Letters from a new hampshire prison from the wrongfully convicted chad evans

Photo P254 This was one of our best crew kids at the time, Samantha McDonald/MacDonald. Likely someone at McDonald's would know. I don't believe she went to the high school across the street, I think she went to one of the smaller ones in the area, perhaps Nute, or Farmington. She may be a good person to contact. We were considering her for management.

Photo P255 Great photo of Tristan, Kyle and Brent with Ronald in the back sink area.

Photo P256 Jason Evans, the restaurant manager, with Ronald.

Photo 257 A group photo with Ronald at the front counter while there is a lull in business. Starting at Jason in the background is Kerry Fortin in front, me ducking down, Tom Urrutia, behind me, Samantha (same as photo P254) at Ronald's left and the shorter girl next to Sam was a girl named Michelle McKeown I believe. We did make Michelle a manager. The thing that is killing me is I'm not even sure her name is Michelle. It may have been Nicole. She would be great to contact. Someone will know who she is.

Photos P258 to P261. All photos of some of my key people in Rochester. I can tell from different things in the restaurant these photos are from 1995. I'd almost bet my life on it. I took all the photos.

Photo P258, Gina Garcia hard at work writing the crew schedule. I can tell looking through the window behind her that the blue steel frame is in for the playplace but nothing else.

Photo P259- The guys I liked to refer to as my "Grill Gods" these three shift managers could produce some food fast. I loved having them in the grill when a bus load or two showed up. L to R: Matt Skidds, Tom Mikoski, Bruce Aube.

Photo P260. I think Matt Skidds, Mr. Charisma. I think he was just out of high school. I remember my first month in Rochester Saturday mornings were super busy and unorganized. Matt and Bruce would go in at 5 am to open the restaurant and prepare for the day. I went in occasionally to help them. I'd walk in around 5:15 (the restaurant opened at 6 a.m.) and Bruce would be prepping the grill area while Matt was doing the "front of the house". Every weekend Matt would have his little boombox cranking out Bobby Brown's "Humping Around" or "My Perogative." He'd be dancing around acting all foolish, it was hard to not start the day in a great mood watching these two clowning.

Photo P261 is shift manager Michelle "Missy" Labrie. Her family was from the Wakefield, NH area. She is also the manager that I told you a few months back that went to work at Holy Rosary Credit Union and would be a good person to get in touch with. At the time of this photo, Missy was dating Matt Skidds. These people were my extended family.

Photo P262 Oh My God, look how cute the boys are so cute wearing their sunglasses. It appears they are sitting in front of the shed near the house. I believe they were waiting for daddy to come home and take them to hit balls at the school. I think this photo was summer 1999, possibly early 2000 but by their size I think more likely 1999.

Photo P263 Ah, the vegetable sprayer. Tristan is doing a little morning clean up. She's spraying and I think I was just threatened that if I take her photo I will get sprayed. Tristan never promised something and then not deliver. She soaked me. That kitchen sprayer could tell some stories the amount of times it has been used against me. I believe this photo is from 1999. I think my mom is up for a visit. I see a pack of Marlboro Lights on the far counter under the Cutco knife set. Neither Tristan or I smoked.

Photos P264-P274 June 21 1998 we are celebrating Brent's 5th birthday in our front yard. I'm pretty sure I took most of these photos.

Photo P264 Tristan's dad, Merle Wentworth enjoying some cake on front step.

Photo P265+P267 is a photo of Diane Robinson holding her and Jaime Hinton's son, Cameron,

as they enjoy the party. At the time Diane ran my Greenland McDonald's. She is now living in Gonic with her husband, Rick, and is a manager of the Rochester Burger King.

Photo P266- Brent unwrapping with "Papa" in the background, Tristan and other kids looking on.

Photo P268 Kyle saying, "I know I am not one yet but I still get a piece of cake right?"

Photo P269, Not sure name of person on left, on the right is Sharon "Nana" Wentworth.

P270 Brent still unwrapping. Lots of things for everyone to play with.

Photo P271 Tim Goodnow enjoying some cake and ice cream.

Photo P272 and P273 More of the kids enjoying Brent's birthday party.

Photo P274 Dan, Marcy, and Diane watch as the party goes on. Marcy was an employee of Rochester McDonald's for several years along with her boyfriend, Dan. Marcy was very supportive after Kassidy died. She stopped by the house several times.

