Oh, Don't Believe a Thing He Says. Everybody Knows He's Crazy

This message below in the Erwin court files was evidently one that emerged when the gathering evidence of crime forced Dr. Lennard to pretend he was investigating the charges of crime that Mr. Erwin had assembled. So began Le Lennard's faux investigation after the press started asking questions.

I infer the "Mac" referred to was Mr. McClelland, head of the outdoor department, whatever that is called. He is said to have bragged about getting rich in his job. He stole a tractor it seems and was addicted to pilfering toilet paper. He also drove around a school truck, going all the way to another county where he had digs. He used school gas, of course. Joe Newsome, a school-board member then, was Mr. Mclelland's buddy.

Somewhere in the record is the description of two of the schools' constabulary who went to McClelland's house in another county and saw the tractor in the yard. They couldn't trespass onto the property, and the dumb clucks had forgot their camera. By the time they got back to site with their camera, the tractor was gone.

Tools were always disappearing from the school's supply and were never seen again. If they turned back up, they were worn to a nub.

I believe Tom Gonzalez hired this Mr. Geietzson to conduct an investigation of Mr. Erwin's complaints about crime. Then, as I recall, Gonzalez closed Geitzson down when the latter began to find evidence of the frame-up against Mr. Erwin.

What always amazes me in such cases is that the person trying to expose the crime is the target of an oh-he's-just-crazy campaign. It happens every time. lee


Printed by: Diane Woodall Title: Fwd: investigation

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From: ~ Douglas Erwin
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Subject: I Fwd: investigation To: I ~ Diane Woodall

Doug,

Good morning!

In November, 2000, John Brungard and I met with Bill Gietzon at John's house. At that meeting, he gave us an overview of what his role in the investigation was and asked us to share what we knew.

During the discussion, we indicated that we felt that you were being targeted and held responsible for what Mac was doing.

He indicated that we were right to be cautious, as he was hired to try and make you look guilty of wrongdoing. His conversation with us made it very clear that while he was looking for facts and was following up leads, there was also another agenda.

It is interesting to note that after the report was released, I went to Mark Hart's office on December 11, 2001 and looked through all the material that was gathered from the investigations.

I came upon a statement from Wayne Dashinger's report that stated that Gietzen indicated he was hired to make Doug Erwin look crazy.