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COTTAGE AFTER ARSON/MURDER |
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Front View: This
is the scene I saw when Mike's girlfriend (Linda Gray) took us to the murder
scene after the memorial service. She showed us where Mike's
body was found. The state police cleaned up the fire rubble and
trucked it all to the dump. |
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Side View: Insurance
adjuster took this photo on Feb. 18, 1981 while Mike's body
still lay under this pile of fire rubble. He lay in this burned pile of
fire rubble for six days for animals to attack along with
the murderers. His body was buried for 6 days under the rubble
near the round object in the lower left corner in the photo. |
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Back View |
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Back view with gas can: Fire Marshal Ricker
took this photo the day he found
Mike’s body. A gas can that was used in the arson can
be seen under the back door with fire rubble around and on it.
The back door had no stairs and there was 5 feet of cement under
the door.
Paul Pollard, the man seen fleeing the murder scen, testified that he made a couple trips in
and out of the back door while getting dressed. Ricker's expert
opinion was that the building exploded from the
gas fumes. He said it was like someone reached out the back door
and dropped the can on the ground after pouring the gas. Pollard's height
is 5′ 3ʺ; and I would
describe him as being overweight. |
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Small garage firemen saved: Fire Marshal Ricker had just found Mike's body when
he heard an old car coming. He hid behind this little garage and saw
two men, Lionel Cormier and Percy
Sargent, walk toward the murder scene. He waited until they were near the scene before
he stepped in view with his uniform on. He said "they looked like two deer caught under
a jack lantern or something, and they kind of froze there." There was no report on the news
about a body being found until the next day. Neither were ever questioned. |
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Two more gas cans used in the murder of Mike. Mike's name and date of death are
on the tags. Detectives Shuman never picked up the cans from Fire Marshal Wilbur Ricker. I
got them in 1990 during my US Civil lawsuit against Paul Pollard, man seen fleeing the murder
scene with a .357 handgun on him. The cans were in my possession
for 11 years until a new detective came on the case in 2002, 21
years later. |
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