Photo P274A Kyle in his chair during his first birthday party. "Finally, I got to try the cake, not bad. Waiter, can you get me something to clean up, I'm a bit sticky."

Photo P274A to P285 Kyle's first birthday party. Notice in the photos "Shorts Wholesale Supply" across the street is white. It is grey today.

Photo P275-P281 Kyle gets his first birthday cake and his first chance to rip open birthday gifts. Kyle has a crowd of onlooking children to help him as needed.

Photo P282 More presents to unwrap, you can see the rear end of my first company car, a green Taurus. Sharon, Merle, my man and Diane Robinson watch Kyle.

Photo P283 rare photo of my mom. I got her when she wasn't looking.

Photo P284 Kyle is one year and two days old. He is running to daddy as I get home from work. That was the best thing about getting home at night, Kyle and Brent running to see me and being able to "breathe" Tristan in as I kissed her forehead. It sounds crazy but when you meet the person you are supposed to be with, even their scent can have this effect on you. I guess I am one of the lucky ones. I have had two women do that for me, in my lifetime.

Photo P285 Dot holding her daughter Michaela, Brent, and Merle, all getting ready to go home as Kyle's party ended.
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Photos P286-P289 Pictures of Kyle just over a year old walking around the living room. Look at those blue eyes. The wood-framed glass coffee table and the rest of the living room were completely replaced with all new furniture and the all glass coffee table in January of 2000 or so. There is an upcoming photo of it in one of the letters that I have yet to answer. The complete make over was like a transition to a new "me." At first I did it in the hopes that Tristan would see that I didn't have to be such a stick in the mud. We could live more for the "now" and not just the future. She could redo the house any way that she wanted.

On the fireplace mantle you can see large photos of Brent and Kyle on either side and the wood frame photo in the middle is a photo of Tristan and I on our honeymoon cruise along with Elizabeth and George our friends from Miami that were newly married in 1997 and also on their honeymoon. On the coffee table in P287 you can see a small yellow ball. Even at this age, tossing and swinging at balls was one of Kyle's favorite activities.

Photo P290 taken from the drivers seat perspective in the back seat of my Taurus so I took the photo. The boys were so cute sleeping that I couldn't resist. I can see a corner of the garage in the background out the window. I think we were just returning from hitting balls and running around the playground on Brock Street.

Photo P291-P296 are not of my grandparents farm. They are actually of this really cool little farm museum in Milton NH. My parents were up visiting and Tristan and I decided to take the boys to this museum for the day. I knew my dad would especially enjoy this as well. Both Tristan and I had farming in our history and wanted the boys to understand their heritage. There was a bunch more photos of this series.

In photo P291+ P293 Brent is running in one of the fields, trying to get me to chase him. We

played tag for a few minutes and the tree he was holding was safety. Hard to believe I was once faster than him.

P292 Kyle catching some zzz's on his way to the new restaurant we ate at after the trip to the museum.

P294 Cool to see all those old milk bottles and explain to Brent that this was how milk was delivered to houses years ago as opposed to going to the supermarket like we do now to pick up a gallon.

P295-P296 Old woodworking tools in the farm workshop.

Photo's P297-P302 were from a promotion that McDonald's ran. This was in the middle of the TY Beanie Baby craze and we had mini Beanie Babies as prizes in the happy meals. People went crazy. From open to close we were slammed. This was the most successful promotional event that McDonald's had ever run. We had a company from which we could purchase McDonald's items directly. I purchased a ton of this stuff, T shirts, hats, lapel pins (P298+P300). I would use them as crew incentives to keep morale up and also as raffles for our customers. People were insane for this stuff. We'd hang a T-shirt above the front counter indicating a free raffle fill out a new ticket everyday. Same customers would offer $40 on the spot for the T-shirt. Lapel pins are a big collectible in the McDonald's world.

Photos P303-P314 These are all of Christmas at Nana and Papa's house in Milton NH. If these were actually taken 12/24/2000 then Tristan took them and gave me a copy as I wasn't allowed to see the boys at this point unless I was at Family Stregth. If the photos were taken December 1999. I likely took them. We typically had Chistmas like this at Merle and Sharon's on Christmas Eve and then we'd travel to Keene and spend Christmas Day at my parents. I was typically the photographer for such events.

