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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 Mentor amongst others Kirtland Hills is your ideal Community for raising a family a small town feel
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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
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happy one 30 years ago a smart hard-working father was murdered in Kirtland Hills and all of these years
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later it's still not exactly clear why someone would want this well-liked man killed
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some say his murder was an act of jealousy others say it could have been to keep
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him silent and then there are those who believe that maybe it was a little of both Raymond timbrook
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was a father of two he was a very smart and successful man Rey as some of his friends called him worked for the very
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prominent company CT Consultants according to their website CT Consultants is a leading firm offering
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engineering architecture planning and Construction Services Raymond timbrook was with CT consultants for 12 years
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timbrook was a partner stockholder and a six-figure salary a year vice president
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our story takes us back to March of 1992. Friday the 13th on this night Raymond was found shot to death in an
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underdeveloped subdivision known as Hunting Hills this was a Housing Development then at the time was under
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construction the site was described as a wooded area Hunting Hills will be parsed out in 5 to
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20 acre lots promoted as country quiet the neighborhood was being built by developers Jerry and Mike Osborne and
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Jim Brown CT Consultants had an engineering contract with the developers so it would
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make some sense that Raymond would be in this area but when his firm was asked for
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clarification as to what Raymond was doing there and who if anyone he was meeting
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they could offer very little detail sources said he had a 4 pm appointment there
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everyone whose statements have made their way to public record all say the same thing
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Rey was there to meet a business associate A co-worker and some have even named that individual
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this however did very little to firm up the who what and why portions of Rey's Presence at this location where he was
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later found having been murdered while sitting in his car according to the Lake County coroner's
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office Raymond timbrick was killed between 5 and 6 pm he was found slumped over the steering
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wheel sitting in the driver's seat of his 1991 Buick the killer likely reached into the
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vehicle and repositioned Rey 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 Point
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Blank Range but there was a witness a man claiming to have seen Ray Timber talking to another man
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standing near the rear of the car this witness was questioned and was able to provide a highly experienced police
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artist with the description of the person he saw I have also been told that a description
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was provided by a person who saw a man driving away from the scene this witness provided a profile
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description of the man driving this composite sketch was widely released to the public via newspapers
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and persons posting flyers in the area and neighboring cities and towns asking for help
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asking for information the description provided and the man they were seeking was described as age
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40 to 45 years old Caucasian with shoulder length wavy hair sand colored and curled at the collar
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he had a thick build looked barrel-chested he had no facial hair the man was driving an older vehicle in
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good condition listed as beige in color and a two-door possibly from the late 70s or early 80s
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30 years ago Kirtland Hills police were looking for a man and vehicle matching this description
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today Raymond timbrook's family the Lake County News Herald WKYC News and now True Crime garage
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are still looking for this man still looking for anyone with information that could assist in this
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still unsolved but now Cold Case and still looking for the person or persons who killed
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Raymond timbrook this is True Crime garage [Music] 30 years ago this week Captain we have
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the subject of this week's True Crime Story a family man businessman 44 year old Raymond timbrook was killed and from
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one of the more recent news articles on the Raymond Timber case it sums up the current and sad state of
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this case and that brief description reads as follows Kirtland Hills Ohio it's a cold case Frozen in time for
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three decades a mild-mannered engineer 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 talk with police
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now let's go back in time to March 1992 Friday the 13th this was supposed to be a normal work day for Raymond timbrook
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he works for CT Consultants which is a very prominent firm here in Northeast Ohio they do business here millions of
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dollars worth of business here and they've expanded throughout the country so this is a successful business and a
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successful man working for the successful business he has been with this firm CT consultants for 12 years so
