Thread #2 - Post #702
JM tends to point the finger at Tyrone for all the bad things they did, just an observation seems as thou this is a diffuse and deflect tactic to shift blame. Another observation is the fact he throws off anyone whom calls about EDJD as someone looking for a reward is this also a tactic to keep others off of the case. Once she is identified he no longer has a cow to cash in own.
- Mercedes was on the street since the age of 16, he said. A black guy she fell for allowed her to be pimped in Fort Worth and Dallas
- She was very young when she was taken. At one time, she was taken from her loved ones by force, but as an adult it was willingly, McAlphin said
JD - Dallas - Left JD for Tyrone
- JD is Mercedes former pimp, Jeffrey JJ Davis, of Dallas, Phillips said
- JD, whom she ran away from with Tyrone.
Tyrone - Florida - Left Tyrone for JM
- Tyrone, detectives believe, was Mercedes pimp in Florida.
- This and the things done with Tyrone were the reason for her alias name
- Tyrone, could not get the VW (Volkswagen) to work while staying with Gail
Gail - ? - Gail is connected to Tyrone
- Gail was not happy they were still at her home, EDJD was reading to get to TX and get to work
- Tyrone, gave Gail $ 100.00
- Gail was leaving to go see her grandmother in Fresno (CA/TX)
JM - Dallas/Florida/Shreveport, Louisiana/Arkansas
- When I found out, I took Mercedes and ran for Louisiana
Children
- JM would give Mercedes money if she would come to his room at the Whitehall Motel. Mercedes told Cooksey she wanted to use that money to send presents to her children.
- McAlphin said Mercedes was older than him he said he was 26 when they met and she had two children she left with someone in Fort Worth, Texas.
- She told me her and her mother didn't get along and that her momma was raising her two kids. I know she had said the one was a girl, but I can't remember what she said the other one was.
- She told the lady that when she was there, a child had been taken away from her by social services and that when the child was taken from her, she was using another name, so she could not go get the child back, Phillips said.
JM Letters - 12/20/15
- 20 years he has wondered what happened to her children. They were left with someone in Ft Worth, TX.
- JM did not know whom they were left with, See letter 12/23/15
- Tried FB when he got of prison but nothing there
- Was he searching by their names or some other random search?
- He already knew who they were (EDJD family) from what Mercedes had told him about there location names etc..
- I believe they wanted to be sure it was her b/c it has been so long since they had seen her.
- Her sister and mother supposedly visited them not too long before she passed, he and they had only been together a year and he had met them.
- Her family convicted me a long time ago
JM Letters - 12/23/15
- We left the kids in Ft Worth with every intention of going back
- (1st the kids were left with someone that to me sounded as if JM did not know whom it was from his 1st letter. This letter states "we" left them in FW contradicting).
- I've been convicted by her family (Again) one would think the person convicted by family was EDJD however JM tends to repeat her family convicted him.
- IMO there something here that is bothersome b/c the family convicted him therefore he would do whatever he could to separate EDJD from them.
JM Letters - 1/1/15
- She was running with Tyrone
JM Letters - 1/26/16
- JM can't completely remember her name; it could be Helen or Julie
- EDJD showed JM an issue of Outlaw Biker from 1989 w/EDJD topless w/a biker gang
- Places where she may have stated her real name; Dallas - Life Foundation (Mar 1991), Shreveport Human Services (Mar 1991), Trailways Bus Ticket (Jun 1991).
- Interesting that EDJD purchased a bus ticket in Jun right before her passing assume this was the proof of the true intent to leave JM. This may have been found out by JM and was the reason for EDJD fatal ending.)
- Tyrone's last name was only mentioned in passing and I don't want to guess an be incorrect.
JM Letters Jan-16
- Gives the name Helen Stenner to a cell mate
- JM and EDJD were only together a little over a year (May/June 1990 - Jul 1991)
Thread #2 - Post #703
JM stated he met EDJD in Dallas (1990) they were together for a little over a year which that would put a time frame of May/Jun 1990. EDJD's letter places her in another state in Aug 1990. The Strouds stated EDJD stayed with them mid-late 1990 IMO JM did not meet EDJD till sometime after Aug 1990 which would put them together less than a year. EDJD's arrests started at the end of the year obviously this is when she was no longer staying with the Strouds. IMO believe the Strouds are connected to Tyrone
Thread #2 - Post # 705
Ready to get to TX and get to work" IMO if I had been to TX already or had come from TX prior to this writing ... The statement would read "ready to get back to TX and get to work" or "ready to get home to TX and get to work". This seems IMO that EDJD had not been to TX prior to the journal entry. could be wrong however the statement seems very telling. Another item is that JM stated they used their alias names while they were together (Ice/Mercedes) If she was writing about ICe his name would have been injected somewhere as (ice) However it is not. She specifically injects "tyrone", reading the journal EDJD and tyrone were having issues in which believe could not be worked and that was not long after EDJD arrived in Dallas.
Thread #2 Post #872
Had done some research awhile back, towards the end of her life EDJD jumped from the west side to the East side Dallas. Its possible she had to relocate to another area due to her arrests on the west side. This is also around the time she went into a shelter, possibly trying to get away from JM. One of my thoughts is that she was trying to get away from JM at that time and needed somewhere to go and went to the shelter and ultimately another person. Researching in the last area of Dallas she was know to be within a very short distance there is a person whom was well know to run prostitution rings. Its just my thought she went to another pimp and JM went and got her back, most likely by force. And could also be the reason she needed medical attention in Shreveport which is on the route one would take to El Dorado from Dallas. Believe it would be harder for EDJD to get out of JM's Hands in El Dorado than Dallas. This was his home turf ...she relatively did not know many people there.
Its unfortunate it is too late for EDJD to have isotope testing done. Isotope does not always immediate lead to identifying but it does give one a general direction to search in to find the one mp that fits the bill