Poking a Dung Pile

Here's my theory on what happened in the early morning of August 16, 1985. At around 2200, a small group of folks (including Dan Adams, Robbie Van Heest, Chris Campbell, Paul Harter, Mary, Greg, and Ralph Thomas) gathered at Jim Prew's van, where they hung out for a couple of hours. Prew testified that, some time between 0100 and 0130, he left Rainbow Village with Thomas, Mary, Harter, and Campbell to get some more beer and burritos and to drop off Chris.   Greg didn't go along. As they returned, they saw Greg on University Avenue and stopped to give him a ride back to the Village.  Shortly after they returned to the Village (approximately 0200), Greg and Mary left the group to take a walk, and Thomas followed them. It's likely that the three walked from the Village toward the dump entrance, and on the way, they had to pass Vivian Cercy's vehicle. As they walked, Thomas decided to scare Cercy, who was spending the night in the car with her two young daughters. Cercy...

I recently traveled to the Bay Area for a conference, but I did not to go Cesar Chavez Park, even though I'd intended to go. I had the time and the means to get there, but I chose not to go because I listened to two episodes of Season Four of  Up and Vanished (" In the Midnight Sun") and this left me dispirited. I wanted to see if Payne Lindsey had done as shoddy a job of 'investigating' a new story as he'd done during his 'investigation' of the murders of Greg and Mary. Sadly, dumbass continues. (Listen for yourself. Here's a link to an Episode 1 update .) Lindsey doesn't podcast to help others get closer to the truth. Nope. He podcasts to feed his ego. So I sat in a hotel room very early on a Saturday morning, listening to the nonsense while I tried to figure out how long it would take me to take the BART over to Berkeley and then to walk to the park. I thought about using ride-share to get there more quickly. And as I sat there listening to ...