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you would expect this to be just another Friday for this man at the office and this weekend was supposed to be his
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weekend with his two sons Brian and Scott but on this day captain Raymond timbrook sadly will not make it
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home and the way that this story works is as follows late in that afternoon Raymond
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Pembroke tells his secretary that he is going to be meeting a business associate
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at a meeting location this is Hunting Hills this is a neighborhood basically it's all streets at this point back in
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1992 and CT Consultants is working with the developers to put in this neighborhood Raymond Pembroke tells his
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secretary that he's meeting a business associate A co-worker and in all actuality for whatever reason Captain I
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cannot explain this but over the years that man's name has disappeared from the newspapers and now it just says business
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associate or co-worker but back in 1992 what we would learn is that Raymond Timbre was meeting a co-worker and that
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co-worker's name was George samargin he was supposed to be meeting George some Reports say that he left the office to
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330 or the meeting was to be at 3 30 other Reports say that this meeting was to take place at 4 or that Raymond
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timbrook left the office around four either situation makes sense and we're really just talking about a difference
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of 30 to 60 minutes here and we're also talking about a difference of 30 years later that we're telling this story from
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my understanding here Captain Raymond Pembroke lived not terribly far from CT consultants and CT Consultants is only
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about a 10-15 minute drive from where later his body would be found inside his vehicle a 1991 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
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recently gone through a divorce at one time he was living with his parents and now he's moved into his own dwelling and
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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 Samaritan person how long the meeting
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was supposed to go for again we don't know but the assumption is that Raymond timbrook would have went home after this
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meeting but if you're an investigator Tim Burke doesn't go home so your first suspect is who was Tim Burke meeting and
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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 collecting fingerprints DNA samples
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anything of the sorts what ends up happening Captain is it later that night we have Kirtland Hills PD on the scene
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we have an officer who is there's some question here if he's responding to a call which is I believe what what
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actually happened here that he's responding to a call there's others that have said that he may have been passing
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by and Tim Brooks vehicle would have been obvious so it would have been something he would have checked on right
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Raymond timbrook is found dead in his own vehicle having been shot twice his vehicle is running at this time and it's
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it's positioned as he was going to be leaving this Hunting Hills area again Hunting Hills is this development that
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is very much under development it's it's being developed there's nothing really there other than streets at this point
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again like you said this is 30 years later so what is it today it's a gated community and I think you originally
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said that some of these plots of lands were anywhere from five acres to 20 acres yes these are wooded Lots these
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are for people that want to spend up on their home spend up on their plot of land and this is an affluent area you
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know we mentioned that there's less than 700 people that live here today well that's because these people live on big
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plots of land and it takes up a lot of space and as you will hear in some of the interviews that we conducted it in
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this case you'll hear more about this Hunting Hills in this Kirtland Hills area as we go the initial details of
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this neighborhood or the neighborhood that's going to come to be pretty interesting kind of a States like you
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said five to to 20 acres that is not the normal neighborhood from a July August 1992 the crime reporter article when
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officer Gerald rakovsky found Tim Brooks body in Hunting Hills the headlights of his vehicle were on
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the engine was running when he looked inside the car he saw one bullet wound and Tim Brooks head because he didn't
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see the other bullet officer rakovsky made the assumption that Tim Brook had committed suicide according to
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information he wrote in his incident report the officer didn't touch Tim Brooks car
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the Lake County forensic laboratory and Lake County coroner's office handled the
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removal of both the vehicle and Tim Brooks body the still running car was towed to the forensic laboratory for
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examination while Raymond pembroke's body was taken to the morgue it's 1992 it's a 91 Buick so a newer car for that
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time period so you're telling me that the police officer he didn't see the second bullet I'm assuming that the gun
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was left behind there has never been a murder weapon found in Raymond Tim Brooks 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 Brooks case was ultimately ruled a homicide and ruled a homicide very quickly now the officer
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responding he thinks it's a suicide for multiple reasons one they don't have homicides in Kirtland Hills they just
