Don's Two Alibis: Deborah and Charles

The Police Did Not Have Don’s Time Cards

• Accusing Don: In Susan Simpson’s blog post almost a year ago, she tells us that the police should have looked into Don in January and February of 1999 because, per Don’s performance reviews, he was mean to his co-workers.

• But even Susan will tell you: The police never had these timecards or performance reviews. They checked out Don, and wouldn't have gotten a judge to approve a subpoena for his time cards.

• In August 1999, the state disclosed that it planned to call the Owings Mills LC manager as a witness. But Gutierrez didn't receive Don’s time cards and work records until October, after she filed a subpoena with Lenscrafters. So, again, the police never had Don’s time cards or his performance reviews. (Setting that aside for a minute, how much does anyone want to bet that Don’s performance reviews are largely positive and a few unflattering snippets were chosen by Susan for this purpose?)

• We know Susan wrote about Don during a time when she was lying about “fluff”, as just one example.

Don’s Alibi Was Checked When This Was a Missing Person’s Case

• Missing Persons Alibi: What we know is that in late January and early February of 1999, when this was a missing person’s case, Don was checked out by police. At the time, police did not know that the managers of Owings Mills and Hunt Valley were Don’s mom and Don’s mom’s girlfriend. It wasn’t a murder, but police talked to Don’s supervisors who said Don was at work. He checked out.

• After Adnan was arrested, Gutierrez's own private investigator reported that police had investigated Don's alibi. Do we think Davis made this up? Do we think that Davis just took the police at their word?

Susan Wasn’t the First Person to Go After Don

• Subpoenas: In October of 1999, regardless of Davis's report, Gutierrez was still hoping to point the finger at Don. So she subpoenaed Don’s employment records. Urick followed Gutierrez's lead, and subpoenaed the same records. He wanted to see where she was headed, and cut her off at the pass, if he could. So this is October 1999, Adnan has been in jail for seven months, and for the first time, both the defense and prosecution can see Don’s Owings Mills time card. But guess what? Don wasn’t at Owings Mills on January 13. Odds are, Lenscrafters Corporate, in Cincinnati, didn’t fully appreciate what was at stake, when they sent the January 13, Owings Mills time card to the defense, and to the state, along with Don’s performance reviews.

• Wait. Don worked at Hunt Valley?: By the time Don's Hunt Valley time card is sent to the defense, and to the state, we see that there have been phone calls. Yes. Phone calls.

• Murder Alibis: We see that in this letter, Lenscrafters has been talking to Urick, on the phone. And this letter is a follow up. Lenscrafters is saying, Now we understand that Don’s alibis were previously his mother and his mother’s girlfriend. To that point, here are two people — Deborah and Charles — who are not related to Don. Feel free to reach out to them. Here is their contact information. There are a couple of other people also on the schedule for January 13th. The state was free to contact those people as well. So was Gutierrez. Did Gutierrez fail to follow up with Don’s co-workers? Is this more IAC? Or did Davis check?

• Witness for the Prosecution: Don was called as a prosecution witness. If Gutierrez really wanted to go after him, she would have called him herself, and questioned him brutally, in front of the jury. This is either more IAC, or Gutierrez knew Don had sound alibis.

We Don’t Have the Defense File or the State’s Case File

• Who wants to bet that all of this is in the defense files, and the state’s case file? The Don argument is the result of files we can't see, being kept by people invested in accusing Don. For now, we only have the Baltimore Police investigation files.

• Who wants to bet that the people who sought to keep things hidden, are hiding this, too. Just for the sake of keeping the conversation going, and yes, accusing Don.

• The people who are waiting to hear from Deborah and Charles, in order to be convinced about Don, can get in line behind the people who are waiting to hear from Coach Sye, Inez, Debbie, Kristi, Stephanie, anyone who worked the case with Gutierrez, etc. It’s a long list. Good luck. Adnan's defense will never reach out to any of those people. Accusing Don is the name of the game. Not clearing Don, after all. Unfortunately for Don, the state doesn't give a shit about what redditors want to see.

• So we cannot see what was sent to the state or the defense — in it’s entirety — because we do not have the state’s case files or the defense files.

• And finally, please stop suggesting that in order to clear Don, Guilters need to get this stuff. Only Rabia, Susan and Colin have access to this. And they are withholding it because the Don thing is working. For the rest of us, these files will not be subject to MPIA until the case is considered closed, for good. Either the last appeal is exhausted, or Adnan is free. Only then will everyone be able to see what Undisclosed is currently hiding, and what happened, in October of 1999, with respects to Don. Only then will we see why Gutierrez didn’t go headlong after Don, and why Davis said Don’s alibi checked out.

Two Good Reasons: Deborah and Charles.