We were not the only ones suspicious

Hello again everyone.  I apologize again for the extended absence from posting.  Life has been busy, as I’m sure it gets for everyone, and time got away from me.  To all the readers, especially the new ones, thank you for being persistent and asking for more.  We have over seven thousand readers this week and our story is getting out.  My sister has begun her own messaging outlet to bring more attention to our cause and search for the truth.  She is a huge reason for all of you being here following along on the blog.  With that, lets dive into my next chapter.  

I will start by saying that what I will talk about in this post is a little out of the timeline.  I know I mentioned I wanted to keep things in chronological order as they happened, however this post will predominately discuss specific events that took place on the morning of September 14^th, 2020.  There will be a longer post to come next that discusses some major events that took place on September 12^th, 2020.  Those events produced some key evidence that is very disturbing to us and requires a little more time for me to get through writing.  However, I wanted to ensure you all have something fresh and know I’m not done writing.  I hope this isn’t too confusing for anyone so I wanted to ensure I preface the post with that in mind.  

On the morning of September 14^th, 2020 my phone rang with a facebook message from someone I am not friends with.  I recognized the name immediately because I had met the individual at mom’s funeral and knew who she was.  This person was intimately familiar with Chet and had been considered close to him for many years.  It was his boss’s wife from the company that I believe Chet had worked with for nearly, or maybe even more than, 10 years.  I honestly do not remember when he began working with them but it was a long stretch.  They are a wonderful couple.  They reached out to me directly after the funeral and immediately after with such kind words and offered any assistance that we could need. 

On this morning she did not mince words.  She pointedly asked me if we would be willing to provide her and her husband with a copy of the coroner’s report and police report.  She stated, “we were highly concerned about your mother”.  She went on to tell me that they were one of the people that reached out to the Pastor of their church, and his wife, to ask them to have someone check on Julie.  I believe that this is something that began them pushing on Chet even harder to give an actual update on mom not just words.  She also stated, “Chet works for us and we were hearing things that highly concerned us”.  She followed this up by telling me that her husband had saved text messages from Chet that they wanted to cross reference with the police and coroner’s report to ensure they matched up with his story.  This jumped out at me instantly.  Finally, someone else was having the same feelings that we were within the family!  This was well before anything was published on the blog and we had not begun to seriously push our investigative efforts publicly.  

I informed her that I had at this time requested copies of all of the reports as soon as they can be made public.  Looking back at our conversation as I write this, it was on this date that I spoke with the detective assigned to the case.  A case that was listed as an unattended death.  The detective informed me that the case was closed with the police department because the coroner report did not list anything suspicious.  I remember that conversation with the detective.  I tried to inform him that we were finding things that certainly screamed suspicious to us.  Judging from the conversation I was having over Facebook with his boss’s wife, so were they.  

The conversation continued.  As I mentioned this couple was somewhat close to my mother and Chet due to the length of their friendship and working relationship.  She told me that they felt there was no reason for her death, like us.  Everyone who knew Julie knew she would have bouts with random illness but never to this level.  She even said in one message “we feel like it could have been prevented”.  I told her I completely agree and that we are having some very serious concerns but are attempted to sift through what we know vs what we feel to get to the bottom of some of it.  After I sent that message, she responded with the following “I did call and talk to a police officer friend and he said the police report did match the corners report per what Chet told them… but we want to know what Chet told them to see if it matches what we know/what he told us”. 

That really got my mind spinning.  At this point in time, no one other than close friends and family knew of the condition mom was found in.  Not to my knowledge anyways.  I know that their church family and work community is a close bunch so it is possible that someone may have spoken of some of the details.  I was intrigued at their suspicion of Chet though.  Again, this is someone that they had known for so many years.  Chet had worked directly under the owners of this company for years. Day in and day out and even they were suspicious enough to be open with me about it and request the police reports.   

Ok, back to the conversation.  This individual went on to mention that although she was not as close to my mom as others, she knew her well.  She knew that one of the common things Chet would say in the weeks leading up to her death was “oh Julie lost her phone again”.   She then told me that she was informed that Mom’s phone was found in the house, under the sofa. I told her that was accurate and very frustrating to us within the family because it seemed as though Chet did not really search all that hard for it if it was lost.  She stated “it wasn’t even lost he just in my opinion took it from her..” 

At this point in the conversation, I introduced the fact that we have some evidence that Chet was seeing another woman.  I told her that I have extremely credible evidence now that he was, that I confronted him in person and over the phone about this fact, and he continued to deny it.  I told her it even appeared that this relationship was rather serious, to the point where he may have been living with, or at least staying with, the other woman periodically.  I relayed that I was concerned that he was not helping Julie find her phone at all because he was rarely at the house with her.  I also brought this up because Chet claimed that the woman in question was a potential employee of his that he was attempting to train into a sales position for their company (as stated in a previous post). Before I could bring that up in the conversation, she addressed it.  This is another direct quote of her next message, before I brought up the lie Chet told about BN being a potential employee “He even took the girl on a job site & my husband told him that will not happen again.  That’s how we found out.  My son was working & came home & told me”.   I replied by telling her “we had heard that and he explicitly told me that she was an employee that he was trying to get to work for you guys.  He told me this and said she was trying to get a job and turned out to be crazy”.  She reiterated that she firmly believes he was negligent towards mom at a minimum, but believes it could be much more.  She told me “I called the police officer myself about negligence”. 

