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[manny]

he was my neighbor as well for several years, reconized him, needed to be 100% sure. there was something off from day one. he arrived from san miquel allende, not sure how soon i met him after that. i liked his roommate better & was in touch w/him. chris behaved weird. yak yak yak w/my very old aunt, & compulsive smoking/shaking. his roomate was concerned about crime in the area, thats why we were friends. (chris didnt care). once i saw him w/ a girl on a school uniform, about 15 or 16yrs. looked like the same girl he lived with, or maybe another. he introduced me & said, "i must look like an old perxxxt". i found him annoying, & disrespectful. we were not friends, visited once, took his class once. stayed away from him. last year one of the neighbors said he was in jail for drugs. he also taught a class in san miquel allende, & mother lived there. spoke w/him via phone a few months after his father died. he said he went back to VA for a while, looks like thats not true. dont know why he left SMA. he said he worked for micro soft or google. seems his condition got worse in upper la floresta.

[WA4KDC]

He is nothing & nobody if you happen to remember Perry March???

[manny]

perry march & his father lived here. my aunt was fond of them both, was a customer. anyway now's your chance as crime solvers want 'tips" about chris. guess more former victims will step foward in VA. the investigators want to know "how chris alluded capture". how dumb, cant they figure this out? he proberly drove here, got a tourist visa, then was here illegally, there was no passport required then. someone must of called immigration or the mexican police. just speculation. cant imagine buying an airline ticket when you escaped bail. remember it was before 9/11, easier to come & go. but how did he rent those houses? did he pay a year up front? why does the VA police care about what he did here?

[El Toro Furioso]

From that day on no one stays in my house except my gardener of 7 years.

Your gardener stays in your house?

[thevalerieleigh]

I met Chris in 2001 when we purchased a home in Ajijic. He was well educated, charming, pleasant and amazingly talented in all things electronic. Didn't see him again for many years (apparently he'd moved to San Miguel de Allende). I saw him again in Ajijic when he was doing graphic design for the Lake Chapala Review. He was a local Mac/Apple guru and had many clients in the lakeside area. All seemed well (from my personal experiences) until about 2 years ago when he lost his job, his Dad died and his girlfriend of 7-8 years dumped him. It seemed that in a relatively short amount of time, the young man I knew changed into what appeared to be a drug addict. His condition deteriorated pretty rapidly and I lost contact with him for the last 18 months. I had no idea of his alleged past history in the U.S. and basically knew him as a pretty talented techno/geek.

I do take most things I read in the paper with a pound of salt. If indeed he is found guilty of these allegations, I trust he will be required to pay his debt to society. Although I was saddened to see him spiral downward through his drug usage, I must say I never saw anything from Chris that would make me think he was a fugitive from justice in the U.S. nor did I see any evidence of an inclination towards young/teenaged girls. I believe the girlfriend he had for many years is in her late 20's at this point.

In fact, after I was sexually assaulted (almost raped) up on the hill behind Ajijic near the Capilla several years ago, he worked very hard to try and locate the young man who attacked me. He would call me every time he or one of his friends heard anything or saw someone fitting the description of the attacker. On several occasions, he drove me to worksites where this person supposedly had been seen.

I'm sure none of us know the truth at this point and can only hope that justice will prevail.

Valerie

[elbelgicano]

I met Chris in 2001 when we purchased a home in Ajijic. He was well educated, charming, pleasant and amazingly talented in all things electronic. Didn't see him again for many years (apparently he'd moved to San Miguel de Allende). I saw him again in Ajijic when he was doing graphic design for the Lake Chapala Review. He was a local Mac/Apple guru and had many clients in the lakeside area. All seemed well (from my personal experiences) until about 2 years ago when he lost his job, his Dad died and his girlfriend of 7-8 years dumped him. It seemed that in a relatively short amount of time, the young man I knew changed into what appeared to be a drug addict. His condition deteriorated pretty rapidly and I lost contact with him for the last 18 months. I had no idea of his alleged past history in the U.S. and basically knew him as a pretty talented techno/geek.

