News to me too! Wouldn't his car insurance have covered the total loss? Why was she buying it from him (on the easiest payment plan I've ever heard of) then?
Here's what she told Det. Flores about the car/payments during her phone call with him:
DF: Yeah.
JA: and even when things were bad between us, he was always
he would give his last
He would give his last dollar
his last whatever. He um
He was selling me his BMW, and I was actually supposed to e-mail
DF: Yeah, you mentioned that. You kind of burned it out or something.
JA: Yeah. Well, you said you found my check
in his house?
1:06:52
DF: A check
Oh yeah
the check that you gave him for a payment.
JA: Yeah. I made
Um
I guess like I
its just so dumb, like it seems so unimportant but
I guess I need to know if that check (giggles) is going to be deposited any time soon?
1:07:07
DF: No. No. After his death it cant be deposited. So
JA: Really
?
DF: Yeah.
1:07:12
JA: Okay. Well, then Ill just consider that
whatever and
Ill still owe him the full balance until they figure out what theyre going to do. Honestly,
I trashed his car and
he took it so well. Um
we were trying to figure out between my lawyers and his lawyers and Prepaid Legal and the insurance and U-Haul who was going to be held liable and, you know, it didnt matter who was held liable, the fact was, that was a debt that
I promised to pay and its just money and it isnt worth, you know anything so um
I mean as far as him getting any (?) tensions over so um
He would never
He never had any doubt that I would pay him back but he was trying to do what was difficult because
he was trying to um
work with the insurance um
to hold U-Haul accountable over how it had all gone down. He said the engine just blew up
1:07:57
DF: Now the vehicle was still in his name, correct?
JA: Yeah. He still has the
He was going to hold the title until I paid it, the balance in full.
DF: Okay. Did you guys have a written contract or anything?
JA: I had yeah
what I did is I typed out an e-mail to him and I sent it and um
I just wrote back, Just reply, I agree if you agree with this, and he wrote back um
something about you didnt say anything about youre on your own insurance and so I said, Okay and amended that, I think, and then wrote back to him, and so that was our agreement. Our agreement was I pay him what I can each month until the balance is paid off, and I
I take care of general maintenance like oil changes and tires and things like that.
1:08:30
DF: I dont know whats going on with that, with his car or anything or if its still at the shop, but his family
JA: I think its sitting there collecting dust um
DF: Yeah, his family is dealing with that because its still considered one of his assets and it goes in
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