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Family keeps spotlight on missing Los Gatos woman
Matthew B. Stannard, Chronicle Staff Writer

Wednesday, August 22, 2001



More than three weeks after she vanished, the family and friends of Los Gatos resident Jeanine Harms are expanding their attempts to find her, with two billboards in the past few days and a Web site that was scheduled for a major redesign last night.

Jeanine Harms, 42, also known as Jeanine Sanchez, was last seen about 10 p. m. on July 27. Police say she left the Rock Bottom Brewery in Campbell with a male friend, en route to her home on Chirco Drive in Los Gatos.

Harms was reported missing by co-workers the next Monday when she did not arrive for work as a purchasing agent at Amdahl Co. in Sunnyvale. The man she left the bar with, whom police have not identified, later told investigators that he left her home about 1 a.m. and that she was fine at the time.

Los Gatos/Monte Sereno Police Department Capt. Alana Forrest said yesterday that detectives have also spoken with William Alex Wilson III, a friend of Harms' who she apparently had arranged to meet earlier in the evening.

Police have characterized it as a suspicious missing person case.

"At this point, we're still following some leads," Forrest said. "The crime lab is still processing evidence that we seized in a couple of the residences we searched so far from the individuals who last saw her alive. I would say (the case) is still moving forward."

For their part, Harms's friends and family have been holding fund-raisers and rolling out a multimedia search effort over the past week.

That effort includes a donated professional redesign of a Web site -- www.findjeanine.com -- originally assembled by Josh Golden, a distant cousin of Harms' who had not seen her for years before she vanished -- and now worries that he will not see her again.

Harms' photo also appears on two billboards -- one near the Bay Bridge put up last Thursday, the other in San Jose on Tuesday -- owned by ADCO Outdoor Advertising of San Mateo, which donated the space.

The billboard copy was written by Rich Binell, whose wife, Chigiy, has been Harms' friend since infancy.

"I have never known life without her," Binell said yesterday. "I try to remain hopeful, but every day you lose a little more hope."

Still, Binell said she finds working on the search somewhat therapeutic.

"As long as we stay busy doing what we're doing, which is the multimedia effort, and don't think about what I'm doing, I can keep going. It's when I stop that it kind of hits me," she said.

Harms is 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighs 113 pounds. Her hair is brown with highlights and her eyes are also brown. She was last seen wearing a knee- length, short-sleeve floral pattern dress, and black strap style high-heeled sandals.

Anyone with information is urged to call the Los Gatos/Monte Sereno police tip line at (408) 395-1101.

E-mail Matthew B. Stannard at mstannard@sfchronicle.com.

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Police show mystery man's photo
Casting for leads in missing-woman case
- Alan Gathright, Chronicle Staff Writer
Saturday, August 25, 2001


Police turned up the heat yesterday on the last person known to have seen a missing Los Gatos woman alive, publicizing his name and photograph and asking for information about the man, who has stopped talking to investigators.

Police decline to call Maurice Xavier Nasmeh a suspect in Jeanine Harms' disappearance. But investigators have searched the homes and the cars of Nasmeh and a second man who also had drinks with Harms at a Campbell brewery on July 27, the night she vanished. Police also used search warrants to obtain DNA samples from both men.

Los Gatos-Monte Sereno police said they publicly identified Nasmeh, 42, a San Jose architect, after he stopped cooperating with investigators and hired an attorney. They also issued a flyer, bearing photographs of Nasmeh and Harms,

asking the public for information about Nasmeh, who accompanied Harms home.

"We really don't know why he all of sudden stonewalled us," police Sgt. Tam McCarty said yesterday. "Nasmeh is the last person reportedly to have seen her alive. Now, he's refusing to help us find Miss Harms.

"Based on that, . . . we have to go out to the public and ask for their help in case anyone else saw them together," McCarty said.

Nasmeh's attorney, John H. Hinkle, disagreed with the portrayal of his client as uncooperative. "When the police took an aggressive posture toward Mr.

Nasmeh," Hinkle said, he told his client to let his lawyer deal with investigators.

Hinkle said investigators are using his client to attract fresh leads, because their case is stalled.

"If my daughter were missing, I would hope the police would put out anything they had to try to get (the public's help)," Hinkle said. "I just hope they get the word out fairly."

The harsh scrutiny, Hinkle said, "is very difficult for Mr. Nasmeh."

"He's a well-respected man in his field and an affable guy," Hinkle said. "He feels bad that this woman is missing." The architect is editor of "Tracings," the newsletter of the American Institute of Architects Santa Clara Valley chapter.

Early in the probe, police publicly focused attention on an acquaintance of Harms, William Alex Wilson III, 42, the co-owner of the 80-year-old Wilson's Jewel Bakery, a family-owned Santa Clara institution for three generations. Wilson did not reply to requests for comment.

Harms had met Wilson for a drink at the Rock Bottom Brewery in Campbell the night she vanished, but she left with Nasmeh after 10 p.m.

Harms, 42, and Nasmeh went to The Courts Lounge in Campbell before grabbing a six-pack of beer at Jiffy Market in Los Gatos on the way to the woman's Chirco Ave. home. Harms drove her black 2000 Ford Mustang with silver racing stripes, and Nasmeh followed her in his green 1993 Jeep Cherokee.

Nasmeh told police he and Harms "had a couple beers at her place," McCarty said. "She got sleepy and fell asleep on the couch and he left." Nasmeh said he met Harms only that night and she was dozing peacefully when he left between 12:30 a.m. and 1 a.m.

Police are hoping that witnesses will come forward who can shed new light on the couple's movements and demeanor that night.

"Nasmeh says he went straight home that night," said police Sgt. Tim Morgan.

"What happens if we put this photograph out and somebody in Gilroy says, 'Hey,

I saw him in here that morning. He didn't go home.' That's significant information."

This weekend, friends who desperately cling to hope that the vivacious, funny woman might still be found alive, will post the police flyers about Nasmeh around the South Bay, said Chigiy Binell, a friend since childhood.

"You lose a little bit of hope every day," said Binell, whose husband helped create two billboards publicizing the search for Harms in San Francisco and San Jose. "I get by just really keeping very busy (with search efforts). . . . Because when you slow down, that's when its really gets you."

E-mail Alan Gathright at agathright@sfchronicle.com.

