day. That was when it struck her that one of the three border crossers had lied.Which one of the three border crossers had lied to Larkin?
3. Homicide at 24 North Bleaker Street
File #3347D Subject: Tondayo, Keith L., homicide
Detective Inspector Mira Mirakawa
Transcript of interview with Mrs. Jolene Werner, 10:30 a.m., April 15, 2006
MIRAKAWA: This is Detective Inspector Mira Mirakawa, badge number
215TM, speaking with Mrs. Jo ...
WERNER: I’ll tell you what I saw all right I ...
MIRAKAWA: Mrs. Werner, I have to put certain information on the
tape first before I ask you questions.
WERNER: You just go ahead but I know what I saw. People think just
because — my son, he wants to put me in a home — it’s that wife
of his, she ...
MIRAKAWA: Just a minute Mrs. Werner… Mirakawa with Mrs. Jolene, that’s J-O-L-E-N-E Werner W-E-R-N-E-R, 10:30 a.m., April 15, 2006, at
her residence, 29 North Bleaker Street. Now we’ll talk, Mrs. Werner.
WERNER: Yes, that fellow at 24. I never did know his name but he was only there a year. The Wardells used to live there. Herb and Vera. I’m here 42 years next July 17. On my own since Walter’s gone. We lived over on Samson with his parents for 11 years before that. Got married right after the war you know.
MIRAKAWA: Yes, Mrs. Werner. Now, did you see anyone around Mr.Tondayo’s residence yesterday?
WERNER: He never had visitors. Seemed like he was never there neither. Went out a lot at night too. Late, I mean, 2 and 3 in the morning and sometimes not come back for a couple days or more. You know that’s just awful him being killed like that.
MIRAKAWA: But he was home yesterday, wasn’t he?
WERNER: Well he come home in the morning from wherever he was. At 9 I heard him drive in. The Dinah Macklin Show ...
MIRAKAWA: You heard him, you didn’t see him?
WERNER: I saw him. That chair there by the TV? You can see right across.
MIRAKAWA: But did you see anyone yesterday?
WERNER: No, like I said, he never had visitors. ’Course there was that survey woman in the afternoon.
MIRAKAWA: Survey woman?
WERNER: You know, one of those busybodies that come around wanting to know what toothpaste you like. Had one of those boards. Clipboards, that’s it. Never came in here though. I wouldn’t have let her in anyway. Don’t like that kind of prying.
MIRAKAWA: What time was that? Do you remember?
WERNER: Right before Oprah so it was 4 o’clock.
MIRAKAWA: Could you describe her?
WERNER: Well, I never got a good look at her face. I was on the porch when she came see, and soon as she got out of her car and I figured what she was up to, I went inside. Was going to watch Oprah anyway. She was average height I guess, taller than you but then you’re pretty short aren’t you? Her hair was to the shoulder, blonde it was. She wore slacks. Came in a car, I saw that. Blue, one of those little foreign things.
MIRAKAWA: Did she go to other houses too?
WERNER: I don’t know that. Like I said I wasn’t going to let her in so I went to the back of the house. I got another TV there. Wanted it to look like I’d gone out.
End of transcript.
File #3347D Subject: Tondayo, Keith L., homicide
Detective Inspector Mira Mirakawa
Transcript of interview with Ms. Faith Orenda, 1 p.m., April 16, 2006
MIRAKAWA: Detective Inspector Mira Mirakawa with Ms. Faith F-AI-
T-H Orenda O-R-E-N-D-A, April 16, 2006, 1 p.m., at police headquarters.
Thank you for coming in, Ms. Orenda.
ORENDA: Do I need a lawyer?
MIRAKAWA: So far this is just routine. You were the deceased’s partner?
ORENDA: Business partner. And that’s former too. Our partnership
ended three months ago. Look, I’m sure you know all this already.
Keith and I did software development. Specialized in photo
enhancement. He was the techie, I ran the business end. We parted
because — you must know this — he was cheating. Running another
service on the side. And if you’re planning to ask me about Keith
having a finger in the drug trade, I don’t know a thing about that.
He could have been for all I know. Wouldn’t surprise me. There’s
cocaine all over the photo business now.
MIRAKAWA: Who said anything about cocaine?
ORENDA: Well, nobody I guess, but that’s what’s all over now —
cocaine.
MIRAKAWA: I see. Could you tell us what is your relationship with
Martin Verdecchi?
ORENDA: What did I say? You know everything already. Martin and
I formed a legal business partnership six weeks ago.
MIRAKAWA: The two of you have the same home address, 12
Newton Road over in Dufferin.
ORENDA: We live together. That a crime or something? And our
studio and office are over the garage. Martin had a unit downtown
but he had to
