TAPED TRANSCRIPT OF TROY BROWN INTERVIEW CONDUCTED BY CORPORAL EDWARDS CASE NUMBER - 08-074777 JULY 25, 2008 EE - CORPORAL WILLIAM "ERIC" EDWARDS DR - DETECTIVE DOROTHY RIVERA TB - MR. TROY BROWN I didn't (unintelligible). D, folder three. Perfect. 11:33 a.m. on 7/25/08. Corporal Eric Edwards, Orange County Sheriffs Office, sitting in the large conference room next to the Auto Theft area, with? Detective Dorothy Rivera. Troy Brown. And Troy, can you state your date of birth for me? It is June the 5th, 1984.
Okay. We are here today, you voluntarily came here today. We're trying to ratchet down a timeline and go through some calendars. Uhm, you had an opportunity to sit down with some of your friends and try to figures some things out. I believe it was on the 20th is what we've established. July 20th. Uhm, do you remember that meeting? I do.
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Jesse, Amy, Ricardo and... And myself. Right. (Sighs.) A few high points I'd like to cover with you. Casey, uhm, she, you met her from, through an old girlfriend called Lauren... Coppel? C-O-P-P-L-E? Is that how we're spelling that? E-L. E-L? You don't have a phone number for her do you? Uh, I do. Just in case we need that. Oh, it's not saved. I just know her phone number. Uhm, 407-435-7538. Okay. And well about when did you meet Casey the first time? I met her for the first time on my, on June 5, 2007, my twenty-third birthday. Kind of developed a friendship type thing from there on out? Uhm, uh, kind of. Uh, not really until she started dating Ricardo Morales, and then that's when we became better friends just because.... Social circles? Yeah (affirmative), exactly. Now you said there was a... But she was still a friend, but uh, more of a distant friend rather than hang, seeing her all the time. EE: Yeah (affirmative), because Lauren probably didn't want you hanging out with anyone other than her? TB: DR: Uh, I wouldn't say that. (Laughs.)
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(Laughs.) I was just reading into it. Your sister, her name? My sister? Yeah. Is uh, Cara Pletzer. Pletzer?
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Spell? Uh, P-L-E-T-Z-E-R. Z-E-R. First name Cara, C-A-R-A. You said that one time she visited and the conversation came up regarding watching kids, or babysitting?
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Correct. And out of curiosity you asked Casey how much she paid and her nanny? Uh-hum (affirmative). Tell me about that occurrence. Uhm, I uh, my sister does, uh, she, she's in grad school. Does babysitting. So uhm, uh, we were talking about how much she made. And I thought that it was a low amount for uhm, being a babysitter. And I suggested that we should uhm, ask Casey because she has a nanny. And so we were out, uh, we were watching the uhm, national championship, the college basketball national championship over uhm, Ricardo's house and my sister and her husband were there. And I asked Casey how much she paid her nanny and she never uh, gave
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me a concrete answer. She just told me that, "I pay her a lot. Don't worry, she's fine." EE: TB: EE: TB: Did she ever refer to her by name, the nanny? She, not to me, no. No? Did you ever see her field a phone call from that nanny? Uhm, no. She, uh, I don't remember her ever saying hold on, I have to talk to my nanny. EE: TB: EE: Or I'm going to call my nanny? Exactly, no. Okay. Did you ever visit the nanny's house and watch her drop the baby off there? TB: EE: TB: EE: No. Or pick the baby up? No. We'll get to Melissa here in a little while. That's all I have noted. I'm going to go to the calendar book. Starting, we, we started, you guys started your uh, recollection off of May 14th where uhm, Ricardo, Casey and Troy all went to Voyage together? TB: EE: TB: EE: TB: EE: TB: Correct. And she ended up getting a flat tire, or two flat tires? Yes. And you guys went back to help her? Yes. She... 408 and 436 area? Correct.
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needed, she was trying to find a place to live. And she was uhm, searching for a new car. EE: TB: EE: Did she say what was wrong with her car? She did not. And the next time you remember even seeing Casey was at the airport when they picked, when she picked uh, Amy up on the 15th. And then Amy... TB: EE: Came back and got, yeah (affirmative). ...came back and got y'all. Okay. And then starting the 15th and the 16th is where all the uh, police involvement? Yes. Never at any time did she tell you that someone took her child and refused to return it? TB: EE: TB: EE: DR: EE: DR: No. That you can recall? No. Alright. You ever find her upset? By herself thinking, you know? Crying? Other than the night with, dealing with Brandon?[ Uhm, no. Never, I mean never alone. I, I, she was, she was upset at certain points, but it was led to believe that it was because of all the family issues that was going on. But she was, she, I mean she was upset at certain points throughout I guess whenever I would see her throughout the month of June until July. EE: Now July, that week of July where she stayed there with Amy and you guys went out quite a bit, did she seem jovial or was that where she was up....
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She, actually it was weird. It was kind of like a, almost like a roller coaster because it seemed like she was very carefree. More carefree than what she normally was. And but then there was the issues with, because then Melissa tells me that she's arguing with her mom on the phone. And then on the 3rd, or and then later that night she has problems with her brother. And I can see that she's visibly upset. But she, she's putting on this persona of she's very care, like.... But it was only when her... She.... ...family was trying to intervene? Correct, yeah (affirmative). Okay. So it was, it, it was, she was, it was, it was that issue. It was two extremes. It was either... Uh-hum (affirmative). ...she was very carefree and I guess loving life, and then there was the interaction with her family, and that's when she would, you know, be visibly upset. Okay. And nobody ever heard the conversation between them? I had never, the uhm, Melissa heard the, the, the uh.... The answers? The answers.... Uh-hum (affirmative). .. .coming from Casey. Uh-hum (affirmative).
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So uhm, she would probably be able to, to touch on that more than I can. Okay. Raise your right hand for me? You swear and affirm that everything you said today is true?
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Yes. Freely given? Yes. Excellent. 11:53 a.m., conclusion of interview.
End of recorded statement. This transcript has been reviewed for accuracy.
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