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Wednesday, August 1, 2001



Police are looking for a Los Gatos woman who apparently vanished early Saturday morning after leaving a Campbell area bar with a man.

The man, whom police declined to name, told officers that he followed Jeanine Harms from the Rock Bottom Brewery to her home about 10 p.m. on Friday and left the home two to three hours later after "socializing and chatting."

"He said that when he left Ms. Harms she was fine and nothing was amiss," said Sgt. Kerry Harris of the Los Gatos, Monte Sereno Police Department. "Naturally, we are pursuing a variety of other leads and looking to corroborate his statements."

Harms, 42, was reported missing by co-workers Monday morning after she did not arrive for work at Amdahl Corp. Harms had spent Friday night with friends at two Campbell nightclubs before leaving for home with a man whom friends described as stocky and 40ish, and driving a green Jeep.

Police tracked down that man yesterday, but still have found no trace of Harms. A search of Harms' home revealed that her purse and keys are missing.

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Bones found in woods to be tested for clues
Los Gatos woman not believed to be source of remains
- Maria Alicia Gaura, Chronicle Staff Writer
Sunday, February 29, 2004


The skull and bones found on a woodsy Los Gatos hillside are almost certainly not the remains of Jeanine Harms, a local woman who vanished in July 2001, Santa Clara County sheriff's officials said Saturday.

"I understand that the coroner was 99 percent sure that it wasn't her" after comparison of the skull with a set of Harms' dental X-rays, said Deputy Terrence Helm, spokesman for the Sheriff's Department.

The skull was found Thursday with the upper jaw intact and "an excellent set of teeth," Helm said. The pelvic bone found along with the skull appears to be that of an adult woman, he said.

The coroner's office is hoping that an examination of the remains by San Jose State anthropology Professor Lorna Pierce will reveal the race, age, appearance and approximate time of death of the victim, Helm said.

The grim discovery was made by a hiker in the rough and sparsely populated area adjacent to Lexington Reservoir. The skull was found under bushes on a steep slope about 50 yards from Beardsley Road and about a half- mile from Highway 17, where the hiker and his dog were looking for mushrooms brought up by recent rains.

One deputy slipped and broke an ankle looking for clues on the treacherous slope, while others used ropes and ladders to search the area. No signs of a grave site were found, nor any clothing or personal effects, Helm said.

The discovery took place just two days before Harms' friends and family, who have lobbied tirelessly to keep the investigation into her disappearance open, dedicated a bench in her memory in front of the Los Gatos Civic Center.

Investigators believe that Harms, 42, was slain, but leads in the case have apparently petered out.

The scenic hills above Los Gatos have frequently yielded the remains of homicide victims over the years. With its winding roads, thickets of poison oak and redwoods, and complete lack of lighting at night, the area has provided killers a convenient drop site for victims.

In 1995, a man hunting for antique bottles found the skeleton of Russell Jordan, a 16-year-old Los Gatos High School student who had vanished in 1982. Jordan's killer, fellow student Sean Viehwig, was sentenced to six years in prison for the killing in January.

In January 2001, a child's skull was discovered by a construction worker driving on a narrow road above Los Gatos. DNA analysis proved it to be the remains of Xiana Fairchild, a 7-year-old Vallejo girl who vanished in December 1999 on her way to school.

Any new discovery of bones in the area causes homicide investigators from throughout the region to dust off dormant cases, just in case.

"My guess is that the detectives on these cases would take their dental X- rays and walk them right down to the coroner's office," Helm said. "But so far we don't see anyone claiming these bones. We're no closer today than we were yesterday."

E-mail Maria Gaura at mgaura@sfchronicle.com.

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Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance

Missing Since: July 27, 2001 from Los Gatos, California
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date Of Birth: June 10, 1959
Age: 42 years old
Height and Weight: 5'5, 118 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Hispanic female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Harms has a burn scar on the center of her right inner thigh. Her ears are pierced. Harms may use her maiden name, Sanchez. Some agencies give her last name as "Harms-Sanchez." She wears contact lenses.
Clothing/Jewelry Description: A light blue floral-printed cotton dress, black high-heeled sandals, hoop earrings, silver bracelets, silver rings, and a silver watch with an expandable metallic band and a round face that had numbers printed on it.


Details of Disappearance

Harms met her friends at Bucca di Beppo's in the Pruneyard Shopping Center in Campbell, California on July 27, 2001. She said that she had a date at 7:00 p.m. and was just passing time until then. Harms and her date went to Court's Lounge with a group of people during the evening. They returned to Rock Bottom Brewery in the shopping center later and smoked marijuana in the parking lot with Maurice Xavier Nasmeh and a friend of Nasmeh's. A photograph of Nasmeh is posted below this case summary. He is an architect from San Jose, California. Harms went to her home with him later that evening. He told authorities that he followed her to her residence on Chirco Drive in Los Gatos. Harms was driving her black 2000 Ford Mustang with silver stripes.
Nasmeh stated that he departed from Harms's home between approximately 12:30 and 1:00 a.m. He said that she was nearly asleep on her sofa at the time. Nasmeh said that he did not observe any unusual activity around Harms's residence. She has never been heard from again.

Harms's friends and family became concerned when they failed to reach her over the following weekend. Her cellular phone had been turned off. Her loved ones said it is uncharacteristic of Harms to not contact anyone regarding her plans. The authorities were summoned to her home to file a missing person's report on July 30, three days after she disappeared.

A neighbor of Harms told authorities that he heard a "loud, percussive sound" in the vicinity of her apartment after midnight the day she disappeared. He said he saw a bald man, about 40 years old and with a mustache, drive away from the apartment afterwards.

There was no sign of a struggle inside Harms's residence. Her car was parked outside, but her cellular phone, a brightly colored Nokia model, and her purse, which is described as black in color with a short handle, and her keys were missing. A red and blue Persian-style five foot by seven foot area rug with white fringe, slipcover and cushions from her sofa were missing. Photographs of items similar to the ones missing from Harms's apartment are posted below this case summary. The couch cushions that are missing are approximately 22 inches long, 22 inches wide, and 6 inches thick.