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don't I mean you can look up their crime statistics for Kirtland Hills Ohio and the
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the murder incidents reported I'm showing zero when I look up this is um this data reflects the 2020 calendar
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year and was released from the FBI in September of 2021. so for the entire year of 2020
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all these years later zero homicides rape reported in this area zero robbery one assault nine
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violent crime 10 burglary one theft 24 vehicle theft one property crime 26. so this is an extremely low crime rate area
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and the violent crimes are almost non-existent but we also have to take into account that their population is
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under 700 people correct but in regard to percentage when you compare that with the national average
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violent crime they have 62 percent less violent crime in this area than the national average they have 77 percent
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less 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 timbrook but does not touch the vehicle
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he just makes an observation he calls it in he's calling in the experts to get the body and to get the vehicle he's
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making the Assumption of oh I find a man slumped over the steering wheel in his car you know he takes the license plate
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he can confirm that this is Raymond timbrook in his car and he says I didn't touch the vehicle I write up my report
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I'm making the assumption that we have a suicide there again he's making the assumption that once they removed the
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vehicle and and Ray from the scene that they will likely find a gun either in his lap or somewhere in the
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vehicle with Rey and unfortunately for our homicide case that's not the case because we know that
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this is a homicide we could have had a situation where somebody could have shot Rey and then threw the gun into the car
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with him if that would have been then been ruled a suicide I'm sorry if that would have then been ruled a
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homicide even with the gun in the vehicle well we would at least have the gun as some kind of evidence to work off
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of here in the situation now to complicate matters a little further no gun but the other thing that's going to
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confirm that we have a homicide here is Raymond timbrook was shot twice he wasn't just shot once
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so we have an officer who's probably experienced in this area the area where he lives and works and because there's
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basically little to no violent crime in this area he's very inexperienced when it comes to violent crime and
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particularly in homicides what also makes sense for the responding officer he doesn't have the tools he doesn't
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have the training he's not a detective even though I don't like the fact that he just assumed that it was suicide it's
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smart in the sense of that he's not going to Tamper or contaminate the scene at all which would be unnecessary for
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him at that time again let the experts do that stuff you can always change your assumption
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it's not his job to rule it a homicide or otherwise so you can work it in that manner and again an experience with
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violent crime especially homicide he may not have been overly excited about getting his hands dirty so to speak now
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found with the victim inside his vehicle were all of the items that they expected
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to find with Bremen timbrook so we have his watch we have his wallet we have his
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money and we have some work items that he had with him I believe that there were certain work items that were found
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in the trunk of his vehicle and I believe these to be items that he's taking with him to the scene for the
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purpose of this air quotes meeting that he had that day so this is not a robbery
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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
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here to try to figure out well no gun left at the scene so no murder weapon found but we still have bullets so that
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gives us some information on on what kind of weapon we're looking for yes and this is based off of information that
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came out just a couple of months after the murder and it says based upon the angle of bullets
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are based upon the angle of the bullets from the 38 caliber or 357 caliber handgun so we're going to stop right
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here captain police have never officially released exactly what caliber was used they have
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made suggestions as to what possible caliber of gun was used in the commission of this homicide but they've
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never outwardly stated exactly what kind of caliber and they've often referred to
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the gun as a large or larger caliber gun this article specifically States 38 caliber or 357 caliber handgun I've also
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heard a nine millimeter gun in other reports so this says handgun which was used to kill Raymond timberk was shot at
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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 PM 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 assailant was holding a gun to Tim
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Brooks face while standing on the driver's side of the 1991 Buick Regal he was driving
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so that I'm following you correctly the murderer would be standing outside of his vehicle after the first shot they
