The transcribed pages below start with Penobscot County District Attorney Christopher Almy asking Shuman questions. He asked him "Why did you go to see Mr. Pollard in Massachusetts in 1985?" Shuman said "I was involved in the investigation of the death of Michael Cochran which occurred in 1981 in Dedham, Maine. Mr. Pollard was inside a camp the night it caught fire." Then Billings asked Shuman  "Did you have any understanding with him [Pollard]  about him being free from prosecution in the murder?" and Shuman responsed "I didn't make those indications. "I had to talk with the District Attorney [Almy] before any type of bargain was made." Attorney Billings responsed "Okay" and then asked a different question.  I am either a moron or there is something wrong with a detective talking with a district attorney about a bargain to free someone from prosecution in a murder. Or maybe I am just not understanding how things work with law officials.

March 31, 1981, a small article in the Bangor Daily News reported the assault on Charles Dolan and said Sgt. Ralph Pinkham said the police will continue to assume that robbery was the motive behind the crime.