In December 2004, three and a half years after Harms vanished, police arrested Nasmeh and charged him with her murder. He has been a suspect in the case since it started, but had hired an attorney and refused to cooperate with police. Investigators say they got a break in the case when a woman came forward and said she had found Harms's Persian rug rolled up in a dumpster at a construction site half a mile from Nasmeh's home. (The other missing items have not been located.) Unique fibers from the rug were found in Harms's apartment, and in the bed of Nasmeh's 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee. This was the evidence used to link Nasmeh to Harms's presumed murder. Nasmeh also matches the description of the man seen driving away from her apartment the day she disappeared. He is awaiting trial and her body has not been found.

Harms was employed at the Amdahl Corporation in Sunnyvale, California in 2001. She is described as a responsible and dependable individual. Her family believes that foul play was involved in Harms's disappearance. She was in the process of an amicable divorce in 2001, but Harms and her estranged husband remained friends. Foul play is suspected in her case due to the circumstances involved.




Top Row: Couch similar to Harms's;
Bottom Left: Cellular phone similar to Harms's;
Bottom Right: Slipcover similar to Harms's

Above: Nasmeh, circa 2004



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If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Los Gatos Police Department
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Source Information
FindJeanine.com
America's Most Wanted
California Attorney General's Office
The San Jose Mercury News
The Campbell Reporter
The Sunnyvale Sun
The National Center for Missing Adults
The San Francisco Chronicle



Updated 1 time since October 12, 2004.

Last updated December 24, 2004.

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Details Released On Human Remains Found In Los Gatos

POSTED: 1:52 pm PDT March 12, 2008
UPDATED: 5:53 pm PDT March 12, 2008


The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office and the Santa Clara County Coroner's Office said the human remains found last week on Beardsley Road in the Los Gatos Mountains are that of an adult female.

Investigators said based upon evidence collected at the scene, detectives are treating the case as a homicide investigation.


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The age of the remains, the duration the remains have been in the ground, the ethnicity, or any possible identity of the victim have not been determined, according to authorities.


Detectives said they are processing the evidence and may do DNA analysis.

A transient collecting bottles and cans found the bones at about 6 p.m. Friday in a rugged, rural area near Black and Beardsley roads and reported them to the sheriff's office.

Investigators sectioned off the area in a grid and sifted through the top layers of earth looking for evidence, Morrissey said.

The nearby roads are mainly traveled only by residents who live along them, Morrissey said.

The bones were found away from the road near a creek.

"You would never find them unless you were down there looking," Morrissey said.

The medical examiner's office will continue to examine the skeletal remains to see if there is any evidence of trauma.

There are several missing person's case in the Bay Area. There is also a missing person's case out of Los Gatos. Jeanine Harms was last seen on July 27, 2001. A suspect has been arrested and charged with her murder even though body has never been found.

Anyone with information about the remains is asked to call authorities at 408-808-4500. For anonymous tips, call 408-808-4537.

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years later, Jeanine Harms case still a mystery
Nine years later, family and friends still agonize
By Linda Goldston lgoldston@mercurynews.com
Posted: 07/25/2010 09:06:15 PM PDT
Updated: 07/25/2010 09:06:15 PM PDT


It is one of the most perplexing disappearances in Silicon Valley.

Forty-two-year-old Jeanine Harms vanished after meeting two men in a Campbell bar on a hot July night.

Police said she was murdered and buried somewhere, but few clues were left behind to guide them. No body. No blood. No DNA linked to either man she saw that night.

Now, nine years later, dozens of lives remain on hold or forever altered by what happened that night, July 27, 2001. Her parents, Jess and Georgette Sanchez of Campbell, think of her every day and dream of the day they can bring her home, dead or alive. Her family and friends shed anniversary tears on her birthday, her favorite holidays, on that dreaded day when she vanished from their lives.

Many of the officers involved with the case have moved on to other jobs or retired. And San Jose architect Maurice Nasmeh, the last person known to have seen Harms alive and the man authorities say is the key suspect, has lived with the unknown, wondering if charges against him will be refiled. He was arrested in December 2004 and held in custody for 21/2 years until the charges against him were dismissed in June 2007 after questions were raised about findings on evidence in the case.

Ongoing investigation

Police and prosecutors insist the investigation is active, that Jeanine Harms has not been reduced to a cold case file, but they refuse to discuss it. The district
attorney's office won't even say if the results are back on new tests on controversial fiber evidence that prosecutors say link Nasmeh's SUV to an area rug from Harms' home and one of her crafts projects.

"The leading expert on fibers in the country, if not the world" is working on the case, said Santa Clara County Chief Assistant District Attorney Marc Buller.

"We have an investigation that is ongoing," he said. "We believe when it's finished, we will have the ability to go forward with the case." He refused to say if that will involve refiling charges against Nasmeh or someone new.

When news broke that a pretty, single Los Gatos woman was missing and feared dead, the case quickly became one of the most high-profile crimes in decades. Billboards asked, "Have you seen Jeanine Harms?" Vigils and prayer services drew huge crowds. Scott Seaman, who took over as Los Gatos police chief in 2002, vowed to make the case a top priority.

"Many people in the community would like the same answer: What happened to Jeanine?" Seaman said.

Harms began that July day with trepidation. She had agreed to meet a man for drinks she'd stood up for a date two weeks before. Alex Wilson, a former owner of Wilson's Bakery, a Santa Clara landmark, had pestered her with calls and she was nervous, she told her friends and family.

After having dinner with her best friend at the nearby Buca di Beppo, Harms walked across to Rock Bottom Brewery at 7 p.m., arriving before Wilson. She ordered a glass of wine while she waited and was invited to join a group, which included Nasmeh.

When Nasmeh's friends left, Harms continued drinking with Nasmeh and Wilson. They moved to another bar, and then Harms drove the two back to their cars. She had invited them both to meet her at her Los Gatos duplex.

Nasmeh told police he followed Harms home in his Grand Jeep Cherokee about 10:30 p.m. He said he was surprised when Wilson failed to show. Harms played her guitar, and they listened to music after driving together to the corner market to buy a six pack of Heineken, he told police.

Harms became sleepy and stretched out on the couch, saying Nasmeh could go or stay awhile to sober up, he said. He said when he left about 12:30 a.m., Harms was dozing on the couch.

Harms failed to call her friend Janice Burnham the next morning, as she'd said she would. Her close friend and landlord Chigiy Edson-Binell saw Harms' car in her driveway late in the morning and noticed the curtains were still closed. Her parents were surprised when she failed to show for a family barbecue.

