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the Village of Kirtland Hills Ohio Kirtland Hills is located in Lake County Ohio and has a population of under 700
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people it's about 20 or so Miles Northeast of the great city of Cleveland surrounded by the much larger cities of
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Willoughby and Menor amongst others Kirtland Hills is your ideal Community for raising a family a small town field
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with big city amenities nearby if you were to be driving through you would notice mostly larger homes on large lots
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of land especially in The Hunting Hills neighborhood this month is an anniversary and not a happy one 30 years
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ago a smart hardworking father was murdered in Kirtland Hills and all of these years later it's still not exactly
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clear why someone would want this well-liked man killed some say his murder was an act of
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jealousy others say it could have been to keep him silent and then there are those who believe that maybe it was a
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little of both Raymond timbrook was a father of two he was a very smart and successful man Ry as some of his friends
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called him worked for the very prominent company CT Consultants according to their website CT Consultants is a
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leading firm offering engineering architecture planning and Construction Services Raymond timbrook was with CT
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consultants for 12 years Tim Brook was a partner stockholder and a six-figure salary a year vice president our story
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takes us back to March of 1992 Friday the 13th on this night Rayman was found shot to death in an
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underdeveloped subdivision known as Hunting Hills this was a Housing Development that at the time was under
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construction the site was described as a wooded area Hunting Hills will be parsed
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out in 5 to 20 acre lots promoted as country quiet the neighborhood was being built by developers Jerry and Mike
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Osborne and Jim Brown CT Consultants had an engineering contract with the developers so it would make some sense
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that Raymond would be in this area but when his firm was asked for clarification as to what Raymond was
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doing there and who if anyone he was meeting they could offer very little detail sources said he had a 400 p.m.
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appointment there everyone whose statements have made their way to public record all say the same thing Ry was
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there to meet a business associate a cooworker and some have even named that individual this however did very little
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to firm up the who what and why portions of Ray's Presence at this location where
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he was later found having been murdered while sitting in his car according to the Lake County
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coroner's office Raymond timbrook was killed between 5 and 6:00 p.m. he was found slumped over the steering wheel
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sitting in the driver's seat of his 1991 Buick the killer likely reached into the
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vehicle and repositioned Ray or posed him giving the appearance of someone sleeping with their head and or chest up
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against the wheel Raymond was found shot twice with a large caliber gun at almost
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Point Blank Range but there was a witness a man claiming to have seen Ray timbrook talking to another man standing
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near the rear of the car this witness was questioned and was able to provide a highly experienced police artist with
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the description of the person he saw I have also been told that a description was provided by a person who saw a man
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driving away from the scene this witness provided a profile description of the man driving
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this composite sketch was widely released to the public via newspapers and persons posting flyers in the area
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and neighboring cities and towns asking for help asking for information the description provided and the man they
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were seeking was described as age 40 to 45 years old Caucasian with shoulder length wavy hair sand colored and curled
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at the collar he had a thick build looked Barrel chested he had no facial hair the man
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was driving an older vehicle and good condition listed as beige in color and a twoo possibly from the late '70s or
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early 80s 30 years ago Kirtland Hills police were looking for a man and vehicle matching this
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description today Raymond Tim Brook's family the Lake County News har WKYC News and now True Crime garage are
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still looking for this man still looking for anyone with information that could assist in this still unsolved but now
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Cold Case and still looking for the person or persons who killed Raymond Tim this is true crime
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garage [Music] 30 years ago this week Captain we have the subject of this week's True Crime
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Story a family man businessman 44 year-old Raymond timbrook was killed and from one of the more recent news
