REFERENCE: Discovery Documents 09/16/2010 Binder #1 - Follow Up #2 http://www.acandyrose.com/discovery091610_binder1-followup2.htm
Document: INTERVIEW-WITNESS
Author: 5165 - Thomas, Gregory S
Subject: (Witness #9) MCCONNELL, RICKY
Related date/time: Feb-16-2010 1415
Date/Time Interview: 01/26/10 at 1755 hours
Location of Interview; residence
Synopsis of Interview: Writer and Det Wallace made contact with Mr. McConnell at his residence. After being told of his information by property owner of the orange groves next to Dee Dee Moore's property, being Farkas Farms. Mr. McConnell advised he works for Mr. Farkas and lives on the orange grove property which is directly west, several hundred yards into the orange grove, to the property located at 5732 Hwy 60, which is the alleged murder scene.
Mr. McConnell advised that sometime in May of 2009, one of the other farmers in the area, by the name of Jimmy Temple, had filed a report to the Sheriff's Office of trailers and equipment being stolen. This occurred about two weeks prior to the incident where he heard what sounded like a diesel engine running or idling.
He woke up at about 2:05 in the morning, sometime in mid-May, to this particular sound. Due to the amount of thefts of equipment and tractors within the area, he advised he grabbed his gun and went outside into the orange grove to investigate. He advised he drove towards the sound and when he came upon the access road between Farkas' farm and 5732 Hwy 60, which runs north off of hwy 60 and consists of a dirt road, he observed possibly three individuals, and knows of definitely two, that were on this
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