Frimpong Case: Watching the Detectives
Chapter Four of Joel Engel's Eric Frimpong Investigation
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At 8:30 a.m. on February 17, 2007 – about seven-and-a-half hours after Jane Doe was allegedly raped, two hours after her return from the SART cottage – Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department Detective Daniel J. Kies rapped half a dozen times on her dorm room. Accompanied by Detective Michael Scherbarth, he waited 25 seconds for an answer that didn’t come, then used his cell to call her friend Krishna, who’d written her number on the witness report. She told him that Doe was expecting him and to try again but to call her back if Doe didn’t respond. Now Kies rapped harder, a dozen times, and waited 20 seconds for an answer before dialing Krishna and rapping another six times on Doe’s door. (Kies’s hidden voice recorder captured the entire encounter.)
Krishna at last let the sheriff’s deputies in, then went to rouse Doe. That took at least a minute. More than four minutes had passed since the first knock when Kies and Scherbarth entered Doe’s side of the suite.
