I am continuing to trudge through the transcript...
- Re the snowmobile incident, KH was convicted on two counts of unlawful contact and was sentenced to four years probation and had to register as a SO. He instead chose to serve almost 9 months in prison rather than do probation and pay court costs (p.87). How bizarre -- probation seems like a gift and he was married at the time so why opt to be locked up? I wonder if Dia Googled him after "meeting" him online... a simple search of his name + Colorado returns articles about the incident. Yikes.
UPDATED: Colo. Guide in Hot Water Again
- KH claims for the first year, he believed Dia was alive and in a position to contact him. Seriously?? "
I always believed that Dia was not dead, that she would contact us. After a year and there had been no contact, then we went with the other route of trying to find out where -- first of all, if she was alive, where she was; second of all, if she was dead, who was involved and to what extent and how we could find her body." (p.90)
- KH says virtually all of Dia's guns have gone missing with the exception of the .38 found by DF which KH now has. He believes Dia's son took her AK-47 and revolver when he came to help search. Dia's other guns (shotgun, hunting rifles, .44) which were in the gun safe two weeks before she disappeared are unaccounted for. KH says it's possible Dia pawned them "prior to her departure". (p.104-106)
- After the initial searches (KH thinks there were four days of searches - Sunday to Wednesday - then a couple days of the scene being secured), Dia's son was given the keys to the property (by LE?). This coincided with KH's planned trip to Arizona to purportedly deal with some tax issues that had come up re a property he had there. He said he planned on only doing a day trip to AZ but was told by DF that the ranch was being closed down and no one would be allowed on it (per Sheriff's Office) so he instead went to New Mexico for 7 days. He went back to the ranch when he heard Dia's children were given control of it. (p.107-109)
- KH was asked if he knew anything about a window cleaner Dia was trying to hire around the time of her disappearance but he didn't (p.110). Is this the first we've heard about this? Would love to know where they were going with this.
- KH has only been questioned once by LE. They took his phone (never returned) and searched his motorhome, his storage business in NM and his residence in CO, taking surveillance cameras. KH says they didn't find anything. (p. 110-112) Didn't they take a piece of his seat? And I'm remembering something about blood.
- Dia's purse, with her wallet inside, was left in the kitchen (p.115)
- KH tries to throw IG under the bus, saying he showed up to the search intoxicated and never actually searched for Dia, and shortly thereafter got a new truck, implying he was paid off in connection with her disappearance. (p.117)
- "Three weeks before she started to disappear" (interesting phrasing) Dia started leaving signed notes, after KH and Julia asked her to, saying that her life was being threatened. (p.118-119) Poor Dia, her life was in danger but perhaps not from who she thought or was led to believe was the threat.
- Dia and KH had a joint bank account and safety deposit box (containing jewelry and cash) at Chase in Palm Desert. (p.120-121) Legally, is he entitled to keep all those assets?
- KH supposedly hired a private investigator shortly after Dia disappeared and was told that a firefighter walking his dog on "Saunders Meadow" on Sunday after she disappeared may have seen Dia and he had photographed a suspicious van which was linked to a mother and daughter from Laguna Beach but the mother was around Dia's age and originally from La Jolla. When questioned by the PI, they said Dia looked familiar and they may have seen her on the trail or in Idyllwild. (p.124-125)
Harper, 72, remains “a person of interest in Dia’s disappearance,” according to a mediation brief filed in July by the missing woman’s children.
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