mischief I'm sorry I keep throwing your post back up but this one kinda stuck with me a little bit. IF this is the same LR, in the second message, dated in Jan 09, sounds kinda fresh, as if this is a relatively new development. IIRC I found court records to tie LR to Maryland up until 2007 ( I may have to go back and look to be 100% sure) for not paying state taxes. That wouldn't leave a very large window for him to have met Jennifer, if he was gone from MD sometime after the end of 2006 and then appeared in CA. I've never gotten the impression that LR was with Jennifer for very long before they got those children. I have no idea why. I bet in the end we find out he'd been with her for a matter of months and that's IT.
Everything here always seems to lead back to the same question. Why did Social Services give these children to these people to begin with?!?!