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VictorRiversPressRelease



12 March 2009





Contact: Jim Idema or
Rebekah Fuller


616-635-8849 616-856-1883


PO Box
182 rebekah123081@yahoo.com


Belmont, MI 49306


info@brandellafilms.com








FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE





Film,
TV star and domestic violence champion signs Letter of Interest for
new Michigan film





Grand Rapids, Mich.
– Victor Rivers, veteran actor of film, stage and television
and spokesman for the National Network to End Domestic Violence, has
signed a Letter of Interest to participate in the production of A
Daughter’s Hope, a television feature currently in
development by local production company Brandella Films.





Rivers is best known
for his roles in such films as Blood In/Blood Out, The Mask
of Zorro, The Lost City, The Distinguished Gentleman (starring Eddie
Murphy) and The Air I Breathe. He has also appeared in
numerous roles on such television series’ as Numb3rs,
CSI: Miami, JAG and Miami Vice. Rivers can
currently be seen as Jack Reese on NBC’s acclaimed series Life.
In recent years, Rivers has chosen to lend his voice and his story as
a witness and domestic abuse survivor to the National Network to
End


Domestic
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Victor
Rivers


iolence, an alliance of shelters and statewide advocacy
groups around the country. He has also penned a memoir of his
childhood experiences entitled A Private Family Matter (Atria
Books, 2005). Rivers recently appeared on Larry King Live with
other domestic violence survivors.





“We’re
really excited about having Mr. Rivers join this wonderful project,”
said co-writer, director and producer Jim Idema. “Not only is
his talent unparalleled, but his campaign to end domestic violence is
one we applaud and embrace wholeheartedly.”





A Daughter’s
Hope is the fictional telling of the true life events of Owosso,
MI resident Christine Hill as she struggles to overcome an
extraordinarily difficult life, the most painful part of which was
the unexplained disappearance of her mother from the Florida Keys in
1981. While the case is still unresolved, this particular story
focuses on Ms. Hill as she fights with setback after setback, only to
become a stronger wife and mother to her own family. Ms. Hill is also
the co-writer of the script.





Brandella Films, based
in Grand Rapids, produced their first project in 2008; a short
entitled Respect for the Dead, which has currently been
submitted to several local and national film festivals. They hope to
begin shooting on A Daughter’s Hope sometime in 2009.





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Questions,1995 Case File Facts, Opinions and Mitchell Denker

1) When did Mitchell Denker become a Homicide Investigator?
2) Did he report he this to police in 1981? He did report his no findings of evidence, not even her red hair to the Monroe County Sheriff's Homicide Department during his 1995 interview.
3) Mitchell did say during the Same Interview that he did see a hole in the wall with blood splatters in his bedroom, while at his Iris Dr. home shortly after my Mom disappeared in 1981.

This is not what a detective on her case in 1981 told me. Detective Lynn McNeill said she saw no evidence of my Mom having been in this house. McNeill said also that she and the other Detective assigned to her case, Detective Richard Conrady both checked the entire house, even the woods surrounding the home and found nothing.

I have to assume that this could mean one or more of these things:

-Mitchell never reported the hole or blood to police when he found it. He either cleaned it or had it cleaned and the hole fixed, (He did have the tiling replaced), before my Grandmother reported my Mom missing anywhere between a month or two later. Quality time had past.
-There was never a hole or blood in this home.
-She was killed another way and/or somewhere else.
-Mitchell was protecting himself or another.
-Mitchell was either involved in her murder or was covering up his drug laundering operations he ran from his home.
-Mitchell knew the killer and didn't want to be involved because of his illegal involvements with drugs.

These are only some theories while looking at Denker. My Mom did call her Michigan friend from Mitchell's home and said she couldn't talk long because she suspected the phones were tapped and a drug bust was about to go down.
An officer from Monroe County Homicide Dept. informed me that "yes" a drug bust took place back then from his home and that Mitchell was laundering marijuana out of his Iris Dr. home.
In fact Detective James Norman told me that many law officials, including police officers from Monroe County hung out at this home and participated in these drug activities. Norman told me also that more than 1/3 of the police there were either fired for failing a polygraph or fired for refusing to take the polygraph because of their involvement with the activities from the Iris Dr. home.
The first time I ever spoke to Detective Norman. I got the impression he wasn't aware of my Mom's case details. He in fact told me that her 81 case files had to still exist and he planned a trip to Key West to find them on micro fim, where he said they all were located no matter how old. It was later that he began telling me about the police from 81.

I'm glad to know that Sheriff Roth must not have been involved in the activities in the home, well seeing as he is the Sheriff today and all. He was a Detective back in 81 and said he remembers my Mom's case well. In fact he remembers the exact incident where the former Sheriff William Freeman intentionally destroyed all 81, 82, 83 and some of 84 case files. Said it was routine to get rid of old case files. My Mom's were not old.

I was also told that her 81 case files may have been burnt in the Old Court House on Greene St. in Key West and this came from Detective Lynn McNeill.

Mitchell Denker told me that he sent my Mom's personal belongings to my Grandma during our 1990 phone conversation. But Wait a minute...??? I thought he found no evidence!! Or maybe he meant of her death?? I have been told numerous things about her belongings as well. He did say Gary Argenzio killed her. He said the same thing as Mark Ripin, Oh the girl that was murdered? in his 95 statement. Saying Gary told him he smashed my mom's head into the wall. Mark's another whole story, however I think this is a good time to point out that Mark today remembers seeing the hole and blood by the back door, in the kitchen on a Sunday afternoon.
Mark Ripin was friends with both Gary and Mitchell.

Soon I'll be placing documentation of the 95 case files here as well. For now you can read them in my blogs on the myspace site listed above. And More later on Mark Ripin and others.

Thank you for reading my blog.

P.S. Has anyone ever heard of the group, "The Big Pine 29" ?? I'm searching for more info. about this group from the 80's.