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0:00thank you
0:01so Wes talk to me about the the things
0:04that stand out in your mind when it
0:05comes to Diane and things like the
0:08gunpowder residue that we were going
0:09over this morning
0:11I'd really like to start well
0:15first win this
0:18first I heard somebody say that I knew
0:22who did it
0:23and they asked me to come
0:26they actually had contacted by him I
0:29went and met with him
0:31and
0:32she gave me the first
0:36affidavit
0:37that Diane didn't treat the children
0:41her son-in-law did
0:45that was that was a start
0:49it's been a long time since then
0:54Russia to
0:57the have been one absolutely other
1:00controlled with it friend Huerta is the
1:02uh the Mother-in-law of James Haynes who
1:06most people that have paid attention to
1:08the story believe he is indeed the
1:09person that pulled the trigger that
1:11night yes
1:12that's right and he died very recently
1:14yes
1:16yes in June but you have several people
1:19that were very close to James Haynes who
1:22have told you they do believe he is
1:24indeed the one matter of fact
1:27Clinton I asked him was his partner
1:31and his partner told me
1:37let's see
1:39but it's it's hard to get anybody to
1:41listen
1:43at least that people who have the power
1:46to do something about it
1:47yeah
1:49just choose to
1:52ignore it
1:54better let us know nothing said that
1:57they don't have to do anything about it
2:00in your mind they knew just what they
2:01were going to do before the trial ever
2:03started that they were going to have
2:05their convictions no questions about it
2:07the question about it and the fact that
2:09Ann Rule who you know is so well known
2:11after writing so many books when she
2:14showed up that obviously uh let people
2:17know that she was believing the police
2:19at that point Andrew yeah
2:22I unbelievable police in Eugene anymore
2:27that's fine someone came from
2:30from some country see I think Diane did
2:33when they don't know anything right
2:36and you were a retired postmaster you
2:39had you had quite a dazzling career with
2:41the Postal Service didn't you yeah
2:44yeah
2:46and you had relocated to Springfield
2:48yourself and that yeah I got a promotion
2:51to just thinking okay yeah
2:55and Diane worked as a postal delivery
2:57worker I think many people don't realize
2:59that that was yes she's she's working in
3:02Eugene
3:03and Eugene is a Twin City to Springfield
3:07right yeah and it was during that time
3:10that she was approached by a man who
3:12described himself as a federal
3:14investigator
3:16named coffin yes right and he asked her
3:20to go into a party one night and
3:22and observe what what she saw yeah and
3:26can you describe what she saw
3:29what she did is she went into a room
3:32where a drug trade or something she'd
3:36been told that you can go every place
3:38any place you want but don't go in this
3:41area here because there's some limits
3:45my my daughter is very strange that was
3:48just
3:50ified at home
3:52but she shouldn't find that she went
3:54into the room and
3:57there we go but they can't get there
4:02and see it
4:04because quite a record super manufacture
4:09chased around them get up it's not your
4:12place
4:15Jay
4:17and that's where we believe she saw Pat
4:20Horton who was a prosecutor for the
4:23state of Oregon out of out of Lane
4:25County right
4:26and this is a prosecutor who
4:30after the case was over went to work for
4:32the basically the same people he had
4:34been convicting or not convicting but
4:37yeah that that's an amazing story
4:40um with James Haynes you have a number
4:42of people that knew him who have who
4:43have said they believe that he is the
4:45killer yeah
4:47so that's friend word to the
4:48Mother-in-law that's his partner uh that
4:52you just mentioned
4:54plate nice and now what happened to him
4:58and when did he die how was it it was in
5:01a motor motorcycle accident
5:03okay
5:05out near his his place in
5:09your country in Tennessee
5:14okay was there anything suspicious about
5:17his death that you know of
5:20I've been told that he
5:23actually he went in the motel to stay in
5:28a motel to recuperate I don't have any
5:31way to prove it oh he survived the
5:32accident
5:33it's Advanced action that is a bad shape
5:39I've been told that the police say that
5:42it felt in the
5:44room and broke his neck
5:48okay I don't know if that's true too
5:52but at any rate he he ceased to exist at
5:55that point I was told by the people what
6:00James 10 came and
6:03didn't matter
6:06they both were they both were karate
6:08Buddies
6:10that's how they met okay and James
6:14Haynes had a nickname of animal
6:17and he
6:18proved it many times right after
6:22um after the shooting and everything
