On December 2, 2017, the guards at Regency Centers arrested Pete Bennett for trespassing at Plaza Escuela Walnut Creek. That was a big mistake forcing me to revisit the property transaction connected to Simon Hardware.
Not far from Green Valley Shopping Center is 190 Plaza Circle Danville is yet another fire located in a house where children were endangered. Few know this but the house next door burned to the ground in 2003 and this was around 2006.
In a home video made the year before Maegan Mundi died, she sits on the living room couch of her San Ramon home. She’s slender and attractive, with long brown hair and a voice that rings with warmth. Casually dressed in jeans and an oversize T-shirt, she’s holding hands with her fiancé, Jan Bottorff. The two are joking about how their home movie needs "character development" when Mundi’s daughter, a golden-haired little girl clad in just a diaper, climbs onto Mundi’s lap and coaxes her to play "fall away."
Mundi does a pantomime of falling off the couch, raising her arms overhead and collapsing forward. The little girl, whose name is Galadriel, giggles delightedly and asks Mumsy to "fall away" again. Mundi does it again and again, all the while sporting a sideways grin.
The video captures a sweet moment, a playful, affectionate interaction, with Mundi in one of the many roles she took on in life: that of loving mother. Bottorff wants to believe that Mundi wasn’t just playing a part, that she was truly happy when they made this video in September 2002. But he also knows that if her happiness was real, it didn’t last.
Hey Martha, they got my cousins in 2014, my friend Alicia Driscoll in 2004, my customer Dr. Fang in 2000, my employee in 2009, my customer Peter Haas in 2011, and Dr. Ringheim in 1986.
