Linda stated that she went to cottage after work on the 17th. She arrived there between 7:00 and 7:30 PM. She said Percy Sargent and Paul Pollard were there and that Percy Sargent left at about 11:00 PM [for his drug deal) and Pollard was laying on the couch watching television and appeared to be asleep. She said she left about 12:30 (a.m.) and Mike wanted her to stay all night but she said she couldn’t because she had to work the next morning. She said, at that time, Pollard was still on the couch; and Micheal had locked the door when she left. She said that was the last time she had seen Micheal.
“She said she arrived at the camp at about 7:00 on Sunday night and ... Paul Pollard who was in inside the camp, opened the door up. She stated that was the first time she had seen him. ... She also stated that ... she worked Monday [Feb. 16] and arrived back at the camp at about 7:00 PM or so.... Micheal, Percy, Paul Pollard, and another guy she thought to be Lionel Cormier were there.
Again in this statement, Linda was not asked if she had any idea why anyone would want to kill Mike. Why didn’t Maine Assistant AG Tom Goodwin look at Linda’s statements? Linda’s information that Pollard was asleep on the couch when she left the cottage after midnight on the 17th contradicts Assistant AG Goodwin’s story of Pollard not hearing anything because he was asleep in the back room when the fire started and was deaf in one ear. This also contradicts DEA Agents/homicide detectives Pinkham and Shuman’s story that Pollard neither saw nor heard anything.
