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"A Killing That Won't Go Away" Jim Hill - Former Oregon Senator
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The following is a true and accurate transcript of Linda Parker's statement to Roger K. Harris on
December 11, 1990.
STATEMENT BY LINDA S. PARKER
I, Linda Parker, age 38, am providing this statement freely and voluntarily to Mr. Roger K. Harris, who
has identified himself to me as a Private Investigator working for the defense of Frank Gable in an
Oregon Murder case.
I was born on June 22, 1952, at Denver, Colorado. My current address is ...
I was previously married to Jim Dreitzler.
I was employed at the Utah Department of Corrections for 11 months during 1989.
During period February' 89 to October'89 I was the secretary to Scott McAlister.
I was actually hired by the Attorney General's office then formally transferred to Corrections in June of
'89. Scott McAlister was the Inspector General for the Department of Corrections and a Special
Assistant Attorney General for the state of Utah.
He was hired by the Superintendent of Corrections, Gary DeLand, in January 1989, and he moved to
Utah from Oregon.
I had been recently divorced at the time Scott moved to Utah and we soon developed a close
professional relationship, then in June and July, 1989, I dated Scott.
Scott McAlister and I eventually had a serious falling-out.
I initiated a lawsuit against the Utah Department of Corrections in January 1990 over Scott's sexual
harassment of me, and I was a witness in a child pornography criminal case against Scott.
Scott ultimately plead guilty to reduced charges in that case and he spent a week in jail in October
1990.
He resigned from Utah Corrections December 26, 1989, and moved to Phoenix, Arizona, in August 1990.
When Scott McAlister came to Utah he brought several people with him.
His secretary in Oregon, Grace Caudill, joined him here in August '89.
They lived together and she became his secretary upon arrival in Utah.
Scott transferred me to the Wasatch Prison Mail Room to make room for Grace.
Grace has since joined Scott in Arizona.
A man named Al Imig was a policeman in Oregon.
Scott hired him as the Director of Civil Investigations in the Utah Inspector General's Office.
Al came here in April, 1989 and his wife, Pam, and their two daughters joined him in June of that year.
When Scott resigned from Utah Corrections Al was reassigned as a Parole Officer.
He and his family have since moved to Phoenix.
Harol Whitley had left Oregon and was working for Nevada Corrections in Carson City when Scott
came to Utah.
Scott immediately started working on getting Harol a job in Utah. The job Scott arranged for Harol was
at Iron County Correctional Facility in Cedar City.
Harol and his wife, Wanda, moved from Nevada to Utah during the early summer of 1989.
People who did not please Scott McAlister, whether they were inmates or corrections personnel, were
put on Scott's hit list.
Every Tuesday morning the Executive Committee would discuss what to do with people on the list.
An inmate named Tom Humphries was fighting Corrections over double bunking. That's where two
inmates were doubled up in a cell designed for one.
Scott targeted Humphries to make life more difficult for him. Scott arranged to have a hypodermic
needle and syringe found in Humphries's cell along with some legal papers. Humphries was put in
isolation as a result.
I was in Scott's office when Scott and Al discussed how they would plant that in the cell.
Scott would isolate inmates, fire personnel, or just make life miserable for those on his list. And Scott
was really proud of his attitude of being like a king. Power went to his head and he loved being able to
make or break people.
His nickname, which he gave himself, was The Iceman. He had a sign made for his office door, "The
Iceman, Prince of Darkness".
I was involved in a child custody battle with my ex-husband during the time I was Scott's secretary.
Scott was proud of his badge and gun. He suggested I have my ex-husband, Jim, come to the office
where Scott and the other men could intimidate him for me by being all around him with their guns
showing. Scott wanted to bully Jim for me.
When I became the enemy Scott turned that bullying attitude toward me.
He and Jim started exchanging information about me to help Jim in the custody battle and to discredit
me as a witness against Scott.
Speaking of Scott using his badge and his gun, Scott used to use his badge to get into the private
clubs in Salt Lake City.
Scott told me he used to help Al Imig, in Oregon, to bust porno places.
Scott would go undercover to places to find something wrong, then Al would bust the place.
Whatever they seized became Scott's personal effects.
I saw something resembling that here.
