NancyB, as an aside to your link to a DNA clearance of an old case, and what can result from even a backward start and long after the church was just a shadow in memory, when I retired from the LAPD in 1990 I was the Assistant Commanding Officer of Scientific Investigation Division and Director of the Technical Laboratory. Since then, DNA has rapidly become a boon to law enforcement and frustrati
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"that little red flag," hello, and thanks. While there was bad stuff going on during my unfortune tenure with this fantasy church, I made some contacts there that had positive and lasting effects for an untold number of southern Californians regarding law enforcement that had nothing to do with the church. I provide that because in spite of the falsity and self-serving that was preemine
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fromsouthchicago, Hello, we might have a few things to reminisce about. First, I was LAPD, not LASO. I liked Bessie and Buss a lot. And Marilyn for at least 14 years. If you want, call me. These sites take too much time and I'm just learning what's what here. I've just in the last few days made other posts on other pages too.. . . Did Bessie have a brother or other family member w
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Reepicheep, thanks. I knew Stevens was a phony when I first saw and met him. He wouldn't look at me eye-to-eye and seemed even a little frightened of me. Of course, it later made more sense. But if there hadn't been Marilyn and my kids tied to her, he never would have survived to stand at another sermon . . . But I had my own future and two kids’ lives to consider so abdicated to a less
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Onion, I just recently read a lot of posts here. Pretty sad stuff. February 17, 2019 I wrote the following on March 16, 2007 and posted it at: I had just stumbled across a Church of The Living Word Fellowship web site. “Amazing”, and without “Grace.” This regards John Robert Stevens, a so-called minister. But I’ve let these lies fester for too long. So here are a few enlightening co
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