Truman Simons in a deposition in 2003 against Brian Pardo and John McLemore over an article in a “trade magazine” where they question the guilt of David Spence and the others in the famous Lake Waco Triple Murder, blames the break up of his marriage on the article.
He forgets about his affair with the wife of Waco Fire Chief, John Johnston, “Sherre” in his first deposition. This is the second.
“Sherre”, then becomes a secretary for Vic Feazell for the next 10 years or so, AND is listed on Simons’ Private Detective license.
Simons is represented by Dave Deaconson of Waco, read how lawyer Deaconson tries to “clean up” Simons’ ideas of WHEN an affair begins.
VIC FEAZELL, TRUMAN SIMONS, NED BUTLER, and HOMER CAMPBELL (Forensics Dentist) VS BRIAN PARDO and JOHN MCLEMORE
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> > 8 Q. Do you recall having any conversations
> with
> 9 Nicoletti about his investigation into Tab
> Harper as a
> 10 potential suspect before the arrest of Muneer
> Deeb?
> 11 A. I spoke with him, but I don’t remember
> exactly
> 12 what our conversation was other than he had
> checked out
> 13 Tab Harper and didn’t feel like he was a
> suspect.
> 14 Q. Did you consider Nicoletti to be an
> extremely
> 15 effective investigator?
> 16 A. Yes, sir, I did.
> 17 Q. And if he had advised you that he had
> 18 eliminated him as a suspect, you wouldn’t have
> required
> 19 him to explain how he went about doing that?
> 20 A. I wasn’t in a position to require him
> to do
> 21 anything; I was an investigator on the case.
> 22 Q. Would he have cooperated with you in
> helping
> 23 you solve the Lake Waco murders if you had
> asked him
> 24 to?
> 25 A. Yes, sir.
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> 1 Q. But you didn’t get into the details as
> to how
> 2 he had eliminated Tab Harper as a suspect,
> correct?
> 3 A. No, sir.
> 4 Q. Is that correct?
> 5 A. Yes, sir, that’s correct.
> 6 Q. When did the relationship with Sherry
> start?
> 7 A. Do what?
> 8 Q. The relationship, the extramarital
> 9 relationship that you’re having? Isn’t her
> name
> 10 Sherry?
> 11 A. Okay. Probably in November.
> 12 Q. November of 2000?
> 13 A. Yes, sir.
> 14 Q. And is that when the actual affair
> started or
> 15 is that when you all first met or what
> significant date
> 16 is that?
> 17 A. I met her about a year before that.
> 18 Q. Okay. And kind of generally take me
> as to
> 19 what happened between the two of you in the
> year period
> 20 of time from when you met until the
> relationship became
> 21 an affair?
> 22 MR. DEACONSON: I’m going to
> object. You
> 23 don’t have to answer that. That’s wholly
> irrelevant.
> 24 Q. (BY MR. DE DIEGO) Well, the reason I’m
> asking
> 25 is because you have claimed to have been
> mentally
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> 1 anguished as a result of the statements made by
> my
> 2 clients, and I think I’m entitled — and you’ve
> also
> 3 said that you were affected by the breakup or
> the
> 4 potential breakup with your wife, and I want to
> know
> 5 what involvement that has to do with the
> breakup with
> 6 your wife in relation to anything else that may
> have
> 7 happened as a result of my — my clients’
> allegedly
> 8 defamatory statements.
> 9 MR. DEACONSON: Well, you asked
> him
> 10 what — when the alleged affair started. He
> told you
> 11 that date. Anything else before that has
> nothing to do
> 12 with anything and I think —
> 13 MR. DE DIEGO: Well, the reason I
> ask —
> 14 MR. DEACONSON: — I think that’s
> just
> 15 harassment —
> 16 MR. DE DIEGO: No, it really
> isn’t —
> 17 MR. DEACONSON: — and I’m going
> to tell
> 18 him he doesn’t have to answer.
> 19 MR. DE DIEGO: — Mr. Deaconson,
> and let
> 20 me explain why. The reason I wanted to know
> what was
> 21 the course of the affair is because it may have
> taken a
> 22 long time for it to become an affair, but
> during that
> 23 period of time it may have had an effect on Mr.
> Simons’
> 24 marriage before it actually became an affair
> that I
> 25 think I’m entitled to get into to see if that’s
> a
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> 1 potential cause of the stress or mental anguish
> that
> 2 Mr. Simons is claiming in this case.
> 3 MR. DEACONSON: Well, you know —
> 4 THE WITNESS: Can we talk a
> minute?
> 5 MR. DEACONSON: Yeah.
> 6 THE WITNESS: Can we go off the
> record a
> 7 second?
> 8 MR. DE DIEGO: Yes, sir.
> 9 THE VIDEOGRAPHER: We’re going
> off the
> 10 record at 1:27.
> 11 (Recess 1:27 to 1:32.)
> 12 THE VIDEOGRAPHER: We’re on the
> record at
> 13 1:32.
> 14 Q. (BY MR. DE DIEGO) My previous
> question, Mr.
> 15 Simons, was you mentioned you had started
> having your
> 16 dealings with Sherry — by the way, what’s her
> last
> 17 name?
> 18 A. I’d just as soon not give her last
> name.
> 19 Q. Okay. You started having your
> dealings with
> 20 Sherry approximately a year before November of
> 2001
> 21 when you started having the affair with her?
> 22 A. That’s correct.
> 23 Q. And my question was: Generally what
> 24 transpired between the two of you during that
> period of
> 25 time from about a year before sometime in
> November of
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> 1 1999 through November of 2000?
> 2 A. Do you want me to start with how I
> first met
> 3 her?
> 4 Q. Yeah, how you met her and what
> happened and
> 5 how the relationship became an affair.
> 6 A. Okay. I was investigating a murder
> case that
> 7 she had an interest in, and she came to my
> office and
> 8 asked me to not get involved in the
> investigation of
> 9 the case because she had read all the stuff
> about me in
> 10 the papers and on the Internet. And I told her
> that I
> 11 was a captain at the Sheriff’s Office and that
> I was in
> 12 charge of all the criminal investigations and I
> was
> 13 already involved in the investigation of that
> murder
> 14 case and that I didn’t think that anything that
> had
> 15 been said in the paper would jeopardize the
> potential
> 16 prosecution of that case. She also went to the
>
> 17 District Attorney’s Office and talked with them
> to try
> 18 to get them to keep me from being involved in
> the
> 19 investigation, and they told them that they
> didn’t have
> 20 any authority to do that.
> 21 And then we successfully resolved
> that
> 22 murder case as far as from the investigation
> 23 standpoint. We arrested two people; we got a
> 24 confession from one. And then her and her
> mother would
> 25 infrequently come in the office over the course
> of that
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> 1 next year inquiring about the case. And I
> talked
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A very sick woman you are. Get a life.
Hey, Susan, at least I live in the real world. YOU think Mike Mc wasn’t having sex with Miss Thang. You are in some kind of denial, poor Susan Istre, Mike Mc’s kids hate your ass so much they’ll appear on ads for Ricochet to show you their contempt for your sneaking around with their dad and breaking up his marriage. You get a fucking life, you broke up his marriage and seem to have forgotten how much everyone hates you. YOU didn’t even go to the WAKE they all hated you so much. You get real. Wake the fuck up. By the way
Mike Mc loved her and she him, see, that’s what he couldn’t tell you, and God knows you surely couldn’t see it because your head is up your ass. Big time denial in your old age. Get a life, how about honor a subpoena, little scared thing. You just can’t wrap your head around the fact he loved her. You were replaced, bitch.