Here are questions I'm going to ask the detective in a phone call next week. Please add/suggest/criticize before I lock 'em in.
I have an appointment coming up next week with a detective in San Juan County, New Mexico. It'll be helpful to be able to get me these questions down right now. And it will be helpful to be criticized or have other ideas that I may add to ask. This is what I propose:
1. My father died in a very quiet area, with only two other people from miles. Are there parts of this investigation that seat to exclude his wife or the other man that was living on the property? The body was described as Native American or Hispanic and he was a Caucasian male. The body in the autopsy also stated that there were no recent signs of surgery when just a week before he had surery for a stab wound to his lower abdomen.
2. By his wife's father who was dying. He said, If I die, you die, buy a witness in the records. Was this witness just dismissed out of hand? His wifes father died they inherited a $2 million estate. This is a huge inheritance. Nikki submits herself that she believed her father had put a hit out on my father Sam Smith because her father disliked mine.
3. My father fled Washington State and his two firstborn son's in order to avoid paying child support. New Mexico was one of the last few States in the union tonight work with other states to make sure child support was paid even when a parent fled. In 1984 this changed, my father was sued and lost in the state of New Mexico and was ordered to start paying back child support and child support going forward to his only to natural shoulder in Seattle.
4. This burden would hangover him and his wife until we were both 18, effectively costing them money straight out of pocket. This problem hanged over both of their heads, as they were married. One can see in the records, for one reason or another, he transferred all of his interests in property to his wife. Since she was the only survivor and got to write history, we don't know why or how this happened.
5. I do not see any information in these records that showed that Nikki Smith, other man that lives on The property, or anyone else being investigated as being a part of this death. Nikki admits to fabricating witness and evidence, and both of their stories contradict each other. Joe, the man on the property, says he found the body first. Nicky Smith says she found the body first. And in another testimony she said they both found the same time. Joe admits to moving the firearm from who knows where to wherever he left it. Harley Smith was still alive when they found him-and was greeting. Who knows whether he uttered any last words or what they were, but obviously if they were damaging, nobody would relay them for obvious reasons.
6. All the stories that are related from neighbors seem to stem from Nickis words. I am in unable able to procure any investigation information about my fathers assault well he was working at a local Shamrock service station. He was handcuffed and stabbed during a minor robbery. Yes, I suppose it is possible one could be sick enough to stab themselves, but the descriptions of friends and family were that he was a fighter, survivor, and do not seem to have a death wish.
7. His wife went out of her way to exclude, lie, and commit lies of omission about the fact he had to first one son in Seattle and did her best to obfuscate the fact, and infected knowingly said they were not his sons as a witness. The investigators new this was alive, yet we were never reached out to about inheritance, they will (which she said never existed, and in evidence says they're indeed wasn't a will and I would like to know what is in it).
8. Knowing that he had two sons in Seattle, she did not even ask her family heirlooms or any of my fathers heritage back to his two sons. She did her best to lie and make sure we were erased from history and the fact that we were due ½ of whatever his possessions were.
9. His farmers insurance agent stated he had 11 policies. I'm just an average Joe, but I only have four policies and that seems like a lot. What were these policies? What did they cover? Who did they pay out to?
10. Less than six months after my father's death, their home which was occupied 100% of the time (I learned this from family members who I've communicated with) had a fire during the one weekend and no one was home. The only things lost or damaged turned out to be my father's possessions (per her words). The fire report indicates in incendiarism (arson). Started by someone in the middle of nowhere
whomever that was
I have the fire report and it can be crosschecked with the fire department there.
11. After assuring and somehow convincing agents, police, insurance and anyone else in the town that exert influence his wife has advertisements for auctions of the Smith property that state over $2 million in value. In addition to this, she out right lied about doing my father since age 3. This is an impossible statement, yet no one looked into it.
12. His wife also lied about the date they were married, as my parents (my mother and my father
Harley Smith's first marriage) was not annulled until 1980.
13. I would like to know why his wife was never a suspect in this murder. The fingerprints on the gun could never be tested with partial prints. The only two people there we're the only two survivors. Police had already patrolled the area due to records five minutes before in 15 minutes after not seeing any activity with cars or motorcycles on a 2-lane road with only one way in and out.
14. I was once rear-ended by a semi whose driver was on cocaine. He was doing 65 miles an hour and nearly killed me; indeed it was a near-death experience. There are better records, and more investigative material from this accident in this crime scene surrounding the death of a human being. The hair and all the evidence on the gun in the records were never able to be tested. They were sent to be tested, but could be matched.
All of this does not add up to me. Throughout all the evidence, it is clear Harley Smith was in a severely weakened state. He could not walk without punching over and seems to be he would be easily malleable if someone wanted to protect him from going outside, alone, in the dark.
The fact that he was a 1st Cavalry sniper and combat scout with a Purple Heart in Vietnam seems he would be smarter than to keep the lights off and go outside into the dark. I believe and will never be able to prove that this is how this happened. The smart move, obviously, when all witnesses say he would be unable to defend himself be to turn on all the lights announce yourself and that you are armed.
Nicky stated to me visit she was cremated without her permission. He was cremated only three days after his death, ensuring that nothing else on his body could ever be examined. He was cremated with no service, no honor guard for the disabled American veterans who served in the first cavalry, and to my knowledge there is no memorial for Harley smith. This does not seem appropriate for someone who would've cared about him.
I believe all of these things out of to a higher standard an average for investigating his life is murder suspect number one. Perhaps he did kill himself, but her lies, doubling back and trying to make it look like someone killed him (other than himself) could only be one of two things. Occam's razor would have us believe:
Either Harley Smith killed himself;
Either Harley Smith killed himself or someone else did and she tried to ensure that she would get benefits from his quarter of $1 million life insurance;
Or she or her partner murdered him adjusted the crime scene, and did it so well that look like a suicide.
I still do not know what she collected in inheritance insurance, if there is an insurance policy 50% of that should've went do is to first natural born son which from the beginning both of them were under the burden of to pay for and he still was up until the day he died.
I believe all of this goes above and beyond the reason to investigate her and her finances and evidence more deeply for what happened that night.
These point by point note that I made here are far from complete and her lies of omission, flat out lies, misdirection, and lies about evidence and happenings leading up to his death.