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articles on the Raymond timbrook case it sums up the current and sad state of this case and that brief description
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reads as follows Kirtland Hills Ohio it's a cold case Frozen in time for three decades a mild-mannered engineer
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found dead inside his car shot execution style twice in the head at his funeral a
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mysterious woman makes a startling Revelation to survivors but later hires a lawyer and refuses to to talk with
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police now let's go back in time to March 1992 Friday the 13th this was supposed to be a normal work day for
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Raymond timbrook he works for CT Consultants which is a very prominent firm here in Northeast Ohio they do
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business here millions of dollars worth of business here and they've expanded throughout the country so this is a
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successful business and a successful man working for this successful business business he has been with this firm CT
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consultants for 12 years so you would expect this to be just another Friday for this man at the office and this
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weekend was supposed to be his weekend with his two sons Brian and Scott but on this day Captain Raymond timbrook sadly
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will not make it home and the way that this story works is as follows late in that afternoon Raymond timbrook tells
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his secretary that he is going to be meeting a business associate at a meeting location this is Hunting Hills
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this is a neighborhood basically it's all streets at this point back in 1992 and CT Consultants is working with the
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developers to put in this neighborhood Raymond timbrook tells his secretary that he's meeting a business associate A
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co-worker and in all actuality for whatever reason Captain I cannot explain this but over the years
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that man's name has disappeared from the newspapers and now it just says business
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associate or coworker but back in 1992 what we would learn is that Raymond timbrook was meeting a coworker and that
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co-worker's name was George smaran he was supposed to be meeting George some Reports say that he left the office at
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3:30 or the meeting was to be at 3:30 other Reports say that this meeting was to take place at 4: or that Raymond Tim
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Brook left the office around 4 either situation makes sense and we're really just talking about a difference of 30 to
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60 minutes here and we're also talking about a difference of 30 years later that we're telling this story from my
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understanding here Captain Rayman timbrook lived not terribly far from CT consultants and CT Consultants is only
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about a 105 minute drive from where later his body would be found inside his vehicle a 199 91 Buick Raymond timbrook
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leaves his office again timbrook is in a bit of a transition period in his life he's recently gone through a divorce at
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one time he was living with his parents and now he's moved into his own dwelling
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and apartment as I understand it and it looks to me just looking off the map captain that this would be a very common
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thing or common thing for any of us because Ray could hit this stop on his way home and so it makes sense we have a
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late Friday appointment he could hit this stop on his way home we don't know exactly what he was to be doing there
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what he was going to be discussing we are told he's meeting this George smarin person how long the meeting was supposed
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to go for again we don't know but the assumption is that Raymond timbrook would have went home after this meeting
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well if you're an investigator Tim brke doesn't go home so your first suspect is
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who was Timber meeting and what were they discussing is there a possibility that there was a conflict at the meeting
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that would be the first person that I would be questioning interrogating and and collecting fingerprints DNA samples
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anything of the sorts what ends up happening Captain is that later that night we have Kirtland Hills PD on the
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scene we have an officer who is there's some question here if he's responding to
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a call which is I believe what what actually happened here that he's responding to a call there's others that
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have said that he may have been passing by and Tim Brook's vehicle would have been obvious so it would have been
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something he would have checked on right Raymond timbrook is found dead in his own vehicle having been shot twice his
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vehicle was running at this time and it's it's positioned as he was going to be leaving this Hunting Hills area again
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Hunting Hills is this development that is very much under development it's it's being developed there's nothing really
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there other than streets at this point again like you said this is 30 years later so what is it today it's a gated