6:23happened
6:24um
6:25I understand he was driving a brand new
6:27vehicle all of a sudden and that lent
6:29it's it's uh or that lent weight to the
6:31theory that he had been given a pretty
6:33big payment to
6:35to commit the act against Diana and your
6:37grandchildren I don't know about that
6:40okay I think that's something that James
6:43and I had run into that he had a some
6:46time type of a brand new red car at any
6:49rate
6:50um after all these years Diane's been
6:53convicted in in prison and it obviously
6:55hasn't been easy but she has stuck to
6:58her uh story this entire time hasn't she
7:01she's never done anything to indicate
7:04that she was involved in that crime no
7:06she hadn't the matter of fact the
7:09governor said uh
7:11two two different times
7:19something I didn't do
7:23this is a rotten prison for the
7:26it's a big statement yeah
7:29yeah it's
7:31I was just somewhere around it
7:34I think anyone who knows the story uh
7:36knows that you've stood by her from from
7:38the beginning of this whole thing and
7:40you're still standing by her today still
7:41hoping
7:43yeah
7:44I do hope so
7:46true it's wrong because there's too many
7:49things
7:49she the tests that they ran on her
7:54ballistic says she had no gunshot
7:59wrestler the runner she had no blood
8:01sweater on her and the case metal was
8:04negative
8:06Express all those and we know for a fact
8:08that she drove to the hospital in a
8:10mighty big hurry she didn't take time
8:13along the way to wash off I don't think
8:15you can wash off those residents well
8:17she was she was actually followed
8:19from the site back there by someone
8:23I don't remember the name now but uh
8:25it's in the record
8:27uh
8:28as you've made a way to town so that
8:31they verified but you came that wrong
8:34right
8:37and she drove straight to the hospital
8:38which is not the act of one who's trying
8:41to take life away you don't you don't
8:43drive him to the hospital as fast well
8:45that's the one that always stood out in
8:46my mind and I know you know I've read
8:49about the trial I wasn't there but my
8:51friend Eric was there and he's gone over
8:52it with me in great detail and
8:54you know he was shaking his head as a as
8:57a young reporter throughout the whole
8:58thing he couldn't believe what he was
9:00seeing also the lawyer Jagger
9:03um seems okay well you just we went over
9:06the uh the one court document that was
9:09the uh the police officer that ran the
9:11forensic test that indicated that she
9:13hadn't used a weapon and he didn't um he
9:16didn't ask any questions in regard to
9:18that did he
9:20was that maybe the best opportunity that
9:22he had I think he had several
9:24opportunities just like that and it just
9:28no no further questions right let's talk
9:31about Oregon for just a moment I've as a
9:33reporter covered many stories about
9:35Oregon's legal system that uh that show
9:38how flawed it can be and how corrupt it
9:40can be
9:41but what do you say to the average
9:43person who's watching this and they're
9:45thinking but this is a court this is a
9:48you know
9:49it is corrupt isn't it I mean it is I
9:52think so
9:54people do things for personal gain yeah
9:56now that's where the grandchildren fall
9:58into this story again with the
9:59prosecutor adopting the grandchildren
10:01have you ever heard of a story like that
10:03no never before
10:06if that wasn't a conflict of interest I
10:08don't honestly know this is Fred huge
10:10yeah
10:12then
10:14Fred Hughes
10:15was a prosecuted
10:18the state awarded him for children
10:23they were we had people all
10:26and several several cities that would
10:30have taken them that were family members
10:32right
10:34we didn't even receive any consideration
10:37how about the testimony of uh
10:40Danny it is Danny right yeah you didn't
10:44uh he didn't test it it didn't have him
10:46testify in court
10:48in the hospital
10:50he asked why that man shot me
10:53those are his words
10:54by that man shot me
10:57completely amazing that that was not
11:00allowed in that would have initially
11:02wrote down in the hospital records
11:05United States and me
11:08they have it from him around here too
11:12and Jagger didn't use these tools so to
11:15speak
11:17I think it's intention for us to get out
11:19of it as easy as it could
11:22and his wife became a judge right after
11:24this
11:25yeah unfortunately yes
11:28and I I advice suspicious
11:31right
11:32organ has a way of awarding people
11:35from a coffin became a judge and
11:42David's wife became the judge yep and
11:45then Horton went on to no longer be a
11:48prosecutor but a representative for the
11:50very
11:50people he had been yeah
11:53well he had
11:54I think he had to leave because I think
