What relationship does Dyleski have to Vitale? I've forgotten...
I think he's a neighbor.
He killed her. Before that, he was a distant neighbor, down the canyon road from Pamela's and Daniel's house.
It's possible she attended the community "barn-raising" of the straw-bale house that the Curiels built, where Scott and his mother, Esther Fielding, lived with the Curiel family, but no one knows for sure.
They weren't family or neighborhood friends, but Daniel had done some free legal work for Kim Curiel, his friends said at the time of Dyleski's arrest.
When Dyleski and his friend Robin were planning their organic marijuana-growing enterprise, Scott stole credit card statements, numbers, passwords, and so forth, from his canyon neighbors' mailboxes (or elsewhere), to charge the supplies they needed.
One of the cc numbers he stole was Karen Schneider's, who lived at another Hunsaker Canyon address. When Scott ordered some gro-lights, he gave Schneider's cc number, but Pamela's physical address as the billing address, then his own home address for the shipping address.
Since the two addresses didn't match, he was caught by the supplier, who wouldn't ship until she tried to straighten it out by calling the cc number holder, Karen Schneider.