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11/28/02 Thanksgiving Day
"possible" threat message and failed ransom
Last revised 12/09/05

Detail of these incidents
Events leading up to these incidents
Significance
Later developments

Detail of these incidents

• On Thanksgiving Day, 11/28/02, just a little over three months after Dave's abduction, an email was received by me:

   

  Subject: ***Serendipity***
  Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 12:03:12 -0500
  From:"Howdy" <how_dy_loves_jsu@yahoo.com>
  To: "University-Office-Home-Worldwide" <how_dy_loves_jsu@yahoo.com>

   that, among a great deal of other things, included a number of "suggestive" images, for example:

   

  

   

• Later that day, there is reason to believe that a ransom had been paid, by members of the community, for 5 (?) victims, including Dave
  

• There is also reason to strongly suspect that ransom payments may have been collected from two or more separate parties who were unaware that the other parties were also paying for the ransom of these victims
  

  • 11/28/02 - what's safe

  • 11/28/02 - directions

  • 11/28/02 - are these more futile emails?

  • 11/28/02 - Playing with my head again?
    
    
    

• There is reason to believe that Sal, Dave's estranged wife, at the time, who very soon after appeared to be obviously working with or for the spg, may have posed as a victim, herself, and one of the "victims" for which a ransom was paid, and with whom Dave was to leave after being ransomed
  

  • 11/28/02 - Sal
    
    

• There is reason to believe that Dave was "released" to Sal and, in doing so, the attempt to get him freed, by paying that ransom, failed
  

  • 11/29/02 - Is Dave with You?
    

  • 11/29/02 - status & where
    

  • 12/04/02 - Medical help needed?
    
    

• There was later evidence that the situation was the same for at least two other of the possibly "ransomed" victims
  
  

• The full account of this may not be added to the web site

Events leading up to these incidents

• 11/09/02 Dave and I see each other for the first time since my arrest on 08/16/02
  

• 11/15/02 I am made to see Dave with his "new girlfriend"
  

• 11/16/02 I see Dave in chains
  

• 11/18/02 word received to confirm that Dave is being used for "rough"/sadistic services/performances
  

• 11/18/02[Victim2] appeals to me for help
  

• 11/20/02  I learn about slave auctions
  

• 11/21/02(approximately) In trying to find out about the "auction" get information about the event that had been held at the Mystic Art Association Gallery the night of 11/20/02
  

• 11/23/02 try to use "emergency contact" Dave had given me over the summer, before his abduction

Significance

• Whether or not this is true, such a possible scenario illustrates why attempting to pay ransom to get victims freed
  

  • provides a means for perpetrators to generate additional revenue from slavery activities

  • creates incentive for perpetrators to also have imposters pose as slavery victims, which can, thus, help reduce concern for actual slavery victims

  • should be seen as something that actually promotes, supports, and possibly even protects, slavery activity
    
    
    

• possible open display of possible evidence:
  

  • abduction/kidnapping

  • abuse or threatened abuse of law or the legal process, relating to human trafficking

  • blackmail

  • commercial sex act

  • conspiracy

  • conspiracy against rights

  • crime of violence

  • criminal enterprise

  • criminal street gang activity

  • domestic terrorism

  • extortion and threats

  • forced labor

  • harassment, relating to tampering with a witness, victim or informant

  • human trafficking

  • intimidation, relating to tampering with a witness, victim or informant

  • involuntary servitude, under 18USC77

  • misleading conduct

  • officer failing to make returns or reports (possibly applicable)

  • officer returning or delivering a possible trafficking victim to his possible traffickers

  • obstruction of justice

  • organized crime

  • peonage

  • racketeering

  • severe form of trafficking in persons (see section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000)

  • sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion

  • slavery

  • tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant

  • venture, relating to human trafficking

see Laws and Related Acts page

Later developments

• 11/29/02 Go to Harp&Hound for 1st time, see Dave
  

• 12/01/02 information received that the situation is even worse than suspected
  

• 12/02/02 see Dave again at Harp&Hound
  

• 12/03/02 Dave possibly seriously injured in a "performance" since I'd seen him the afternoon before
  

• 12/06/02 vague information being received about Dave
  

• 12/06/02 Angie apologizes to me for "the thing at John's"
   

• 12/08/02 Mohegan Sun
  

• 12/09/02 Told Dave was banned from Harp & Hound
  

• 12/10/02 Sal and Tania's soap and scents party/sale, 5-8pm
  

• 12/10/02 Trivia night at Harp&Hound
  

• 12/14/02 encounter Heively at a holiday party of a mutual friends
  

• 12/15/02 rude gesture at me, relating to Dave's situation
  

• 12/  /02 Sal makes open comments to Harp&Hound bartender to not allow me in there
  

• 12/18/02 see Dave for the first time since possible injury reported

  • at a "private" after-hours party, later that night, Sal supposedly attacked Lynn
    
    

• 12/20/02 upon arriving at Harp&Hound, told can no longer come into there
  

• 12/20/02 happenings at 41while I'm there, after leaving Harp&Hound
  

• 12/   /02 told by someone that he had found Dave in shackled in chains in a cellar, which I don't believe until much later
  

• 12/27(?)/02 begin to see possible signs of "exponential" kidnapping plans
  

• 12/31/02 New Year begins (This actually occurred after midnight, so, technically, 01/01/03)
  

• 12/31/02 I'm told of the Coalition

[Need to add more from journal, etc. re: Thanksgiving Day 2002]

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