JB calls Brandon Sparks...employed US coast guard...5 yrs....drug intervention migrant intervention and search and rescue...go out to sea for 3-4 months @ time...RK is my bio father...how long estranged from bioDAd...yes since 8 yrs old...around summer or year of 2008....I believe sometime in June...thru his parents encouraged us to reunite...they assured me he had been rehabilitated.....object-sustain...I reside in Seattle WA...in 2008 stationed in Virginia Beach....contact with Father..mainly cellular phone....months of July to Dec 2008...conversation with Father about this...no sir- he would mention what going on...(object...) did you Father state to you he knew something about this case...yes sir but @ the time I didn't know it was about this case....in Nov. 2008 he told me he knew where the remains were....he told me but he never said a name....but in Dec 11th he called and told me he found the remains..I asked why he didnt mention this to LE before and he avoid topic...did he make other statements about this case? no sir...what telephone number? given...jb looks for some evidence...confers with LDB...wants to enter exhibit#....no object...stipulation between State of fl and defendant...true records and accurate for cell records from 6/1/08 thru 12/30/08....receive in evidence phone records....did Father ever mention he found caylee skull? how know it was November....i told my wife and mother around thanksgiving.....i had to reside @ my unit unfortunately....no ill will toward father now or at that time....
Cross- LDB confers w/JA, & Mr. george....
LDB - Mr. Sparks....followed footsteps of both Father and Grandfather in coastguard...in 2008 living in Virginia Beach...not until 10/2009 signed a statement for defense regarding whatever happened...refer to telephone call from Father we talked of today...hands him papers...defense #71 in evidence ....look @ those ...Identify phone calls made between you and your Father RK during period of time during July and Dec 2008....highlighted ...phone number for RK starts 321 ...programmed into phone...had 757 programmed into phone....re-instigated contact with Father in nov 2008 didn't tell your Mother..l.no didn't....kept that from Mom from time you initiated contact? yes mam...tell me which one on there referred to in direct testimony as having received in 2008....can't tell you...didn't remember it was Nov 2008 until reminded of that fact by Mom and Wife - nothing you had recollection of you had to be reminded....until Dec. 11th...in Oct 2009 signed a statement typed by somebody else...what statement? may I approach? yes mam....didn't prepare statement but signed it...that is when you said this conversation one of many occurred before Thanksgiving ...object overrule - the conversation about the skull was Dec 11th? no mam....on Dec 11th told me he urinated in the ditch and found remains of little girl....don't remember when exact he told you he saw remains...that is when you were talking with wife and Mother is when you remembered talking to you Father...he told going on tv...didn't appear on tv on 12/19/08...he wanted to keep certain amount of annonimity (keep identity secret)...
JB - were you questionedby LE in 12/2009? ....he worked for defense...after making statement has LE ever contacted you? no sir...never talked to YM? no sir...don't know who he is....didn't know anything about this case before Dec 2008....(object-goes to lack of bias) I didn't know the case until 12/11 ...how many calls with you have with your father in 2008? from June until 2009 it was 3-4 a week...at the time..he has always had imagination of saying far fetched things....object-sustain
on 12/11 your father called..realized significance of what he told you in Nov? yes sir
LDB - did your Father tell you he had taken skull had in his home/car/or anywhere in 2008...he didn't tell he had taken the skull ...no he didn't ...he found the skull...contacted LE, media blitz he was going to be on tv, hadn't seen him since 8 yrs old and you should look for him...
JB father told you he was going to be rich and famous...yes sir he did.
witness excused