When Grace became Scott's secretary I was sent to work in the mailroom at the Wasatch Facility.
Scott initiated a policy wherein contraband sent to inmates, such as drugs, cash, or pornography, was
seized in the mailroom and delivered to Scott.
Scott had me personally deliver such material to him. I don't know if any of the materials were sent
back to people.
I know I never sent anything back, even though people called to ask what happened to money they
had sent.
I don't know that anything was done to follow-up on what happened to the items.
I do remember seeing some of the porno from the Wasatch Facility in Scott's personal effects. I saw
that on December 26th, '89.
I was at Scott’s house and he had his effects from his office there. Included were porno magazines I
recognized as ones I had delivered from Wasatch to him.
Scott was asked to take a polygraph test regarding the Francke murder case. I don't, remember
exactly when that was.
Scott was worried about it and called Al Imig to his office. Al told Scott if he took a certain kind of
sedative it would dampen his emotional responses and he could beat the test.
I was in Scott's office during that conversation. I don't remember what the drug was called but Al told
me it was like Valium.
Scott had some and took it before the polygraph. Scott kept a variety of pills in his desk.
I went and got Scott some coffee and he drank that with the pills. After the polygraph Scott said he
wouldn't have needed to take the drug, that he could have snowed the guy without it.
Nothing came out linking Scott to the case in Oregon. Scott said no questions were even asked that
would have linked him to the case.
I asked him if he had anything to worry about.
He said no, that there had been over 140 incidents of violations or misconduct during his 17 years in
Oregon and none of them had ever been pinned to him.
I was curious because Scott had Grace bring three boxes of official files from Oregon when she
moved to Utah. The boxes were the size of what Xerox paper comes in and they were filled with file
folders.
The files related to cases Scott had tried.
Scott used part of those files to show me how he wanted our files organized.
As was brought out in my lawsuit, Scott McAlister was putting a lot of pressure on me to engage in
group sex. It was in June '89 that he started putting heavy pressure on me.
I was very resistant to the idea so Scott tried to get me to use cocaine to help me relax and feel better
about it. He asked if I knew where to get cocaine in Utah.
I didn't know, because I had never used it.
I had seen Scott with cocaine and knew he got it from Oregon. His main connection is a female named
Lynn McElhene , who is in either Salem or Eugene.
On three occasions Scott had me send checks to her from his personal account for drugs.
Scott signed the checks himself and told me the checks were for drugs.
At one point, regarding one of the checks, he said that was enough to keep him happy for a while and
it would do me good too.
The first check Scott had me send to Lynn was for $150 and was in April, 1989." Later he had me send a
check for $500, then there was a third check in August but I can't remember the amount. It seems like
it was about $120, but I can't remember exactly.
Scott told me in late July’89 that he couldn't use his home or office address for cocaine to be mailed to
him, so he was having some sent to my home address.
He said to expect a package containing two sweaters and some cocaine.
I told him if any drugs are mailed to me I will report it to the Sheriff or the Postal Inspectors.
Scott said that would be a really stupid move.
I said I had just got visitation rights with my daughter and I was serious about it.
Scott said he would make other arrangements.
A couple days later he said Grace would bring it down.
She moved to Utah in late-July. It was shortly after that incident that I attempted suicide.
I was just under too much pressure from the demotion to the mailroom, the custody battle, the
pressure for group sex, and then the drugs.
I wrote a suicide note then took an overdose anti-depressant prescription medicine.
Scott came to see why I wasn't at work and found me unconscious.
He called an ambulance and got me to a hospital, where I spent a week recuperating.
Scott also took or destroyed my suicide note. I had talked about him in the note and about the
pressures he was putting on me.
I don't remember word for word but I said things about Scott's dishonesty and the way he was using
me.
I know Scott had Grace Caudill bring cocaine down from Oregon when she moved.
He also brought some cocaine from Oregon when he helped Al Imig move to Utah in June, 1989.
Scott was very specific, though, about not wanting anyone to discuss drugs in front of Al.
Al was like Scott's gopher-boy, he would do anything for Scott. But Al apparently had nothing to do
with drugs.
