This was a letter to Detectives Lingo and Fernandez:

 

Nancy Heusted a WildLife volunteer at XXX or XXX approached me and said she had an encounter with Don just before he left that she thought was important.  Nancy is new here and didn’t even know who Don was when he asked her to do him a big favor.  He told her that he had some very important errands to do and needed her to do tours for him.  She explained that she was new and didn’t know how to do a tour.  He asked if she would sit out front and find volunteers to do tours as they came in.  This is all weird, because Don goes yard sale-ing on Saturdays and never takes any thought as to the operation of the refuge and he certainly never volunteers for doing tours.  She said from there he launched into a woeful account of how he wasn’t important, and that nothing he did matters, no body loves him and on and on, much to her embarrassment.  She felt like whoever this person was, he was destined to commit suicide in the near future and she asked around to find out who he was.  No one relayed this story to me and Nancy left shortly thereafter for an extended trip.  Upon her return this week, she discovered Don’s disappearance and thought that she should tell me about this incident.  She’s three weeks late.  I asked how strongly she felt about this and she said she was a nurse and often deals with people in distress and thinks that if Don isn’t here, it is of his own choosing.  She is willing to speak to the police about it.

 

I still have that bag of evidence from our search at the airport.  I also have copies of a stack of faxes between Don and his Costa Rican Attorney, and some from Vokker.  For what it’s worth two groups of psychics came out and did their best and they concur that Don was kidnapped by smugglers who are flying through Mexico, and they also believe that Don will be returned somewhere just off the Georgia border at a rest stop where free coffee is served.  One group knew Don, the other was here on vacation from Oregon and did not know anything about Don.  They acted independent of each other on separate days.  If you think there is any value to this sort of help, then let me know and I’ll forward their names and numbers. 

 

As for a reward, I agreed not to offer one while you were actively investigating, but I haven’t heard anything in a while.  Let me know when I can make this offer without messing up your search.  My attorney, Debbie Boje in conjunction with Jim Freeman said that the Insurance Company who insured Dod would certainly assist in finding Don.  They have over a million reasons to do so.  Can they contact you for leads, or can you do that? 

 

Don’t kids and I agreed to a Co Conservatorship to protect and maintain the assets while this is being sorted out.  Anne McQueen was originally in agreement but backed out because she thought the girls were being too generous in allowing me to continue supporting the wildlife sanctuary out here.  I don’t understand why Anne would care, since the kids and I agreed that this was Don’s passion and he would want it this way.   An onlooker’s view of Anne’s behavior in court this morning was that she acted like a caged snake, striking out at everyone.  That was Richard Dery XXX or XXX who Anne had subpoenaed to court.  I want to know why she was holding photos that appear good fuel for a blackmail case and how she came to be in possession of them.

 

Anne brought copies of an attempt at getting a restraint order that Don had applied for on 6/12/97.  I had gone down to apply that June while Don was still in Costa Rica, because he had threatened to turn the cats loose upon his return and although I expected him to calm down before returning home, (I had given away some of his precious trash) I wanted to know what had to be done ahead of time.  I was told that unless Don threatened to hurt me, then I could not get a restraining order, so I did not fill out the paperwork.  When Don went to the courthouse on Jun