Charges dismissed

A police appeal in 2003 for anyone who might have information about a Persian rug missing from her apartment led to a San Jose woman contacting police. She said she had found a similar rug in a dumpster sometime in the summer of 2001. The county crime lab said not only was the rug the same one as the missing rug from Harms' home, but it matched fibers found in the cargo area of Nasmeh's Jeep Cherokee. So did a crafts rug Harms had been making, the lab said.

Nasmeh was arrested in December 2004. During his preliminary hearing, however, it was revealed that the technician who tested the fibers had failed proficiency tests in fiber analysis.

Charges against Nasmeh were dismissed in June 2007. At a news conference, he accused police of wrongly identifying him as a suspect and then working to make the evidence fit.

Approached several times by the Mercury News to talk about his life since then, Nasmeh said the toll on his family and friends had been too great, and he preferred to remain silent.

Harms would have turned 51 in June. Tuesday will mark the ninth year she's been missing.

"It almost seems like it's not real anymore," Burnham said. Then she remembers the sinking feeling when she happens to drive by places they had been together.

So do her parents.

"Before we die, we want to find out what happened and where her remains are," her father said. "It won't bring her back, but at least we'll know."

Contact Linda Goldston at 408-920-5862.

TIPS? If you have information about the case, call Los Gatos-Monte Sereno police at 408-827-3209 or CrimeStoppers at 408-947-STOP.
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Murder-suicide linked to missing person's case
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- Police have tied a murder-suicide at a Peet's Coffee shop to one of the Bay Area's most well-known missing person's cases.


Police say the prime suspect in the Jeanine Harms missing person case was shot and killed by Harms' brother. The brother then shot and killed himself.

It happened Saturday night at the El Paseo De Saratoga Shopping Center in San Jose. Police say 46-year-old Maurice Nasmeh was inside Peet's Coffee when Jeanine Harms' brother, 52-year-old Wayne Sanchez, confronted him and opened fire. Police say the two initially ran into each other a short time earlier at a Red Robin restaurant where Sanchez accused Nasmeh of his sister's murder.


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42-year-old Jeanine Harms of Los Gatos has been missing since 2001. Nasmeh was with Harms the night before she disappeared and was in custody for more than two years in connection with her disappearance, until charges were dismissed when questions surfaced about the evidence in the case.

"The suspect retrieved a handgun and fatally shot the victim. The suspect then exited Peet's Coffee, went out into the parking lot, and as the officers arrived to the scene, they heard what they believe was a single gunshot," said San Jose Police Officer Jose Garcia. "So, they went over to investigate that gunshot and they found the suspect deceased in the parking lot with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound."

Nasmeh had long insisted his innocence in Harms' disappearance. He was one of two men who were out drinking with her the night before she disappeared.

As for Saturday night's shooting, police are trying to determine if Harms' brother was stalking Nasmeh or if the two met by coincidence.
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9 years later, Jeanine Harms case still a mysteryIt had been gnawing at Wayne Sanchez for years: The chief suspect in his sister Jeanine Harms' disappearance almost a decade ago was living as a free man and authorities had not brought him to justice.

"He always said, 'I hope I never run into that guy,' " Wayne Sanchez's uncle, Dan Sanchez, said Monday.

But according to relatives, that's exactly what happened Saturday night -- a chance encounter at a Red Robin restaurant at the El Paseo de Saratoga Shopping Center that ended nearby with Sanchez shooting longtime suspect Maurice Nasmeh to death inside a Peet's Coffee & Tea. As police arrived, he shot himself to death in the parking lot.

Family and friends gathered Monday at the little blue house off Hamilton Avenue, about a half a mile from the Red Robin, that Sanchez shared with his parents. Jess and Georgette Sanchez, who are both in their 80s, raised their three children there. With two of them now gone, they waited Monday for their eldest child, Craig Sanchez, to arrive from the East Coast to grieve together.

Some of his friends painted a picture of an otherwise easygoing man, an unemployed 52-year-old who adored his two grown daughters and toddler grandson. He loved to fish and play guitar. He was a student of world history.

It appeared, however, that Sanchez had problems. He was divorced at least once and filed for bankruptcy twice, according to friends and public records. And in an interview with police shortly after


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his sister disappeared, Sanchez admitted that "a long time ago" he hit his sister "in the face a couple of times with an open hand," according to a police report obtained by the Mercury News.

Those interviewed Monday said they didn't even know he owned a gun.

But the mystery of his sister's disappearance in July 2001 and possible murder were a constant frustration, they said.

"He always felt that this guy got away with murder," said Lucy Sanchez Crumpton, Sanchez's aunt. "Wayne just happened to run into him. There was nothing premeditated."

Police are trying to determine whether it was a chance encounter or whether Sanchez had been stalking Nasmeh, San Jose police Officer Jose Garcia said Monday. They are also investigating whether Sanchez was armed at the Red Robin or retrieved the gun from his car, his home or somewhere else.

Garcia did say, however, that Nasmeh was with a friend at the Red Robin at the time of the initial confrontation. That person -- police wouldn't say whether it was a man or woman -- accompanied Nasmeh to Peet's, where he was shot.

"Investigators are being very, very cautious in not releasing too many details now," Garcia said.

Nasmeh, 46, had long professed his innocence. Although he had been arrested and spent two years in jail while awaiting trial, charges were dropped in 2007. A judge threw out fiber evidence found in Nasmeh's trunk that prosecutors say linked him to a rug missing from Harms' apartment.

A crime lab technician who had tested the fibers was deemed unqualified, but prosecutors say they are retesting the evidence and are waiting for results.

Harms' body has never been found. No charges were ever filed against a second man, Alex Wilson, whom Harms had stood up before and had reluctantly agreed to meet for a date that night in July. Both Nasmeh and Wilson had cocktails with Harms at the Rock Bottom Brewery at Campbell's Pruneyard the night she disappeared. Although Harms invited both men back to her Los Gatos apartment that night, only Nasmeh told police he had joined her. He left after midnight, he had said, after he listened to Harms play her guitar, then doze off on the couch.

With police keeping quiet about the status of the investigation, however, Wayne Sanchez continued to believe Nasmeh was guilty and was the one person who knew where to find the remains of his sister.

