Neil, my name is Chris Cole and I was Dave Mobilio's best friend and godfather to his son Luke. This is the first time I have been able to get on the net and view the letter written by McCrae.
I came across your website and read the timeline of the weekend.
Thank you so much for your great contribution to helping catch this coward.
My friends widowed wife, son, mother, father, sister and the rest of the family thank you too. I am very confident that this is the man we are looking for and someday will take pleasure seeing him executed but It still doesn't change the fact that my friend is dead and his son will never know his father.
Thanks again,
Chris Cole
Feel free to post this on your message board if you'd like.
Dear Chris,
Please accept my heartfelt condolances on the death of your friend. I am honored to have played some small part in the investigation that led to the apprehension of the nutball who murdered him. Please convey my condolances and respect to the family and friends of Officer Mobilio.
Very Respectfully,
Neil E. Wright
Prayers for the family and friends of the murdered policeman.
When you posted about your involvement in this case a few days ago, I wondered if it was this email.
The strange part is that I apparently received a forwarded copy of that email. However, the distribution of that message was not "left-wing". It was sites like keepandbeararms.com, bloomfieldpress.com, and generally RKBA sites.
I never saw the message. It was sent to an email address that I used on web pages that have since been removed from my server. Since the only people still sending mail to it were spammers, I had set it to auto-report the mail as spam and then dump it in the bit-bucket.
I never would have noticed, until an FBI agent in Sacramento called me. He was checking out each email in the distribution, looking for a connection. Had I actually seen the email, I would have done exactly as you did.
I did see the originating email address: (emperorsclothes@hotmail.com) and the subject (motives behind violent political action in Red Bluff, CA.). So, the originator was apparently different, even though the subject was the same. So, I'm wondering if someone remailed the original message in an attempt to get the FBI to investigate/hassle pro-gun web sites.