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community and I think you originally said that some of these plots of lands were anywhere from five acres to 20
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acres yes this these are wooded Lots these are for people that want to spend up on their homes spend up on their plot
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of land and this is an affluent area you know we mentioned that there's less than
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700 people that live here today well that's because these people live on big plots of land and it takes up a lot of
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space and as you will hear in some of the interviews that we conducted in this case you'll hear more about this Hunting
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Hills in this Kirtland Hills area as we go the initial details of this neighborhood or the neighborhood that's
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going to come to be pretty interesting kind of Estates like you said five to to 20 acres that is not the normal
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neighborhood from a July August 1992 the crime reporter article when officer Gerald
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rakovski found Tim Brook's body in Hunting Hills the headlights of his vehicle were on the engine was running
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when he looked inside the car he saw one bullet wound in Tim Brook's head because
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he didn't see the other bullet officer officer rakovski made the assumption that Tim Brook had committed suicide
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according to information he wrote in his incident report the officer didn't touch
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Tim Brook's car the Lake County forensic laboratory and Lake County coroner's office handled
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the removal of both the vehicle and Tim Brook's body the still running car was towed to the forensic laboratory for
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examination while Raymond Tim Brook's body was taken to the mor it's 1992 it's a 91 Buick so a newer car for that time
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period so you're telling me that the police officer he didn't see the second bullet I'm assuming that the gun was
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left behind there has never been a murder weapon found in Raymond Tim Brook's case and in fact if that murder
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weapon was ever to be located I think that would be a major major break in this case now based off of that report
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that we just read you can kind of piece together why this officer may have made the Assumption in his report we want to
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be clear about that Tim Brook's case was ultimately ruled a homicide and ruled a
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homicide very quickly now the officer responding he thinks it's a suicide for multiple reasons one they don't have
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homicides in Kirtland Hills they just don't I mean you can look up their crime statistics for Kirtland Hills
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Ohio and the the murder incidents reported I'm showing zero when I look up this is
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um this data reflects the 2020 calendar year and was released from the FBI in September of 2021 so for the entire year
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of 2020 all these years later zero homicides rape reported in this area zero robbery one assault nine
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violent crime 10 burglary 1 theft 24 vehicle theft 1 property property crime 26 so this is an extremely low crime
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rate area and the violent crimes are almost non-existent but we also have to take into account that their population
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is under 700 people correct but in regard to percentage when you compare that with the national
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average violent crime they have 62% less violent crime in this area than the national average they have 77% less
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crime than the national average so percentage wise it's a huge drop off as well and we have in this report where
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the officer says that he he finds Raymond Tim Brook but does not touch the vehicle he just makes an observation he
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calls it in he's calling in the experts to get the body and to get the vehicle he's making the Assumption of oh I find
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a man slumped over the steering wheel in his car you know he takes the license plate he can confirm that this is
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Raymond timbrook in his car and he says I didn't touch the vehicle I write up my
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report I'm making the assumption that we have a suicide there again he's making the assumption that once they remove the
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vehicle and in Ray from the scene that they will likely find a gun either in his lap or somewhere in the vehicle with
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Ray and unfortunately for our homicide case that's not the case because we know that this is a homicide we could have
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had a situation where somebody could have shot Ry and then threw the gun into the car with
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him if that would have been then been ruled a suicide I'm sorry if that would have then been ruled a homicide even
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with the gun in the vehicle well we would at least have the gun as some kind of evidence to work off of here in the
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situation now to complicate matters a little further no gun but the other thing that's going to confirm that we
