Isn't that something called "Tampering with the mail"?
Request made to investigate tampering with the U.S.P.S. Mail.
We had always been suspicious as to why our former neighbor of forty five years never responded to any of our inquiries concerning the property he had owned across the street from us. The reasons for the suspicion were,
Then the fire chief disclosed he was aware of the contents of these letters, which he did not have a right to. They were private communications between Mr. Dayton and ourself. No one else had permission to read them, not even Mr. Dayton’s son Matthews.
So this left us with one of three possibilities as to how Doug Matthews acquired knowledge of the content of those letters.
We could easily dismiss one of those possibilities, Mr. Dayton would not have shared that information with Doug, and if possibile Mr. Dayton would have responded if he had actually recieved them. Mr. Dayton was a businessman, and especially as one who started out in sales, he took care of business, and was one to communicate. Which meant probability favored Mr. Dayton never recieved those letters. This did not answer how Doug was informed on the content of those letters, but it did bring up another important inquiry. If Mr. Dayton did not recieve them, who did?
There is one other point of information which supports the scenario that Mr. Dayton never informed Doug about the content of our letters to him. Mr. Dayton was hospitalized with covid 19 during the height of the epidemic. The method for treating covid patients at that time was to place them under strict quarantine and when needed place them on a respirator. Since Doug is in no way related to Mr. Dayton, he would not qualify to recieve any visitation rights.
So, it was not possible for Doug to even see Mr. Dayton at the time. This meant that either someone else was granting Doug permission to begin liquidating Mr. Dayton’s assets and live on his property rent free, Doug was doing so unlawfully as a squatter, or most likely a combination of both. Either way, Mr. Dayton had a pack of grandchildren, who appear to have been cheated out of part of their inheritance by our county’s second highest ranking public safety officer.
Inheritance is more than just monetary possession, it’s deeply sentimental and personal. Doug living in his house before his passing, would have robbed them of their privacy, any chance of purchasing the property themselves, and any chance to claim anything they deamed sentimental. Considering the greediness and crookedness in which every aspect of this has unfolded, it is certain the entire purpose for him to have moved onto Dayton’s property in a clandestine manner was to do exactly this, cheat Mr. Dayton’s relatives out of their inheritance.
Only a very cunning and ultimately crooked legal counselor could have advised Doug on how to do this without being held in negligence. This is where county commissioner Truman Boyle and his associate, the county attorney Scott Mayfield most likely played a role. Because someone had to be giving Doug legal advice, and no attorney would assisst a complete stranger in planning out a means to cheat a family out of their inheritance. Which meant Doug had to have known the attorney personally. Since his father-in-law is friends with Scott, Scott attends the same church as Doug, Scott is the county attorney, and has a history of disregarding matters which possess a conflict of interest. So, Scott was obviously the best fit for this role.
So, returning to what happened to those letters. this leaves us with either Doug intercepted the letters or one of Mr. Dayton’s sons acquired possession of them. So the next step was finding out about how to contact Mr. Dayton’s sons.
Research was performed in an attempt to locate contact information for Mr. Dayton’s sons. One was out in Texas, most of them were living close to one another in Atlanta, and his youngest son Matt was living here in town at the exact same address as his father was listed as living. So, by mailing the letters to his father, they also arrived at Matt’s residence. This increased the possibility of Matt having intercepted them, and decreased the likelihood of Doug having performed the interception out of practicality.
There is one other piece of information supporting this scenario, Mr. Dayton’s oldest son, Bill Dayton, was contacted to inquire about what had happened to the letters mailed to his father. Over the very brief correspondance that took place, three things came across most evident.
This left us with the highest possible scenario being, Matt intercepted the letters, opened them, and then informed Doug of their contents. Mr. Dayton died completely unaware that his neighbor of forty five years was desperately trying to reach him to save his own home from what inevitably was to come. Afterwards, they more than likely were disposed in the trash, a symbol of what his son did to a life long friendship.
Within all of this are two federal felonies to add to the list:
By intercepting the letters and not informing his father of their existence, Matt Dayton obstructed a critical correspondence between us and his father, and then by destroying and/or refusing to forward then to his father, he destroyed the mail.
We are constantly confounded by the unwillingness of law enforcement to do anything about this illegal sham.
