Timeline

Timeline at Ranch on 1/16/1973

7:00 AM- Joe left for work

7:30 AM- Anna and brothers on bus to school

7:45 AM- Annasmom feeds chickens and animals

10:00 AM-Rooster attacks horsewoman, Annasmom brings her to house,
hysterical
-another horseperson arrives at Ranch
-horsepeople return to horsebarn together
-rooster attacks woman again
-horseman kills rooster and tosses in creek

11:00 AM-Two friends with infant arrive from SF for visit with Annasmom

Noon – Joe returns – construction job shut down due to rain

12:20 – Anna arrives on school bus

12:40 – Anna goes outside to play in yard, puts on red coat and rubber boots

1:30 PM- Ranch resident (family friend) comes in back door for visit
- Anna comes back in house
- Friends from SF finish visit and leave
- Resident/friend goes to road to collect previous day’s mail, returns

2:00 PM- Annasmom hears Anna in bedroom/porch, talking (to cats?)

2:10 PM- Carpenter friend of Joe arrives for visit

2:15-2:20 PM- Annasmom, no longer hearing Anna-sounds, becomes
alarmed. She had been monitoring sounds, as mothers do-
back door opening and closing, Anna playing in yard

2:20 PM – Annasmom panics-she, Joe and the two friends rush outside to
look for Anna, shouting her name

2:45PM – After a frantic search of the creek area and outbuildings, Sheriffs
Department is called

3:15 PM- Sheriffs Deputies arrive, blast siren. Formal search begins of ranch
and creek


*** Sometime later Joe’s friend reports that while coming up Purissima Rd,
that he stopped and got out of his truck to admire some horses grazing.
While there he was passed by a westbound van with two people inside
that waved to him. He also said that when he arrived at our house at
2:10 PM he saw Anna at the front of our house, said hi to her and came
in.