30 July 2019
USPS Certified Mail # 7018 0680 0000 3325 7868
Raymond Heche
4920 Main Street, #307
Bridgeport CT 06606
Mr Heche,
I am writing regarding the estate of Mary Horvath - who was my grandmother, and whose estate you handled, in 2001.
I am investigating the burglary of my grandmother's safe and the theft of her personal papers - the discovery of which theft led directly to my grandmother's untimely death.
When I received the call from Bridgeport Police Department informing me of my grandmother's death, the officer informed me there was an empty safe in the kitchen. When I entered 112 Washington Terrace, 72 hours later, I was equipped with a camera. With this camera, I captured the state of the house at the time that I entered - including a photograph of the empty safe, in the kitchen.
It is my analysis that my grandmother's death was a species of murder, insofar as my grandmother's death occurred as the direct result of a felony inflicted upon her, within her own home - specifically, the surreptitious emptying of her safe, the theft of her will and everything else that was stored in the safe.
I have communicated with the Bridgeport Police Department, and the Bridgeport City Attorney's Office, on this matter. It came as a surprise to learn that the case file for my grandmother's death was empty except for a single sheet of paper tersely attesting to her death. No notes, no photographs.
I have provided the Bridgeport City Attorney's Office with a copy of the photograph of the empty safe and so the empty safe is now again a matter of record.
And so I have two questions for you, Mr Heche.
1. What were the contents of the case file for Mary Horvath's death at the time that you accepted and reviewed the case, in 2001? Do your notes or recollections support a narrative whereby everything but a single sheet of paper was absent?
2. Do you have any receipts or other documents in your possession which would tend to support a narrative whereby either you, or the executor of the estate, were required to replace a missing deed for 112 Washington Terrace? That is, is there ANY evidence that the deed was ever replaced?
If there are no records affirming the replacement of the missing deed then it is my analysis that the executor - Penny Salanave, my mother - may have already been in possession of the deed; which would suggest that she was also in possession of the will; and, which would suggest that she was the person whom burgled my grandmother's safe, in August, 2000, just six weeks before my grandmother's death.
At this point I must point out that the missing investigative materials from the case file for my grandmother's death would be very useful, as they would indicate whether my mother had informed theBridgeport Police Department that she had been in the house just six weeks before the theft was discovered ... or, alternatively, if she had neglected to provide this information to BPD investigators.
It is a fact that the Bridgeport PD did not interview ME ... and I was ALSO in the house, six weeks before the theft was discovered.
(I have expanded upon this further in a previous letter to the Bridgeport Police Department, where I also describe an argument between my grandmother and my mother, over the will, and my mother's subsequent request for me to distract my grandmother for fifteen minutes, upstairs.)
I now have two more questions for you, Mr Heche.
3. If the case file on Mary Horvath's death was surreptitiously emptied, whom would have done such a thing? That is, who would have had the means ... the motive ... and the opportunity? Any suggestions?
4. Although the executor pays the bills, which of these two individuals was really your client, in 2001? Mary Horvath, the deceased ... or Penny Salanave, the executor?
I ask this last question because I still have not forgotten how you illegally evicted us from 112 Washington Terrace, changing the locks and forcing me to drive all the way across the United States in 72 hours to retrieve my personal possessions before they were stolen by strangers.
I never received a clear explanation from Penny for why the work she had assigned me to do - cleaning, taking inventory, and searching for missing documents, such as the will, and the deed - was so abruptly interrupted, and I remain unclear as to how this was in the best interests of the estate.
For the record, after we returned to San Francisco, Penny evicted my pregnant wife, my newborn daughter, and myself from the house I grew up in, and sold it for around half a million dollars. She never spoke to us again and when she died, in late 2015, I learned that I had been disinherited.
I personally do not believe that this is what your client, Mary Horvath, intended; and I think you did my grandmother a disservice.
However, this belief does not interfere with my expectation that you will give this matter your utmost attention and respond to my four questions, in good faith, and in writing.
Sincerely,
Richard Childers
PO Box 970
Fortuna CA 95540
Cc: Bridgeport Police Department, USPS Certified Mail # 7018 0680 0000 3325 7875
Cc: Bridgeport City Attorney, USPS Certified Mail # 7018 0680 0000 3325 7882
Cc: Bridgeport Bar Association, USPS Certified Mail # 7018 0680 0000 3325 7899
Cc: Connecticut Bar Association, USPS Certified Mail # 7018 0680 0000 3325 7905
For more information on my mother's criminal activities, please see www.salanave.org and westcoastperjury.org.