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Originally Posted by Bardamu
Don, Is it true that Steele hired a local contractor, the same guy he allegedly hired to murder his wife, to build him a "secret" compartment for his silver hoard? And this project was before his health problems, correct? If this is true, what an incredible lack of judgement.
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This is the undisputed testimony by Fairfax. According to him, it was impossible to access these hiding places without destroying the drywall. Cyndi filed a false theft report for $45,000 worth of silver several months later. It is posted several pages back. The government seized about 8,000 troy ounces of silver at Steele's arrest. It was all found in his bedroom. Steele falsely claimed that Fairfax had stolen silver from the outbuildings. The drywall was undisturbed in the outbuildings before the search and the safes were empty when they were opened.
Fairfax is being questioned by the prosecutor Traci Wheelan.
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http://steelewentcrazy.org/steele/day3.pdf
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Q. When you built these safe areas around his house, did the defendant tell you what they were for?
A. Yes.
Q. What did he say?
A. They were for stashing weapons for when the economy collapsed and everybody was rioting.
Q. Did he tell you they were for root cellars, too?
A. No. Not those ones weren't, no.
Q. Were there culverts?
A. Yes. There was a culvert, a 12-foot culvert.
Q. Was that to be a root cellar?
A. Yes, it was.
Q. Defense counsel asked you if you could just go in and remove silver, and you said "no." Why was that?
A. Because it's drywalled over it, and you just can't go in and open them. They're hidden behind the wall now.
Q. So the stashes you built were behind drywall; is that correct?
A. Yes.
Q. And if you would have taken silver out of there, you would have had to cut the drywall?
A. Yes.
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