Scott also brought some cocaine back from Oregon when he went there for some meeting. I
remember he made trips to Oregon in February and on St. Patrick's Day, and again in mid-May.
I know Scott brought cocaine back from the St. Patrick's Day trip and the May trip.
I saw Scott McAlister and Grace Caudill with a small bag of cocaine at the office in late-September or
early-October, 1989.
It was after normal working hours when I arrived with mail from Wasatch and walked in on Scott and
Grace in Scott's office.
They were using cocaine by inhaling it into their noses from a really tiny spoon. They weren't
particularly bothered that I saw them. I think Scott thought I wouldn't say anything and thought no one
would believe me even if I did say something.
I don't know if anyone else ever saw them with drugs at the office.
I have also seen Scott rub cocaine in his mouth. It looked like he rubbed it on his teeth but. I have
now been told that a way of using cocaine is by, rubbing it on one's gums. So that must be what he
was doing. He kept a small bag of cocaine in the far back right side of his computer stand in the office.
The first time Scott talked to me about cocaine he called it candy. When I asked him what that was he
said coke. After that he always just called it coke.
Gary DeLand and Scott McAlister go back 7-10 years. They were on a lecture circuit together for a long
time.
Gary's wife, Cathy, told me Gary liked Scott’s aggressiveness.
Gary apparently told Scott several times over the years that Gary would hire Scott anytime Scott was
willing.
Scott always declined the offers.
In November of 1988 Scott apparently called Gary and said he was ready to change jobs. Gary was
pleased and told him to be here in January.
Although Gary knew of Scott's hit lists and his making life miserable for certain people, I never had
any indication Gary knew of Scott's drug use or anything criminal.
Al Imig's wife, Pam, was so naive she never knew what was going on.
Scott used to help Al get women. They had a favorite club called Studebakers where they picked up
women. When Al moved to Utah, it was a couple of months before his family joined him. Before Al
arrived I was assigned by Scott to find available women for Al. Al stayed with Scott from April to June
of '89 and it was a constant party. They were going out every night.
We didn't schedule meetings Friday afternoons because Friday night was "skirt night". Scott always
told me when they were out, so if Pam called, I could say they were out on an investigation.
In the criminal case against Scott McAlister, I testified at a hearing in August, 1990, in which the Judge
determined there was sufficient evidence to proceed with a trial.
All four tires on my car were slashed that night. A few days later a delivery guy came to the door with
an envelope for me. I opened it and it contained a note that said, drop the suit or you're dead. I gave
the note to the police. My house was broken into after that. I have been told the police caught a guy
who was a former inmate.
I understand he admitted he had been sent by Scott McAlister.
I don't know that for a fact but I heard it from a clerk at Circuit Court.
There was a prison inmate who was transferred here from Oregon. Scott McAlister used him as a
snitch in the prison.
He also used him for things like planting the hypodermic in the Humphries case. I can't remember the
inmate's name. He came to Utah during the summer months of 1989.
We had a dinner at Scott McAlister's house in late-July, 1989, to welcome Grace Caudill to Utah.
I cooked the dinner. Al Imig, Grace Caudill, Scott and, Harol and Wanda Whitley were all there.
We were all in the living room when the subject of Michael Francke's murder came up.
The whole group was like a family and very open with each other. I was the only newcomer to the
group.
Pam and Wanda had their own conversation going and Al was laying on the floor watching a game on
TV.
Harol and Scott were talking and Grace was sitting on the floor near them.
I walked out of the kitchen and stood by Scott and Harol.
They were really talking Francke down. They all really disliked Francke.
Grace had said something that brought a response from Scott.
Scott said, "Yeah, it’s really stupid, what was supposed to look like a suicide was really fucked up."
Harol just looked at Scott.
Scott said, "Everybody that knew him knew that he (Francke) never used that door. Harol said, "At any
rate it's no loss."
Harol was happy because he said he could now use Oregon Corrections as a reference. Scott was
clearly angry over the job being "fucked up", as he put it.
Scott said they couldn't ever get anything right. It was supposed to look like a suicide and they
botched it.
He said they were stupid, too, in that Francke was found by a door he never used.
Scott said something about Francke having crawled to the door and that “they" were stupid.
