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TAPED TRANSCRIPT OF DEPUTY RICHARD CAIN
INTERVIEW CONDUCTED BY CORPORAL YURI MELICH
CASE NUMBER \u2013 08-74777
DECEMBER 18, 2008
YM \u2013 CORPORAL YURI MELICH
JA \u2013 SERGEANT JOHN ALLEN
RC \u2013 DEPUTY RICHARD CAIN

hours. I\u2019m Detective Melich with the Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office. Also
present is Sergeant John Allen with the Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office and uh,
Deputy Richard Cain. Uh, Richard, you\u2019re aware this is being recorded?

RC:Kethlin.
YM:Kethlin. Uhm, you remember the call?
RC:Yes.
YM:Okay. Uh, it\u2019s been a couple hours, and I know that during that time you\u2019ve had

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the woods to relieve himself. Uhm, saw something in the woods; possibly a bag
with bones. I went into the woods. He show\u2026he walk, we walked a few feet
from uh, I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s his car or my car, went into the woods. I had my
baton out because I\u2019m afraid of snakes. Uhm, he stayed by the roadway. I
walked into the woods, saw a, what I believe was yard waste and some trash. I
don\u2019t know, recall what was in the trash. I turned around and used my baton and
kind of picked through it, or flipped it around. Just moved it around. I didn\u2019t see
anything. I turned around. I tried to walk back out and fell down. Went up to the
roadway where the complainant was still and told him it\u2019s nothing.

RC:Sticks, twigs and\u2026
YM:What else?
RC:S\u2026something else in there. I don\u2019t know uh, whether it was a piece of cloth, a

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YM:So how, how big of a piece would you say it was?
RC:Oh, I don\u2019t know. Maybe about, about the size of a leaf. I, I mean\u2026.
YM:But it wasn\u2019t a leaf or a twig? It was something else\u2026.
RC:Right.
YM:\u2026.about the size of a, about the size of a leaf?
RC:Yeah (affirmative), it was\u2026.
YM:When you first went down there did you see it on top of the pile, next to the pile?
RC:No, no. After I flipped through it.
YM:Oh, okay. Now where did the gentleman stand in relation to where the pile was?
RC:At the, the entrance to the woods. He was on the grass, before the, the weeds.
YM:Okay. Let me uh\u2026 before we turned the tape on we actually walked outside. I

want to, if we, if we turn over and you look that way, right outside the window, you see outside the front of the command post there\u2019s a, the Crime Scene van, or the, the trailer. You see that?

RC:When we walked out there?
YM:Yeah (affirmative), when we were out there what side of the trailer\u2026.
RC:The\u2026.
YM:\u2026do\u2026.
RC:\u2026the far, front side.
YM:Okay, so it would be, that way is east. So\u2026.
RC:Ea\u2026.
YM:\u2026further east past the trailer?