Part 2 of 9/4/08 interview:
Comments and Questions:
1. R and Daniel leave bar to meet Maria at home, Robin follows. They pile in one car and head to East Fork for Karaoke. Get there around 9:45 - 10:00 p.m. This is first time we hear about "Robin" -- a longtime friend of Maria's. I find it interesting that these people are all "friends" of R. Not that there's anything wrong with that necessarily, but I find it interesting that the entire evening was spent with R's friends, driving to do Karaoke -- something that R wanted to do. It seems that Daniel was along for the ride that night, dropping the cash, with people that he was not particulaly close with. Outside of his being fed up with R, did he even mention liking or trusting any of her friends?
2. ATMs...AFTER their evening, they drive to two ATMs. One wouldn't read the card, so they stopped at another one. This bothers me because one usually gets cash out before they go out, not right before they go home. Unless they needed gas, which R states they just stopped by the lounge to talk to a Tony for 5-10 minutes, then went right home. Unless they needed cash for the morning for some reason, but doesn't offer that. Why was it so important that she take out $60 at midnight?
3. When asked how much money was taken out, R said, "Sixty. That’s what he told me to get out."
When asked did you take it out or did he take it out? R said, "I did that’s what he told me to take out."
R keeps insinuating that it is all at Daniel's direction, yet the whole evening was about her and her friends. Those statements make me uncomfortable.
Also, he's unusually quiet during the ride home per R. She says she assumes he's just had too much to drink. Well then why make three trips on the way home (two ATMs and the lounge to talk to Tony?)
4. After they arrive home and Robin immediately gets in her car and goes home, R states that they were going to watch a movie before going to bed. The subject of checking the bank balance was brought up as something they did "every night and every morning we do that every night and every morning." But when the interviewer asked her who was checking it, she said he was. They just came from an ATM...if BOTH of them were hyper-sensitive about balances, why wouldn't SHE have printed out a receipt? Why would she not have any idea that there was only $42 left in checking?
5. When the interviewer asks if they were planning on making any big purchases, or just paying off bills with the 401K, R said:
"No, not really. Not that I know of. I know that he was replacing this ring cause it was actually his youngest son’s first engagement ring for his girl when he gets older. And um he had always (laughs) told me this ring wasn‘t big enough, 5 karats wasn’t big enough. And I said I don’t care, and I don’t know if he ever purchased one yet or not. I just know there was a big lump of sum of money that was gone. SO I assumed that’s what he did because some of the rings that he was looking at online…" Daniel gave R a 5 karat diamond ring? But he was looking to replace it? Is this the ring she was trying to sell at a bar after his death?
6. Later, the interviewer pins her down and discovers that the missing lump sum of money was in cash, kept in a stein. Interviewer: Ok. So the so the $2000 wasn’t unaccounted for out of your checking account but it was unaccounted for in cash. R agrees. Then my question is, did Daniel check the stein that night, and that's when he contronted her; or did he learn about the missing sum earlier, and the partying and ATM trips and powwows with "friends" outside closed bars tip things over the edge?
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I'm going to stop for now, because I don't want to overwhelm with too many questions, and Donnau's insights on these may very well answer a lot of my future questions as well! Thanks for letter me go on and on and on and on.....