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have have a homicide here is Raymond timbrook was shot twice he wasn't just shot once so we have an officer who's
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probably experienced in this area the area where he lives and works and because there's basically little to no
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violent crime in this area he's very inexperienced when it comes to violent crime and particularly in homicides well
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it also makes sense for the responding officer he doesn't have the tools he doesn't with the training he's not a
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detective even though I don't like the fact that he just assumed that it was a suicide it's smart in the sense of that
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he's not going to Tamper or contaminate the scene at all which would be unnecessary for him at that time again
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let the experts do that stuff you can always change your assumption it's not his job to rule it a
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homicide or otherwise so you can work it in that manner and again inexperience with violent crime especially homicide
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he may not have been overly excited about getting his hands dirty so to speak now found with the victim inside
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his vehicle were all of the items that they expected to find with Raymond timbrook so we have his watch we have
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his wallet we have his money and we have some work items that he had with him I believe that there were certain work
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items that were found in the trunk of his vehicle and I believe these to be items that he's taking with him to the
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scene for the purpose of this air quotes meeting that he had that day so this is
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not a robbery this is and would appear to me to be that this man was asked to be at this scene
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possibly lured to this area and then shot and killed once he was there why by whom well that's what we're here to try
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to figure out well no gun left left at the scene so no murder weapon found but we still have bullets so that gives us
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some information on on what kind of weapon we're looking for yes and this is based off of information that came out
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just a couple of months after the murder and it says based upon the angle of bullets or based upon the angle of the
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bullets from the 38 caliber or 357 caliber handgun so we're going to stop right here captain police have never
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officially released exactly what caliber was used they have made suggestions as to what possible caliber of gun was used
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in the commission of this homicide but they've never outwardly stated exactly what kind of caliber and they've often
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referred to the gun as a large or larger caliber gun this article specifically States 38 caliber or 357 caliber handgun
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I've als also heard a 9mm gun and other reports so this says handgun which was used to kill Raymond timbrook was shot
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at almost Point Blank Range on the left side of his nose from a person who was standing at enough of an angle that the
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coroner found the bullet lodged in his neck the other shot was fired at nearly Point Blank Range behind his left ear
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this all happened sometime between 5 and 6:00 p.m. according to the Lake County coroner's office because Raymond
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timbrook was found slumped over his steering wheel the assumption is that the ass salent was holding a gun to Tim
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Brook's face while standing on the driver's side of the 1991 Buick Regal he was driving so that I'm following you
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correctly the murderer would be standing outside of his vehicle after the first shot they believe then he did he did
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like an execution Kill Shot afterwards correct that's what what it looks like to me and that's what pretty much
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everybody else is saying so if you take that information and you try to visualize it in your head here what we
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have is Raymond timbrook who is looking at the shooter when the first shot is fired because it hits near his left
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nostril and what they've been able to somewhat surmise from this or or at least kind of add to the equation here
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is that likely that shot or the second shot one or both would have pushed him into the passenger seat where he
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would have slumped naturally over into the passenger seat so at some point the killer then reached into the vehicle and
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positions Ray upright once again and leans him forward onto the steering wheel now we don't know if this was
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meant to pose him to maybe buy some time if passer by came through that they would assume that
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the guy was sleeping it's even been reported that when the officer first approached the vehicle and found Raymond
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Tim Brook there that he made the Assumption himself that the person inside was either sleeping or drunk so
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the question then becomes did this killer pose Tim brook or or is it somewhat happen stance was there
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something on the passenger car seat that they had to get to and so they had to move the body um but like you said it it