"He was angry, really, really frustrated that they couldn't catch the real killer," said Ray Monahan, a close friend of Sanchez's who gathered with the family Monday. "He was very upset with her missing and was very upset that the authorities couldn't get closure on it."

Still, he said, for the most part Sanchez was a "great guy" with a "wonderful sense of humor. He was gracious, conscientious, just a helpful, nice guy."

Monahan and Sanchez had been friends since they met nearly a decade ago while enrolled at a medical billing school -- a career that proved fruitless for both of them. The last job Monahan remembers Sanchez having, he said, was as a heavy-equipment operator about a year ago.

His sister's disappearance was devastating to him, Monahan said: "His life became sidetracked after that."

Sanchez was apparently a regular at the Red Robin, a casual restaurant not far from his home that shares a parking lot with the AMC Saratoga theaters.

Police said Sanchez confronted Nasmeh at the restaurant Saturday night and accused him of killing his sister. Sanchez left briefly and returned, then followed Nasmeh to the Peet's across the parking lot and killed him, police said. As police arrived on the scene, they heard a gunshot in the parking lot and found Sanchez dead.

Peet's was closed for the day Sunday but reopened Monday morning. The murder-suicide was a big topic of conversation among the patrons.

"It takes a toll on people when they get no closure, a constant wound of someone turning the knife in," said Sandy Chase of Los Gatos, who was sitting at an outside table with her husband. "It's too bad they never figured out what happened."

Mercury News staff writers Linda Goldston and Sean Webby contributed to this report. Contact Julia Prodis Sulek at 408-278-3409.

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9 years later, Jeanine Harms case still a mysteryThe victim is still missing, the prime suspect is now dead, but the burning question in one of Silicon Valley's most troubling and captivating mysteries over the past decade looms larger than ever: What happened to Jeanine Harms?

Did San Jose architect Maurice Nasmeh kill and dispose of the 42-year-old Los Gatos woman after a chance meeting at a Campbell bar, as police and prosecutors have claimed for 9 ½ years?

Or was somebody else responsible when she vanished in 2001? Could her brother, Wayne Sanchez, have killed an innocent man a week ago in a startling vigilante-style attack at a San Jose coffee shop before turning the gun on himself?

Now, with two families racked by grief and the case still unsolved, more questions have surfaced about the investigation into what happened to Harms.

One thing is certain: If Nasmeh killed Harms, authorities have never been able to make the case.

The two met by chance at the Rock Bottom Brewery in the Pruneyard shopping center on July 27, 2001. Nasmeh had gone for drinks after work that Friday night with friends. Harms was waiting to meet a man she had stood up just weeks before, when one of Nasmeh's female friends asked her to join their table. Later that night, she had invited both Nasmeh and her date, Alex Wilson, former owner of a popular Santa Clara bakery, to her home.

Nasmeh accepted. Wilson did not. Harms was never seen again.

Three years later, Nasmeh was arrested


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and jailed on murder charges after a San Jose woman came forward with a Persian-style rug she had found that matched one missing from Harms' Los Gatos duplex. Investigators relied heavily on crime lab tests that were supposed to have linked fibers plucked from the rug with fibers found in the cargo area of Nasmeh's Jeep Cherokee.

But the evidence was challenged and the charges dismissed, freeing Nasmeh from jail, over what seemed at the time like a correctable problem: The crime lab technician was not certified for his job. Prosecutors vowed to retest the fibers at a top national lab.

That was 31/2 years ago -- and, even now, prosecutors say it will be six more months before new tests are completed.

Puzzling delays

What's taking so long? Prosecutors won't say. But the amount of time makes no sense to one prominent criminal defense attorney.

"If you're actually testing them, it doesn't take long at all," said Oakland attorney Cliff Gardner, who has handled numerous high-profile cases and argued three times before the U.S. Supreme Court. "It could be they're looking for someone to get a better result. You either clear him (Nasmeh), in which case he doesn't get shot, or you implicate him and he gets arrested. It's a tragedy for all."

The case has dragged on so long it has passed through three district attorneys, and newly elected District Attorney Jeff Rosen said he will keep pursuing the truth.

"Maurice Nasmeh is the one who murdered her, I have no doubt," said Mike Schembri, who was asked to work on the Harms case while he was an investigator with the District Attorney's Office. He now works for the Santa Clara Police Department.

Last week, after Harms' brother killed Nasmeh, Schembri said, "I have nothing to say." But in earlier interviews with the Mercury News, he said, "within several months, it was pretty apparent to me the person we wanted to concentrate on was Nasmeh. He got bigger and bigger and bigger."

Why Nasmeh?

Still, despite Nasmeh's death, neither Schembri nor Los Gatos Police Chief Scott Seaman nor prosecutors have been willing to reveal what -- besides the discredited fiber evidence -- convinced them Nasmeh was their man.

Over the past year, the Mercury News obtained and reviewed hundreds of documents connected to the case, and a reporter repeatedly visited Nasmeh, who was unwilling to speak for publication. The records show:


Police had discovered one of Nasmeh's fingerprints on a rear-seat window of Harms' Mustang and discovered that he had been with her the night she disappeared and was the last person known to have seen her alive. Four days later, when police showed up to interview him, they asked why he hadn't come forward sooner. He told them he had just found out about Harms that morning after a friend who was with him at the bar saw a news report.


Investigators thought it strange that when Nasmeh left Harms' home, he took two empty beer cans and four full cans of Heineken from a six-pack the two had bought near her duplex.


Two years after Harms vanished, a San Jose woman read a story in the Mercury News and saw a picture of the Persian-style rug missing from Harms' home. The woman said she and her daughter had found the rug in July or August 2001, about the time Harms disappeared, behind a shopping center at Leigh and Hillsdale avenues -- 0.6 miles from Nasmeh's home at the time.

Investigators believed Nasmeh had wrapped Harms' body in the rug and placed it in his jeep. Ever since, they have sought the fiber evidence to prove it.

Another suspect?

But the stacks of police reports, court documents and affidavits obtained by the Mercury News provide an abundance of material -- most of it never publicized before -- that also raise doubts about the case against Nasmeh.

The documents show that from the beginning, it was a troubled investigation. Los Gatos police named an officer who had never handled a murder case as the chief investigator. Initially, there were two main suspects -- Nasmeh, who would have turned 47 next month, and Wilson, son of Bill Wilson, former mayor of Santa Clara.