Al Imig joined the conversation and said something about not liking Francke but it didn't sound like he
knew any inside information about the murder.
Scott also commented that Francke's brother from Florida was trying to prove the murder was drug
related but that he will never be able to prove it.
Grace and Harol would have heard Scott's comments about the murder and the others could have
heard if they were paying attention.
Wanda, Harol and Scott could talk for hours about cases that were flubbed up in Oregon and about
how they manipulated cases.
I didn't realize at the time how significant Scott's comments could be because I didn't really know
anything about" the Francke case. I believe from what was said, Scott and Harol know inside
information about what happened in the Francke murder.
Scott has told me who Mike Francke was. He said Francke had Gary DeLand's job in Oregon. Scott said
he could reason with Gary but not with Francke, and that everyone hated Francke.
Scott McAlister apparently got Harol Whitley out of a scrape in Oregon and helped get Harol a job in
Nevada.
He was going to get Harol back in Oregon in a couple of years but then Scott ended up coming to
Utah. So he got Harol a job here.
When Scott resigned in Utah, Grace was moved from the Inspector General's office to the Orange
Street Facility.
Al was made a Parole Officer.
Scott went to Arizona because he had a good friend there named J.C. Keeney.
Al and his family then went to Arizona and I guess Harol and Grace went too.
I remember Scott McAlister talking about trying to get Michael Francke's job after Francke's murder
but I don't know what ever came of that.
There was a woman in Oregon named Kim Miller who had Scott McAlister scared for months over a
Palimony suit.
Scott had me type nasty threatening letters to her until she finally dropped the suit.
Scott met Kim through Al Imig.
Pam and Kim worked together in real estate. Another woman, named Elaine Apheceix, was a Critical
Care nurse at a big hospital in San Francisco.
She has been involved with Scott for three or four years. She wanted to get married about the time
Grace moved down here.
On ski trips Scott would send Kim home and bring Elaine in.
I have read the above statement, which was typed for me by Roger Harris, have made appropriate
changes, have initialed each page, and the statement is, true, and correct.
I have offered this information voluntarily and without any threats or promises being made.
This statement is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Linda Parker
Witnessed: Roger K. Harris
Date: December 11, 1990
December 11, 1990.
STATEMENT BY LINDA S. PARKER
I, Linda Parker, age 38, am providing this statement freely and voluntarily to Mr. Roger K. Harris, who
has identified himself to me as a Private Investigator working for the defense of Frank Gable in an
Oregon Murder case.
I was born on June 22, 1952, at Denver, Colorado. My current address is ...
I was previously married to Jim Dreitzler.
I was employed at the Utah Department of Corrections for 11 months during 1989.
During period February' 89 to October'89 I was the secretary to Scott McAlister.
I was actually hired by the Attorney General's office then formally transferred to Corrections in June of
'89. Scott McAlister was the Inspector General for the Department of Corrections and a Special
Assistant Attorney General for the state of Utah.
He was hired by the Superintendent of Corrections, Gary DeLand, in January 1989, and he moved to
Utah from Oregon.
I had been recently divorced at the time Scott moved to Utah and we soon developed a close
professional relationship, then in June and July, 1989, I dated Scott.
Scott McAlister and I eventually had a serious falling-out.
I initiated a lawsuit against the Utah Department of Corrections in January 1990 over Scott's sexual
harassment of me, and I was a witness in a child pornography criminal case against Scott.
Scott ultimately plead guilty to reduced charges in that case and he spent a week in jail in October
1990.
He resigned from Utah Corrections December 26, 1989, and moved to Phoenix, Arizona, in August 1990.
When Scott McAlister came to Utah he brought several people with him.
His secretary in Oregon, Grace Caudill, joined him here in August '89.
They lived together and she became his secretary upon arrival in Utah.
Scott transferred me to the Wasatch Prison Mail Room to make room for Grace.
Grace has since joined Scott in Arizona.
A man named Al Imig was a policeman in Oregon.
Scott hired him as the Director of Civil Investigations in the Utah Inspector General's Office.
Al came here in April, 1989 and his wife, Pam, and their two daughters joined him in June of that year.
When Scott resigned from Utah Corrections Al was reassigned as a Parole Officer.