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believed then he did he did like an execution Kill Shot afterwards correct that's what it looks like to me and
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that's what pretty much everybody else is saying so if you take that information and you try to visualize it
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in your head here what we have is Raymond timbrook who is looking at the shooter when the first shot is fired
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because it hits near his left nostril and what they've been able to somewhat surmise from this or or at least kind of
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add to the equation here is the likely that shot or the second shot one or both would
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have pushed him into the passenger seat where he would have slumped naturally over into the
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passenger seat so at some point the killer then reached into the vehicle and positions Ray upright once again and
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leans him forward onto the steering wheel now we don't know if this was meant to pose him to maybe buy some time
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if passer buyers came through that they would assume that the guy was sleeping it's even been reported that when the
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officer first approached the vehicle and found Raymond timbrook there that he made the Assumption himself that the
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person inside was either sleeping or drunk so the question then becomes did this killer pose Tim brook or or is it
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somewhat happenstance was there something on the passenger car seat that they had to get to and so they had to
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move the body um but like you said it it very it would make a lot of sense to pose him in this
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way but why won't you turn off the lights because I feel like the lights in the car and the car running would draw
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attention to the crime scene yeah you're exactly right it's just something that doesn't make sense if you went to the
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trouble and had the forethought to move this individual to position him or stage
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the crime scene as such to buy you some time why not shut off the lights why not
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shut off the engine to the vehicle again it's very difficult to say why the killer did
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certain things and why they did not do certain things what we do know is that this is not a heavily populated area at
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the time again there's there's nobody out there it's under development so who knows it may be as
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simple as he fired off two shots very quickly move the moved Ray ten Brook for whatever reason again as you said to
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retrieve something from inside the vehicle passenger side or to make it appear that he may be sleeping for
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passerbys to stall maybe somebody doesn't call police if they think he's just out there sleeping wants to hustle
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and get out of there quickly because of the loud gunshots does not want to be seen at the scene but we do know that
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there's a witness so you also have to factor in is there a chance that he was aware that somebody
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is coming into the area and wanted to get out of there as quick as possible and from us talking before
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everything it seems like they've ever stated is that there's one gun there's one shooter but just because there's two
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bullets that are the same doesn't mean that they're essentially coming from the same gun we just don't have any evidence
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that's released that would suggest otherwise because that makes me question too if you're going to meet this guy out
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in the in the plan all along is for this almost execution type killing some people don't act alone in that
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situation well one thing that's always puzzled me about this case and and I thought the same thing that you're kind
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of hinting at a little bit here Captain with two shots I wondered potentially do
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we have two Shooters two guns well because they're and it doesn't appear that anybody that's close to the case
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seems to think that so right we don't have anything to base that off of other than the knowledge and information that
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they've put out over the years now one thing that has always been highly speculated on in this case too and and
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sometimes outwardly stated that there is some belief that Raymond may have known
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the person that shot him because this person was able to get so up close and personal when pulling the trigger
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and I can agree with that but also at the same time it's a little difficult because here we
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have a case that's 30 years old and it's not been solved and it's not been solved
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for a reason here as we go through it you will see there's a multitude of reasons why this one's not been solved
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but in this case I don't know that it necessarily has to mean that he knew the person or was comfortable with the
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person so that they could get up close and personal and shoot Raymond Timber now
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I say that because anyone could have just walked up and you look at where he where the first bullet hit
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that to me is a natural reaction of somebody just sitting in the driver's seat turning and looking toward whoever
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approaches their vehicle where that kind of gets flipped on its head and would go
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back to the likely suggestion that Raymond knew this person or at least was comfortable enough with them to be in
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close contact with them is the witness statement right because we talked about two witnesses or one witness with two
