Opinion ID: 1171490
Heading Depth: 5
Heading Rank: 7

Heading: Defendant's statement to Detective Eihl on August 16.

Text: Because defendant had made a tentative identification, Eihl asked him for more information. Defendant told Eihl that he knew the victim only as Mary and that they had washed dishes together at Rainbow Village two nights earlier. Asked when he last saw Mary, defendant said they had partied the night before in a van just outside the gate. Defendant's account of the party was generally similar to that provided by Jim Prew. He named the others in the group and said that all except Greg had gone to Richmond with Chris. On the way back from Richmond, defendant said, they stopped to buy beer. Coming down the dump road, they picked Greg up and drove back to Rainbow Village. Shortly after that, according to defendant, the party broke up and everybody went their separate ways. Eihl asked defendant what he did after that. Defendant told him he saw Mary and Greg as he was walking out the dump road from Rainbow Village to Ledger's Liquor Store. Mary and Greg asked him for a match; [4] defendant stopped to give them one and smoked some marijuana with them. He then proceeded to Ledger's, but found it closed and returned to the village. He got some money and went to various locations to try to purchase some marijuana. When it grew light out, he went to a laundromat in the area of University and San Pablo Avenues. After finishing his laundry, he returned to Rainbow Village. [5] There he ran into Harry Shorman, who told him there was a body floating in the water. Defendant told Eihl he went down to observe.