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very it would make a lot of sense to pose them in this way but why wouldn't you turn off the lights because I feel
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like the lights in the car and the car running would draw attention to the crime scene yeah you're exactly right
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it's just something that doesn't make sense if you went to the trouble and had the forethought to move this individual
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to position him or stage the crime scene as such to buy you some time why not shut off the lights why not shut off the
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engine to the vehicle again it's very difficult to say why the killer did certain things and why they did not do
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certain things what we do know is that this is not a heavily populated area at the time again there's there's nobody
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out there it's under development so who knows it may be as simple as he fired off two shots very quickly moved the
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moved Ray Tim Brook for whatever reason again as you said to retrieve something from inside the vehicle passenger side
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or to make it appear that he may be sleeping for passerbys to stall maybe somebody doesn't call police if they
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think he's just out there sleeping wants to hustle and get out of there quickly because of the loud gunshots does not
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want to be seen at the scene but we do know that there's a witness so you also have to factor in is there a chance that
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he was aware that somebody is coming into the area and wanted to get out of there as quick as possible and from us
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talking before before everything it seems like they've ever stated is that there's one gun there's one shooter but
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just because there's two bullets that are the same doesn't mean that they're essentially coming from the same gun we
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just don't have any evidence that's release that would suggest otherwise because that makes me question too if
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you're going to meet this guy out and the and the plan all long is for this almost execution type
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killing some people don't act alone in that situation well one thing that's always puzzled me about this case and
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and I thought the same thing that you you're kind of hinting at a little bit here Captain with two shots I wondered
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potentially do we have two Shooters two guns well because they're and it doesn't
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appear that anybody that's close to the case seems to think that so right we don't have anything to base that off of
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other than the knowledge and information that they've put out over the years now
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one thing that has always has been highly speculated on in this case too and and sometimes outwardly stated that
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there is some belief that Raymond may have known the person that shot him because this person was able to get so
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up close and personal when pulling the trigger and I can agree with that but also at the same
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time it's a little difficult because here we have a case that's 30 years old and it's not been solved and it's not
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been solved for a reason here as we go through it will see there's a multitude of reasons why this one's not been
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solved but in this case I don't know that it necessarily has to mean that he knew the person or was comfortable with
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the person so that they could get up close and personal and shoot Raymond timbrook now I say that because anyone
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could have just walked up and you look at where he where the first bullet hit that to me is a natural reaction of
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somebody just sitting in the driver's seat turning and looking toward whoever approaches their vehicle where that kind
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of gets flipped on its head and would go back to the likely suggestion that Raymond knew this person or at least was
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comfortable enough with them to be in close contact with them is the witness statement right because we talked about
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two witnesses or one witness with two different stories in the trailer but one of those Witnesses or one of those
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versions of that story is that the witness saw Raymond timbrook speaking with a man near the rear of his Buick
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Regal this also makes sense based off of the information that we've been told over the years that there were some
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work-related materials in the trunk of Raymond's car so you can kind of picture this once you factor in the witness
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statement of I I briefly saw two individuals talking near the back of this car later can identify one of of
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those individuals to be Raymond timbrook after speaking with investigators after
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speaking with Kirtland Hills Police Department and then Raymond's now in his vehicle and then he's shot none of the
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statements that have ever been released suggest that this witness saw the actual
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shooting and again the other version of that story is that a witness saw a man driving out of the area and that's why
