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RE: Accident Reconstruction, misc.

SENT BY: rsnow@dennisportpd.org

SENT ON: April 5

SENT TO: Paul Jericho, Chief of Police

Paul,

Glad to be back at the desk. You get a copy of the tox screen? No easy out there. He wasn’t driving drunk or impaired. The hydroxyzine is just over-the-counter allergy stuff and his wife says he took it all the time.

Spoke to Blake’s associate, girl called Em Moore, who’s finishing up that book they were working on. She wanted to know if we found a tape cassette at the scene or in the car. Little thing. Think I’ll go around and check the wreck again. She was surprised Blake wasn’t wearing his seat belt. Said he usually did.

Heard from Larry Hines over at ARU. Based on the skid marks in the diagram, he focused in on the brakes, took a chunk of brake hose in for analysis, but he’s not sure there’s enough of it left to tell whether it’s damage from the fire or something else. Also, he mentioned a possible security problem at the lockup. Seems the seal was broken before he got there, tape sliced right through. I’ll ask D’Arcy what’s going on when I check on that cassette.

Sorry you had to deal with that McKenna guy. Rest assured, I had to listen to him, too. Kept talking and talking. Shirley reads all that gossip stuff and she says he’s had a bee in his bonnet about Garrett Malcolm for years. I’ll get over to the Malcolm place this week, find out what I can, but I think the road conditions justify a bigger sign and better lights and that’s about it.

Good news is the brother of that woman lives in the house on Willow Crest, one who went on the damned cruise, he’s due back today, so I’ll be talking to him.

Russell Snow, Detective Grade One

Dennis Port Police Department

One Arrow Point Way

Dennis Port, MA 02639