Here it is, unrevised, unfinished but very long, & probably error-filled:
Ill preface this with a brief discussion of sources, which fall into three categories. First & most reliable are the documents LEK filled out herself: if anyone knew where she lived, it would be her. Of course, she misled a little in what she wrote, but for the most part this information is the most accurate we can expect. The next category includes material from Ancestry.com because that material for LEK came from agent Velling, who can be considered a reliable source for LEK, & was drawn from materials he accessed but we havent identified or used. This information is generally reliable, but not quite as reliable as what LEK reports. Other information that I would put in this category would be any information drawn from Houston area phone books. The third category is any information drawn from ____.com Ive looked at the entry for LEK, & while the addresses appear to be reliable the dates often contradict my own analyses. Since Im aware that I make mistakes, I ran a sanity check by comparing what ____.com would say about some whose addresses I knew well my father. While the addresses that source provides are often correct & for some reason that source includes some real estate my step mother owned the dates do not match known reality. For example, ____.com states he moved into the house I grew up five years after he & his stepmother sold it.
There is no clear evidence where LEK was living before July 1988. The page of notes indicate she was in the LA area in the late 1980s (at some point between 1984 & 1988), but not how long that was or precisely where in LA it was. Lacking further information, we cant safely say how close to 1984 she was there, or if she was possibly there as late as 1989.
Her known location is in the courthouse in Boise, Idaho where she provided a local address which is misspelled. Later interviews of the homeowners failed to connect her to this address; people who lived there at the time did not recognize her, let alone let her live there even for a few days, although they admitted that they gave shelter to runaways about that time. It is possible that LEK was one of those runaways & they simply didnt recognize her from the photographs, or that she learned of the address thru an acquaintance who crashed there about that time, or simply picked the address at random from the local phone book. Since the street name is wrong, I doubt the first & third possibilities, & suspect someone gave her the address as a good place for shelter, which she used for the Idaho ID card.
In different documents her SSN application, her financial aid for, & others LEK stated that she had made Dallas her home July 1988. This is supported by the bogus letter of recommendation, which states she worked for its alleged author until July 1988. Where she lived in Dallas in an apartment, as a roommate, moving from couch to couch, or simply homeless in Dallas is unknown. It is likely she had no permanent address for the first years she lived in that city; when in July 1988 LEK needed an address for her passport application, she used an address in a strip mall -- 6102 Mockingbird #191, Dallas, Texas 75214 which is most likely a mail drop along the lines of Mailboxes, Inc.
It is possible she lived somewhere nearby. The Northwest Bible Church in Dallas which features so prominently later in her life, is nearby. Unless she had a car which is possible, but so far not evidenced she would need to walk from home to that church.
We do not have a physical address for LEK until March 1990, almost two years from when she made Dallas her home. Tracing her locations, the reader may want to consult the useful map Linda9781 created in her post #97 in the third part of the main thread, dated 25 September 2015. (Link:
http://multiplottr.com/?map_id=84337) In her passport application, LEK stated it was 6266 Melody Lane Apt 3079, Dallas, Texas 75231 (then called Hyde Park, & later Tribeca on the Creek). This is the same address she used when she took her GED tests in May of that year. And on her passport application she gave a phone number for Kelly Services, which had a local branch nearby. (Need to verify where this branch was between 1988-1992.) The fact this apartment is not far from the Mockingbird address suggests she had been living in the area.
One expansion I have to this list of addresses is to consider why LEK might live at a given address. Part of this involved compiling renters reviews of the apartments LEK lived in, & although the reviews start many years after she moved out, they provide a useful relative measure of the quality of the apartments: while good apartments do decline in quality over the years, & bad ones improve, usually their quality do not change that much over 10-15 years, & when this is the case, someone will mention it. In the case of the apartments on Melody Lane, the reviews are not positive; it sounds like the kind of apartment one lives at when one has no other choice, not enough money, or knows very little about Dallas. (A reputation confirmed in post #76 by leflautist in this thread, dated 6 June 2014: The Melody Lane address has always been the slummy apartments in town. There is now an elementary school there but it has always been an area filled with drugs and crime. Not a place a woman would choose to live if they had a choice.) It is no surprise that she lived here at most two years, possibly only one year.