Photo P303- Kyle and his cousin, Tyler, unwrapping.

Photo P307 Tristan's brother, Jason, and his wife, Mandy.

Photos P308+P309 Great photos of Kyle and Brent with Aunt Tiffany and their Nana, Sharon. Kyle had his little growl face on.
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Photos P315 to P320 Odd that these photos from May 2002 made it in with this bunch. I think that I have seen a few of these as Amanda sent them to me while I was in jail. These are of her and her friends at some place in Maine I believe.

P316 is Mary Bullard on the left, I don't recognize the girl on the right but she appears to be the same girl in Photo P317+P318. I'm curious who they are as well. Perhaps you could email them to Mary Bullard and she can identify for us, the two people we don't know, the location, etc.

Photo P318 appears to be Amanda on the left, Mary in center and unknown girl.

Photo P319 is Mary Bullard. I miss Mary. If you do end up emailing her to see who the girl and guy are in P317 and then again with her in 320, please tell Mary I said hello again.

Photos P321-P323 We are preparing for the bagged lunches for the Special Olympics at the UNH Field House.

P321 You can see all the brown the brown bags that the ladies are diligently filling. I did most of the lugging of boxes, keeping them in supplies as they bagged the 2500 or so lunches.

P323 is a photo of "Betsy the wonder truck". I purchased this beater Toyota pick-up right after graduation from high school. Jason, myself, and our friends loved to go 4 wheeling and often went all around the Keene area. Lots of great old trails to explore then. This was truck was great. It had a

hood ornament "man" made with nuts and bolts welded to the hood.

P324 Some of my favorite crew in Rochester.

P324 Shreylet (spelling) in the drive thru area waiting for her shift to start.

P325 Shreylet talking to Bruce as he counts the deposit and prepares cash drawers for the evening.

P326 Michelle McKeowen (sp), Shreylet, and the future Mrs. Chad E:vans, Tristan Wentworth, waiting to punch in for work. These three were awesome with customers and fast. We could put them anywhere. Of course, I thought Tristan with her two year old son, Brent, was beautiful. Behind the ladies, above the sink, you can see one of the signs that I had written to inform the crew of something. Likely it was proper dish washing and sanitation procedures because of its location. I can see my signature. As you and I have discussed, I often communicated with my crews like this.

Photos P327-P334 Me taking my managers to Six Flags in Mass. and enjoying their company.

Photo 327 Tom + Dot Urrutia, Tristan, Keri Fortin, and Melissa Brundage wait outside a ride.

Photo P328 Chad, Jeremy, and Tom Urrutia go up this awesome water boat ride.

Photo P329+P330 Tristan, Keri, and others wait to go up the "Tower of Terror."

Photo P332 + P334 Tristan snaps a photo of us coming down from the water boat ride.

Photo P331 +P333 Keri, Melissa, Larry, Dot, Tristan, Tommy, and Jeremy walking around enjoying the time together. What a trip.

Morrison, you included my caption for photo #61 with this letter. Can you fix it? Greenland is spelled incorrectly, it should be two e's, it's not Dawn Fortin, it is her sister, Keri and her title was Asst. Mgr. Hampton Beach.

Photos P335-P336 From the kids T-shirts, I believe this is White River Jet., VT. Grand Opening celebration. Our busiest restaurant was just over the border in West. Lebanon, NH. I believe this was sometime in 1995.

Photo P337- 338 Company Christmas party 1994. I was not yet area supervisor.

Photo P338 Janet and Larry Lane along with me and Mary. Within two years I had become

Larry's "right hand" and as Jim Bonneau puts it, "added spice" inspiring the area back on top.

Photo P340 Last year before big company split w / NY "Colley" group going on their own. I'm getting recognition here for Raysway win I believe. Peter Napoli, owners Gene Colley and Rick McCoy, me, Bob McDougall, Frank Morse.

Photo P341 Seated, second from left, Lynn Shields, then Craig + Gina Warner, Diane Bonneau. To my left standing is Arnie Grant, Jim Bonneau. The rest previously ID'd.

Photo P342 Me, Larry Lane, Jim Bilodeau area supervisor. Sal not yet with company.
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Photo P344-P347. I can't recall what I am getting dressed up for. Perhaps my wedding? Maybe someone else's. Can't recall at this time.