00:31:26
they were only able to provide a profile description of this man leaving the area
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was this man witnessed at the scene driving from the area the killer of Raymond [Music]
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land and cheers to you Colonel cheers to you Captain cheers to everybody out there now because there is so little
00:34:04
information that has been released over the years in the Raymond timbrook case we've asked a couple people close to the
00:34:11
investigation to help us fill in some of the blanks here and help provide some more information in regard to this Cold
00:34:18
Case homicide and one of those individuals is his oldest son Brian who was a senior in high school the year
00:34:27
that his father Raymond timbrook was killed and we asked him to tell us about that fateful night that terrible night
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when police arrived at his home to let him know that his father had been killed it was a Friday the 13th I was a senior
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in high school so it was a Friday night we was out at a friend's house uh got a little
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intoxicated the parents drove my car home with me to get me home safe I passed out the bed with my varsity
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jacket on and I was woken up to my mom saying that there were police downstairs that
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wanted to speak with me she seemed a little distraught and I said it wasn't me I got a ride
00:35:12
home and um that's when um my whole world shattered basically and uh Chief Smith and I believe it was rowski uh
00:35:25
that was accompanying him uh had to announce them they found my father shot murdered in Kirtland Hills
00:35:36
and I just ran outside and cried and it's just been uh a rough road ever since um
00:35:49
it's it was uh I just remember that day going to my grandma's my mom my dad's mom
00:35:59
and my mom and my brother and just consoling her and um like I said my life was forever
00:36:09
changed that day and uh it's been a long time coming that uh answers and justice for Raymond timbrook
00:36:22
is uh is well overdue Brian what were you like what was your father like what was your family like before the murders
00:36:31
well we was uh my dad was a hard worker um he owned was part owner of CT Consultants uh my mom was a stay-at-home
00:36:40
mom um I was in high school I was active in football um obviously you know a troublemaker that teenage years me and
00:36:52
my brother were academically good with our schooling and and had good grades but um it just uh
00:37:03
there was no signs of any turmoil um when it was announced that my parents were getting a
00:37:11
divorce I blamed the divorce on me because of you know I you know I did get in trouble and I wasn't
00:37:20
the the you know the best but you know still it it irked me because I had no idea signs of it you know normal divorce
00:37:32
is you you see turmoil and and there it was nothing was ever shown and um it just
00:37:43
uh it came to a shock and I mean I I grew up working with my dad from a little kid I'd always go in on a
00:37:52
Saturday with him to the office and you know sit on the draft board and and try drawing stuff you know from when I was a
00:38:02
kid all the way up to when he pass I worked Summers throughout High School um on the survey crew for CT so even the
00:38:14
year after his murder before I went off to college after I graduated I worked there too it
00:38:22
just I my whole plans were to become F my dad's footsteps and the that road that bridge just collapsed right in
00:38:31
front of me and like I said it was there was no signs of any turmoil in in my parents relationship and I just when
00:38:42
this came about was just an outright shock and you can hear obviously the emotion that is still left with this
00:38:52
this now grown man Brian who lost his father 30 years ago you can still hear the emotion and the hurt well you're
00:38:59
haunted by the fact that he was murdered but on top of that every day that it's not solved there's no justice so there's
00:39:09
no closure and Brian his own words he wanted to grow up to be like his father and one of his Heroes was taken away
00:39:18
from him just like that at the drop of a dime and we need to fill in some blanks
00:39:25
though here Captain because as we said earlier Raymond timbrook was in a bit of a transitional period in his life he had
00:39:33
been married to his wife for quite some time he went to Michigan State University he goes on to be an engineer
00:39:40
and then he works for CT consultants for 12 years and he's married during the course of most of this and he has two
00:39:48
sons Brian who at the time of the murder you heard him say he's a senior in high
00:39:53
school he's doing normal teenage stuff maybe a little rough around the edges but uh anybody that that's been to the
00:40:01
garage will tell you so so were the captain and the colonel rougher than most there you go and he has a younger
00:40:06
brother Scott who's very close in age to Brian and so they're both kind of doing
00:40:13
their High School thing Brian's looking forward to college and working with his father at C Consultants but during the
00:40:22
course of Brian's senior year his parents split up and as you heard Brian say this was kind of a shock to him and
00:40:30
his brother they didn't really see any arguing you know all of the telltale signs of a soon to be divorce they don't
00:40:37
see any of this this was not a messy divorce as I understand it to be shortly before Christmas and this would have
00:40:45
actually been in the month of November of 1991 is when the parents his parents split up and the way that he explained
00:40:54
this to us was that he and his brother went and stayed with their grandparents or with a relative it may have been an
00:41:00
aunt for a weekend and it seems like the parents very wisely and very quietly behind closed doors the two of them
00:41:08
figured everything out they were going to figure out should we stay together or should we separate and we're not going
00:41:14
to have to do this in front of the children and so I commend them on that angle because too too often times when
00:41:22
parents are splitting up a lot of the fighting or arguing or or what have you happens right in front of the children
00:41:30
and that's not always the healthiest of environments these two individuals decide we're not going to stick together
