Comments on Videos — Do you think she is appropriate for Internal Affairs?
Monday, July 30th, 2007(Updated 7/31st) First, we, the family of Stacey, are kind of new to this whole website thing and we couldn’t figure out how to put a place to make comments after viewing the videos. So please make any comments you may have about the videos after this post. As of Monday over 6300 different people have viewed the website. 2261 viewed yesterday and over 25,000 pages have been viewed total.
Second, we would like your comments about Sheriff Manning sending Lt. Pollard to “Internal Affairs” school. We have been able to confirm that in the past 3 weeks that Michelle attended the training. For those who do not know, an internal affairs officer is responsible for investigating and recommending punishment for other deputies accused of wrongdoing (from committing crimes to plain unethical conduct). Please tell us after viewing the videos if you think she should be in that position?
Third, as for the videos themselves:
a. the video at the motel is of Michelle and Ray Thompson(a convicted felon). It was filmed by private detectives hired by Ray’s wife. It is taken about 40 days after Stacey was buried and was fimed at the Comfort Inn in Havelock (Michelle and Ray lived about a mile apart in Grimesland at the time). The Pollard family did not know of its existence until months afterward. Ray’s wife tried to give a copy of this to the SBI but they wouldn’t take it.
b. For those of you who may have watched the entire press conference by Sheriff Manning on WNCT.com, you may recall him talking about the “anonymous caller on New Years Eve… and that [Manning] determined it to be a false call … by someone put up to it the by the Pollard family.” Honestly, until the press conference the Pollard family did not know the identity of the caller. We do now. His name is Marvin Cox and he told us that on the “anonymous call” he also said the Michelle was coming out of a hotel room in Havelock with a married man. Since the video was made the same day that Mr. Cox called HOW IS IT THAT SHERIFF MANNING DETERMINED IT TO BE A FALSE CALL? At the time, Mr. Cox was dating Ray Thompson’s mother. Our information is that Michelle and Ray identified the caller and that they were involved in the statement “signed” by Mr. Cox — who says he can not read or write and really doesn’t know what he signed. Again, this video and its context are important, we feel, for you to know that this isn’t just a character assassination of Michelle. Sheriff Manning did not give any of the information about the caller to his own lead investigator or the SBI. What do you think about that?
c. The video of Michelle sitting in the truck talking vulgar was filmed by her own 14 year old son. The man on the video is Ray Thompson, who is also the person who filmed the “dancing” video. It is taken about a week after Stacey died and the location is in the backyard of Ray’s house. When his wife picked up the camera and saw what was on it she hired the private investigators who took the motel video.
d. The “dancing” video is important for several reasons. Yes of course it is intended to show you just what kind of character she has, but it truly is important to the case. Michelle told everyone that she and Stacey had a “perfect marriage.” This video was taken about 2 months before Stacey died. Does it look like a perfect marriage? Do you doubt that she really had 3-way sex the night Stacey was buried after seeing that video?
Folks, we wish we didn’t have to do this. But it appears to be working. The authorities appear to be investigating the matter now for the first time. Please ask yourself why it is that none of the law enforcement agencies have copies of these videos that we would love for them to have. The family’s attorney had to give Marvin Cox’s phone number to the SBI because according to the SBI agent he “knew Mac wouldn’t give it to him.” Do you know that Michelle hired an attorney, Cherry Stokes, after she flunked the lie detector last June? Neither did the family until a week ago and the reason is that it was not noted in the SBI investigative file. Why didn’t Sheriff Manning tell you the whole story and why is it that the News & Observer gives better coverage of the story that our local news outlets??
We can’t control the press and we don’t have the backing of the Sheriffs Department or, it would appear, the SBI. Therefore, we rely on you. Please tell our story. Even if you don’t believe that she killed Stacey, does it look like anyone really tried to find out what happened that night? Everyone involved but the family has a copy of the SBI file — including Michelle and the lawyers for all the defendants. However, Joanne Burgdorff, the County Attorney, wrote in response to a public records request that the Sheriffs Department had no such records. Even though District Attorney Clark Everett gave it to Sheriff Manning twice. Also, Joanne Burgdorff said in response to a public records request asking how much taxpayer money is being spent defending all this, that no such records exist. From that are we to assume that these lawyers are working for free? A former County Commissioner tells us that Burgdorff said the lawyers were on retainer. Shouldn’t that be a public record? Don’t you have a right to know?
We have approved several comments (thank you for having the courage to make comments and yes we will protect your identity) and yes we continue to get the threatening emails from Michelle through the anonymous email addresses. She had started sending them from other computers now and apparently thinks that they can’t be traced. One commentor looked up the IP address and if you go to their website you will see that Pitt County government is one of their clients. There is actually another internet service that puts a pin on a map to show that physical location of the server. Anyway, she uses the fake names Sara and Tom and sometimes she just pretends to forward emails from other people. Wouldn’t you think someone would investigate her for witness intimidation? Pls ask someone — as a commentor did — why it is that the agency that is supposed to be protecting us has a person like this who is able to use county resources and the power of the Sheriffs Office to continue her criminal conduct?