possible intimidated witnesses
A number of people linked to Kait and/or Dung Nguyen suffered
suspicious injuries following her murder. Is this just coincidence, or
could these have been attempts to intimidate potential informants?
July 21, 1989 (the day of Kait’s funeral)
Sharon Smith, the last person to see Kait before the shooting,
missed the funeral because she was in the emergency room with a
severely wounded arm. (Allegedly bitten by her own dog, although
the scar suggests otherwise, and Sharon will not sign a permit to
allow the release of the emergency room report.)
July 21, 1989 (the evening of the day of
Kait’s funeral), Dung Nguyen was stabbed in the abdomen in the room
of one of the men who were his alibis for the night of the
shooting. (Alleged suicide attempt, although circumstances indicate
otherwise.)
August 2, 1989
(two weeks after Kait's murder), Ray Padilla, Dung’s close friend
and drug supplier, had his wrist slashed. (Alleged suicide
attempt).
August 2,
1989 Ray Padilla’s friends, Elena Chavez and Kathy Sanchez, who
were with him when his wrist was slashed, had their own arms and
wrists slashed. (Allegedly suicide attempts to keep Ray Padilla
company.)
February 11,
1990 (3 wks. after his arrest with Miguel Garcia and Juve Escobedo),
Dennis "Marty" Martinez was found lying in the doorway of his home
with his wrist slashed. (Alleged suicide attempt.) He survived.
February 4, 1992 (shortly after charges were dropped and he was released from prison), Miguel Garcia was shot in the lower portion of the right abdomen. The bullet came out his back. It was so close to the spine that doctors thought he was going to be paralyzed. He survived. (Alleged suicide attempt.)
September 24,
2003 Robert Garcia, APD’s alleged eye-witness to Miguel Garcia
shooting Kait, (who later turned out to have been in prison at the
time of the shooting), was found dead of a drug overdose. Someone
had dragged his body into an alley and left it there.
