Hands To Heaven

Finding The Evidence

Chief Ramsey
I am sitting in jail in Seattle waiting to go on trial for murder charges of Carla Steele and her children. I have been waiting for a public defender to come talk to me. I am protective custody. The witnesses against me are growing in numbers. They discovered the evidence I hid in the Steele case and it came raveling apart thread by thread. Carla had contacted one of Ray Steele's friends from the military and he was not quick enough to stop everything from happening.  The sentence was overturned against Ray and they charged me with all five murders. The Steele children were supposed to go into the Lincoln's home, but someone else took charge of them. So I don't know where they are right now.

Jason Taylor
We made sure Rays children were safe with Gail and myself. We got there just before they were going to transfer the children to the Lincoln's hands. We had all the right documents and the right attorney to assure we would get them. Carla was already dead, what no one knew was Carla had sent me evidence of being stalked and that she had reported it, but she realized it was the Chief of police Ramsey that was doing it. Ray and Carla had already set it up that Gail and I would take care of their children if something happened that he and Carla couldn't. Well we flew down by military transport and picked the children up using the documents that we had. I chose not to wear my uniform because it might cause an issue. We left with the children without giving the court a forwarding address. I had a friend go check things out with Ray and Chief Ramsey. Ray had a great attorney and he finally was able to walk out of prison with the sentence overturned and his record wiped clean. We had a lot of work getting things done and was fought every step of the way until we took it out of the hands of the Montesano court system and the police department. I found myself talking to someone who could get that done. I couldn't believe the choke hold that Ramsey had on that town. The CPS department was not able to stop our actions on getting the children. We had to get them hidden and quickly. It was either that or show that they were alive and risk losing them altogether.

Gail
Ray finally gets to see his children after three torturous years in prison. We have made sure they knew that he loves them very much. We wrote pretend letters to them to reassure them of it. We also sent birthday and Christmas gifts for them. We have power of attorney over his properties and found a way to keep Ramsey from getting hold of it in a tax sale. Carrick Grey helped us with all of that. Ramsey couldn't freeze assets on Ray, like he has tried to on his other victims. Ray and the children were just as much a victim as Carla was, except he ended her life. No evidence was presented to prove Ray was guilty of killing his wife and children. The caseworker who was ordered to pick them up showed that the children had never been abused by anyone. She showed the photoshopped pictures to the court when she testified against Ramsey. Luckily she held onto everything she was given and gave copies of everything to Ramsey and head of CPS. They never looked closely at the files. She left out the fact that we took the children. She made that file disappear and placed a false one in its place. She made it to Seattle and was hired as a CPS investigator here.

Ray
Carrick advised me to sue and I followed his instructions and they settled with me very quickly. Montesano has investigators going through everything Ramsey had his hands on. People are finally realizing that they are either going down with Ramsey or they are finally going to get justice for what he did to them. My children have grown and they aren't sure who I am. They have seen photos of us together. It's going to take time for us to adjust. Gail has been a good aunt to them and Jason an uncle. We slowly get to know each other. I am staying with Jason and Gail because of my children. They are in school of some type now. Roger is in pre school.

My children finally have adjusted to the fact I am their father. It took six months and birthday parties. I had Jason sell our home and land in Montesano. I moved my business to Seattle and Carrick was my first customer. He asked for their home offices to be remodeled and build in hidden rooms between the two offices to have safes placed to contain files that needed secured. I also threw in desks that had hidden compartments in them. I brought my four children over to meet their three children. Mia loved Anastasia and Annabelle. Roger and Lyle followed Elliott and Christian around and they tried to play with them. They were both younger but they tried to throw the football. It was nice to see my children happy and playing with others. Grace and Carrick invited us back along with Jason and Gail. Gail knew that the children were going to be living with me eventually and I lucked out and found a fixer upper next to them. Gail and Jason adopted a couple of siblings the year after I moved into the house next door with my children. They visit their aunt, uncle and their new cousins Allen and Alice Taylor. Both the age of Anastasia and Annabelle and fraternal twins. The adjustment time was negligible since the twins had been in foster homes until they were finally given up for adoption. Jason and Gail are very happy with the twins and the idea they can see my children everyday.