He and his family have since moved to Phoenix.
Harol Whitley had left Oregon and was working for Nevada Corrections in Carson City when Scott
came to Utah.
Scott immediately started working on getting Harol a job in Utah. The job Scott arranged for Harol was
at Iron County Correctional Facility in Cedar City.
Harol and his wife, Wanda, moved from Nevada to Utah during the early summer of 1989.
People who did not please Scott McAlister, whether they were inmates or corrections personnel, were
put on Scott's hit list.
Every Tuesday morning the Executive Committee would discuss what to do with people on the list.
An inmate named Tom Humphries was fighting Corrections over double bunking. That's where two
inmates were doubled up in a cell designed for one.
Scott targeted Humphries to make life more difficult for him. Scott arranged to have a hypodermic
needle and syringe found in Humphries's cell along with some legal papers. Humphries was put in
isolation as a result.
I was in Scott's office when Scott and Al discussed how they would plant that in the cell.
Scott would isolate inmates, fire personnel, or just make life miserable for those on his list. And Scott
was really proud of his attitude of being like a king. Power went to his head and he loved being able to
make or break people.
His nickname, which he gave himself, was The Iceman. He had a sign made for his office door, "The
Iceman, Prince of Darkness".
I was involved in a child custody battle with my ex-husband during the time I was Scott's secretary.
Scott was proud of his badge and gun. He suggested I have my ex-husband, Jim, come to the office
where Scott and the other men could intimidate him for me by being all around him with their guns
showing. Scott wanted to bully Jim for me.
When I became the enemy Scott turned that bullying attitude toward me.
He and Jim started exchanging information about me to help Jim in the custody battle and to discredit
me as a witness against Scott.
Speaking of Scott using his badge and his gun, Scott used to use his badge to get into the private
clubs in Salt Lake City.
Scott told me he used to help Al Imig, in Oregon, to bust porno places.
Scott would go undercover to places to find something wrong, then Al would bust the place.
Whatever they seized became Scott's personal effects.
I saw something resembling that here.
When Grace became Scott's secretary I was sent to work in the mailroom at the Wasatch Facility.
Scott initiated a policy wherein contraband sent to inmates, such as drugs, cash, or pornography, was
seized in the mailroom and delivered to Scott.
Scott had me personally deliver such material to him. I don't know if any of the materials were sent
back to people.
I know I never sent anything back, even though people called to ask what happened to money they
had sent.
I don't know that anything was done to follow-up on what happened to the items.
I do remember seeing some of the porno from the Wasatch Facility in Scott's personal effects. I saw
that on December 26th, '89.
I was at Scott’s house and he had his effects from his office there. Included were porno magazines I
recognized as ones I had delivered from Wasatch to him.
Scott was asked to take a polygraph test regarding the Francke murder case. I don't, remember
exactly when that was.
Scott was worried about it and called Al Imig to his office. Al told Scott if he took a certain kind of
sedative it would dampen his emotional responses and he could beat the test.
I was in Scott's office during that conversation. I don't remember what the drug was called but Al told
me it was like Valium.
Scott had some and took it before the polygraph. Scott kept a variety of pills in his desk.
I went and got Scott some coffee and he drank that with the pills. After the polygraph Scott said he
wouldn't have needed to take the drug, that he could have snowed the guy without it.
Nothing came out linking Scott to the case in Oregon. Scott said no questions were even asked that
would have linked him to the case.
I asked him if he had anything to worry about.
He said no, that there had been over 140 incidents of violations or misconduct during his 17 years in
Oregon and none of them had ever been pinned to him.
I was curious because Scott had Grace bring three boxes of official files from Oregon when she
moved to Utah. The boxes were the size of what Xerox paper comes in and they were filled with file
folders.
The files related to cases Scott had tried.
Scott used part of those files to show me how he wanted our files organized.
As was brought out in my lawsuit, Scott McAlister was putting a lot of pressure on me to engage in
group sex. It was in June '89 that he started putting heavy pressure on me.
I was very resistant to the idea so Scott tried to get me to use cocaine to help me relax and feel better
about it. He asked if I knew where to get cocaine in Utah.
I didn't know, because I had never used it.
