Once the case was ruled "exceptionally cleared,"  Detective Gummert agreed to answer 21 Questions via email. Detective Gummert also met with Dan Hennen around the same time. Later, Catherine Michele spoke with Detective Gummert over the phone.

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In this episode we discuss the Laptop found open on the kitchen island. New podcast episodes every month! You can download The Gray Stage book by Greg Fernandez Jr. for free or order a physical copy at Lulu.com. You can read all of the reports and see the crime scene images at TheGrayStage.wordpress.com.

Notes on the Laptop:

· The laptop was in the opened in sleep mode, plugged in, iTunes playing, not too far from the Bluetooth speaker by the couch, but not close to where the bloody prints were found on the hardwood floor.

· “Love” was written on the back of the laptop. Love is also written in several places in the house.

· “Blood and Partial Fingerprints” are mentioned in reports. Blood prints are also visible next to the laptop on the kitchen island.

· Blood was on the keyboard surface and keys. Which keys had blood and which keys did not?

· The songs playing on the laptop

· The open screens on the laptop

· Typed message “I have loved you all with all of my heart.” This note was not timestamped, according to police reports. A timestamp could have been discovered when the Dakota County Electronics Unit had possession of the laptop. The image is blurry. The typed message was not signed.

· The typed message and the written note in the office bedroom were both used to trick people into believing these were suicide notes, as hinted in early police reports, then echoed by people pushing the official narrative. The trick worked on some people, but for others the effect was temporary.

· To be clear, it cannot be proven who wrote the typed sentence on the laptop. So why was this assumed within 24 hours of finding the bodies? When authorities realized they could not prove David wrote the sentence, what did they do?

· The fact that the Laptop was found in sleep-mode shows anyone could have written the sentence. The laptop was not password protected, similar to the computer in the office bedroom. Yet Komel’s surface pro found in the living room was password-protected.

· There were three areas of blood ridge detail on the Laptop, labeled as A, B, and C.

· Only “A” – a digital latent palm print – was sufficient for latent prints.

· Item 54 is a CD of 25 NEF images of latent prints found on the laptop.

· LP 54-1 was searched for in the MAFIN database, but “no suitable candidate was generated.” Additionally, “no known palm prints for David Timothy Crowley were submitted or found in the BCA files for comparison to LP54-1.”

· Basically, there was no way to prove an palm print found belonged to David.

· Item 23 is blood on the surface of the laptop. The blood was tied to Komel, but not David or Raniya.

· Item 25 is blood on the countertop next to the laptop. The blood was not tested or used for latent print comparison.

· Item 24 is blood on the “A” key. “Have” “All” “All” “Heart”

· Item 24 was swabbed but never tested for results.

· In the end, nothing proves David wrote, “I have loved you all with all of my heart” on the laptop. But who wrote it and who was the message for?

A prequel to the future show about the meaning behind the Quran pages found at the crime scene and the difference between "Allahu Akbar" and "Allah Akbar."

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In this bonus episode, former Police Officer/Private Investigator/Bounty Hunter Stephen Sanzeri joins Catherine Michele, Sophia, and myself for a great discuss about the allegations against David Crowley. Stephen Sanzeri is also the author of the book, Ultimate Prey: The True Story Behind The Yosemite Sightseer Murders. We do hope to have Stephen Sanzeri back for a second show soon!

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What a great show we recorded for The Gray Stage podcast! Dan Hennen and Catherine Michele joined me for a great discussion about the items found/collected in the living room. Specifically, the Koran, the recliner, the blood prints on the floor and the surface pro. I think you’ll enjoy this one.

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On July 11th, 2017, Dan Hennen and I recorded a special broadcast giving our opinions on the first reviews of Erik Nelson’s documentary, A Gray State. Here are my notes associated with those rotten reviews.

FRANK SHECK

Sheck’s rotten review leaves the casual reader with a false impression that there are only two choices; either David killed his family, or the government is responsible for their deaths. Sheck’s review, just like all the others, completely ignores any other possibilities. Do you wonder why?

Overall, I find this review grossly irresponsible.

NICK SCHAGER

The article teases Komel’s complicity in the crimes and dabbles into the theory of a supernatural presence that had been following the Crowleys for over a year. Schager writes that David and Komel embarked “on a joint path of wholesale isolation (from everyone they knew) and [became] convinced they were being persecuted not only by the state, but also by otherworldly forces. Between that sort of lunacy and David’s filmmaking endeavor, which involved staging dog attacks on civilians and point-blank assassinations, it’s no surprise that young Raniya, in a candid video moment, is seen describing her and her parents’ imaginary murders in gruesome terms (“this room is bloody… the red man is going to get you”). It’s a stark illustration of how the mindset adopted by David (and his alt-right brethren) warps and corrupts. And the fact that, as a news reporter points out, Raniya’s morbid fantasy functioning as Shining-esque prophesy only further underlines how dreams of death and destruction often end by coming true.”

