How I received information from an Orange County Coroner's investigator, "C, " follows. I am not capable of making up this sort of story, I must say.

It's weird to follow this story because it makes no sense. Except, it clarifies that our deputy coroner doesn't have her department's facts at hand. It also clarifies "lists" handed out are manipulated by coroners' investigators, the guilty ones, we must assume.

There's big money at stake. No one in our coroner's office will willingly give it up.

I have the cronies nailed to two positions.

• One, those in the coroner's office proper. These are county employees in direct contact with victims.
• Two, investigators in the field with influence over victim's families.

5hy5tr3ea proved out almost 1 year ago a grieving tax payer called me to clean for him. He was first referred by a "man at the counter" to a competitor. My caller then found me because the other company, the crony company, "charged too much."

Returning to our story, C., an investigator, claimed to hand out a California Trauma Practitioner's list as downloaded monthly from the Internet. Recipients of his list were family survivors of homicide, suicide, and unattended deaths accompanied by decomposition.

I offered C. "half of my company" if he would hand out the real list with every company on it, and if he could convince his peers to do the same.

Number two proved out when C. claimed that he didn't change California's list. I don't believe it. I told him I've been on this list for 8 years. I said, "I don't get calls from it." Then he bailed out of our discussion, flustered.

I continue this narrative to where it began.

Visiting my MD, I took a call from C. My MD agreed, since I explained I spend many hours and tens of thousands of dollars causing it to ring.

An Orange County Coroner's Investigator, whom I call "C.", asked me for a job.

"Are you kidding," I replied. Don't you know you belong to the largest group of corrupt employees in Orange County's government?

C. went on to say he would "retire soon." C. needed work, and he hadn't given any thought to what I was talking about. "Good," I thought to myself. "An honest employee" --

Anyway, I could not continue our conversation so I explained I was with my doctor.

I felt a little upset by this telephone call from the belly of the beast. I ended our talk as politely as I could. "I'll return his call later," I said to myself.

I returned C.'s call about two weeks later. Cell telephones are great for saving numbers. They're great for saving messages too, one of which I've saved belonging to C.

C. answered his telephone. When I explained who I was and that I was returning his call, he seemed startled and became very defensive.

This public servant's attitude went south to paranoia land almost instantly. "I don't know who you are. I don't even know if you are licensed" and so on. I needed to remind him that he called me first, not vice versa. Then he relates the truth of cronyism in Orange County, indirectly.

I asked C. this one question I needed an answer to.

To paraphrase, "Do you now, or have you ever, handed out a cleaning company list to your family contacts?"

"Yes." he replied, negating our Deputy Coroner's assurances that coroner's employees "never" hand out such lists.

I went on. Do you know who makes these lists?

"Yes." He replied. He then went on to explain that he copies the state health department list of trauma cleaners. He then hands out the entire list to victim's survivors.

"Amazing liar," I thought to myself. "Where's this guy coming from." He calls me for a job because he's about to retire. Now he tells me he's been handing out the state trauma practitioners list faithfully with every cleaners telephone number on it. Just like the state makes available.

To wit:

I ask, "Well, if you've been handing out the state list just as you find it on-line, why don't I receive telephone calls from victims?".

"What," he replied. "What are you talking about," or some such set of words.

I replied somthing like Socretese might:

• You give your list to victims;
• I've been on your list 8 years;
• Therefore, I should receive telephone calls (at least once in a while).

He gasped at about this moment in time and mumbled incoherently. He then hung-up. I would not say that he was "rude," I would say he was "found out." As for certain what his role in cronyism may be, I cannot say. I can say, "Love, lust, or greed lurk in our coroner's department to our tax payers' detriment."

I can say with the near certainty of a 63 year-old, teacher-counselor to juveniles and parents, untruths at best littered his replies during our conversation.

Over the years I've heard employees say 3 telephone number were handed out by area code. They affirmed that since I have a 714 area code on the state list, eventually my telephone number would be handed out to Orange County's grieving families in need of a cleanup company.

Then these conversations ended in total in 2005, which I've stateed elsewhere too often.

Then the Sheriff-Coroner insisted, "No," zero, nada lists were ever handed out by coroner's employees, never are, and never will be.

Now, C. called me; I returned his call. Suddenly I'm not OK. C.'s caught in a big fat lie. He goes, "Da," on the telephone when asked a very simple question. If you hand out the entire list, eventually someone will call me. How do you explain I do not receive calls from your lists".

Obviously, if what he said were true, someone from his list would make their way to my 714 area code number, sooner or later.

So why did he lie about handing out

the list?

Why did he contradict the deputy coroner's comments: "No one ever hands out lists to private companies in this department," to paraphrase.

I suspect that big money gained by cheating Orange County's grieving families holds a key to all of this flim-flam.

For certain, I will find no aid or comfort from our Sheriff's Department. In that agency, as no other I've experienced, lurks poor supervision and complacency at best, corruption at worse. We've seen it before.

Eddie Evans

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