Linda Dolloff’s 911 Call
What do you hear when you listen to this?
What do you hear when you listen to this?
Part One of ABC’s 20/20 on the Linda & Jeff Dolloff Story
I just watched Friday night’s 20/20 story about Linda and Jeff Dolloff. Linda tells the story of how she was shot in her hallway and never saw the person who did this her. She didn’t even hear the person who did it. Oddly, her husband was attacked with a baseball bat and he suffered severe injuries. Linda believes it was an intruder. Jeff doesn’t remember anything.
The crime happened April 11, 2009, and Linda Dolloff was convicted this May on charges she tried to kill her husband, aggravated assault and filing a false report. Her attorney, last week, has now filed for a new trial. It’s a fascinating case.
In my opinion, Linda Dolloff’s behavioral and circumstantial evidence were overwhelming.
Here are my thoughts as I watched the show:
How often do you walk down a dark hallway at night with your eyes closed? Anyone?
Jim Avila says, “An unseen attacker in the night. Her husband bleeding in his bed unable to speak.”
At one point in the conversation with Avila, she says, “The door was not completely shut” when talking about their status–which I think most people would take to interpret, she still hoped to win him back. She can’t have it both ways.
I do believe Linda was jealous that Jeff told her he was going to bring another woman home the following week to survey his life and she if she wanted to share it with him. Linda was mad she was asked to move out. Linda, in my opinion, wasn’t going to have any part of it.
I listened to the 911 call, too, and I hear nothing that supports honesty.
In my inbox this morning from Google was an interesting article. Google alerts me to all things “Eyes for Lies”. It was an article titled “How to read eyes for lies” from the UK’s The Independent.
Check it out. They mention my blog! How cool is that?
Tonight Dateline NBC will be updating the story of Dave Hawk, who I first wrote about in May of 2007. Daren Matteson, a lead homicide investigator on the case, found my post after watching the show and contacted me. He was surprised at my insight on the case since I knew nothing about it and only saw what Dateline profiled.
Daren and I have since gotten to know one another and I have followed this case with Daren as it developed. Last summer, Dave Hawk was convicted of murdering his wife, though his wife’s body was never found, and he was sentenced to life in prison.
Daren wrote a comment for my website, if you haven’t seen it:
Several years ago, I met “Eyes for Lies” after she profiled one of my homicide cases. At that time, the case had not been to court so I was not able to give many details here.
That changed when David Hawk was found guilty of killing his ex-wife, Debbie Hawk, for financial gain. In California, that mandates a life without parole sentence. Dave is now a resident of the state corrections system.
I would again like to say what a direct hit “Eyes” had for the facts in this case. Her only source of information at that time was an interview she saw of Dave Hawk on Dateline NBC regarding Debbie’s disappearance. Debbie’s body has never been found.
I feel that someone with this natural gift is far better than anyone who has training.
I’ve been in Law Enforcement for almost 30 years and would love to have met “Eyes” when I was rookie. Her talent and ability to explain the minute details she spots in deceptive people would have allowed me to put more bad guys in jail.
If Eyes for Lies tells you someone is being deceptive, believe her!
Thanks again for all your help.
With great respect,
Daren Matteson
Hanford PD
I hope you’ll tune into Dateline tonight to see all the developments in this case since Dateline last profiled it. You will get to see Daren, too! You can read my original thoughts of Dave Hawk here.
Taylor Lautner at screening of the Twilight Saga, June 28, 2010
A Facebook reader, Andy Kaufman, pointed out an excellent expression of disgust in Taylor Lautner at Zimbio.com. Click on the link to see the expression.