Here's Part 6 of AL's 7/1/15 interview with Detective Lathrop from LCSO
What I find interesting in this part is that apparently MS had given TS some sort of charm bracelet recently, like not too long before she was murdered. I wonder what it was, what the meaning of the charm was. And very interesting that it went missing on the trip and she never found it (could have been found later, maybe LE has it?)
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(JL): Any plans on what she was planning do you know if she was just planning on going home…
(AL): Absolutely
(JL): You know, cause she had to get up in the morning.
(AL): Yeah. And if she had to go somewhere in addition to – What already sucked for her, is she had to get home on a Sunday night. And Sunday nights, it was like, school night, gotta get prepared, gotta start looking at new patient files, do a little bit of reviewing so you can hit the ground running and that’s my – So, it was already a drag. And she probably wasn’t going to get home I guess until around midnight, uh, so if she had something else she had to do. Like “oh, and then I got, it was like I gotta, plus I gotta stop at the office, I gotta do this” I would have known, would have known.
(JL): Was your sister, was she known to carry any kind of weapons on her, was she like, any…
(AL): No
(JL): Any pepper spray, anything like that
(AL): Uh, I can’t say for sure. Uh, she might have had pepper spray I don’t know.
(JL): No firearms?
(AL): She just got her pistol permit, we both just got our pistol permits. But she – we were going out of state and I – believe me – I wanted to bring my pistol with me. I did, my husband, we were –
(JL): Yeah but you were getting on a plane...
(AL): Well I didn’t have to get on a plane but we were going to upstate New York and that’s where those two guys were just released – escaped – And my husband was like “Oh my God are you serious? Are you serious?” And I’m like “Yeah well it’s not worth the risk, we’ll never get these back again.” She had just gotten her permit, I know, I’m sure Mark told you they had a .45 caliber in a lockbox, um I couldn’t understand, you know, I don’t, you know, I know you’re supposed to – I don’t have my firearm in a lockbox. I’m opening up my night table like this, I’m throwing this over there and it’s in my hand. So I never get, I get it but I don’t think that’s gonna save your life. Mark had daughters, small children. Teresa knew the code. So again, I don’t think she ever got there.
(JL): Do you know if she’s known to carry large sums of money on her, any specific jewelry that she was wearing when she left that she was like fond of or she would have on her?
(AL): Yeah, yeah. She had a gorgeous engagement ring, beautiful big shiny diamond with a plain band, and they were platinum I believe.
(JL): Any bracelets, earrings?
(AL): She had a lot of little bracelets on and she had just said to me before we left, “I can’t find one of my bracelets, I’m so pissed.” You know how little girls wear like – I was about to break her stones about why she was being so trendy – they wear like all the stupid bracelets on their arm – Alex and Andy, and it’s like really? So she had something similar but I don’t think they were Alex and Andy. And she was like “oh I can’t find – Mark just got me this one
(JL): So they were more like the colored ones that you get, that go with what you’re wearing
(AL): They were like a silver and they clip and then they have like a little medallion of some sort on them. Something to that effect but I don’t believe they were Alex and Andy brand simply cause my sister was not – we were not slaves to that crap. But she said “Oh Mark just gave me one.” And I can’t remember what she said the symbol was on it, and she goes “I don’t want to lose that,” and she was looking around and I said “well, maybe we’ll be able to call the cleaning people and they’ll find it.” So I know she had that on and she had on diamond stud earrings.
(JL): And I saw in the picture, I believe she had a necklace on?
(AL): *Looking through cell phone* I’m hoping that uh, it wasn’t the one my father gave us, gave her. Uh I guess she put on another pair of earrings too. So she had on her diamond studs in the back *showing phone to JL* And then she had those on in the front
(JL): OK. So more like loops, so they kind of like, more hang down on the front
(AL): Hang down and then there’s some sort, something over here.
(JL): OK. And then the necklace? Is she wearing a necklace?
(AL): I, yeah, I don’t recall, it must be something I’ve not seen
(JL): Yeah (inaudible) and did you know was she known to carry large sums of money with her or anything like that, or?
(AL): She might have, she was on vacation
(JL): Do you know about, uh, did she have any other patients or anybody that would help out that she – had recently like come by and asked for money or
(AL): No
(JL): Came to the house at odd hours, you know, anything that was alarming to her?
(AL): No
(JL): Anything going on in the neighborhood, with any suspicious people in the neighborhood, any problems with the neighbors where she would say “hey this guy’s nuts” or this guy did this, or you know, you know how people
(AL): I do recall her saying once I mean the people, so if your back is to Teresa’s house – I can’t remember which neighbor, I think this is where the, I can’t remember which side, but I want to say she said something about there was once a bullet that was fired through the fence and she was like “these ****ing people are nuts around here,” you know what I mean?
(JL): I think I saw a report the bullet went through the fence and hit the hot tub or something
(AL): Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s what happened. So that’s the only thing, and they played really loud music sometimes, and you know, I don’t think they were real respectful of what you do at ten o’clock at night, or what you do or don’t do at ten o’clock at night.
(JL): Any arguments with any of the neighbors, neighborhood kids, parents, anything like that?
(AL): No, in fact like last year or the year before, we were there for the Fourth of July and some of the parents actually came out, cause Mark had fireworks, and you know the little kids wanted to watch them. And they were actually in my sister’s driveway and I was like “Look at you, Ms. Soccer Mom” cause we’re not like that. And she was like “Yeah, that’s this lady.” So my sister was not out there like, with the girls. She was kind of, we were kind of like, “oh, good, looks like everybody’s occupied here, let’s go out in the back and sit” because we wanted, we wanted to be together and talk. I didn’t want to talk to any of her neighbors and neither did she. Whereas, you know, if they were close, it would have been like “Oh, this is Mary I was telling you about, Mary come back…” And my sister would be like even if she did like them, my sister is here, all bets are off, we’re gonna go catch up. So. That’s the most amount of information, uh, that’s the most amount of information that I knew about her neighbors.