I do take most things I read in the paper with a pound of salt. If indeed he is found guilty of these allegations, I trust he will be required to pay his debt to society. Although I was saddened to see him spiral downward through his drug usage, I must say I never saw anything from Chris that would make me think he was a fugitive from justice in the U.S. nor did I see any evidence of an inclination towards young/teenaged girls. I believe the girlfriend he had for many years is in her late 20's at this point.

In fact, after I was sexually assaulted (almost raped) up on the hill behind Ajijic near the Capilla several years ago, he worked very hard to try and locate the young man who attacked me. He would call me every time he or one of his friends heard anything or saw someone fitting the description of the attacker. On several occasions, he drove me to worksites where this person supposedly had been seen.

I'm sure none of us know the truth at this point and can only hope that justice will prevail.

Valerie

Hi Val,
Thanks for putting everything in perspective again. I do not know the man but as always, there is always more than one side to a story.
And as you said, let us hope that justice will prevail.

Bye !
Rony

[lcscats]

There are so, so many locally it would blow your mind.

LOL I agree... It blew my mind when I figured it out.

[regc80]

He used to hang out at El Bar Co. with his "mother". I stayed away from him as I could tell he was an alcoholic and drug abuser.

[manny]

i think he was taking some drugs in 2005, when i met him. his behavior wasnt quite right, the writting was on the walls. if he was arrested for videos w/ underage girls, thats serious. the crazy thing about these "alleged" predators, is that is easier to get girls over 18 (who look younger), who will consent. (w/out drugs, its called the porn "business"). last time i spoke w/chris was 2009, called him for a computer question. he sounded ok, & told me about his father. as bad as the charges are, the media has no right to say "sex w/children"- im sure they were teens. whether he worked for google or micro soft is debatable, but he did know tech. im not on his side, but 40yrs could be excessive.

[datura]

Manny, teens under the age of consent are "children".

[carib]

Your gardener stays in your house?

Yes he does. He has been with me for a long time. We know his family, where he lives and he works for a lot of my neighbors. He is in the early 60 and a very honorable and decent human man.

[carib]

Yes he does. He has been with me for a long time. We know his family, where he lives and he works for a lot of my neighbors. He is in the early 60 and a very honorable and decent human man.

Sorry on the human man. Take out the human part.. Very honorable and decent man.

[tomsteele]

Never ceases to amaze me... why do we need courts? All we have to do is ask the web-board members and all the other pseudo specialists. They'll tell you who is guilty/innocent, etc. People love that seductive self-righteous feeling that comes with condemning other people... even the worst offenders in prison - father rapers and mother stabbers love to feel that they are on the side of right.
So, going by what the Associated Press says - an organization that is so desperately afraid news print is on the way out that they have joined Fleet Street in their sensationalist bunk - we have all decided this guy is a pedophile, right?
What age was Mary when God got her pregnant? 16? Is God a pedophile? God and/or/ nature, whichever you believe in, has made it so that children can have sex and conceive from about the age of 12. In fact there are cases of conception that are even younger. God is supposedly omnipotent right? Surely he has the power to make us all like dolls - sans genitalia - until that almighty ring is slipped over our fingers and then "hey presto" new toys! Even with this power, he doesn't???
"Underage" is a concept we came up with. It is for practical reasons, so that children don't have children and limit their lives to raising other children before they have lived their own lives, acquired an education, perhaps even gainful employment. We are the ones who go against nature and say "hold off until you have traveled, studied, worked, loved, etc., before making such a commitment.

So Everyone under the age of 18 is underage? My Grandmother married my grandfather when she was 16. They lived long and happy lives and had wonderful, centered children. Should he have been imprisoned?

In Mexico there is a woman of 26, a psychologist who had an affair and has eventually married a boy of 16. She has had a baby by him. I told her if they lived in the US she'd be in prison, he'd be in therapy and the child would be a ward of the state in foster care. As it is, they live with their extended family which accepts them and their decision with open arms and everyone is delighted.

I knew Chris. He did not work for IBM or Microsoft, he was an Apple genius. Although he did get into drugs after his (adult) girlfriend and he broke up, just as his father died and he lost his job working for the Lake Chapala Review when Judy King was brought on as editor, (to be replaced by one of Ms. King's friends, who had to call him constantly to tell her how to run the computer), he never evinced any of the characteristics described by the AP hooey, other than the drugs. If he was inclined towards little girls, why were his girlfriends in their twenties and thirties?

