[cynwoody]

Dyleski lives at a crowded, unkempt straw-bale house on Hunsaker Canyon with two other families.

A bicycle sits in the front yard of a home in the 1000 block of Hunsaker Canyon, the home of the suspect in the murder of Pamela Vitale. Chronicle photo by Mark Costantini

From http://www.adpsr-norcal.org/menu/Events/Calendar2002/Nov2002.htm:

Saturday 11/16/2002

8am - Dark, 1050 Hunsaker Canyon Rd., Lafayette. Straw Bale Raising Come to this old-fashioned Amish barn raising event. If you're interested in helping in someway that does not involve hoisting or hauling bales there will be plenty to do. Food, drink, and childcare will be provided (RSVP by 11/7). Anyone wishing to spend the night, is welcome to pitch a tent or to sleep on the subfloor in a sleeping bag. Info: 925/284-0142.

The phone reverses to a Frederick and Kimberly Curiel at that address.

It's also apparently the home of a certain Esther Fielding, who is into DNA Activation. Whatever.

Sounds like a regular old commune.

[cynwoody]

The straw bale property is assessed at $615,963. That's $240,558 for the land, and $375,405 for the improvements. Current year taxes come to $7131.30. Wonder how they split it up?

[LoofaBoy]

Is that some kind of witchcraft, voodoo, or just something alternative, really people, stop being so paranoid. This kid could have been bullied by classmates for the last 6 years. Don't be so afraid of something that isn't perfectly clear to you.

[Rte66]

Wow, I was told to report my own post as "abusive" when I posted that info earlier today on the big Vitale/Horowitz thread. I had already put it together before it was published.

Oh well. I also won't post about Scott's classmates saying he went goth 3 years ago after his sister was killed in a car accident.

And I won't post that her name was Denika, she was 18, and a student at Diablo Valley College, the one Scott quit Acalanes HS to attend currently.

I also won't post that she was killed in August, 2002, in Concord, CA, (close by Lafayette) when she and another friend were riding in a Honda Accord that a 2nd friend was driving. The passenger friend was also killed, Sebastian Nebel, 19.

Won't mention that the driver, Jennifer Bagher, 17 at the time of the accident, was in a coma for several weeks and wasn't released from the hospital until shortly before her arrest in early December, 2002, on two counts of felony manslaughter. By then she was 18.

Since I can't access the criminal files, I don't know what happened to Bagher after that. There is a lot in the civil court files about the accident, lawsuits by both families, but no mention of Horowitz, who was said to have helped Scott Dyleski's family in some legal matters previously. He must have meant the straw-bale family, the Fieldings--Scott's mother's family--since they are the ones who are DH's neighbors.

(Don't tell anybody I posted this.)