Her next message read “my husband never hired her and didn’t know anything about it.  My husband would never hire a female to work along side a married man under that circumstance”.  Now I already knew the extent to which Chet was attempting to cover up his affair and alternate life with his mistress.  But this again confirms that many things he has said is a lie confirmed by others.  This is a lie that I have found out even as recently as last month that Chet has one thousand percent stuck to.  He still insistently tells people how his kids blew everything up and are just looking for someone to blame because of a girl he was working with.  I guess he sure remembers his lies even a year later. 

As the title for this blog states, we were not the only ones with pointed suspicions.  The conversation with Chet’s boss’s wife circled back to mom’s phone.  The fact that it was found fully functional in the house.  She said “even if it was lost, who does not replace it when you have a very sick person or wife that you’re leaving at home alone? On other occasions when July was sick he had church members bring her food or sit with her and this time he didn’t”.  All the same questions that we had within the family.  Clearly it was not a money issue.  If Chet can afford to pay an additional rent payment for his second home with BN, he could have ordered her a replacement phone.  Speaking of money…. Buckle up.  

Her next message caught me completely off guard.  “He borrowed $1800.00 from us Monday morning to pay a doctor for a blood test that he was taking her to. The day he found her” “We didn’t get that money back because he said he already gave it to the doctor that morning before he found her”.  I remember being speechless. My initial thought was there is no way in hell that he had any Dr. appointment or blood test booked for mom.  Remember back to the condition her body, her bed and the house were found in.  She had been immobile and incontinent for many days preceding her death.  I will mention also that in the official police report Chet did not mention any of this in his whereabouts during the day of her death or the days prior.  I will cover the police report and coroner report in a separate post in greater detail.  But I will tell you that it state that Chet told the responding officer that he left the home on the date of her discovery early in the morning for breakfast and to run some business errands for work. Now, is it entirely possible a Dr. Office visit was mingled into those “business errands” yes, it certainly is and I have zero tangible proof he did not pay a Dr. that morning.  I incredibly doubt it though.  This is one of the investigations we want to get a private investigator on.  I was unsuccessful in tracking down mom’s official medical records or which hospital she would visit in the Hot Springs Arkansas area.  She frequented a specialist in Little Rock and in Dallas.  I do know that.  Our hope is that we can find proof that there was no such large payment made on her behalf that day.  It will not get us any closer to finding out exactly where the money went.  However, we can eliminate the fact that it went toward her healthcare and we can also chalk up another lie to Chet’s growing list. 

I will stop and say that the following are simply my opinions I have concerning two suspicions pertaining to this money.  After much consideration I do firmly believe that he did not use one penny of that money to ensure mom’s health needs were being met.  It is just too obvious to me that he did not care at all about her or what her needs were during those last months of her life.  First, I believe it is possible he already knew she was dead.  He knew she had passed and therefore knew that he would be in need of a considerable amount of money to pay for funeral costs.  Mom and Chet were never really that good with their money, I cannot remember if I mentioned that already.  So I know that he would not have had any money specifically set aside in savings for any such event.  However, $1800 is a very specific amount of money to request so I go back and forth on this thought.   I felt it worthy to mention because I spent a considerable amount of time thinking about what this money went towards.  Now my second suspicion is the one that I believe is more likely.  Chet’s mistress, BN, has a criminal record in the state of Arkansas.  This is all public record thanks to the Arkansas State Court Connect public search that anyone, at any time can look through.  At the time of mom’s passing (AUG 17^th, 2020) she was still battling some legal issues stemming from earlier that year.  She even had an active Failure to Comply (FTC) Warrant in the state of Arkansas.  She was aware of this and I can only speculate that Chet was also.  On the public record it lists a $3000 bond owed to a bail bonds agency.  There are events listed as late as July 30^th on the court record.  My guess is that Chet was playing sugar daddy and attempting to cover down on BN’s legal trouble and court costs to keep her out of jail.  Again, these are just my opinions based on some facts available about BN and I cannot prove any of this at this time.  

Thank you for sticking around for the next chapter and I hope you all are remaining as intrigued as some have messaged me that they are.  I can promise you that some of the most head turning and truly disgusting details are yet to come.  I also promise to not let it go three to four months between posts.  Thank you all for your continued support during this journey. 

***Final disclaimer for this post*** messages directly quoted within this post are verifiable through fb messages that I have and will retain for proof of accuracy and validity in case anyone attempts to claim anything written within is dishonest on my part.