Photo P345 I'm having a can of "liquid courage" wherever it was I was headed.

Photo P346 Kato tugging his rope, whenever he was near daddy and that rope he wanted to play tug of war. Great dog. I miss him.

Photo P347 You asked about plow in the background. It went to my John Deere garden tractor. Hey, you can take the boy off the farm.... I miss my little tractor. It was the one mentioned in the deposition that Jeff bugged me to sell him, and then he never paid for. I always found it relaxing to plow the driveway with my little tractor or ride it around sucking up leaves and pine needles and mowing the lawn. As time went on, the promotions started and the kids got older, I had less time for these activities Before I bought the three wheelers, I would take the kids for rides around the yard

on the tractor, letting them "drive". It was a blast.

Photos P348-P363 Our house, full of animals. I think most of these photos were taken back in the days when Mary was living with me in Rochester. 1994 or so.

Photo P348 Mary's kitten. I forgot his name. If I remember right, he disappeared one night. .

Photo P350-P352. Mary's cat, Jasper. He was an awesome cat. Very smart and cuddly. I enjoyed his company very much and as you can see in Photo 352, I would share a little dinner with him every now and then.

Photo 349 I'm getting a kiss from Kato, the world's cutest puppy.

Photo P353, Kato posing for the camera. He knew that he would someday be on calendars. He was. We made a Kato calendar one year. It came out awesome.

Photo P354 Kato sharing with a dog that we had gotten from Suzanne Lavalley for a short while. This is the only other dog that I had seen Kato around that he didn't try to kill. I can't remember the dog's name. He only stayed with us a month or so and Suzanne took him back. Her kids really missed the dog and it was just as well because he kept going to the bathroom everywhere.

Photo P355 Kato is laying across me on our bed. Kato was a bed hog and here is clearly telling Mary, "You can snap all the photos you want but there is no room here for you. Only me and daddy.

Photo P356 I'm at Mary's apartment in Derry relaxing as I wait for her. We were going out somewhere.

Photo P357 Babbit the rabbit wandering around in what would become Kyle's bedroom. This photo was taken shortly after the house was purchased as the walls in that room were blue. I would soon replace the carpeting and paint the walls white.

Photo P358 My poor baby Kato laying next to me right after he had his surgery on his leg and rods inserted from being hit by car. He looks so sad in this picture, "Look what happened to me on Daddy's watch."

Photo P359 Babbit' s indoor home. We let him loose often but we couldn't let him just room free overnight because he would chew wires and stuff.

Photos P360-P363 Jasper and the kitten playing. I love the photo in P362 of the kitten preparing to attack Jasper. Kittens, full of such Bravado, You gotta love it.

P361 shows the crate that I purchased to train Kato in at night.

Photo P363 Yes, you correctly identify, these are the stairs and the carpet runners that Kassidy would lay back on and slide down the stairs, several years from these photos.

Photo P364 Goes along with photo P356 1993 photos taken by Mary's sister. We were headed to dinner and a function of some sort.

Photo P365 Me standing in front of the kitchen refrigerator. May have been heading to work? Even then you can see we kept the cereal on top of the refrigerator. I think this picture was taken shortly after we installed the ceramic tile floor in the kitchen. The entire house had nice hardwood flooring throughout except the kitchen, which had these wide oak floors with linoleum. I wanted tiles there. Like everything, it was quite a project for me to pick them but once I did, I was very happy with the selection.

Photo P366 and P367 Photos looking into the dining room and the living room. Mary had done a nice job decorating the rooms, having a friend of hers make the curtains from material that Mary and I shopped for and picked out in Dover.

Photo P368 Steve Skidds and Christie Jennison all prepared and ready to go to their senior prom. I am guessing 1993 or 1994. All kitchen cupboard doors are removed for painting and hinge and handle replacement. In the bottom right corner of photo you can see a coat sitting across a glass kitchen table. This is the table that Kassidy would run into while playing with Kato several years later. Also you see the second place I indicated to you that we kept cereal, upper left cabinet above stove. Cereal was a popular item in the Evans house.

Photo P369 Steve helped me do a lot of the painting when I first bought the house in Rochester. He was a great painter and a good kid. Christie came over many nights to visit as well. Neither of them lived with me yet. Both of them were happy when I hooked up with Tristan a few years later as they liked her very much. They all worked together at McDonald's.

