Saw in the Press Telegram's online newspaper that the man that murdered Deanna was sentenced to life in prison. Because he is addicted to a drug and has Attention Deficit Disorder his lawyers are calling for a re-trial saying that statements to the police admitting his guilt should not be used as evidence. Um...
I am not going to look for my blog post where I repeated what I was told by street people~the couple that said they stopped the two men from burning Deanna's body. It was my understanding that her boyfriend was one of the two. The PT account tells a little different story. I wondered if the homeless that claim to have seen them light that fire were called to testify in court?
I study the man's photo reprinted in the paper; Steve something. I try to recall if I knew him from the streets~by sight. Knew a lot of Steve's, Dave's, Al's, Jim's, Joe's, Richards as well as a couple of Deanna's. Although Deanna and I often crossed paths, even at Cesar Chavez Park~she seldom if ever spoke to me. The day we sat on the curb in front of the plants at St. Lukes and chatted was fresh in my mind when I read about her death via the Internet. I had just given up the streets and went to housesit for my 5 grandcats and grandog while my daughter and son-in-law were off to Europe on a business trip/vacation. As mentioned I know more than one Deanna and I thought: I hope it is not her. Well, hope it was not anyone actually, but you can not un-hope the dead. So sad.
It seems to me their were eye-witnesses to the setting fire to her body in a shopping cart. ADD and drug addiction does not excuse the brutal crime.
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