Wayne Peterson
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My name is Wayne Peterson. I had been an investigator for the San Joaquin County DA's office out of Stockton.
jacqueline achardi and mentioned to me she was there christmas time just before jack had been killed and she hears her dad mention to robert just tell me where the money is tell me what happened to the money so we decided at least i decided i was going to look into the finances
And I'm finding a period of about 18-month period before his death and even after his death that we're not finding any of these records, these financial records.
I can't remember just box after box of records.
We're looking at maybe $800,000 left in the account. And so we're trying to figure, well, where'd this money go?
Like he thought this was all behind him. The police aren't really looking at this anymore.
It appeared in examining some of these checks that the one may have been added at the end of the check.
Everything kept coming back to Robert LeChardy.
He seemed quite surprised, and I gave him the subpoena.
And Robert steps out of the elevator and I directed him where he needed to appear.
Four days passed, and then... I get a phone call from Cellular One.
And they say that Robert Licciardi had activated his cell phone, and it was called Las Vegas Cell Site 20.
A security guard had spotted Robert's green Corvette in the parking lot and was actually watching it when Robert came out.
Jacqueline McCarty, she hears her dad mention to Robert, just tell me where the money is. Tell me what happened to the money. Serving a subpoena, grand jury to the death of Jack McCarty. Robert steps out of the elevator just before the grand jury room is and I directed him where he needed to appear and he suddenly turned and went back down the elevator.
Robert's wearing a bright orange shirt with suspenders.
When we got there, of course, he invoked his right not to speak under Miranda, but Robert couldn't help from talking.
He was fast. I mean, Fast Freddy was definitely apropos as a moniker.
He's pretty narcissistic in his personality. And you could see it's kind of like some salesman you deal with where he thinks he can talk himself out of any situation.
The thinking, my part, was the accessory after the fact. Getting rid of the weapon was one thing, because I'm making a little assumption that she was the one that placed that weapon behind the washer and dryer in Albert's garage there.
It's now evening time and driving towards his house
Robert would ask some type of question and the judge would kind of give him a little insight. Do you want to get into that area? Because you bring something up, you're opening a can of worms that's going to come back and bite you.
We end up recovering all those missing bank records out of a safe at the residence.
We found evidence that he had traveled to Panama. As I recall on the invoice from the hotel he stayed at, there were several phone calls and we were able to trace it to, I find out that number was a bank not too far from the hotel that he had stayed at.
And I can remember about a block or two away seeing his Corvette back out of the driveway and seeing the headlights on it and just take off. Peterson rammed his accelerator to the floor. And I'm trying to catch up with him.
That's a suspicion, but at that time it would be impossible to even trace any of it out.