I have one more, if you don't mind... do you know if neighbor SB was/is a SAHMom like DB or if she works? Were only the women friends?
P.S. I will also ask Ron too.
Mostly a stay at home mom, but I believe she had a sort of maid service.
I pulled out my Baby Lisa notebook so I have it in front of me. I'll just get all of the info on James Brando out here so everyone has it. This is per my conversations with James.
Timeline:
Oct. 3-- Midday James and Samantha have an appointment with their marriage counselor and they decide to separate beginning that night. James does not want to but Samantha does. They run some errands--James takes their daughter to the blockbuster video store to rent movies, Samantha goes to Target. The Target and Blockbuster are in the same shopping center as the Festival Foods where Deborah bought wine that evening. James and daughter are home for a while...
4:45pm Samantha comes home. It's awkward and James doesn't know where he is going to go for the first night of their separation.
5:00p--James leaves and drives around for a bit.
5:15p --James goes to his high school friend's house. I'm omitting his name just because I don't see a reason for it to be out there. They watch the Texas vs. Tampa Bay baseball game. I asked if they were drinking and he says no.
Time unknown, 8th inning. Friend and James First they swings by friends brothers for 2 minutes, then they go to the Wal-Mart at 72nd and Antioch to buy toothbrush, razor and stuff for lunch the next day. They then go to friends mom house for about 10 minutes. All these locations are close to each other.
They return to the friends house and watch Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Breaking Bad on Netflix.
10:33 Texts Samantha to say good night
10:54 Samantha texts him back and says good night. When i asked him he showed me the texts on his phone.
11:30pm- James goes to bed on the friends couch.
4:15 am October 4-James wakes up
5:05 Leaves for work at the Rosecrans Air National Guard Base in St. Josephs +/- 1 hour away.
5:55 am Arrives at base, starts to take a snooze in his car before having to begin work at 6:30am.
5:59 Samantha calls him and tells him about Lisa. Samantha tells him that at 4pm Jeremy came banging on the door looking to see if Lisa was there. He debates going home but they need him on base and Samantha says there is not much he can do so he stays and works his shift.
3:00p His shift is over, he comes home to news crews, cops etc.
OK, so that is the timeline that night.
Other bits of Info
-James says he was polygraphed by the FBI and they told him he didn't have any issues.
-James says his house was searched day one.
-Says that LE used swatches of material and rubbed them on Samantha's skin to be used in canine searches.
Re: James, KCPD told me that "we have spoken to him, he was cooperative, we've moved on"
James says he thinks he was the focus of the investigation early on and that he thought LE thought he did it. He says LE aggressively checked out his alibi ( if that is a correct word here) going to the friends house, the wal-mart, looking at surveillance tape etc. KCPD wouldn't give me details about this but given that they said "they have moved on" I think it's fair to infer that there was no major issues with his story during the time frame laid out above.
We also spoke about other, more personal, things that I am not going to discuss because that is the agreement I have with James. So, don't be surprised if i don't respond to questions on other topics.
And finally I will add that James wasn't exactly eager to talk to me on the record and it took lots of time to bring him around, but once we started speaking he answered everything I asked him and everything I was able to check out was as he said. We continue to be in touch and he has remained open with me.
