Expendable For A Cause.

I’m sorry for the lack of communication over the past few weeks. As some of you know, the three of us have been fully dedicated to this project, which led us to take a trip to Los Angeles earlier this month. We’ve just returned and are excited to share our findings with you.
During that time, we scheduled an appointment at the Hall of Records and gained access to the trial records held in the basement.  There are nine volumes, but not all court records are available. In fact, they had forgotten to remove the ones no one is allowed to see, so we had to wait whilst they quickly went through and removed them.  We did ask why and were told they contained “sensitive information”, likely to be personal details of witnesses, images, etc. The files are dated from 1986, covering the preliminary hearings through to the verdict. Anything previous will be in the police archives, one imagines.

We spent one afternoon and one whole day in that basement. Were we well received? No, not exactly. We were viewed with much suspicion and strange glances, but we didn’t let that put us off. 

We managed to go through most of the nine volumes; however, we ran out of time for all, and we have requested copies for those. 
We were given permission to photograph what we wanted, and they also made some hard copies for us, so over the next few days and weeks, we will be putting them all together to share with you what we found.  In honesty, it just underlined that which we already knew, but it has provided us with yet more insight into the failings surrounding the trial and some particularly shady behaviour by Halpin and one letter written by Richard which has not been seen before.

We appreciate your patience as we sort everything out into understandable chunks. We were snapping away with our phones and now must organise a jumble of court documents.
We also want to thank those we met with for coffee during our time in LA. Thanks again for welcoming us and for the conversation and support.  We were so happy to meet you.

Our book is available here..

~Jay~, Venning and Kaycee.