Overall, this article fails in its attempt to connect David Crowley to the “alt-right” and to Alex Jones. Still, it does a great job of making baseless allegations.

ANTHONY KAUFMAN

Kaufman ends the review by claiming Erik Nelson’s documentary reveals “the catastrophic ways in which both the government and the alt-right community failed a man and his family, and not in the ways that Alex Jones might think.” I think Kaufman failed his readers and should be ashamed of this foolish piece of writing.

Overall, this review tries to attach David and Komel to a pact-theory, to the alt-right label, to Alex Jones, and to Donald Trump. Try as you might, you have failed.

JASON BAILEY

We are back to the pact-theory, which seems to play a key role at the end of the documentary, A Gray State. Bailey calls the documentary a “sad story of a couple succumbing to despair, and to the same kind of paranoia that infused his work.”

Overall, this review is a harrowing portrait of a writer who needs to do more research before succumbing to assumptions about a case he knows very little about.

CHRIS BARSANTI

Several times in Chris Barsanti’s review, David is connected to the imaginary “alt-right” movement, without proof. But that is to be expected in these five reviews. Barsanti makes it sound as if all conspiracy theorists (whatever that keyword is supposed to mean to him) are not open to the possibility that David committed these crimes. That is simply not true.

Overall, I wonder if Barsanti truly believes David was a “murderous” “alt-right paranoiac” or if he realized an article about when fantasies kill equaled click-bait. Your guess is as good as mine.

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Family friend of the Alam family spends an hour with me discussing this case. Thank you again! I learned a lot of from this interview, and though we may not agree on everything, including the double murder-suicide theory, I was happy to discuss various aspects of this important case.

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The Blood Wall. Who wrote "Allahu Akbar" in Komel's blood on the living room wall? Why would authorities assume David Crowley wrote anything in the house without evidence? Where did that accusation originate from? Dan Hennen and I discuss pages 41 to 43 of The Gray Stage book. 

BCA Crime Scene Team Lead Joe Cooksley noted “No Latent Prints observed on writing in blood on west living room wall.”

Item 11 is a swab of the blood writing on the living room wall. Specifically, this item is the second “A” in ALLAHU. The blood pointed to a single source, matching Komel while excluding David and Raniya. “The writing appeared to be in blood,” Detective Brian Bone wrote in his report, “and written with somebody’s hand and fingers as you can see individual finger marks in the writing.”

Similarly, the “B” in AKBAR was swabbed and labeled as Item 12. However, Item 12 was not tested for a DNA source, which is interesting since Joe Cooksley requested DNA analysis on both Items 11 and 12.

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Kenneth Mains was hired by Dan Hennen to give consultation about the allegations against David Crowley. On May 30th, 2019, Kenneth Mains sent Dan his full report.

“I want to stress,” Mains explained to Dan in the report, “that the conclusion of which I came up with are my opinion. I looked at the documents as an unbiased observer of facts in order to come up with the conclusion.”

Kenneth Mains had one investigative task, “Give my professional opinion as to the cause/manner of death and any additional factors that may have led to the deaths.”

“I’m looking at this case with an unbiased view,” Mains wrote in his report, “as I do all of my cases. My first association with this case came via the police reports and crime scene pictures I received after being retained by the client.”

Mains added if he were the lead investigator he would want to know as much as possible about David and Komel’s “upbringing, religion, schooling, education, family, manner-isms, hobbies, propensities, ect. As a consultant, I am and can only be concerned with the information provided to me. In this case we have three victims.”

When I first read that last sentence, I wondered who was the third victim? Was Mains referring to Paleo? That would make the most sense. Surely, he was not implying that David was a victim too, right?

“It is my opinion,” Mr. Mains concluded, “that the police are correct in their final conclusion of murder/suicide committed by David Crowley. If a cover-up by the police is something that individuals want to point their finger at, I will say this unequivocally did not happen. A conspiracy by that many sworn police officers with nothing to gain is preposterous and did not happen.”

“It is obvious to me, “Mains continued, that David Crowley was diving into a downward spiral of madness. Whether this was from the pressure of having to create the “Gray Space” movie or because of his never-ending quest for exploring his beliefs and passions. I am not a psychologist or psychiatrist and will not venture out of my expertise to try to explain why he did this. That question may not ever be answered.

Mains also described the collection and documentation of evidence as “extremely meticulous and documented very well in my opinion.” (Mains Report – pg.7)

Mains believed funding for David’s project “somewhat faded out. By this I mean there were some investors, friends and associates of David and his project that bowed out or were forced out by David.” (Mains Report – pg.9)

Regarding the blood writing, Mains wrote, “This is done to either stage the scene to look like something it isn’t, because it is the motive for the event or it is for shock value.”

Mains also believed the incident was not planned, “This was an impulse not planned murder.” (Mains Report – pg.12)

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