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She told us that she wants the police to question these people to find out if they know anything about his death, and how it happened:

Karen Thompson, Common-law wife of Deceased
"When I look, I went into the room and I was watching everything they had the whole room cleaned up. Under his bed was cleaned up. They had everything on his bed. They mop out - they had the mop and the broom right there. The sheet covering, the chair covering, the clothes that he had on the evening when he left from here - they already were washing those. They were washed on the line and they had everything washed out."

"I ask them why were they doing all this. He just died last night, so why you all were in the house doing this? Like that ask them. So now, he always tells me about a valise he had under his bed with some jewelry and so and he had it lock with a padlock. When I look I didn't see the valise, but I see everything packed up on the bed. I ask them where is the valise that was under the bed and they say they don't know. The young lady went and lock herself in the backroom and my sister knocked down the door and told her to come out because she needs to explain to my why she call and say that my common-law died."

"I went in the room and I saw the valise in a corner with a sheet over it. I ask them what did they have the valise in there. I told them that I will take the valise."

"I spoke to a young lady who is his nephew girlfriend who doesn't live far from him. She looks after him, taking food to him in Sundays and check on him. She says when she went there the night when the thing happen, she said that the young lady already had my gentlemen (Karl Leslie) in the pick up, no police wasn't there and no doctor was there and she says that she want to hurry take him to the morgue. So we wanted to know why the police didn't take him and why she took him and then they took her word that he died from a heart attack."

Daniel Ortiz, reporter
"Do you all believe that he was murdered?"

Karen Thompson, Common-law wife of Deceased
"Yup. He was so strong. He had just left from Loma Luz looking after his health. He told me that he felt so good."

Daniel Ortiz, reporter
"You all believe that somebody murdered him and that this big cleanup was to try to get rid of evidence?"

Karen Thompson, Common-law wife of Deceased
"Yup."

Daniel Ortiz, reporter
"Do you think that the police asked these people any kind of questions any at all?"

Karen Thompson, Common-law wife of Deceased
"I don't know. They say people from the neighborhood who lives right behind him, says they saw persons back and forth taking things from the house and so on. They had on the news that they found his pick up a lane from his house. The pick up was right in the yard and she took him to the hospital. There are witnesses to that and the pick up was right in the yard. I took the pick up Friday morning, because I went up in a taxi and after when they finish with the biopsy, they found out it was a murder, so they came and say they needed the pick up and so I gave it to them."

Sandra Thompson told us that her common-law husband was a very kind individual who often helped people, even if he had intense disagreements with them. She says that he often sought her advice about some of the people he was assisting, and she would encourage him, even if he felt that he was wasting his time and energy.

Police are still treating it as what they call a "death investigation" and not a homicide.