Thought I'd add some more to this thread on Pamela Vitale's murder.
First off, Scott Dyleski, currently age 16, but who will turn 17 three days from now, was charged with 1st degree murder today in CoCoCoCo in Martinez. He was represented by a female public defender appointed by the court when his previous attorney, Thomas McKenna, resigned due to a conflict of interest.
Next court date is November 9, 1:30pm.
McKenna just quit a couple of days ago, when Scott's father, Ken Dyleski, asked that he be removed because he had represented the family the Dyleski's sued for the death of their daughter Denika in an Aug 2002 car accident. Denika's best friend, Jennifer Bagher, was the driver who was charged.
Scott was said to have hired McKenna "on his own" days before his arrest, allegedly because of the credit card scam problems for which he felt he needed a lawyer.
The 1st degree murder charge does not include special circumstances, but is considered premeditated and is "enhanced" because of the use of a bludgeon, a deadly weapon. Scott Dyleski is considered an adult for purposes of these charges.
More news: Gloria Allred is now representing Scott's girl friend (first we've heard that he had one), at whose house Scott spent several hours right after the murder. Her house has been searched, but she is not a suspect.
From kesq-tv: “…A Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department affidavit for a search warrant reveals that authorities believe Scott Dyleski went to a friend's house after the killing of Pamela Vitale.
The affidavit also says that friend told authorities Dyleski went to his girlfriend's house to have sex with her…”
I don't know if this "friend" on that Saturday was Mr. Hogg or not; maybe it was a school-age friend, if Scott told him about his sex plans. We know that's where Scott was on Wednesday, when he was arrested--at Marcus's house in Walnut Creek. It seems the search warrant in Walnut Creek might have been for the girl friend's house, and not Hogg's, as most of us thought it was.
A little more to add about Marcus that I found -- he is a Realtor in the area, which is probably why he didn't want his name bandied about in the press. He has a listing right now in Vallejo, among others, so that explains the "business trip" to Vallejo he said he took Scott on the night Scott was taken there to Hogg's home to be picked up by his father (but Scott was arrested, instead).
Marcus is married and has taken his wife's name, hyphenated before his last name. That's why I had trouble finding much about him. He is Miller-Hogg, actually. (But still the brother of Kimberly Hogg Curiel, owner of the straw-bale house with her husband Fred and his brother David.)
Also, a guest on Nancy Grace's program, a neighbor named Mitchell House, said that Pamela and Scott had met before. He was at the Nov 2002 public party for the "Amish-style barn-raising" for the hay-bale house of the Curiels. Pamela (and Dan) and Scott (and his mother) were all on-hand.
House referred to Elena Dziadevitch several times--she was a guest the previous night on NG's show. She had rented a room at the Curiels several years ago and observed Scott's change to his dark side. She and House have the same address now. He may be separated or divorced from the wife shown on his RE docs.
Also, the van found on the property where Scott and his mother lived was impounded last week and it was revealed day before yesterday that a bloody glove had been found in it. Clothes soaking in "red-tinted" water were also found in the home of a neighbor, Gerald Wheeler.
(He has been mentioned before as a neighbor and he gave DNA to cops, but I've not been able to find out much about him. He supposedly was another who had a run-in with Joe Lynch, but he is not among those who filed on Lynch, that I could find. He may be one of the people living on Dan's property--because that's where we first heard the Oxy-Clean soaking clothes were found, in an outbuilding in a sink.)