Sheriff's Office Hillsborough County, Florida
INTERVIEW OF PATRICK DONEGAN Page 2 of 8
HCSO CASE NO. 10-042631
HOLLIS: Okay. And you were over at her residence last night?
DONEGAN: Yes .
HOLLIS: Okay. And what did y'all talk about last night?
DONEGAN: Well, we went over to see how she was..cause she...over the phone..we hadn't
seen her for a week or..at least a week or so. And we took her some ABC Pizza
and a salad..she likes. And then we'd all sitting down talking and..and, uh
she's telling us, oh, you know, things like they think RJ did is and all this stuff
where I..and I said, well, I wished, I could just take all of it for ya, you know.
In other words, you know...and, uh...
HOLLIS: Meaning you wanted to take the burden off your daughter?
DONEGAN: Yeah, off my daughter. And, uh..she..she said, well would you, Dad? And I
said wh..then I didn't speak too much about it. And uh..then my wife...we all
talked, you know, just carry regular conversations. And asked her...I asked
her, I think..I said, did you really do this or...or did you set...she said first
what she told was...was two black people and that shot and, uh..at first it
was in the shoulder. And..I said okay. And as she's telling us..like I's..were
going home with my wife, I said how could..she can't possibly done this by
herself. You know, that guy's pretty good size, lanky tall guy what I seen
pictures of. And plus bury him. And then she told us that here how..w..sent
her husband to lunch and that's when he..she...or whoever threw him in
the..the guys threw her in the hole, where his concrete was.
WALLACE: When you say husband, you mean her ex-husband James Moore? Correct?
DONEGAN: Yeah, dug the hole.
WALLACE: Yeah.
DONEGAN: Uh....
WALLACE: According to her?
DONEGAN: Yeah.
WALLACE: Okay.
DONEGAN: Uh, and uh, then, uh..she went and, uh...she was sweaty and
(INAUDIBLE) like that...and like I said, went and told my wife, I was
ne..never think and knew something like that going on. I cut the grass, like I
said, every week. And then she the..guys pour that driveway and pour that
concrete there, so that just really surprised me and..and, uh, stuff. And she
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