Getting the kind of attention and setting this whole sting operation up the way my friends and I have is a whole lot like a high school basketball team upsetting the three time defending champion. It's taken a whole lot more work that people know, but the inevitable moment when the PSPD and Laurie realize that there is no other way to stop this crime but the way we've done this...it's going to be one of the greatest true crime stories ever.
When you consider how stacked against us the deck is with the PSPD, the Commissioners at the Larson Justice Center, the Assistant District Attorneys, the criminals knowing exactly what my team thinks, how desperate the situations all of my friends were in because of Laurie and all of the rest...a victory resulting in arrests of Laurie and her friends will be one of the greatest stories all time. It took meticulous planning and trust without too much thinking to get us to the point we are at right now.
We had to think without thinking....we had to act without breaking the law. We had to make it look like betrayal when it was not. We had to sell it when it didn't look right. We had to count on each other like people that lived with each other our whole lives... Every single decision on my part had to be honest...even if it meant sucking it up for years and years. Every single role had to be fulfilled as they were assigned and, for my part, I had to trust in what I knew to be true about my friends instead of what I was hearing and reading. Try doing that with a warrant on your back and a whole bunch of cops that think the wrong things about you...it isn't easy.
As it stands tonight, I feel that we have the "no win" situation for Laurie and Brian that we could have only dreamed about all those nights that we sat in our police cars with cuffs on...hoping we'd get the chance to return the favor to Laurie and her brother. Nothing gives me more satisfaction than knowing that there is no way Laurie is going to be able to get away with this now. There will eventually be an end and it's going to be sweeter than I'd ever imagined.
I made people believe that I am hearing voices in my head...and they now know it's true. Try that one on for size the next time you have to convince someone that you are right under impossible circumstances.
Perhaps the timing was just right or maybe I just set this up with years of experience. I like to think it's because Laurie did this to herself by being way too aggressive and underestimating me and my friends. Jonathan Mendenhall, Anthony Dabiere, Christopher Monti, Benjamin and Martin knew how to play Laurie's game and beat her...now she's the one with egg all over her face. Guess what? Even with egg she still isn't pretty.
I feel confident tonight...but lots more to go.