I had seen Scott with cocaine and knew he got it from Oregon. His main connection is a female named
Lynn McElhene , who is in either Salem or Eugene.
On three occasions Scott had me send checks to her from his personal account for drugs.
Scott signed the checks himself and told me the checks were for drugs.
At one point, regarding one of the checks, he said that was enough to keep him happy for a while and
it would do me good too.
The first check Scott had me send to Lynn was for $150 and was in April, 1989." Later he had me send a
check for $500, then there was a third check in August but I can't remember the amount. It seems like
it was about $120, but I can't remember exactly.
Scott told me in late July’89 that he couldn't use his home or office address for cocaine to be mailed to
him, so he was having some sent to my home address.
He said to expect a package containing two sweaters and some cocaine.
I told him if any drugs are mailed to me I will report it to the Sheriff or the Postal Inspectors.
Scott said that would be a really stupid move.
I said I had just got visitation rights with my daughter and I was serious about it.
Scott said he would make other arrangements.
A couple days later he said Grace would bring it down.
She moved to Utah in late-July. It was shortly after that incident that I attempted suicide.
I was just under too much pressure from the demotion to the mailroom, the custody battle, the
pressure for group sex, and then the drugs.
I wrote a suicide note then took an overdose anti-depressant prescription medicine.
Scott came to see why I wasn't at work and found me unconscious.
He called an ambulance and got me to a hospital, where I spent a week recuperating.
Scott also took or destroyed my suicide note. I had talked about him in the note and about the
pressures he was putting on me.
I don't remember word for word but I said things about Scott's dishonesty and the way he was using
me.
I know Scott had Grace Caudill bring cocaine down from Oregon when she moved.
He also brought some cocaine from Oregon when he helped Al Imig move to Utah in June, 1989.
Scott was very specific, though, about not wanting anyone to discuss drugs in front of Al.
Al was like Scott's gopher-boy, he would do anything for Scott. But Al apparently had nothing to do
with drugs.
Scott also brought some cocaine back from Oregon when he went there for some meeting. I
remember he made trips to Oregon in February and on St. Patrick's Day, and again in mid-May.
I know Scott brought cocaine back from the St. Patrick's Day trip and the May trip.
I saw Scott McAlister and Grace Caudill with a small bag of cocaine at the office in late-September or
early-October, 1989.
It was after normal working hours when I arrived with mail from Wasatch and walked in on Scott and
Grace in Scott's office.
They were using cocaine by inhaling it into their noses from a really tiny spoon. They weren't
particularly bothered that I saw them. I think Scott thought I wouldn't say anything and thought no one
would believe me even if I did say something.
I don't know if anyone else ever saw them with drugs at the office.
I have also seen Scott rub cocaine in his mouth. It looked like he rubbed it on his teeth but. I have
now been told that a way of using cocaine is by, rubbing it on one's gums. So that must be what he
was doing. He kept a small bag of cocaine in the far back right side of his computer stand in the office.
The first time Scott talked to me about cocaine he called it candy. When I asked him what that was he
said coke. After that he always just called it coke.
Gary DeLand and Scott McAlister go back 7-10 years. They were on a lecture circuit together for a long
time.
Gary's wife, Cathy, told me Gary liked Scott’s aggressiveness.
Gary apparently told Scott several times over the years that Gary would hire Scott anytime Scott was
willing.
Scott always declined the offers.
In November of 1988 Scott apparently called Gary and said he was ready to change jobs. Gary was
pleased and told him to be here in January.
Although Gary knew of Scott's hit lists and his making life miserable for certain people, I never had
any indication Gary knew of Scott's drug use or anything criminal.
Al Imig's wife, Pam, was so naive she never knew what was going on.
Scott used to help Al get women. They had a favorite club called Studebakers where they picked up
women. When Al moved to Utah, it was a couple of months before his family joined him. Before Al
arrived I was assigned by Scott to find available women for Al. Al stayed with Scott from April to June
of '89 and it was a constant party. They were going out every night.
We didn't schedule meetings Friday afternoons because Friday night was "skirt night". Scott always
told me when they were out, so if Pam called, I could say they were out on an investigation.