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different stories in the trailer but one of those Witnesses or one of those versions of that story is that the
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witness saw Raymond Pembroke speaking with a man near the rear of his Buick Regal this also makes sense based off of
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the information that we've been told over the years that there were some work related materials in the trunk of
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Raymond's car so you can kind of picture this once you factor in the witness statement of ice I briefly saw two into
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vigils talking near the back of this car later can identify one of those individuals to be Raymond timbrook after
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speaking with investigators after speaking with Kirtland Hills Police Department and then Raymond's now in his
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vehicle and then he's shot none of the 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
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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 Timbre
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[Music] foreign [Music] effects cheers to you out in western land and cheers to you Colonel cheers to
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you Captain cheers to everybody out there now because there is so little information that has been released over
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the years in the Raymond Timber case we've asked a couple people close to the investigation to help us fill in some of
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the blanks here and help provide some more information in regard to this Cold Case homicide and one of those
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individuals is his oldest son Brian who was a senior in high school the year that his father Raymond timbrook was
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killed and we asked him to tell us about that fateful night that terrible night when police arrived at his home to let
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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 I've 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 wanted
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to speak with me she seemed a little distraught and I said it wasn't me I got a ride home
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and um that's when um my whole world shattered basically and uh Chief Smith and I believe it was
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Rakowski uh that was accompanying him had to announce them they found my father shot murdered in Kirtland Hills
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and I just ran outside and cried and it's just been uh a rough road ever since um it's
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it was uh I just remember that day going to my grandma's my mom my dad's mom and
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my mom and my brother and just consoling her and um like I said my life was forever changed
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that day and um it's been a long time coming that answers and justice for Raymond
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Pembroke is uh is well overdue Brian what were you like what was your father like what was your
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family like before the murders well we was uh my dad was a hard worker um he owned was part owner of CT
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Consultants my mom was a stay-at-home mom um I was in high school I was active in
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football um obviously you know a troublemaker the teenage years me and my brother were academically
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good with our schooling and had good grades but um it just uh there was no signs of any
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turmoil when it was announced that my parents were getting a divorce I blame the divorce on me because of you
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know I you know I did get in trouble and I wasn't the the you know the best but you know it's still
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it's it irked me because I had no idea signs of it you know normal divorce is you you see turmoil and and there were
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it was nothing was ever shown and um it just uh it came to a shock and I mean I I grew
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up working with my dad from a little kid I'd always go in on a Saturday with him
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to the office and you know sit on the draft board and and try drawing stuff you know from when
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I was a kid all the way up to when he passed I worked Summers throughout High School
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um on the survey crew for CT so even the year after his murder before I went off to college after I graduated
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I worked there too it just my whole plans were to become follow my dad's footsteps and that road that
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bridge just collapsed right in front of me and like I said it was there was no signs of
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any turmoil in my parents relationship and I just when this came about was just an
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upright shock and you can hear obviously the emotion that is still left with this this now grown man Brian
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who lost his father 30 years ago you can still hear the emotion and the hurt well
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you're haunted by the fact that he was murdered but on top of that every day that it's not solved there's
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no justice so there's no closure and Brian his own words he wanted to grow up to be like his father and one of his
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Heroes was taken away from him just like that at the drop of a dime and we need to fill in some blanks though
00:36:28
here Captain because as we said earlier Raymond Pembroke was a in a bit of a transitional period in his life he had
00:36:35
been married to his wife for quite some time he went to Michigan State University he goes on to be an engineer
00:36:42
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
00:36:50
sons Brian who at the time of the murder you heard him say he's a senior in high
00:36:56
school he's doing normal teenage stuff maybe a little rough around the edges but uh
00:37:01
anybody that that's been to the garage will tell you so so were the captain in the colonel rougher than most there you
00:37:07
go and he has a younger brother Scott who's very close in age to Brian and so they're both kind of doing their High