00:41:38
dad Raymond timbrook moves out and he goes and lives with his parents and eventually gets his own apartment so in
00:41:47
in just the short time period between November of 1991 and March 13th of 1992 when Raymond
00:41:55
timbrook is is killed he separates from his wife they get an analment he leaves the home he leaves the house with his
00:42:03
wife she gets primary custody of the two boys who are almost grown themselves at
00:42:09
this point and they're going to be visiting their father on weekends on I believe it was every other weekend but
00:42:17
in that short time period his life changes dramatically their family life changes dramatically and then Raymond
00:42:23
timbrook their father just 44 years of age is killed let's get into the timeline of of a little bit after the
00:42:30
murders on that Friday March 13th what we have here Captain is a very strange and unusual
00:42:38
situation because at Raymond Tim Brook's funeral a woman announces herself as Raymond's
00:42:48
fiance and the reason why this is very unusual is this is not a woman that has a head you know nobody at this time
00:42:56
knows that he has a fiance they knew that he's recently divorced recently separated from his wife but nobody knew
00:43:03
that he was in a relationship and in a relationship so much so that they are planning to get married the family we
00:43:11
have the sons his ex-wife we have reay's sister and Ray's mother none of these people know anything about this
00:43:22
relationship and their loved one has been killed and now we have a what's been referred to over the years
00:43:28
as a mysterious woman who claims to be Raymond's fiance well she's not so mysterious she's a co-worker of of
00:43:38
Raymond Tim Brooks and she was somebody that was somewhat known to the family because you know you have company
00:43:45
outings in times where Brian and other members of the family would tag along to work with Ry so they have some
00:43:53
interactions with his Co workers at CT Consultants her name is Lynn gensburger and she's a little bit younger than Ry
00:44:03
and she as said works at CT Consultants one thing that I really question here early on when I was
00:44:12
looking into this case Captain was we have this woman who claims to be his fiance all of Ray's family saying we had
00:44:18
no idea that he was in a relationship I wanted to see well is there anybody in Lynn's family or people at CT
00:44:26
Consultants is there anyone else in the world that could back up this relationship and that he that she in
00:44:33
fact was his fiance unfortunately Lynn egenberger is somebody who's lawyers up very early on in this story shady and
00:44:44
refuses to cooperate with the investigation refuses to speak with the media but the engagement seems legit to
00:44:54
me so much so that I was shown a receipt for the engagement ring and it was purchased shortly after rayon and his
00:45:04
wife separated so who knows they could have been involved in this relationship and it looks to me like they probably
00:45:11
were involved in this relationship for weeks months who knows how long before Raymond and his wife decide to
00:45:20
separate so we know that this was a legit engagement now where the Trouble Comes Is we have Lynn who announces
00:45:30
herself to the family and to everybody at Ray's funeral and says hey I'm his fiance well
00:45:37
Brian says I invited her to the there was a a small gathering afterward yeah you're a wake there you go and he says I
00:45:46
invited her to the wake because I had questions like where's your head I have questions and I think it was also to be
00:45:53
polite right his family's in morning morning Lynn's in morning as well she's in love with this man and now he's dead
00:45:59
well yeah and hold on for a second this is a strange murder situation yes found in his car in a
00:46:08
development that's not even developed yet lights on car running and then at his funeral this is a strange funeral
00:46:18
this is something that you would see in the movies a lady comes forward that nobody can recognize right away and says
00:46:25
wait hold on a second I I had a relationship with this man well it's going to get even stranger because Lynn
00:46:31
does arrive stranger at the wake after the services okay and when she arrives there she is turned away by Ray's
00:46:44
brother-in-law so Ray's brother-in-law basically kind of gives her the the the short of it would be you're not welcome
00:46:51
here we don't really care much about your relationship um it would probably be best if you
00:46:58
weren't present if you weren't in attendance here now looking back nobody was to know then that his case would go
00:47:07
unsolved for now 30 years it would have been really interesting to see what the family and Rey's closest friends could
00:47:18
have learned from this woman had she been allowed to stay and speak with the family and and bring them up to speed on
00:47:28
her and Rey's relationship but that didn't happen right and it's kind of a natural thing you can understand it we
00:47:35
have relatives here who are very much at a lost very much in mourning they're probably angry as well this is not just
00:47:44
a a death in the family this is a murder and you have all of these emotions this
00:47:49
roller coaster of emotions and all of a sudden you're finding out during the services well he was involved in a
00:47:56
relationship he was involved in a relationship so much so that they were engaged and he's recently divorced now
00:48:02
I'm angry about this thing too did you did you split up their marriage and so you can see why Lynn would have been
00:48:10
turned away back in 1992 the all these emotions are very fresh in this story in the situation at
00:48:19
that time hindsight 2020 you really wish that she would have been allowed to stay
00:48:25
and maybe bring them up to speed as to what was going on in Ray's personal life and in his business life too because she
00:48:34
works with him yeah and we still don't know why in fact Rey was killed to make it even stranger I'm in a glass case of
00:48:41
emotions it's been reported and I've been told by multiple people that Lynn placed an
00:48:49
envelope and it's been reported in the papers that there was a letter in the envelope although that's never been
00:48:54
officially confirmed confirmed by police that she placed an envelope in Ray's casket before he was buried wow so many
00:49:05
strange little details it's very common for people to place things in the casket
00:49:09
with their loved one and again it's reported that she placed an envelope in there it's been said that there was a
