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How about jailed citizens awaiting trial? If they are acquitted, will their monies be returned? Will inmates be allowed to work off their bills or must their families pay? In Red China, when a prisoner is executed their family must pay for the bullet; and their organs are sold for transplants. When has our incarceration economy gone far enough? In Colorado, the Department of Corrections is the largest employer in the state. On the other side of that statistic is the fact that inmates are not counted among the unemployed. There but for the Grace of God... Think about it.

This woman, like many assaultive, vindictive criminal types has learned the first rule of getting the cops to do your dirty work. The rule is this: FIRST ONE TO THE COPS WINS! Go beat the hell out of a neighbor, then call police and say the neighbor assaulted you and you had to defend yourself. Your neighbor will be arrested. The only real investigation will be done by the neighbor's attorney and defense investigator (at the neighbor's expense).

There is much more to this saga. My client, Delfino Ortega, was framed for both these wife-killings on the testimony of Tom Phillips. Physical evidence proves Tom Phillips lied in 1974 and again at Ortega's trial in 2001. The frame-up was engineered in 2001 by the famous detective Lou Smit; who failed in '75 to solve the killing of Mrs. Bonicelli. The frame-up was about greed and the desire of the Bonicelli children to establish guilt in a criminal court in order to go after the big pearl in a civil court (obviously, it worked). Tom Phillips testivied his wife was shot while sitting in the front set of his car, one bullet passing through her skill, leaving an exit wound the size of a golf ball; but leaving NO outshoot of blood, hair, brain and bone on the interior of the car. Photos also prove the shooting did not happen where Phillips said, as one bullet passed through the windshiled, leaving NO glass fragments on the pavement. I know this because I am Mr. Ortega's defense investigator. At trial, I was tricked into perjury by the District Attorney, Dave Gilbert (now a Judge). In his attempt to rehabilitate Phillips, he asked if I had seen a news article which supported Phillips' story. I testified I had not seen the article and only subsequently learned that no such article existed. I gave a truthful answer to a question that was a lie. Mr. Ortega is my friend as well as my client. We first met in 1976 shortly after this series of homicides. He took me into his heart, his home and the home of his parents; hardly something one would expect from a man with murders on his conscience because, at the time, I was a special investigator for a Colorado Grand Jury. One of the reasons none of this known is the fact that the only real news source in Colorado Springs (The Gazette) is historically in the pocket of the Distrit Attorney's office.