Photo P370 is a shot of the outside of the house. I took it because I wanted to re-side the house. I wanted to lighten it up and replace with vinyl or some other type of siding. You can see Betsy, the wonder truck, in the drive way. The garage is directly in front of where the truck is facing.

Photo P371 Great close-up of the house. The bottom left window is downstairs bathroom. The window beside it is in the kitchen. The window directly above and also on the front of the house above the door is our bedroom. The other two windows above the living room picture window are into Kyle's bedroom.

I hope these help some.

P.S. I like this three hole punched paper for this photo project. I don't have much room to keep things here and this paper is great because I can store these photos right in a notebook afterward. So this small mistake worked out great. Thank you.
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Photo P372 is former Governor Steve Merrill's Inauguration breakfast, early 1990's. This was held at the State House. Our owner was a Republican and we seemed to sponsor Republican Governors. We provided a breakfast at the State House where all state employees could come and meet the new Governor. This was obviously a big event with thousands in attendance, so we pulled in resources from all around the state. The girl pictured with the Governor was one of my employees in Rochester. I was also there and another girl was serving. I believe it was Jessica Edmands. I also had several "grill" employees who we dropped off to help cook in the Concord area McDonald's.

Photo's P373 and P374 show the newly opened McDonald's Playplace in Rochester. I'm quite certain this was 1995.

Photo's P374 + P383 is a daily inspection that I required be done. The playplace was for children but on occasions there were adults that may go through unnoticed. We didn't want to take any chances that a young child could get hurt. Not to mention, things sometimes come loose, items get lost, etc. This was a chance to check it over prior to opening and make sure it was safe for that day's operation.

In Photo P383, I am showing one of our playplace crew members how to do the inspection. Who better to show what I expect and what I am looking for than me?

Photo P375 Rochester Shift-manager and later assistant manager, Suzanne Lavalley. Suzanne was great. I'm guessing this photo was taken in 1995 or 1996.

Photo P376 Doris Francescini dressing some burgers in Rochester's grill area. I would

guess 1995 or 1996.

Photo P377 Some of my shift and assistant managers are getting ready for our weekly mgt. meetings. I loved the addition to these party rooms in the playplace because they provided great meeting rooms as well as party rooms for children's parties. Standing is Doris Francescini. Seated in blue is Laurie Gagnon, long hair with back turned, Suzanne Lavalley, possibly Tanya Edwards next to Melissa Brundgage.

Photo P378 does not belong with the others in this area. This is me taking a customer's order at the Keene McDonald's 1988-1990. The large man behind me is Jim Kennedy Jr. I believe. Jim was my boss at this point. I was still in high school. Jim would later work for me running my Methuen II restaurant. The picture on the far wall is of Dan Frazier, the restaurant manager. We always hung a photo of our restaurant managers on the wall for our customers to see and know who to address if needed.

Photo P379 Some of the Rochester mgt. team. Travis Hunt, grabbing a muffin. I'm not sure who the crew person is, Laurie Gagnon and Christie Jennison.

Photo P380 + P382 Me posing for a picture in front of the Rochester walk-in Freezer and corner of the crew break room. I'm not sure who I had take the photo, but I recall that I had to turn it in for something. I'm sure it was for something to do with the company-wide newsletter from my build, I'm guessing 1995-1996

Photo P384 A few from the Rochester playplace toward the front of the restaurant.

Photo P385 Bruce Aube in the Rochester grill area doing his specialty, cooking up some eggs. I'm guessing 1996.

Photo P386 another weekly managers meeting 1996 or so, L to R: Tom Mikoski, Doris Francescini, Dot Plaisted, Missy Labrie, Michelle McKewon, Laurie Gagnon, crewchief that we started training, and Melissa Brundage.

Photo P387 + P398, The grand opening of the playplace. We invited the kids from the local orphanage in to be the first children ever to go through the playplace. A night before the grand opening, we kept it closed to the general public and let these kids have the entire playplace to themselves for 3 hours. Complete with Happy Meals for dinner and Ronald McDonald cake for dessert. The sisters pictured were happy. We were so excited for the kids. They had a blast. As a manager, this is one of the most rewarding experiences I had and was glad I arranged. I've always had a soft spot for these kids. At Christmas, I always left a box of gifts on their steps.