She showed me that. And she had it written on the back like I had it on the back of that, you have my drawing, where I said note, and all that. That’s what she said.
Q: She let you keep that, she gave it to you?
A: Yeah, she said you look at it and you throw it away. I never did. I went and took it back and put it in my personal file.
Q: Which subsequently got tossed, apparently.
A: Well, the funeral home, I hired some guys, the manager up there now [was there] before I left, and Raymond said that he doesn’t know, because when he was working up there was another manager, and he said he thought Joe [Lucas] told (inaudible). Of course Joe and I weren’t very good friends and we’d had some problems over the funeral business, and he said Joe found my files. He said I know he went through everything you had.
He and I had a partnership in a business, and I put up all the money and it went sour and so we had problems.
Q: You and Stan Friedman actually made an effort to try and find that, didn’t you?
A: We went down there. The old file was right where I said it was, it was still there. But it was, Stan will tell you, we went down in this old basement, and I knew exactly... See, I kept files on every case that I was involved in, murders, anything that I went to court on, that I was a witness on, I kept all that. I called those my personal files. If I ever had to go back with the insurance companies or anything, I had it all right there. That’s why I had those.
Q: You found the filing cabinet but there was nothing in it?
A: No. We went through it. There wasn’t a thing in it. Stan and I both.
Q: They’d stripped it out, or was there other stuff in there...
Q: After all of that excitement, then what? Did it just kind of evaporate?
A: It just kind of evaporated. Then of course two or three days later, I was concerned about her because she was sick. I took her back to the nurse’s quarters and let her out. I called back the next day and they said she wasn’t on duty, and I called the next day and they said she wasn’t on duty. Then I went out there, for some reason, I don’t recall. I went out there and I asked about the lieutenant, and they said she’d been transferred out. They said, “She was transferred out yesterday.” Well, that was the day after I saw her. They got her out the next day.