00:37:16
School thing Brian's looking forward to college and working with his father at CT Consultants but during the course of
00:37:25
Brian's senior year his parents split up and as you heard Brian say this was kind
00:37:30
kind of a shock to him and his brother they didn't really see any arguing you know all of the telltale signs of a
00:37:38
soon-to-be divorce they don't see any of this this was not a messy divorce as I understand it to be
00:37:44
shortly before Christmas and this would have actually been in the month of November of 1991 is when the parents his
00:37:53
parents split up and the way that he explained this to us was that he and his brother went and stayed with
00:38:00
their grandparents or with a relative it may have been an aunt for a weekend and
00:38:05
it seems like the parents very wisely and very quietly behind closed doors the two of them figured everything out
00:38:13
they were going to figure out should we stay together or should we separate and we're not going to have to do this in
00:38:18
front of the children and so I commend them on that angle because too too often times when parents
00:38:25
are splitting up a lot of the fighting or arguing or what have you happens right in front of the children and
00:38:32
that's not always the healthiest of environments these two individuals decide we're not going to stick together
00:38:39
dad Raymond timbrook moves out and he goes and lives with his parents and eventually gets his own apartment so
00:38:48
in in just the short time period between November of 1991 and March 13th of 1992 when Raymond
00:38:58
timbrook is killed he separates from his wife they get an annulment he leaves the home
00:39:04
he leaves the house with his wife she gets primary custody of the two boys who are almost grown themselves at this
00:39:12
point and they're going to be visiting their father on weekends on I believe it was
00:39:17
every other weekend but in that short time period his life changes dramatically their family life changes
00:39:23
dramatically and then Raymond timbrook their father just 44 years of age is killed let's get into the timeline of of
00:39:30
a little bit after the murders on that Friday March 13th what we have here Captain is
00:39:37
a very strange and unusual situation because at Raymond timbrook's funeral a woman
00:39:46
announces herself as Raymond's fiancee and the reason why this is very unusual is this is not a woman that has a head
00:39:57
you know nobody at this time knows that he has a fiance they knew that he's recently divorced recently separated
00:40:04
from his wife but nobody knew that he was in a relationship and in a relationship
00:40:09
so much so that they are planning to get married the family we have the sons his ex-wife
00:40:16
we have Rey's sister and Ray's mother none of these people know anything about this relationship
00:40:24
and their loved one has been killed and now we have a what's been referred to over the years as a mysterious woman who
00:40:33
claims to be Raymond's fiancee well she's not so mysterious she's a co-worker of of Raymond Tim Brooks and
00:40:42
she was somebody that was somewhat known to the family because you know you have
00:40:46
company outings in times where Brian and other members of the family would tag along to work with Ray so they have some
00:40:55
interactions with his co-workers at CT Consultants her name is Lynn egansperger and she's a
00:41:03
little bit younger than Rey and she has said works at CT Consultants one thing that I really question here
00:41:12
early on when I was looking into this case Captain was we have this woman who claims to be his fiancee all of Ray's
00:41:20
family saying we had no idea that he was in a relationship I wanted to see well is there anybody in Lynn's family or
00:41:28
people at CT Consultants is there anyone else in the world that could back up this relationship and that he that she
00:41:35
in fact was his fiance unfortunately Lynn eagensberger is somebody whose lawyers up very early on
00:41:44
in this story shady and refuses to cooperate with the investigation refuses to speak with the media
00:41:53
but the engagement seems legit to me so much so that I was shown a receipt for the engagement ring and it was purchased
00:42:03
shortly after Raymond and his wife separated so who knows they could have been involved in this relationship and it
00:42:12
looks to me like they probably were involved in this relationship for weeks months who knows how long before Raymond
00:42:20
and his wife decide to separate so we know that this was a legit engagement now where the Trouble Comes
00:42:29
Is we have Lynn who announces herself to the family and to everybody at Ray's funeral
00:42:36
and says hey I'm his fiancee well Brian says I invited her to the there was a small gathering afterward
00:42:45
yeah awake there you go and he says I invited her to the wake because I had questions like where's your head I have
00:42:53
questions and I think it was also to be polite right his family's in mourning lens and mourning as well she's in love
00:43:00
with this man and now he's dead well yeah and hold on for a second this is a strange
00:43:05
murder situation yes found in his car in a development that's not even developed yet lights on car running and
00:43:15
then at his funeral this is a strange funeral this is something that you would see in the
00:43:21
movies a lady comes forward that nobody can recognize right away and says wait hold on a second all right
00:43:29
I had a relationship with this man well it's going to get even stranger because Lynn does
00:43:34
all right stranger at the wake after the services okay and when she arrives there she is turned
00:43:43
away by Rey's brother-in-law so Rey's brother-in-law basically kind of gives her the the the short of it
00:43:51
would be you're not welcome here we don't really care much about your relationship
00:43:58
um it would probably be best if you weren't present if you weren't in attendance
00:44:02
here now looking back nobody was to know then that his case would go unsolved for now
00:44:12
30 years it would have been really interesting to see what the family and Rey's closest
00:44:19
friends could have learned from this woman had she been allowed to stay and speak with the family and bring them up
00:44:28
to speed on her and Rey's relationship but that didn't happen right and it's kind of a
00:44:35
natural thing you can understand it we have relatives here who are very much at a loss very much in mourning they're
00:44:44
probably angry as well this is not just a death in the family this is a murder and you have all of these emotions this
00:44:52
roller coaster of emotions and all of a sudden you're finding out during the services well he was involved in a
00:44:58
relationship he was involved in a relationship so much so that they were engaged and he's recently divorced now
00:45:04
I'm angry about this thing too did you did you split up their marriage and so you can see why Lynn would have
00:45:12
been turned away back in 1992 that all these emotions are very fresh in this story in this situation at that
00:45:22
time hindsight's 2020 you really wish that she would have been allowed to stay and
00:45:28
