Post by Deleted on May 5, 2017 3:44:52 GMT
Ventura County Star, October 3, 2000
"Gossip spread quickly about who might have done it. Everyone figured the killer
knew the couple including Hal Barker.
"I had the suspicion it was somebody who knew him and somebody who hated
him" said Barker a former Santa Paula cop and one of Smith's best friends. He is
now El Dorado County sheriff.
Barker and Smith became friends through law enforcement. Barker would arrest
the bad guys and Smith who first worked as a Ventura County prosecutor would
get them convicted. Their children played together and their wives were friends.
They served as back-to-back presidents of the Santa Paula Rotary Club.
When Smith became a defense lawyer he actually questioned Barker a few times
on the witness stand.
Smith turned to the livestock business in 1977. He and two other men started
Maverick International Inc. a cargo airline that sent Holstein heifers calves
Brahma bulls and horses to the Middle East and Iran. "The world's greatest
bullshippers" was printed acrosmurder-in-ventura-california.
(Open then click on the first link it takes you to the above article in its entirety)
www.docscrewbanks.com/pdf/murder-in-ventura-california
From this excerpt alone, I don't have any trouble believing the DNA could possibly be tainted even planted. Growing up in So Cal, I know for a fact this happens a lot.
But what really makes it interesting is the rape by EAR in September 77 & the child's description of the Bull tattoo on EAR's forearm.
" During the rape, the daughter had awakened and walked into the hallway. There she had seen the assailant standing. He told her that he was playing tricks on her mother and that she was to go to bed. The daughter was placed under hypnosis. She described the assailant. She also recalled having seen a tattoo on his right arm. It was later determined to be a bull, perhaps even the Schlitz Bull."
Maybe EAR worked for or was an associate of Lyman Smith or one of his partners. Not too far fetched.
"Gossip spread quickly about who might have done it. Everyone figured the killer
knew the couple including Hal Barker.
"I had the suspicion it was somebody who knew him and somebody who hated
him" said Barker a former Santa Paula cop and one of Smith's best friends. He is
now El Dorado County sheriff.
Barker and Smith became friends through law enforcement. Barker would arrest
the bad guys and Smith who first worked as a Ventura County prosecutor would
get them convicted. Their children played together and their wives were friends.
They served as back-to-back presidents of the Santa Paula Rotary Club.
When Smith became a defense lawyer he actually questioned Barker a few times
on the witness stand.
Smith turned to the livestock business in 1977. He and two other men started
Maverick International Inc. a cargo airline that sent Holstein heifers calves
Brahma bulls and horses to the Middle East and Iran. "The world's greatest
bullshippers" was printed acrosmurder-in-ventura-california.
(Open then click on the first link it takes you to the above article in its entirety)
www.docscrewbanks.com/pdf/murder-in-ventura-california
From this excerpt alone, I don't have any trouble believing the DNA could possibly be tainted even planted. Growing up in So Cal, I know for a fact this happens a lot.
But what really makes it interesting is the rape by EAR in September 77 & the child's description of the Bull tattoo on EAR's forearm.
" During the rape, the daughter had awakened and walked into the hallway. There she had seen the assailant standing. He told her that he was playing tricks on her mother and that she was to go to bed. The daughter was placed under hypnosis. She described the assailant. She also recalled having seen a tattoo on his right arm. It was later determined to be a bull, perhaps even the Schlitz Bull."
Maybe EAR worked for or was an associate of Lyman Smith or one of his partners. Not too far fetched.