00:49:15
letter inside again that's never been confirmed the other tricky thing too is I spoke with Brian we spoke with Brian
00:49:23
and we spoke with Phil Trexler Phil was present at the funeral as well and neither of them could confirm seeing
00:49:32
Lynn actually place this envelope in his casket but we do know that an envelope existed and it was found in his casket
00:49:40
and we know this because on April 14th 1992 one month and one day after Raymond timbrook was killed his body was Exum
00:49:49
from the Riverside Cemetery in Paynesville Ohio this for law enforce M to retrieve from the coffin a letter
00:49:58
written by his quote fiance and hopes it would reveal a clue in the homicide case
00:50:08
again Kirtland Hills PD all they've ever said and the Lake County prosecutor all
00:50:15
they've ever said in this regard is that yes an envelope was retrieved they've not confirmed that it was a letter
00:50:22
inside other than to say that it was a piece of information a piece of possible evidence
00:50:29
in Raymond Tim Brook's case well nobody that we spoke to was able to see what the contents of that letter was
00:50:39
the contents of the envelope Yes again like we can say letter all we want but only the people that opened up the
00:50:46
envelope know if there was in fact a a letter in there right I mean somebody could have placed a Trinket in there or
00:50:53
a memorial card or you know any number of things could be inside that envelope so I think we
00:51:01
I where it's always been referred to in the papers as a letter that's fine and it it very likely
00:51:08
is a letter in there without having viewed that or knowing someone that has viewed that I
00:51:16
don't know that we want to call it call it a letter well let continue to dive into the details of the
00:51:22
timeline one thing that's a little funny in this Ren Tim Brook case here to me Captain is this murder this case did
00:51:31
generate a lot of newspaper articles and generate a lot of news in 1992 93 and a
00:51:37
little bit in '94 but when you go back and you look at those articles and at those
00:51:44
reports in a lot of them Raymond timbrook his title almost seems to be made up by you know the news the news people or
00:51:55
they're at least not exactly certain what his title was at CT Consultants he's been named in these articles as
00:52:02
everything from a a partner an executive a vice president an engineer a surveyor to me what I was
00:52:12
able to confirm with a lot of these people is that that most of those titles would in fact be true so we don't know
00:52:20
exactly what the title was that he held in 1992 at CT Consultants but you can apply all of those to his job
00:52:28
description and what CT Consultants thought of Raymond timbrook so basically what you're getting
00:52:35
is whatever's going on at CT Consultants while he was working there he would either have known about it or been
00:52:43
involved in it when you have that many titles that that come with your name or your job duties for your business he was
00:52:51
a significant figure at CTE exactly L and I think the one that you can underline that that is echoed most
00:53:00
throughout those different news articles is executive so he's high up at the company he's been there for a long time
00:53:07
now there was one Associated Press article in particular from June 6th 1992 so now we
00:53:15
are three months roughly after his murder and this is an article where they are talking to CT
00:53:26
consultants and asking them about Raymond Tim Brook's murder and the short of it Captain is that Frank Frederico is
00:53:35
the president of CT consultants in 1992 and he says in this article that he urged his 200 employees to cooperate in
00:53:45
any way with the ongoing investigation but then goes on to say that two CT consultant employees are
00:53:53
reluctant to cooperate with police Frank Frederico says in the article that he cannot explain the
00:54:01
reluctancy he says he issued a corporate memo in March of 92 the same month as the
00:54:08
killing to his employees to help in the case but the two employees lawyered up right away and they weren't cooperating
00:54:17
they weren't speaking to police of course their lawyers would speak with police and these two were not
00:54:24
speaking with the media either now I want to fast forward all these years later and one thing that we would learn
00:54:32
throughout the years and one thing that I am now calling into question is the authenticity of Frank
00:54:40
frederico's statements to the media at that time in the summer of 1992 we do know for a fact that two of
00:54:49
the CT Consultants employees did in fact lawyer up and did not cooperate with the
00:54:54
invest investigation those two employees were Lynn gensburger who was the fiance
00:55:02
of Raymond Tim Brook and the other employee was George smaran who was the individual that was listed as being the
00:55:10
person that Raymond timbrook was to meet out at Hunting Hills on that Friday when
00:55:16
he was killed so those two lawyer up and they're not cooperating with the investigation however I've seen it I've
00:55:23
seen evidence of such that while Frank Fred Rico might be telling the media I've issued a memo to
00:55:32
all of my employees to cooperate and to assist in this investigation one thing I know to be
00:55:39
fact is that that might be what he's telling the public but what was going on behind closed doors is that he told the
00:55:47
employees not to speak to the media in defense of Frank I can understand not wanting my
00:55:53
employees to speak to the media in regard to an ongoing murder investigation I can understand if in
00:56:02
fact he did say don't speak the media but do speak to the police right I'm just presenting and putting forward the
00:56:09
fact that he's saying one thing in the papers and a slightly different thing behind closed doors which is a little
00:56:16
concerning to me when we have a case that is still unsolved all of these years later well like we said from the
00:56:23
get-go the first thing you want to do is who was Tim Brooks talking to that night
00:56:30
what was the meeting about what was the context of that meeting rule that person
00:56:35
in or out as far as suspect list but then from that next divide I would say as an investigator you're going to go to
00:56:44
the Your Inner Circle to your Outer Circle these two people that lawyered up and then are not talking are the the two
00:56:51
people that you probably want to question first night all night all night so much more to get to join us
00:57:06
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