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It really doesn't make sense. Murder? How does a kid get that in him? It's still so shocking.

But, even though his own friends are making something of his sister's death changing him, I'm really wondering how close they could've been or if they were even around each other much. It seems like more of an excuse than a reason or explanation for his change.

I forgot one other part of Esther's background. I haven't had time to really put it all together. Obviously, since Scott Edgar Dyleski was born in 1988 (the day before Halloween, no less!), then Esther and Ken were coupling at that time.

He and Deena were married ... well, I don't know when they were married, it wasn't in California. She was Deena Granger and Denika was the Dyleski child born in October, 1983, who didn't have a first name when the birth record was documented. The mother's maiden name was Granger, so that was Deena.

Denika would have turned 22 on the 1st of this month. Esther Marion Fielding had been married to Mark W. Delepine in 1974 in San Mateo Co. It appears they split sometime around 1979, when RE docs in Alameda Co. showed that she got the deed to the house and he went into some other transactions with 3 other people, Esther never appearing with him again. She had kept the name Fielding in that marriage. The ex's next liaisons and marriage partners all kept their maiden names, too.

So, Deena & Ken had Denika in fall 1983. In fall 1988, Scott was born to Esther & Ken. In 1995, Ken married Lyn, but they have no children together. In 1997, Esther married Glen Hirschberger and they have no children together. They divorced in 2001; Ken & Lyn filed for a divorce on 10-12, 3 days before the murder.

Scott is said to have another sister, but I still can't find her. There is a mysterious database listing for someone named "Bush Dyleski" connected somehow to Deena, but I can't find that name anywhere else besides two databases that used different sources.

Esther filed some RE docs in Alameda County in 1982 and 1987, among several others, with someone named Marjorie Fielding. Her mother's name was Margaret Lopez Fielding, who died in 1996, so I don't know who Marjorie is. She also has a sister named Margaret, but I don't know her married name or where she is.

I guess that's it for now, just trying to piece together Scott's history.

Oh, one other interesting thing I found ... at a dedication in August 2003, at John Muir Amphitheater, there was a list of people who were thanked for their help in planting 2000 flowers. If you do some googling on Scott's dad, Ken, he leads nature walks all the time in the area and is really in to that. Well, Ken Dyleski's name is on the "thank you" list and so is a listing for "Esther & Scott Fielding."

Could be that Scott sometimes goes by that name or his mother presents him as that. Hmmm.