In the criminal case against Scott McAlister, I testified at a hearing in August, 1990, in which the Judge
determined there was sufficient evidence to proceed with a trial.
All four tires on my car were slashed that night. A few days later a delivery guy came to the door with
an envelope for me. I opened it and it contained a note that said, drop the suit or you're dead. I gave
the note to the police. My house was broken into after that. I have been told the police caught a guy
who was a former inmate.
I understand he admitted he had been sent by Scott McAlister.
I don't know that for a fact but I heard it from a clerk at Circuit Court.
There was a prison inmate who was transferred here from Oregon. Scott McAlister used him as a
snitch in the prison.
He also used him for things like planting the hypodermic in the Humphries case. I can't remember the
inmate's name. He came to Utah during the summer months of 1989.
We had a dinner at Scott McAlister's house in late-July, 1989, to welcome Grace Caudill to Utah.
I cooked the dinner. Al Imig, Grace Caudill, Scott and, Harol and Wanda Whitley were all there.
We were all in the living room when the subject of Michael Francke's murder came up.
The whole group was like a family and very open with each other. I was the only newcomer to the
group.
Pam and Wanda had their own conversation going and Al was laying on the floor watching a game on
TV.
Harol and Scott were talking and Grace was sitting on the floor near them.
I walked out of the kitchen and stood by Scott and Harol.
They were really talking Francke down. They all really disliked Francke.
Grace had said something that brought a response from Scott.
Scott said, "Yeah, it’s really stupid, what was supposed to look like a suicide was really fucked up."
Harol just looked at Scott.
Scott said, "Everybody that knew him knew that he (Francke) never used that door. Harol said, "At any
rate it's no loss."
Harol was happy because he said he could now use Oregon Corrections as a reference. Scott was
clearly angry over the job being "fucked up", as he put it.
Scott said they couldn't ever get anything right. It was supposed to look like a suicide and they
botched it.
He said they were stupid, too, in that Francke was found by a door he never used.
Scott said something about Francke having crawled to the door and that “they" were stupid.
Al Imig joined the conversation and said something about not liking Francke but it didn't sound like he
knew any inside information about the murder.
Scott also commented that Francke's brother from Florida was trying to prove the murder was drug
related but that he will never be able to prove it.
Grace and Harol would have heard Scott's comments about the murder and the others could have
heard if they were paying attention.
Wanda, Harol and Scott could talk for hours about cases that were flubbed up in Oregon and about
how they manipulated cases.
I didn't realize at the time how significant Scott's comments could be because I didn't really know
anything about" the Francke case. I believe from what was said, Scott and Harol know inside
information about what happened in the Francke murder.
Scott has told me who Mike Francke was. He said Francke had Gary DeLand's job in Oregon. Scott said
he could reason with Gary but not with Francke, and that everyone hated Francke.
Scott McAlister apparently got Harol Whitley out of a scrape in Oregon and helped get Harol a job in
Nevada.
He was going to get Harol back in Oregon in a couple of years but then Scott ended up coming to
Utah. So he got Harol a job here.
When Scott resigned in Utah, Grace was moved from the Inspector General's office to the Orange
Street Facility.
Al was made a Parole Officer.
Scott went to Arizona because he had a good friend there named J.C. Keeney.
Al and his family then went to Arizona and I guess Harol and Grace went too.
I remember Scott McAlister talking about trying to get Michael Francke's job after Francke's murder
but I don't know what ever came of that.
There was a woman in Oregon named Kim Miller who had Scott McAlister scared for months over a
Palimony suit.
Scott had me type nasty threatening letters to her until she finally dropped the suit.
Scott met Kim through Al Imig.
Pam and Kim worked together in real estate. Another woman, named Elaine Apheceix, was a Critical
Care nurse at a big hospital in San Francisco.
She has been involved with Scott for three or four years. She wanted to get married about the time
Grace moved down here.
On ski trips Scott would send Kim home and bring Elaine in.
I have read the above statement, which was typed for me by Roger Harris, have made appropriate
changes, have initialed each page, and the statement is, true, and correct.
I have offered this information voluntarily and without any threats or promises being made.
This statement is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Linda Parker
Witnessed: Roger K. Harris
Date: December 11, 1990
| Linda Parker's Statement |
