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set of triplets with Abraham, seem less affected than does Abraham, and
they refused to talk with either Det. Darcangelo or myself.
Abraham explained to me that his mother and father had been argu-
ing at approximately 0530 hours this date and that the argument had
been loud enough to awaken all three children. At approximately this
time, his father had stopped the argument and told everyone to go back
to bed. He stated that he intended to go out to the barn and sit up and
listen to the stereo, and at this time everyone did go back to bed. Abra-
ham explained that the ranch belonged to his uncle, his father’s older
brother, a Ryan Steven O’Hara, who, according to Abraham’s account,
lives in San Francisco and is homosexual. (This would tend to explain
the bodybuilding posters.) R. S. O’Hara uses this living space in the barn
only on weekends.
At approximately 0815 hours, Abraham woke up and went to the barn
to work out with weights as his father and uncle had often encouraged him
to. When he entered the barn, he noticed that the stereo was on so that the
automatic turntable arm could play repeatedly, but no music was coming
from it. His view of the rest of the room was occluded by a bookcase.
When he continued farther on into the room, he found his father hang-
ing by the neck from the overhead beams. He ran back to the main house
and woke his mother. She came back to the barn with Abraham and the
two daughters. When she saw the body, she screamed. She then hit the
deceased repeatedly in the face in an attempt to revive him. From the way
the deceased’s face was beginning to bruise, she must have hit him more
than thirty times. In my experience, the bruises are coincident with blows
struck after death and are not evidence in themselves of foul play. When
she got no reaction, she brought the children back to the main house
and tried to phone for an ambulance. Our investigation showed that the
telephone lines outside the main house had been ripped out, most likely
by the deceased on his way to the barn. Finding she could not telephone
for help, she drove the three children all the way to Santa Rosa and Ms.
Holiday’s mobile home. She was too hysterical to tell Ms. Holiday what
had happened, so Abraham was the one to give her the details.
While Abraham was giving me this information, Sandra would inter-
ject comments that corroborated his story. All she would say about the
argument was that it had to do with one of the other girls at the Winners
Circle. It is safe to say then that the deceased was normal and that homo-
sexuality was not an aggravating cause of death, despite the paraphernalia
(bodybuilding pictures, gay videotapes, and homosexual pornographic
writing) found in drawers and bookshelves in the barn. These materials,

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