11:57the question was on yeah there was
11:59pressure on him over the drugs having
12:01disappeared all independent from
12:03everything else we're talking about yes
12:08what is he practicing today's first you
12:10know still is he is he still an attorney
12:13I don't know I've kind of lost session I
12:16know who he is yeah
12:23so how often do you hear from Diane do
12:25you are you in in contact fairly
12:26regularly I did have
12:29a phone working
12:33she could call home if she wanted she
12:35for some reason she has a blade
12:38and been unable to contact us
12:42by by phone
12:44and it's not it's not money because I
12:47have plenty of money to to
12:50she says that they have a block I can't
12:55you know I've called and they said no
12:57it's a box but she says
12:59telling me it's locked
13:02well she's the one who would know if
13:03it's not working because she's
13:05so we
13:07we write her letters instead yeah
13:10he's waiting every every day
13:13we hope to hear her we even got a
13:17separate telephone we'll try another
13:19phone
13:21so we had two telephones on the house
13:22now so just so you can be sure and get
13:25her calls yeah
13:27wow well you know as I said earlier I
13:30think every parent should be able to
13:32relate to this you know their child uh
13:34is accused of something where it just
13:36doesn't make sense and then put away for
13:38so long what would you say to the Oregon
13:41governor or attorney general if you
13:43could sit down with them right now what
13:45would you say to them
13:46look at the circumstances and look at
13:49the the
13:50what the report was from the court not
13:55what the judge said about the the
13:57investigators found no no
14:01let's find no no
14:03any any sign of
14:06no chase metal no gunshot wrestler no
14:10blood sweater yep and I don't mean to
14:12sound rude but the car was a mess I mean
14:14the headliner of the car was soaked with
14:16blood it looked to me from the photos
14:17that anybody who would have been
14:19anywhere near that shooting would have
14:21had plenty of evidence of it and the
14:22headliner says that Christy was lying
14:25down too because it's
14:28bladder went up
14:30right well as if she had been sitting
14:32behind the seat driver's seat as she
14:35said
14:35had been shot the the subjected
14:39trajectory would have been done with and
14:42the irrelevance spray Olive blood free
14:44all over the sea and it was not
14:48and the prosecution obviously implied
14:50that Diane's gunshot injury was
14:52self-inflicted it was a fairly Serious
14:54injury wasn't it I understand it it
14:56broke the bones not one but both both
14:59bones not a minor injury the media even
15:02refers to it as a minor injury I wonder
15:04how those reporters would feel if they
15:05had a bullet through their arm they
15:07might not refer to it the same way
15:11yeah it's really unfortunate now some of
15:13the newspaper coverage seemed somewhat
15:16Fair of the of the trial does that is
15:18that true
15:20well did the newspaper the Eugene
15:23Register Guard they they covered parts
15:25of the story that that uh
15:28show that maybe they were trying to be
15:30fair do you agree with that no no
15:33did they have different writers working
15:35on it over the years I imagine oh I
15:39I think they perhaps were fairly okay
15:41they reported what what they knew but
15:45I I didn't mean to say it
15:49the writers were doing the best in uh
15:53they had to work with but I don't think
15:56the courts were friends no I don't think
15:58the courts were fair either in looking
15:59back at this but but it is the Register
16:01Guard where we can go read about certain
16:03parts of this case that really make you
16:04shake your head yeah
16:07and Jagger um
16:10the fact that he didn't choose to
16:12challenge any of that material that came
16:14across now you did get him a few years
16:16later to say that 300 and some odd pages
16:18of exculpatory evidence
16:2063 I think it was
16:23that seems like it should bring a trial
16:25all by itself a new trial
16:28right the judges don't think so it's
16:31important no
16:33I guess that would rock their boat those
16:36people they hadn't one of the things
16:38they had in there was that uh an
16:41employee at the west side post office
16:43says he knows where it's shot
16:47person
16:49other kids
16:54they never followed them right
16:57people who are watching this
16:59um if they want to uh if if attorneys
17:01that are watching this have any great
17:03thoughts
17:04um can they email you is that okay sure
17:06okay we'll put your email on the screen
17:08so people can see it there and um
17:11I don't know I get the feeling when I
17:13read over this

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