It's easy to judge and cast aspersions. It's easy to join the masses of self-righteous and condemn. Much harder to evaluate the facts.

[Sailor]

Never ceases to amaze me... why do we need courts? All we have to do is ask the web-board members and all the other pseudo specialists. They'll tell you who is guilty/innocent, etc. People love that seductive self-righteous feeling that comes with condemning other people... even the worst offenders in prison - father rapers and mother stabbers love to feel that they are on the side of right.
So, going by what the Associated Press says - an organization that is so desperately afraid news print is on the way out that they have joined Fleet Street in their sensationalist bunk - we have all decided this guy is a pedophile, right?
What age was Mary when God got her pregnant? 16? Is God a pedophile? God and/or/ nature, whichever you believe in, has made it so that children can have sex and conceive from about the age of 12. In fact there are cases of conception that are even younger. God is supposedly omnipotent right? Surely he has the power to make us all like dolls - sans genitalia - until that almighty ring is slipped over our fingers and then "hey presto" new toys! Even with this power, he doesn't???
"Underage" is a concept we came up with. It is for practical reasons, so that children don't have children and limit their lives to raising other children before they have lived their own lives, acquired an education, perhaps even gainful employment. We are the ones who go against nature and say "hold off until you have traveled, studied, worked, loved, etc., before making such a commitment.

So Everyone under the age of 18 is underage? My Grandmother married my grandfather when she was 16. They lived long and happy lives and had wonderful, centered children. Should he have been imprisoned?

In Mexico there is a woman of 26, a psychologist who had an affair and has eventually married a boy of 16. She has had a baby by him. I told her if they lived in the US she'd be in prison, he'd be in therapy and the child would be a ward of the state in foster care. As it is, they live with their extended family which accepts them and their decision with open arms and everyone is delighted.

I knew Chris. He did not work for IBM or Microsoft, he was an Apple genius. Although he did get into drugs after his (adult) girlfriend and he broke up, just as his father died and he lost his job working for the Lake Chapala Review when Judy King was brought on as editor, (to be replaced by one of Ms. King's friends, who had to call him constantly to tell her how to run the computer), he never evinced any of the characteristics described by the AP hooey, other than the drugs. If he was inclined towards little girls, why were his girlfriends in their twenties and thirties?

It's easy to judge and cast aspersions. It's easy to join the masses of self-righteous and condemn. Much harder to evaluate the facts.

If he is innocent, why did he flee before going to court?

[Ginger]

It never ceases to amaze me that anyone would defend someone charged with providing drugs & filming sex acts with underage kids. On either side, that's for the courts to decide but Sailor brings up a good point.

[manny]

thomsteel, i am not judging ages. what is depicible (if true) is drugging girls, filming videos w/out them knowing. this would be awful no matter what the age. the news does not say whether the videos were found or not, it is a vague report. do not compare this w/ marrying young, or having a consentual relationship. we will see if the news does report the outcome of the trial. btw, a sociopath can be a nice guy, a good neighbor, & a tech genious. there are many sides to a person. btw, i have no problem w/the porn business, selling vids, making vids, but it would be nice to inform the girls first. thats the bottom line here. sometimes people subconsiously "want" to be caught. if you look @ the allegations, he certainly did it in the most risky way.

[MtnMama]

I only knew Chris for the last 2 1/2 years. And not recently since the drug use got so much worse. The story he was telling about leaving LCR by that time was a bit different, but we won't go there.

When I was around him, he bragged about dating attractive young women. Admitted they were sometimes under 18. Several of us warned him that a brother of father was going defend her honor and I heard that a few times somebody did. Just say I wasn't just shocked at the accusations. And having sex with someone you have drugged and video taping it is never acceptable not matter the age.

[manny]

meth & coke make people talk talk talk. we will see if the VA news has followup. (thomsteele: even if a girl can have concieve @ 12, it is dangerous for a pregnany for many reasons. before you make statements, understand what you are saying. in anyevent this has NO relationship to this case what so ever).

[CocinaMod]

I'm closing this thread, then going to take a shower.