Another factor I looked at was how long it would take to drive from one of her addresses to the NW Bible Church; many of the apartments she lived in are clustered along highway 183, & using this highway then following highway 12 takes the driver to this church. Im speculating here, hopefully not too irresponsibly, that attending the NW Bible Church was one bit of stability in LEKs life although this speculation does lead to a complication I mention below. Anyway, according to Mapquest it would take LEK 10-20 minutes to drive from the Melody Lane apartments to this church, so I consider that she either started attending this church at this time, or if she started before 1990 she continued to attend. (Someone who knows the routes of the busses in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area during these years could check to see just how hard it would be for her to get to locations like this church from her various attested addresses; this might make clear whether she did have a car.)
Material found in Ancestry.com offers an address of 1992, 14400 Statler Blvd, Fort Worth, Texas at an unspecified date; from the same source, in 1993 she had a physical address not that far away at 3901 Oakridge Ct. Apt. 3815, Fort Worth, Texas 76155. Looking at the neighborhood, it appears these two addresses are different apartments in the same complex, which was called at the time Gateway at Centrepoint & later renamed Crest Centrepoint. She either moved to one apartment in 1992 then to the other the following year, or to one in 1993 & the other the following year; from the material we so far have, we have no information for where she lived in 1992 or 1994. Online reviews also portray these apartments negatively, but since her resume states she worked in Fort Worth between 1992 & 1998, she may have moved there to shorten her commute to work. An interesting contrast is that from these Centrepoint to the NW Bible Church, her commute ranged from 20 to 50 minutes, depending on traffic. (I can attest that a 50 minute commute is a tough one; hopefully Mapquests number was on the high end.)
LEKs next known address again comes to us from Ancestry.com, dated to 1995: 200 Bear Creek Dr. Apt. 219, Euless, Texas, then named Wildwood & later Palisades at Bear Creek. What makes this address interesting is that LEK used about the same time the mailing address of Awakening Ministries (P.O. Box 810, Euless, Texas) which is located nearby. LEK must have known someone there, or attended services which meant she may have stopped attending the NW Bible Church at this time. After all Mapquest estimates her commute to that church is 20-50 minutes. Around this time LEK started to attend University of Texas at Arlington, & Mapquest estimated her commute from Wildwood/Palisades to the UTA campus at 20-30 minutes.
According to online reviews, the Wildwood/Palisades also has a number of dissatisfied former residents although not to the degree that the Centrepoint & Hyde Park/Tribeca on the Green have. (At this point I have to wonder: when an apartment complex acquires a subpar reputation, do the owners routinely change its name?) The impression I get from comparing the reviews for these apartments is that LEK was slowly moving to better living conditions; she was gradually improving her economic condition.
The next attested address for LEK, courtesy of her bankruptcy filings, is 2436 Harwood Rd, 387, Bedford, Texas. She was clearly living there March 1997, but I have the sense she may have moved there sometime the previous year: it doesnt make much sense to move into a new apartment house & immediately declare bankruptcy; doing so invites a no-cause eviction due to understandable financial concerns of the manager & owner. (Theyd be less concerned to evict a tenant who had built up a history of paying her rent on a regular basis if she declared bankruptcy; its always a challenge to find good tenants & keep them.)
The reviews of this apartment building are on the whole favorable; this is probably the nicest place LEK had lived since moving to the Dallas area. Her Texas drivers license lists the Harwood Rd address as her permanent address, so I wouldnt be surprised if she lived here until as late as 2002. UTA was 20-30 minutes away, & the NW Bible Church a more daunting 25-60 minutes.
About this time (circa 1997) evidence that LEK also used a mailing address stops. It may be that by living at the Harwood address for several years, she had no need for a mailing address; she had a permanent address for once. Or it may be that whomever she using the mailing address to receive mail while hiding her new name & location in Houston stopped writing her. Or this may simply be an artifact created from inconsistent surviving evidence, & LEK actually maintained a mail box for years afterwards. But my guess is that she stopped paying for a mail box about this time, possibly due to one of these reasons or because with her student loan & bankruptcy debt she needed to cut all unnecessary expenses.
LEK lived at the Harwood address until around August 2002. There are a couple of reasons to pick this date for when she moved to 1978 Oak Creek Lane #16 Bedford, TX. One is indirect evidence from her resume. A common practice with resumes is, when revising one, to simply add new information at the top & not review or revise existing text; & a reasoned examination of this document shows that the quality & content of the earlier entries dont match what she wrote later. If LEK had done this, it explains why the resume begins in July 1992, years before she started college & 4 years after she came to Houston: she wanted to prove to someone she had 10 years of experience in her field, & 10 years from July 1992 points to July 2002, one month before she quit NCH.
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