CHARLES WORKED AT WEAVER AS A JANITOR FOR A LITTLE OVER A YEAR. STARTED WORKING THERE IN JAN. OF ’92 LEFT IN APRIL OF ’93. STATES THAT HE KNEW MICHAEL MOORE & CHRIS BYERS BUT DID NOT KNOW STEVEN BRANCH. STATES THAT HE HAD TROUBLE WITH MICHAEL MOORE 1 TIME – IT WAS SEVERAL MONTHS AGO – AFTER SCHOOL MICHAEL AND SEVERAL OTHER BOYS – ALL WENT TO WEAVER BUT DOESN’T KNOW THEIR NAMES – CAME BACK TO THE SCHOOL AND GOT INTO THE TRASH BIN AND WAS THROWING THE TRASH ONTO THE YARD. LINDA WALLACH (MAID AT WEAVER) WAS THERE ALSO. LINDA TOLD CHARLES TO CALL MS. KIRKLEY – CHARLES ISN’T SURE IF HE CALLED HER OR NOT BUT HE THINKS HE DID. HE TOLD THE BOYS THAT IF THEY DIDN’T PICK THE TRASH UP – HE WAS GOING TO CALL THE POLICE – STATES THAT THEY DID PICK IT ALL UP BUT CONTINUED TO PLAY ON THE PLAYGROUND. STATES THAT MICHAEL & CHRIS AND OTHER BOYS USED TO COME UP TO THE SCHOOL ALMOST EVERYDAY – RIDING THEIR BIKES AND PLAYING ON THE PLAYGROUND – BUT DID NOT CAUSE ANY TROUBLE FOR CHARLES.
SIGNED: HESTER
DATE: 5/27/93
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CHARLES STATES THAT HE HAD TO BE AT WORK AT 7:00 A.M. AND WOULD CLOCK OUT AT 5:45 P.M. – SOMETIMES A LITTLE EARLIER & SOMETIMES A LITTLE LATER. SOMETIMES CHARLES WOULD SEE MICHAEL MOORE RIDING A GO CART ON THE PLAYGROUND BUT STATES THAT HIS DAD AND USUALLY HIS SISTER WOULD BE THERE WITH HIM. CHARLES STATES THAT A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO HE UNLOCKED THE BACK DOOR – IT WAS SHORTLY AFTER 7:00 A.M. HE SAW MICHAEL GO INTO MRS. MILLERS ROOM – WAS NOT ANYONE ELSE IN THERE. CHARLES ASKED HIM WHAT HE WAS DOING IN THE BUILDING (KIDS WEREN’T ALLOWED IN THE BUILDING UNTIL THE BELL RANG – SHORTLY AFTER 8:00 A.M.) MICHAEL DIDN’T SAY ANYTHING HE JUST RAN OUT THE BACK DOOR. CHARLES TOLD ONE OF THE TEACHERS – MRS. JONES ABOUT IT AND SHE TOLD HIM TO TELL MRS. MILLER. WHEN MRS. MILLER GOT TO SCHOOL CHARLES TOLD HER THAT ONE OF HER STUDENTS HAD BEEN IN HER ROOM – SHE ASKED WHICH ONE AND HE SAID HE DIDN’T KNOW HIS NAME BUT HE KNEW HIS FACE. LATER THAT MORNING MS. KIRKLEY BEEPED HIM AND THEY WENT TO MRS. MILLERS ROOM
SIGNED: HESTER
DATE: 5/27/93
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AND ASKED HIM WHICH STUDENT IT WAS – CHARLES POINTED AT MICHAEL MOORE. CHARLES STATES THAT HE DOESN’T KNOW IF MICHAEL TOOK ANYTHING – HE DIDN’T SEE HIM TAKE ANYTHING AND THE TEACHER NOR THE PRINCIPAL EVER TOLD HIM.
CHARLES STATES THAT EVERY MORNING HE WOULD PICK UP THE PAPER IN THE YARD – ONE MORNING HE GAVE A STUDENT B/M (DOES NOT KNOW HIS NAME) 25 CENTS FOR HELPING HIM PICK UP THE PAPER. STATED HIS BOSS MAN MR.MIKE TOLD HIM NOT TO GIVE THE KIDS ANY MONEY – HE HIRED HIM AND HE WAS SUPPOSE TO PICK THE PAPER UP. STATED THAT HE NEVER GAVE ANY OTHER KIDS ANY MONEY AND NEVER GAVE ANY KIDS ANY CANDY.
CHARLES STATES THAT THE ONLY REASON (LETTER MARKED OUT) HE LEFT WEAVER WAS BECAUSE HE GOT A BETTER JOB MAKING MORE MONEY – BUT HE LIKED HIS JOB THERE.
STATES THAT HE DOES NOT KNOW OF ANYONE AND CAN’T IMAGINE ANYONE WANTING TO HURT THE BOYS.
CHARLES STATES THAT ONE DAY SOMETIME THIS YEAR IT WAS COLD OUTSIDE – AFTER SCHOOL – AFTR THE JR.
SIGNED: HESTER
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DATE: 5/27/93
HIGH KIDS WERE OUT & GONE – ONE OF THE WEAVER KIDS THAT WAS PLAYING ON THE PLAY GROUND (NOT ONE OF THE VICTIMS) CAME TO THE OFFICER WHERE CHARLES WAS CLEANING AND TOLD HIM THAT (WORD MARKED OUT) THERE WAS A MAN IN THE DITCH. CHARLES WENT OUT TO LOOK (DITCH AREA BEHIND THE TEACHERS PARKING AREA – EAST SIDE) AND SAW A W/M (WORD MARKED OUT) LYING IN THE DITCH WITH A FIFTH OF WHISKEY NEXT TO HIM. CHARLES STATED THAT IT WAS RIGHT AT DARK AND DID NOT GET A GOOD LOOK AT HIM AND CAN NOT PROVIDE A DESCRIPTION. STATES THAT HE WENT BACK IN AND CALLED THE POLICE AND THEY CAME AND TOOK HIM IN. NEVER SAW THAT GUY AGAIN.
