I’m writing this from the future on 6/21/2020 because last night Ripper Jack posted a video of Judy Watson, Sherry DeWald and Debbie Sandlin trash talking me.  I did learn that I was wrong on one aspect though and that was the timing of Judy moving onto Easy Street.  I had always thought that she was living here at the time that Don left, but if this is a legitimate document, then it indicates that she applied for the permit to bring her new mobile home here on August 4, 1997 and it wasn’t ready for occupancy until September 18, or maybe not even until September 24, 1997. 

 

After Tiger King I had tried to discern if there could be any validity to claims that her septic tank was open at the time of Don’s disappearance and could find no health department records from that far back.  I knew that Jayla Cougar had been born on 5/6/1997 and Judy was taking her out to schools and civic events to raise money during the time that she was still handleable.  I knew we had built Jayla a cage on the west side of Judy’s trailer and assumed it was built after the trailer was in place, but I’m not sure.  Since Judy and Jayla were here all the time, after Jayla’s birth, I assumed it was because Judy was living here.  In her interview she said she was traveling with Jayla back and forth to Treasure Island.  That’s possible, but I don’t remember Judy having her own Florida Wildlife Commission permits to house a cougar off site and that would have been a risk, if not an outright violation, for us to have allowed her to do that.

 

In fact, when Judy came to work for us, she had just spent the last decade or so working for an animal abuser named Bert Wahl.  He had sent her two favorite cougars to Nature’s Classroom and Judy wanted possession of them.  If she had her own license at the time, I don’t think she would have been asking me to help her get the cats released to my custody.   

 

The notion of Don being in or under the septic tank is still just as ridiculous and just as easily disproven.  Howie suggested that we challenge anyone who wants to make such outlandish claims to put up $100k in escrow against our matching funds.  If Don’s not there we get their $100k.  If Don is there, they get our money.  It would be money well spent, if by some miracle someone managed to kill and bury him there, just to have closure.  I don’t think anyone who claims it, actually believes it.  They just love that the media and the mob runs with the idea of it.