the opportunity... we did not have the means, or any motive. (We take this opportunity to point out that it reflects poorly upon Fortuna's police department that we should have to investigate our own brother's death, and clear ourself as a suspect, well before the agency even realizes that we were a suspect or that a murder might have been committed. We hope some lessons have been learned, by all.) The same trinity that excludes us as a suspect, however, includes Thomas - who, as the person receiving over half of the fabulous Salanave-Runyon trust's output... more money than the other six recipients of Salanave-Runyon trust funds, added together - definitely had motive. Because Thomas Childers was the one person who benefitted most from John's death we conclude that it is not inappropriate to ask if Thomas Childers might have been involved in John Childers' death. (If your older brother who you hadn't seen for ten or twenty years suddenly showed up in tiny little Fortuna, one evening, without any warning... said he was just passing through, wanted to get back in touch, wanted to celebrate your inheritance with you, and offered you a bump of cocaine - that turned out to be fentanyl - and you were a homeless bum who'd just inherited $200,000... wouldn't you say 'yes'? Of course you would - and then, fifteen minutes later, you would no longer be draining the trust of money... and your older brother would be winging his way south, back to the Bay Area, on his BMW motorcycle, while your body cooled, and ants began to explore this huge, abandoned piece of dead meat. It would be that easy.) It would be very interesting if Thomas Childers purchased a life insurance policy for his baby brother, John Wesley Childers, before John died - or anyone else, such as ourselves - seeing as, according to Thomas Childers' blog, we don't even exist. John Childers was living in Fortuna, California, when he died. We were working with John's lawyer from the trust to close John's bank account - the very same account that we had helped John to open, a few years before, so that he could begin to receive his inheritance, and stop being a homeless bum - when Thomas Childers surreptitiously acquired John Childers' banking information from the trust itself, contacted the bank, and, misrepresenting himself as the executor of his youngest brother's estate, stealthily withdrew all of the funds John Childers had on deposit, behind our back. We think that Thomas did this because he was worried that we would use the money to employ legal counsel. Thomas Childers' strategy over the past thirty years has been to systematically sabotage any chance that we might have, in the words of Catherine Austin Fitts, "personal wealth and family support [...] attorneys, food, clothing and shelter" (see XIV. Enforcement Terrorism - 1997, Dillon Read & Co. Inc. And the Aristocracy of Prison Profits, by Catherine Austin Fitts, for the full quote). More info: http://salanave-runyon.org/wanted.html