maybe bring them up to speed as to what was going on and Rey's personal life and in his business life too because she
00:45:36
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
00:45:43
case of emotions it's been reported and I've been told by multiple people that Lynn placed an envelope
00:45:52
and it's been reported in the papers that there was a letter in the envelope although that's never been officially
00:45:57
confirmed by police that she placed an envelope in Rey's casket before he was buried so many strange
00:46:07
little details it's very common for people to place things in the casket with their loved one and again it's
00:46:14
reported that she placed an envelope in there it's been said that there was a letter inside again that's never been
00:46:19
confirmed the other tricky thing too is I spoke with Brian we spoke with Brian and we spoke with Phil Trexler
00:46:28
Phil was present at the funeral as well and neither of them could confirm seeing
00:46:34
Lynn actually place this envelope in his casket but we do know that an envelope existed and it was found in his casket
00:46:41
and we know this because on April 14 1992 one month and one day after Raymond timbrook was killed his body was exhumed
00:46:52
from the Riverside Cemetery in Painesville Ohio this for law enforcement to retrieve from the coffin
00:47:00
a letter written by his quote fiancee and hopes it would reveal a clue in the homicide case again
00:47:11
Kirtland Hills PD all they've ever said and the Lake County prosecutor all they've ever said in this regard
00:47:19
is that yes an envelope was retrieved they've not confirmed that it was a letter inside other than to say that it
00:47:26
was a piece of information a piece of possible evidence in Raymond timbrook's case well nobody that we
00:47:34
spoke to was able to see whoa the contents of that letter was the contents of the envelope yes again like
00:47:45
we can say letter all we want but only the people that opened up the envelope know if there was in fact a letter in
00:47:51
there right I mean somebody could have placed a Trinket in there or a memorial card or you know any number of things
00:47:59
could be inside that envelope so I think we I where it's always been referred to in
00:48:06
the papers as a letter that's fine and it very likely is a letter in there without having viewed that or knowing
00:48:16
someone that has viewed that I don't know that we want to call it call it a letter well let's continue to dive into
00:48:22
the details of the timeline one thing that's a little funny in this Raymond Timber case here to me Captain
00:48:30
is this murder this case did generate a lot of newspaper articles and generate a
00:48:36
lot of news in 1992-93 and a little bit in 94 but when you go back and you look at those articles and that those reports
00:48:47
and a lot of them Raven timbrook his title almost seems to be made up by you know the news the news people or
00:48:58
they're at least not exactly certain what his title was at CT Consultants he's been named in these articles as
00:49:04
everything from a a partner an executive a vice president an engineer a surveyor
00:49:13
to me what I was able to confirm with a lot of these people is that that most of
00:49:18
those titles would in fact be true so we don't know exactly what the title was that he held in 1992 at CT Consultants
00:49:27
but you can apply all of those to his job description and what CT Consultants thought of Raymond timbrook so basically
00:49:35
what you're getting is whatever's going on at CT Consultants while he was working there he would
00:49:43
either have known about it or been involved in it when you have that many titles that that come with your name or
00:49:50
your job duties for your business he was a significant figure at CT exactly and I
00:49:58
think the one that you can underline that is echoed most throughout those different news articles is executive so
00:50:05
he's high up at the company he's been there for a long time now there was one Associated Press article in particular
00:50:13
from June 6 1992 so now we are three months roughly after his murder and this is an article where they are
00:50:25
talking to CT Consultants and asking them about Raymond Tim Brooks murder and the short of it Captain is
00:50:35
that Frank Federico is the president of CT consultants in 1992. and he says in this article that he urged his 200
00:50:45
employees to cooperate in any way with the ongoing investigation but then goes on to say that two CT
00:50:53
consultant employees are reluctant to cooperate with police Frank Federico says in the article that he cannot
00:51:02
explain the reluctancy he says he issued a corporate memo in March of 92 the same month as The
00:51:10
Killing to his employees to help in the case but the two employees lawyered up right away
00:51:17
and they weren't cooperating they weren't speaking to police of course their lawyers would speak with
00:51:24
police and these two were not speaking with the media either now I want to fast forward all these years later and one
00:51:33
thing that we would learn throughout the years and one thing that I am now calling into question
00:51:39
is the authenticity of Frank Federico's statements to the media at that time in the summer of 1992. we do know for a
00:51:50
fact that two of the CT Consultants employees did in fact lawyer up and did not cooperate with the investigation
00:51:57
those two employees were Lynn egansberger who was the fiancee of Raymond Pembroke and the other employee
00:52:07
was George smaragin who was the individual that was listed as being the person that Raymond timbrook was to meet
00:52:15
out at Hunting Hills on that Friday when he was killed so those two lawyer up and
00:52:20
they're not cooperating with the investigation however I've seen it I've seen evidence of such
00:52:27
that while Frank Federico might be telling the media I've issued a memo to all of
00:52:34
my employees to cooperate and to assist in this investigation one thing I know to be fact is that that
00:52:44
might be what he's telling the public but what was going on behind closed doors is that he told the employees not
00:52:50
to speak to the media in defense of Frank I can understand not wanting my employees to speak to the media in
00:52:57
regard to an ongoing murder investigation I can understand if in fact he did say don't speak the media
00:53:06
but do speak to the police right I'm just presenting and putting forward the fact that he's saying one thing in the
00:53:14
papers in a slightly different thing behind closed doors which is a little concerning to me when we have a case
00:53:20
that is still unsolved all of these years later well like we said from the get-go
00:53:26
the first thing you want to do is who was Tim Brooks talking to that night what was the meeting about
00:53:33
what was the context of that meeting will that person in or out as far as suspect list
00:53:40
but then from that next divide I would say as an investigator you're going to go to the
00:53:46
Your Inner Circle to your Outer Circle these two people that lawyered up and then are not talking are the the two
00:53:53
people that you probably want to question first all night so much more to get to joining us back
00:54:09
here in the garage tomorrow until then be good be kind and don't live [Music] foreign