Harms had first met Wilson weeks before at another bar, when he grabbed one of her business cards as she tried to hand it to someone else. In the weeks after, she told friends he had called and called. She tried to talk her friends into going with her to meet him that night at the Rock Bottom Brewery, but they all had plans.

As the night progressed, Harms, Nasmeh and Wilson piled into Harms' Mustang to go to another bar, with Wilson in the front passenger seat, Nasmeh in the back. Later, Harms invited both men to her home to party.

Nasmeh told police he followed Harms home and had expected to see Wilson show up as well, but he never did. They each drank one Heineken and shared a marijuana joint, Nasmeh told investigators. She was napping on the couch when he left about 12:30 a.m., he said.

When Harms failed to call her best friend the next morning and missed a family barbecue on Sunday, the mystery began.

Inconsistencies?

On Monday, police found her car in the driveway. Missing from the home were her purse, car keys, the Persian rug, a slip cover and two couch pillows. Within days, police served search warrants at the homes of both Nasmeh and Wilson. Those warrants and other affidavits show:


Police did tape lifts and vacuumed for evidence in Nasmeh's car. They did not vacuum the trunk of Wilson's Mercedes-Benz.


An affidavit for a search warrant to scour property owned by Wilson's family near Mount Hamilton stated Wilson "was angry that Jeanine had involved this third party (Maurice Nasmeh) and he did not meet with Jeanine Harms and Maurice Nasmeh at Jeanine Harms' house." According to a police report, Wilson told police several times that Harms was a "psycho b****h."


The same affidavit said two San Jose police bloodhounds "identified the scent of Jeanine Harms in the back seat of Alex Wilson's vehicle." He had told police that Harms had never been inside his car. No similar test was done with Nasmeh's 2000 Jeep Cherokee.

Chuck Wall, a former San Jose police sergeant who was head of the department's K-9 unit, remembers the bloodhounds zeroing in on Wilson's car. "They both jumped into the rear seat of the car and they both jumped into the trunk of the car and started howling," Wall, who now runs a San Jose security company, told the Mercury News.

'Really not a killer'

Wilson was never arrested or charged in the case, and both investigators and Wilson's attorney, Joe Wall, have insisted he played no part in the Harms' mystery.

"I have no doubt in my mind that Wilson did not do this," said Dale Sanderson, the Deputy District Attorney in charge of the case. He has declined to elaborate.

Schembri, the lead investigator, said "If you talk to Wilson and get to know the guy, he's really not a killer."

Dan Jensen, Nasmeh's attorney, who believes his now-slain client was innocent, said "the pain never stops for the families."

But even as they wait for test results, Harms' family knows they may never be able to do the one thing her parents pray for every day -- bring their daughter home for burial.

Georgette and Jess Sanchez have been through so much, they no longer have the strength to face the questions.

As Jess Sanchez told a reporter last week. "I just want to be left alone."

Contact Linda Goldston at 408-920-5862.

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Posted: 02/24/2011 04:04:51 PM PST
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In another strange twist in one of the South Bay's most notorious crimes, the family of the chief suspect in Jeanine Harms' disappearance found women's clothing, shoes and what appears to be a clump of human hair in his San Jose home.

Maurice Nasmeh's mother discovered the items while boxing up the San Jose architect's belongings after he was famously gunned down by Harms' brother last month in a vigilante-style killing.

Relatives on Wednesday gave Los Gatos police two small nylon bags filled with the clothes and shoes and a small sealed plastic sandwich bag containing hair. The items will be tested to determine whether they are linked to the 2001 disappearance of Harms, whose body has never been found.

The unusual items were found almost six weeks after Nasmeh, 46, was killed inside a Peet's coffee shop by Harms' brother Wayne Sanchez, who then ran outside and turned the gun on himself.

"It will be analyzed like any piece of physical evidence the police take possession of that might have relevance in a case," said Brian Welch, the Santa Clara County deputy district attorney who leads the office's homicide unit. "The extent of the process won't be known until the criminalists begin their work."

Nasmeh's family found the clothes and hair while sorting through items in the small house he rented on East Hedding Street in San Jose.

"We have nothing to hide," his mother, Doris, told the Mercury News. "I don't think the hair means
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anything, but if it would help," the family thought it should be turned in.

The items were found in a laundry closet. The plastic bag with the hair was behind the nylon bags, family members said.

"It wasn't hidden," Nasmeh's mother said. "It was in with the linens and a bunch of things like nail clippers. It could have belonged to a girlfriend. It's not a whole bag of hair; it had two strands, like pearls."

Nasmeh wasn't married but did have a girlfriend, who was with him the night he was killed.

Nasmeh's family allowed a Mercury News reporter to visually examine the bags and hair before they were turned in to police. The hair is a light brown color with highlights. At the time she disappeared, Harms' hair was brown with highlights. Pieces of what appear to be lint can be seen in at least two places on the swirl of hair in the bag. A crumpled brown wrapper from a medium-size Reese's peanut butter cup was in the bottom of the bag.

Welch and Los Gatos police Chief Scott Seaman declined to discuss the items because they have yet to be processed at the crime lab.

Nasmeh is the last person known to have seen Harms before she disappeared on the night of July 27, 2001. Harms met Nasmeh at a bar that night and invited him and a man she had a date with to her home for a nightcap.

Nasmeh was arrested in December 2004 and held in custody for 21/2 years. But charges were dismissed in June 2007 after questions were raised about fiber evidence that authorities said connected Nasmeh to Harms. Prosecutors vowed to retest the evidence at a top lab and refile charges about a year later.

One of the former lead investigators on the case, Mike Schembri, told the Mercury News last year that all test results were due back by December and Nasmeh would be arrested and recharged any day after that. But almost four years after his release, Nasmeh remained a free man until his deadly encounter with Harms' brother.

"What we have to do now is decide how we proceed on this case," Welch said.

Welch and assistant district attorney Jay Boyarsky two weeks ago asked the prosecutor on the case -- Dale Sanderson -- to write a memo detailing the reasons he believes Nasmeh killed Harms and to explain why retesting fibers has taken so long.

The memo is due next week and Welch said he doesn't know whether it will be made public, now or later.

