TO: Police Chief of Bullhead City
C.O. Toby Cotter City Manager
FROM: John Presco
717 Oakdale Ave.
RE: Death of Drew Benton Case# 24-24263
DATE: September 20, 2024
Dear Sir: I a the uncle of Drew Taylor Rosamond Benton. While checking in on my relatives on Facebook, I found a post by Damien Bosley saying Drew had taken her life, and he is looking for members of her family. There are five members of our family in the area. I wonder why they are not responding, and in looking at family members on Facebook, I find out another young member of hour family took his life. In twenty minutes I am in total grief and shock. I post a message on Damien’s FB, giving him my phone number. He never called me – to this day! We have texted.
It took four or five days or officer Holstrom to call me back. I called K and talked to Noah who said he would call Holstrom – because I was very stressed. I suffer from PTSD. Finally Holstom calls, and she acts like she is very busy. She tells me I am the only relative she has talked to. She says she was trying to get hold of a half-sister who is in Paris. My niece Shannon Rosamond Benton came to mind. I then asked for a POLICE REPORT.
“Why do you want a report?” Holstrom asked.
“Because I am writing a biography!”
“Contact Records.”
I did, and asked for the record. I called several times, and was told I was on a list. I asked records for Drew’s Autopsy, and read it three days ago. I am I total shock. Drew dies of cardiac arrest – two hours after she jumped from a balcony – after stabbing herself in the thighs twenty times. She stabbed herself in the ankle, and that really made me wonder. Was that a defensive wound? Did someone stab my niece, in what looks like torture? What would that person be after? Damien was in awful hurry to get me to pay for the cremation so I can give him a Death Certificate, because he and Drew co-signed on something and he had to show proof she was dead – to get out of the contract.
In making arrangement with the mortuary, Ivanna tells me Cameron Bosley wants to talk to me.
“Is it O.K. if I give him your number?”
“Yes.”
Cameron called me ten minute later. I am desperate for information. He tells me Drew was dismissed from her job at Walmart due to an altercation involving a fellow worker. She is on mental leave. She is hearing voices. He and Damien want her to move from the small dark, depressing place she is living in, and move in with Damien. I wonder why no one is getting my niece professional help. I have thrifty-six years of sobriety. I keep my mouth shut – because I NEED MORE INFORMATION! I have talked to four citizens of Arizona – and know no details! Where is that police report. Ivanna helps me fill out a Death Certificate. Damien says he did not know Drew’s parents were famous artists, and, there are two books and a movie script about OUR FAMILY! How can that be?
All of a sudden – he disappears the box of Drew’s paper he WAS going to send me. I call Ivanna and tell her Damien is not going to get a copy of the DC, nor is he to receive any ashes. She asks me to send her documentation of my wishes. I replay in our e-mails. NO! Damien is trying to get me to put his name on a Mortuary List. I tell him that is not going to happen.
Two days ago I try to get a hold of Ivanna. She is not available. I ask to talk to a manger. The woman on the phone says she is a manger – and she can NOT find my or Drew’s name. Now she can not find her cremated remains! I am put on hold, A guy named Ron tells me he’s on his way to put Drews ashes in the mail, and I should get them on Saturday. I get an image of Ron – and he is right out of central casting! They called him Captain Ron in Iraq? If we kill all the golfers, they’ll put us in prison!
Here is what I discussed with Michael Dundon, the grandfather of Rafe, and uncle of Shamus Dundon, whose two sons live close to where Drew allegedly jumped from a balcony. One of these sons lived at the same address as Drew, and my late sister, Vicki Presco. And no Dundon – responds! WTF!
“Was Drew right-handed? She stabs herself ten times in the right thigh, then, stabs herself ten times in the left thigh. The wounds on the left thigh will be further up the leg. The wounds on the right leg, will be near the knee! Unless she changed hands!”
The autopsy says Drew was obese at the waist. She has been talking for two hours before she dies of A HEART ATTACK at midnight. How can this be ruled a SUICIDE? I have sent people the psychological report on people who try to stab themselves to death – and survive theses wounds! These attempts are uncommon, and, the stabs are made to the stom……..
I JUST GOT THE REMAINS OF MY NIECE DELIVERED TO MY DOOR!
AN HOUR LATER:
Everything we agreed upon -is here! Thank God! Unless…….Damien got another bag of remains? There’s two Death Certificates. I made a video of the opening of the USPO “CREMATED REMAINS” box. There is a Suspicious Person of Interest not mentioned in this letter. Make that two people! I think I have a solid alibi. Let me check.
What is very shocking are these words
29 A IMMEDIATE CAUSE OF DEATH
MULITIPLE BLUNT AND SHARP FORCE INJURIES
I know what “immediate” means. There is no mention of cardiac arrest – TWO HOURS – later. I spend a half hour reading the autopsy and wondered about the contusions. I saw a sharp end of a woman’s comb causing the stab wounds. Am I to believe Drew tried to kill herself by beating herself to death with a lead pipe, and, then going to a comb to finish the job. But, when that didn’t work she climbed over a high railing – but did not die! I wondered if she was treated like a nut on drugs at the hospital, and did not receive proper treatment. Was she restrained and given a shot of thorizein? ENOUGH!
I’m done with SPECULATING! If I had read the cause of death – before Drew was cremated – I would have demanded TOP Forensic Scientist examine Drew who had been in the icebox for over a month. Did anyone dust her body for fingerprints? Was her appartment treated like a crimes scene? Was there bloody hand prints on the railing? Is there enough forensics to call for – A COMPLETE INVESTIGATION?
I know what you are THINKING. You want evidence I am insane and deluded. You will Google my name. You might find the fake abuser site made by Alley Valkyrie, the Eugene Anarchist. Let me help you: Google ‘Royal Rosamond Press’ where I will publish this message – ten minutes after I hit “send”.
As God is my witness!……I will never be kept in the dark again!”
Sincerely
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press ‘A newspaper for the arts’
TO: Police Chief of Bullhead City
Rosamond Press 
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