THE DISAPPEARANCE AND DEATH OF DAVE WALKER:
A HISTORY
INSIDE THE
INVESTIGATION PART 13
2016 UPDATES:
Who is "James An"?
TABLE OF CONTENTS
13. The Investigation
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NEWS UPDATE
~ December 31, 2016
Beaumont Children Abduction Suspect Tony
Munro
Arrested in Australia June 2016 Beaumont Children Disappearance Suspect Tony Munro http://www.cambodiadaily.com/weekend/murder-buried-122731/ Apparently the main suspect that James "An" Eglitis was
pursuing in Cambodia, whom An had described and named to me in
2014, as Anthony 'Tony' Munro, was arrested on his arrival in
Australia in June 2016. According to
The text of the Cambodia Expats Online post reads:
NEWS UPDATE ~ December 24, 2016 'James An' "Catch Me If You Can" -- Background story to charges in Australia http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/accused-kidnapper-guido-eglitis-allegedly-fled-country-without-police-noticing-20161223-gthj61.html NEWS UPDATE ~ November 21, 2016 Who is 'James An'? Guido James Eglitis's Moby Dick Shortly before I planned to post the next update to this website, with an account of "James An" and his role in the investigation of Dave Walker's disappearance and death, "An" was arrested by Cambodian authorities in October 2015. "James An" whose real name is Guido James Eglitis, was charged with offenses unrelated to the disappearance and murder of Dave Walker (but perhaps related to his involvement in the investigation of it, which ruffled many feathers among the key players in the bungled investigation and in the Cambodian Police and Government.) In November 2016 it was reported that Eglitis was released from Cambodian custody after serving a prison term for theft of a camera from a tourist and was now residing in Thailand where he was then, it was reported, arrested by Thai Police on an extradition request from Australian authorities regarding charges going back to 2007. It remained a mystery why the Australian authorities had not been actively pursuing his extradition from either Cambodia or Thailand in the previous nine years. The report of his arrest in Thailand was soon followed by a report that Eglitis, when he was arrested in Cambodia, was working at the behest of a detective in the Australian Police, investigating a suspected pedophile fugitive, and was attempting to take fingerprints from the suspect's camera who happened to be the "victim" in the "theft" with which Eglitis was subsequently charged with in Cambodia in October 2015, presumably by a rival faction of the Cambodian police. [ https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fugitive-working-australian-police-120784/ ]   (Above) A widely published photograph of An and his associate Brett Hastie printed in various media sources over the last year reporting his arrest has now been released (November 2016) in an uncropped version. Pending some sort of resolution in Eglitis' case, I have refrained from posting further information about his role in the investigation of Dave Walker's disappearance and death but will say this for the record in view of recent events: I do not believe that James "An" Eglitis was involved in the disappearance and murder of Dave Walker or that he acted on behalf of parties behind Dave's murder to 'cover up' their tracks or obscure, mislead or impede the investigation as some in the bungled investigation alleged. Guido James "An" Eglitis was an Australian citizen, a Vietnam War veteran (Australian Royal Navy) who was convicted in the US in the 1990s of SEC securities trading violations and related "boiler room sales" offences. (http://articles.latimes.com/1988-02-09/business/fi-41501_1_precious-metal-sales ). Eglitis served his sentence in a U.S. Federal facility from 1987-1991. He was later charged in 2007 in Australia with forcible confinement when as a licensed private investigator, he impersonated a police officer and briefly held in his "custody" a former business associate of a client to whom money had been owned. The alleged victim freed himself and escaped from Eglitis. At the time there seemed to be nothing on the official record as to the disposition of the 2007 charges in Australia and it was unclear whether they were dropped or whether indeed as it is alleged in media reports, Eglitis jumped bail during his trial and fled to China and Cambodia. So far, it does not look like Australian authorities were rushing to request that Eglitis be extradited while he was in China and Cambodia, nor in Thailand until his presence there was made known on social media in November 2016.  Australian authorities have been strangely silent so far (November 2016) on Eglitis while INTERPOL has not confirmed reports in the media that Eglitis was on an INTERPOL 'wanted' list. A search of Interpol wanted fugitive database for persons wanted by Australia, has not returned any listing for Guido James Eglitis among the three wanted by Australia. James An's Moby Dick: "The Beaumont Children Disappearance" 1966  When
Eglitis and I first established contacted in March 2014 [see
previous page], he stated that he was pursuing an
investigation of a pedophile ring in Cambodia, an elderly member
of which he
believed had been behind a historic notorious multiple child kidnapping
case in Australia in 1966 (Beaumont
Children Disappearance.) In hours of conversations with Eglitis on Skype, he revealed to me an obsession with the ins
and outs of the case and his ambition to solve it, to the point
that I am persuaded that he was singularly motivated by a kind
of adventuring "treasure hunt" fixation to solve what
is probably Australia's greatest cold case: the unsolved
abduction of three children on their way to swim on a beach.Eglitis believed he was close on the trail of a suspect he identified in Cambodia and was lobbying various Byzantine factions of the Cambodian Police to detain the named suspect. Iglitis stated to me that he was a private investigative contractor working with the cooperation and support of the Cambodian Police. Iglitis never claimed he was working in an official capacity for the Cambodian Police but stated he had their cooperation and support and was lobbying them to take further action on the pedophile case he was investigating. In our initial contact, Iglitis explained to me that he had inserted himself into the investigation of Dave Walker's disappearance with the intention of currying favor with a faction of the Cambodian Police in Phnom Penh in the hope of advancing his own investigation of the suspect he believed was behind the Beaumont Children disappearance. Iglitis provided references from named officials in the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and in a US Federal Attorney's Office, stating that he had been contracted to them 2001-2008 in an investigative agent capacity. The references were forwarded by me to the Edmonton Police Department for vetting with no adverse reports returned by the EPD.  Eglitis
