New Jersey and Arizona Connections

So Tommy Schlette had maintained my son was still alive. But I was cautioned to keep very quiet about it because there was an investigation ongoing.

His life had become bizarre the few months just before he died. He said he had called the suicide hotline and spoken of suicide, become entangled with a "part Indian" girl whose husband was a truck driver, and had all forms of mishaps with his car and police.

Moving from his employment with Pinkerton Government Security, at Vought Air Craft in Stuart, Florida, and after moving up to Grant, Florida he said he'd been working at an air force base.

Tommy admitted he'd been involved with the Sicilian mafia in New Jersey in running fireworks. He said he'd been involved in some prostitution charges which were false, and at one time he had a Florida candle business and was very rich, but lost all of the money. Those stories tracked to be true with apparent connections to Arizona that I suspected might possibly connect into some of the AZ connections I found in Kentucky.

Just before he died, Tommy said he "golfed with Mark Foley," and it was the first time he'd mentioned playing golf at all. Who was Mark Foley? It would be just a matter of weeks before the world would know who Mark Foley actually was. So how did Tommy know so much?

Tommy died just before the curious Kentucky COMAIR plane crash which I've always had personal suspicions about. After doing some of my own investigations I found that the NJ band he'd spoken of, Remember When, was real, and his former partner was now living near Asheville, NC.

Forensics accountant, Tim Snoddy was a Lexington, Kentucky COMAIR crash victim had offices in both, Stuart, Florida and Asheville, NC. In fact, if I'm right in my research, one of Snoddy's partners apparently went to the Tampa area as a pilot, and then settled in Stuart, Florida.

And then I found another interesting obituary, that of a woman in Kennelon, N.J., named Beverly Marines who had once worked for the sheriff office in Horry County, SC. The obituary listed Beverly's children as being named "Schlette."

Horry County, S.C. is the county near where Amy Frink had died and actually the Horry County police were involved in the investigations of her brutal murder. There was another Schlette located in Lexington, SC near where my son went to military school.

The Amy Frink death and death of my own son had so many similarities I have always figured they had to be someway connected. If this Schlette connection is actually New Jersey and family connected, then odds are incredible that Tommy would have contacted me at random just to "help out," if a relative had actually worked at the Horry County police department.

Were these folks kin? Ms. Marines passed away in New Jersey October, 2008 and had moved to S.C. in 1995 where she worked as a Sheriff's officer in Horry County.

Just before he died, Tommy was renting a home from a woman he'd said he'd known for years. Next door, a man had moved in and begun to build a very nice house. I tracked a man by the name who had New Jersey connections and also connections at one of the Florida keys. He was said by Tommy's landlord to be the last to see Tommy alive, and the first to find him dead.

Because I'd become involved in solving the Frink murder 1998, and my life became a living nightmare afterwards, I decided to decline Ms. Rickard's offering of the Florida detective's information who was handling Tommy's death.

I also couldn't help wondering whether Tommy Schlette was in any way associated with Tommy Doyle, another New Jersey musician who had contacted me via internet and attempted to encourage me to relocate to a condo in Florida.

Because my sons were both extremely talented musicians, a red flag went up when the "music world" seemed to take such an interest in their grieving mother.

The only other New Jersey connection I could think of was Al Coppola, President of Okonite, a vendor who wined and dined my husband at the railroad; hosting trips to Nashville's Grand Ole' Opry and a Mississippi casino gambling boat. Coppola was also a favorite of my ex-husband's boss, Phil Ogden, who also was a fan of country music.

It was just a few weeks ago I asked my son, "What kind of car was Amy was driving when she brought you back to the beach rental house that night? Because, I remember it was a brown or red colored truck, but by the street lights that night it was difficult to tell. Why am I thinking she was drivng a truck?"

My son replied, "It was a Subaru Brat, and I think it was rust colored or something like that."