Welch had tried to reach Harms' parents, Jess and Georgette Sanchez, on the Friday before their son Wayne shot and killed Nasmeh and then killed himself. There was no answer, and an answering machine did not click on.

"You can't help but wonder, had I gotten through, would they have shared it with their son and would things have gone differently," Welch said.

Nasmeh's mother said the family wants the same answers as anyone else, especially the one that has burdened so many hearts for nearly 10 years: What happened to Jeanine Harms?

"I know he didn't do it," she said. "It was painful to him and to us."
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Posted: 02/06/2011 06:23:12 AM PST
Updated: 02/06/2011 07:59:00 AM PST

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She didn't know that Maurice Nasmeh, the man she had been dating for a month, was the chief suspect in one of Silicon Valley's biggest mysteries in a decade: the disappearance of Jeanine Harms.

She didn't know the man with a gun standing three feet away was Harms' bereaved brother, Wayne Sanchez.

"Move," the man with the pistol demanded as she blocked her boyfriend, "or I'll kill you, too."

In the next horrifying blur, the 44-year-old Peninsula woman standing between Nasmeh and Sanchez in a crowded San Jose Peet's Coffee shop remembers shuffling to her right ... one, two, maybe three steps.

"Pow. Pow. Pow," she remembers hearing, as a simple Saturday night date suddenly turned tragic.

"I just stood there, like, oh my God," the woman told the Mercury News in her first interview since being caught in the middle of a chance meeting Jan. 15 between the longtime murder suspect she was unwittingly dating and a vengeful brother. "It felt like a long time, but time must slow down when you're in a thing like that."

'Breathe, baby'

She remembers Nasmeh stumbling to the floor and the ensuing chaos.

She remembers praying Nasmeh would survive. She remembers Sanchez "just standing there" and then seeming to vanish while she came to Nasmeh's aid. She remembers Peet's employees and customers cautiously emerging from their hiding place inside a back office and restroom, trembling.

"I
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heard Maurice make a sound," said the woman, who asked that her name not be used to protect her safety. Blood spilled from Nasmeh's mouth. "Breathe, baby, breathe," she remembers pleading with him.

"By then, Wayne Sanchez was gone and the people in Peet's were like, "Where is he? Where is he?' " she said.

Not until Sanchez was gone did it dawn on her: Could he have killed her too?

Her story fills in many of the blanks about what led to the deadly encounter between the two men that Saturday night at the El Paseo de Saratoga shopping center: The two men apparently didn't recognize each other at first. Sanchez was alone. But it also leaves many questions unanswered. She never heard Sanchez say a thing about Harms, or call Nasmeh a killer. She remembers Sanchez shouting but didn't know what it was about.

The most sinister and odd thing she remembers Sanchez saying was: "What's your boyfriend's name? Tell your boyfriend to tell you what his name is."

"True Grit" and Sharks

It all unfolded in an eerily calm and surreal way when the couple happened to take a seat at the bar of the nearby Red Robin restaurant as they waited for a table. Although they didn't know it, the only open bar stool was next to Sanchez.

They were grabbing a drink before catching a movie, the woman said. "I said, 'baby, I won't put you through 'Black Swan' again, what do you want to see?' "

Nasmeh chose "True Grit."

He had offered the one empty bar stool to his date, whose feet were tired from high heels, she said. "I told him, 'baby, I'm sacrificing for beauty.' "

The woman said it didn't appear that Nasmeh and Sanchez recognized one another. At least, not at first.

Together all three watched the Sharks hockey game on the bar television while Nasmeh and Sanchez casually talked about sports.

"The guy's team was losing and he seemed disgruntled," the woman said.

She said Sanchez had walked out of the bar a couple of times and the last time, Nasmeh started to sit on his stool but was told by the bartender that the man would be back, that he was a regular.

Sanchez reclaimed his seat and the unlikely trio kept watching the game. At some point, a couple at the other end of the bar got up and left. The woman said Sanchez helped them carry one of those chairs down to their end of the bar so they could sit together.

An eerie coincidence

It was exactly how Nasmeh had met Sanchez's sister, Harms, almost a decade ago. On July 27, 2001, Nasmeh had gone for drinks after work with friends and later was invited by Harms for a nightcap at her Los Gatos duplex. Police say he is the last one known to see Harms alive. He was arrested on suspicion of murder and spent more than two years in jail before questions about key fiber evidence doomed the case. He was released and charges were dismissed while prosecutors vowed to have the evidence retested.

Almost four years later, unbeknownst to him, he was sitting at a bar next to Harms' brother.

When Nasmeh and the woman left the Red Robin and headed for Peet's, Sanchez suddenly approached them. Not until then, did the woman sense tension between the two men. Still, she didn't know why.

"Suddenly I hear this man asking, 'So what's your boyfriend's name? Tell your boyfriend to tell you what his name is.' "

The woman said she told Sanchez she didn't speak for her boyfriend and said, "Baby, do you want to speak for yourself?" The woman was walking in the middle, with Nasmeh on her right and Sanchez on her left.

Nasmeh "said something to him and it seemed like he was going to fight with the guy," the woman said. "Then the guy turns the other way. I said, 'What is wrong with that man? He's crazy, he's drunk.' Maurice watched him turn around and said, 'He's turned around, he's going the other way.' I said, 'Are you sure?' He was trying to reassure me it was fine."

'It's a gun'

She said Peet's was crowded when they walked in and took a table in the back. Nasmeh was facing the front doors. She was facing the bathroom.

Suddenly, "Maurice stood up. He had a serious look on his face and I stood and looked." It was Sanchez.

"At this point, Maurice is facing my back and I'm facing Wayne Sanchez. I say to the staff, 'Can someone please help him, we need help? Can you call security or the man in charge?' "

A Peet's manager called 911 at 9:19 p.m., and reported: "I need somebody escorted out of the store right now. He's causing a problem."

The manager told the emergency operator it was a verbal fight and then shrieked, "Holy (expletive), he has a gun or a knife." Seconds passed, "He just pulled it out, it's a gun," the manager said. A few more seconds passed, "Oh my God, he shot somebody! Oh my God! Oh my God," the Peet's manager told 911.

As police pulled up, they heard a single shot in the parking lot. Sanchez, a 52-year-old unemployed father of two teenage girls who lived with his parents, had turned the gun on himself and was lying dead on the pavement. He had sometimes said to friends, "I hope I never run into that guy."

