MAR 31, 2021
KGET.com Exclusive: 17s Perla Shaheen answers questions on the Orrin and Orson West investigation | KGET 17
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Q: Have there been attempts to search for evidence at the Casa Loma Apartments?
I went to the Casa Loma apartments, a few days ago and spoke with some of the neighbors there, and they said that they did see Bakersfield Police and California city police officers, searching that apartment complex. At the beginning of the investigation but since then. I’m not sure if they’ve been back to those apartments.
Q: Why haven’t they updated the photos of the boys?
When I spoke to the California City Police Chief John Walker last, He told me that they did go through the adoptive parents phones, and the FBI also went through their phones. And since then, he believes that the adoptive parents got new cell phones. The only thing I know is that there were photos of the children on Jacqueline and Trezell’s phones, but I do not know why BPD or California City Police have not released those photos, I believe it’s the personal property of those parents. And so, investigators are not able to release those to the public. I know that many members of the public have been asking for photos of the boys, I spoke with the biological mother Ryan Dean, and she shared a few photos of them when she had them, and that was when they were, you know, one and two years old, I also spoke with the biological cousin of the two boys Rosanna Wills, and she told me she’s working to get the photos of the boys digitally aged, so that they look more as if they would today.
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Q: What’s taking so long to make an arrest?
Bakersfield Police have made it really clear to the public that this is their top priority right now, and no resource is being spared in searching for these two boys, so I have hope that they’re working on this case, behind the scenes and there is case development they’ve told me there is case development behind the scenes in this investigation, but for now, you know we can’t be certain why they haven’t made an arrest yet. I do know that they’re working. They’re working on it.
Q: Where did the adoptive parents work in the last year?
After some thorough research I found that Trezell was used to work at a company called Summer Breeze Icecream. I tried to look into the business and I couldn’t find much information, but for now, that is the only career that I can find under Trezell West’s name according for Jacqueline West I haven’t found much.
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Q: Who last saw the boys?
California City Police say that the adoptive grandma of the boys was the last person to have seen them. Other than that, I haven’t spoken with anyone who has seen the boys, other than one woman in the Casa Loma apartments who says she last saw them on September 23.
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