forwarded to me an extensive file of information on Dave
Walker's business and banking dealings with partner Sonny Chhoun
in Cambodia, which I forwarded, with his knowledge, to the
Edmonton Police. Eglitis as well shared that file with the
American attorney Bradley Gordon in Cambodia retained to
represent Dave Walker's interests there. There was a
three-way vetting of the information between myself, Bradley
Gordon and the Edmonton Police at that stage of the investigation.The faction of the investigation into Dave Walker's disappearance led by Nate Thayer and Richard Ehrlich had been foolishly and recklessly depending on the suspect Sonny Chhuon to lead their search for Walker in Cambodia (see Sonny Chhuon In the Middle). Nate Thayer's immediate reaction was to accuse Eglitis of being either behind Walker's disappearance or in the employ of those behind it. After Walker's body was discovered in May, Eglitis became fearful that other factions of the Cambodian Police were targeting him, either because they were in the pay of the pedophile ring he was pursuing or in the pay of the party behind Dave Walker's murder. Eglitis apparently operated in some kind of "deputized" grey zone capacity with uniformed Cambodian police officers accompanying him as back-up, but in the factionally corrupt world of Cambodian policing it is difficult to discern the extent of his official relationship with the Cambodian police. One of the suspects in the murder of Dave Walker, was allegedly a Colonel in the Cambodian Military Police in Siem Reap, while Eglitis stated to me that his support came from a rival colonel in the police based in Phnom Penh, interested in displacing the Siem Reap colonel to take over his Karaoke Bar girl business. Approximately a month before his arrest in October 2015, Eglitis became fearful that the rival faction in the police was targeting him and his fellow faction police officers in various ways, including a possible assassination, as he was closing in on his Beaumont Children suspect with his faction of Cambodian police. While I do not know enough to be persuaded that Eglitis had successfully identified the kidnapper and murderer of the Beaumont Children, I am convinced that James "An" Eglitis sincerely believes he could have, and that he inserted himself into the investigation of Walker's disappearance to curry favor with the Cambodian Police in order to pursue his own investigative agenda. Eglitis's ambition to advance his own investigation in the Cambodian Police hierarchy became predicated on effectively resolving the mystery of Dave Walker's disappearance for them. In doing so he collected valuable evidence in the Dave Walker murder that other investigators had failed to do so, humiliating both the Cambodian Immigration Police in whose jurisdiction the case fell and the inept private "investigation" led by Nate Thayer. Thayer would eventually turn his investigative resources in Cambodia from searching for the missing Dave Walker to blocking and investigating the rival James Eglitis instead. Over the 18-month period that I was in contact with Eglitis, while he advised me that bribe money could always loosen the tongues of Cambodian authorities in the case of Dave Walker, and complained that he himself was low on funds, he never solicited me for any financial aid or offered to mediate such transactions. He consistently stated that he entered the investigation of Dave's disappearance with the sole purpose of currying favor with a faction of Cambodian Police to advance his own Beaumont Children investigation and later became compelled by the mystery of Dave's murder similarly as he was compelled by the mystery of the Beaumont Children disappearance. During the Dave Walker investigation in February and March 2014, James Eglitis, accompanied by Cambodian Police officers, elicited a sworn and signed statement from the suspect Sonny Chhoun which revealed the many discrepancies between Chhoun's various statements to us, to the police and to the press, and secured bank statements that prove that Sonny Chhoun emptied in several cash withdrawals the entire $20,000 investment that Dave had deposited into their joint corporate account while Dave was in Canada. Eglitis also secured photographs of Dave Walker taken the night before his disappearance, the most recent and accurately representational photos of him, even wearing some of the clothing in which he was found dead, which inexplicably neither the investigators in Cambodia nor Dave's family chose to publicize while the search for Dave was ongoing. Instead, Sonny Chhoun and the family insisted on using outdated photos, many of which failed to accurately represent Dave Walker as he was at the time of his disappearance. The evidence that Eglitis collected was furnished to me, to the family, to Bradley Gordon the American family attorney in Phnom Penh, and to the Edmonton Police Department in Canada, which was the Canadian police agency of record in the disappearance of Dave Walker. ============================ NEWS UPDATE ~ March 24, 2015 Investigation Coordinator and CNN Contributor Richard S. Ehrlich threatens lawsuit over reports of his conduct during the investigation of Dave Walker's disappearance. In response to inquiries to Richard S. Ehrlich from DaveWalkerCase.com as a courtesy and an act of due diligence, inviting him to comment on some of the reports received on his conduct during the investigation of Dave Walker's disappearance, offering him an opportunity to deny, confirm or comment on their veracity, prior to publishing next Thursday's, March 26 update of The Disappearance and Death of Dave Walker, the following response was received today:
NEWS UPDATE ~ March 21, 2015 Sonny Chhoun caught in yet another lie. While Sonny Chhoun stated sworn statement (see Page 3) he collected Dave's phone from his room on Monday, February 17, a recent review of archived operational e-mails reveals that as late as Thursday February 20, Chhoun was deceiving us, claiming the phone was still in Dave's hotel room and was anxious to be allowed to take not only the phone into his possession, but Dave's laptop and camera as well to "hand carry the *three* items to Phonom Penh...", according to this, formerly confidential e-mail.
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