Sanchez thought the 46-year-old architect had gotten away with killing his sister, friends and relatives said.

Two men were dead within minutes on a busy Saturday night at a popular shopping center in West San Jose.

In a case already filled with twists, it was a shocking turn.

Nasmeh's girlfriend said she knew little of the story before her terrifying role that Saturday night. After being introduced by a mutual friend, Nasmeh and the woman started dating. After the killing, she said police questioned her for 12 hours, and kept asking, "Didn't he tell you what he did?"

She said Nasmeh had told her that he spent two years in jail for something he didn't do. She said she didn't press him for details.

"I miss him," she said. "It seems unreal."

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pivotal moments in a harrowing night

THE EVENING BEGINS: Maurice Nasmeh and his date attend a birthday party before deciding to watch a movie. "Baby, I won't put you through 'Black Swan' again, what do you want to see?" she asks before the pair settle on "True Grit."
CHANCE MEETING: The couple meet Wayne Sanchez at Red Robin while waiting for their movie. When Nasmeh and the woman walk to Peet's Coffee, Sanchez follows. "Suddenly I hear this man asking, 'so what's your boyfriend's name? Tell your boyfriend to tell you what his name is,' " she said.
FATAL END: Sanchez leaves after shooting Nasmeh, with whom the woman pleads, "Breathe, baby, breathe."
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Here is a Mercury News transcript of the 911 audio recording that captured the chaos and fear of a coffeehouse employee as a vigilante-style murder-suicide unfolded, leaving the suspect in the 2001 disappearance of Jeanine Harms and her brother dead.

Dispatcher: San Jose emergency what are you reporting?

Peet's employee: Hi. I have a "... I need someone escorted out of my store right away. He's causing problems.

Dispatcher: OK. Ah, like is he fighting with people?

Employee: Yeah he's fighting with somebody right now.

Dispatcher: OK. Is it a physical fight or verbal?

Employee: Verbal.

Dispatcher: What is the address we need to come out to?

Unknown person: Oh

Employee: Holy (expletive).

Dispatcher: What is the address?

Employee: He's got a knife or a gun. He has a gun or a knife. OK.

Dispatcher: Stay on the phone. What's the address?

Employee: OK, OK, OK. The address is 1330 El Paseo de Saratoga.

Dispatcher: And what makes you think he has a gun or a knife?

Employee: He just pulled it out "... it's a gun

Dispatcher: OK, but there's a difference.

Employee: It's a gun it's a gun. OK. Go. Go. Go-Go-Go-Go. In the bathroom. Go.

In the background, man heard swearing, followed by a popping sound.

Dispatcher: OK and so this guy "...

Employee: Oh my god he shot somebody. Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. Holy God. Holy (expletive). Holy (expletive).
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OK.

Dispatcher: OK. Are you safe?

Employee: Yeah, we're in the bathroom. Locked in the bathroom.

Dispatcher: OK. So this guy is he white, black, Hispanic or Asian?

Employee: He's white.

Dispatcher: How old does he look?

Employee: What?

Dispatcher: How old does he look?

Employee: Ah, 40.

Dispatcher: Is he tall short or medium for a man?

Employee: Ahh. Medium.

Dispatcher: Heavy, thin or medium?

Employee: Ahh, heavy, thin or medium.

Dispatchers: Come on.

Employee to others: Is he heavy? Is he heavy?

Dispatcher: Come on "...

Employee: He's wearing a Giants sweater and a Sharks hat.

Dispatcher: A Giants sweater and "....

Employee to someone else: What is it?

Employee: Giants sweater and Giants hat.

Dispatcher: And a Giants hat, not a Shark but a Giants baseball cap.

Employee: Yeah.

Dispatcher: OK. Stay on the phone with me, OK? I want a get really good description. Listen, I've got units on their way out there right now. OK. They're going to Peet's Coffee at 1330 El Paseo de Saratoga.

Employee: Yes.

Dispatcher: And ah, let me just update this, just a second. You said you saw somebody get shot or you just heard him fire the gun?

Employee: No, we heard "...

Dispatcher: OK so you heard him fire the gun, but you don't know if anybody's shot?

Employee to someone else: Is somebody shot?

Unintelligible "....

Employee: Yes somebody is shot.

Dispatcher: OK. So the guy who is shot is it a male or a female?

Employee: I don't know.

Dispatcher: OK. Do we have any age or anything like that?

Employee: I don't know.

Dispatcher: OK.

Employee: I can't "... I can't go out there.

Dispatcher: I don't want you to. I don't want you to. But I've got units on their way. I want a good description of this guy so we catch him. OK? So it's a white male adult, he's about 40 years old, he's got a medium height. And then his weight? Is he heavy, skinny or medium?

Employee: Ah, medium.

Dispatcher: What color hair? Do you remember?

Employee: Ah, dark hair under his hat. Short.

Dispatcher: Dark hair, dark short hair. Did he come in a car, do you remember?

Employee: No, I don't know what kind of car "...

Dispatcher: OK. That's fine. So it was a Giants baseball cap and a Giants sweatshirt, right.

Employee: Ah, yeah.

Dispatcher: OK.

Employee to somebody else: Lock the doors. Please.

Dispatcher: Listen we've got units in the area. I don't want anybody getting hurt so if you're in a safe place, I want you stay there, all right? OK. Where are you at right now?

Employee: We're in the backroom. Ah, I'm in the backroom. But every "... he's gone.

Dispatcher: OK, he left?

Employee: He's gone but somebody is shot.

Dispatcher: OK, so the guy that's shot, is it male or female?

Employee to somebody else: Is it a guy or "... is it a male or female that's shot?

Someone else: Male.

Employee: Male.

Dispatcher: Male. How old does he look? 20s? 30s? 40s?

Employee: Cops are here.

Dispatcher: OK.

Employee to someone else: How old, how old is the guy that's shot?

Unintelligible.

Employee: Ah. Oh my god, oh my god. OK, can you, can we shut the door?

Dispatcher: OK. The police are there now. And what is your name, hun?

Section missing "...

Dispatcher: "... Then talk to the officers OK? Thank you for calling.

Employee: OK. Thank you so much. Bye.
Lauran

"If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente.


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