Credible Witnesses

Defense Language Institute Monterey

A week after Christine was allegedly killed by a rogue wave, I was at her house when she got annoyed with Michelle Neisess a friend of Christine and our father whom she met at dinner over at the Benton home. I asked Michelle about the wind conditions that morning and she said it was very windy. She goes jogging around 9:00 A.M. almost every morning with her good friend, the ex-Chief of Police of Pacific Grove. They have coffee together. She said she will talk to him about his recollections.

“He said it was quite a blow that morning!” Michelle told me on the phone. My investigation was on in earnest.

When I was at Rocky Point I could see waves coming into the narrow cover, hitting the wall, and shooting fifty feet in the air. There was a moderate wind and tide. I asked Shamus if…