Raymond Timbrook /// Part 1 /// 564 | Forensic Files

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the Village of Kirtland Hills Ohio Kirtland Hills is located in Lake County Ohio and has a population of under 700
people it's about 20 or so Miles Northeast of the great city of Cleveland surrounded by the much larger cities of
Willoughby and Mentor amongst others Kirtland Hills is your ideal Community for raising a family a small town feel
with big city amenities nearby if you were to be driving through you would notice mostly larger homes on large lots
of land especially in The Hunting Hills neighborhood this month is an anniversary and not a
happy one 30 years ago a smart hard-working father was murdered in Kirtland Hills and all of these years
later it's still not exactly clear why someone would want this well-liked man killed
some say his murder was an act of jealousy others say it could have been to keep
him silent and then there are those who believe that maybe it was a little of both Raymond timbrook
was a father of two he was a very smart and successful man Rey as some of his friends called him worked for the very
prominent company CT Consultants according to their website CT Consultants is a leading firm offering
engineering architecture planning and Construction Services Raymond timbrook was with CT consultants for 12 years
timbrook was a partner stockholder and a six-figure salary a year vice president
our story takes us back to March of 1992. Friday the 13th on this night Raymond was found shot to death in an
underdeveloped subdivision known as Hunting Hills this was a Housing Development then at the time was under
construction the site was described as a wooded area Hunting Hills will be parsed out in 5 to
20 acre lots promoted as country quiet the neighborhood was being built by developers Jerry and Mike Osborne and
Jim Brown CT Consultants had an engineering contract with the developers so it would
make some sense that Raymond would be in this area but when his firm was asked for
clarification as to what Raymond was doing there and who if anyone he was meeting
they could offer very little detail sources said he had a 4 pm appointment there
everyone whose statements have made their way to public record all say the same thing
Rey was there to meet a business associate A co-worker and some have even named that individual
this however did very little to firm up the who what and why portions of Rey's Presence at this location where he was
later found having been murdered while sitting in his car according to the Lake County coroner's
office Raymond timbrick was killed between 5 and 6 pm he was found slumped over the steering
wheel sitting in the driver's seat of his 1991 Buick the killer likely reached into the
vehicle and repositioned Rey or posed him giving the appearance of someone sleeping with their head and or chest up
against the wheel Raymond was found shot twice with a large caliber gun at almost Point
Blank Range but there was a witness a man claiming to have seen Ray Timber talking to another man
standing near the rear of the car this witness was questioned and was able to provide a highly experienced police
artist with the description of the person he saw I have also been told that a description
was provided by a person who saw a man driving away from the scene this witness provided a profile
description of the man driving this composite sketch was widely released to the public via newspapers
and persons posting flyers in the area and neighboring cities and towns asking for help
asking for information the description provided and the man they were seeking was described as age
40 to 45 years old Caucasian with shoulder length wavy hair sand colored and curled at the collar
he had a thick build looked barrel-chested he had no facial hair the man was driving an older vehicle in
good condition listed as beige in color and a two-door possibly from the late 70s or early 80s
30 years ago Kirtland Hills police were looking for a man and vehicle matching this description
today Raymond timbrook's family the Lake County News Herald WKYC News and now True Crime garage
are still looking for this man still looking for anyone with information that could assist in this
still unsolved but now Cold Case and still looking for the person or persons who killed
Raymond timbrook this is True Crime garage [Music] 30 years ago this week Captain we have
the subject of this week's True Crime Story a family man businessman 44 year old Raymond timbrook was killed and from
one of the more recent news articles on the Raymond Timber case it sums up the current and sad state of
this case and that brief description reads as follows Kirtland Hills Ohio it's a cold case Frozen in time for
three decades a mild-mannered engineer found dead inside his car shot execution style twice in the head at his funeral a
mysterious woman makes a startling Revelation to survivors but later hires a lawyer and refuses to talk with police
now let's go back in time to March 1992 Friday the 13th this was supposed to be a normal work day for Raymond timbrook
he works for CT Consultants which is a very prominent firm here in Northeast Ohio they do business here millions of
dollars worth of business here and they've expanded throughout the country so this is a successful business and a
successful man working for the successful business he has been with this firm CT consultants for 12 years so
you would expect this to be just another Friday for this man at the office and this weekend was supposed to be his
weekend with his two sons Brian and Scott but on this day captain Raymond timbrook sadly will not make it
home and the way that this story works is as follows late in that afternoon Raymond
Pembroke tells his secretary that he is going to be meeting a business associate
at a meeting location this is Hunting Hills this is a neighborhood basically it's all streets at this point back in
1992 and CT Consultants is working with the developers to put in this neighborhood Raymond Pembroke tells his
secretary that he's meeting a business associate A co-worker and in all actuality for whatever reason Captain I
cannot explain this but over the years that man's name has disappeared from the newspapers and now it just says business
associate or co-worker but back in 1992 what we would learn is that Raymond Timbre was meeting a co-worker and that
co-worker's name was George samargin he was supposed to be meeting George some Reports say that he left the office to
330 or the meeting was to be at 3 30 other Reports say that this meeting was to take place at 4 or that Raymond
timbrook left the office around four either situation makes sense and we're really just talking about a difference
of 30 to 60 minutes here and we're also talking about a difference of 30 years later that we're telling this story from
my understanding here Captain Raymond Pembroke lived not terribly far from CT consultants and CT Consultants is only
about a 10-15 minute drive from where later his body would be found inside his vehicle a 1991 Buick Raymond timbrook
leaves his office again timbrook is in a bit of a transition period in his life he's
recently gone through a divorce at one time he was living with his parents and now he's moved into his own dwelling and
apartment as I understand it and it looks to me just looking off the map captain that this would be a very common
thing or common thing for any of us because Ray could hit this stop on his way home and so it makes sense we have a
late Friday appointment he could hit this stop on his way home we don't know exactly what he was to be doing there
what he was going to be discussing we are told he's meeting this George Samaritan person how long the meeting
was supposed to go for again we don't know but the assumption is that Raymond timbrook would have went home after this
meeting but if you're an investigator Tim Burke doesn't go home so your first suspect is who was Tim Burke meeting and
what were they discussing is there a possibility that there was a conflict at the meeting
that would be the first person that I would be questioning interrogating and collecting fingerprints DNA samples
anything of the sorts what ends up happening Captain is it later that night we have Kirtland Hills PD on the scene
we have an officer who is there's some question here if he's responding to a call which is I believe what what
actually happened here that he's responding to a call there's others that have said that he may have been passing
by and Tim Brooks vehicle would have been obvious so it would have been something he would have checked on right
Raymond timbrook is found dead in his own vehicle having been shot twice his vehicle is running at this time and it's
it's positioned as he was going to be leaving this Hunting Hills area again Hunting Hills is this development that
is very much under development it's it's being developed there's nothing really there other than streets at this point
again like you said this is 30 years later so what is it today it's a gated community and I think you originally
said that some of these plots of lands were anywhere from five acres to 20 acres yes these are wooded Lots these
are for people that want to spend up on their home spend up on their plot of land and this is an affluent area you
know we mentioned that there's less than 700 people that live here today well that's because these people live on big
plots of land and it takes up a lot of space and as you will hear in some of the interviews that we conducted it in
this case you'll hear more about this Hunting Hills in this Kirtland Hills area as we go the initial details of
this neighborhood or the neighborhood that's going to come to be pretty interesting kind of a States like you
said five to to 20 acres that is not the normal neighborhood from a July August 1992 the crime reporter article when
officer Gerald rakovsky found Tim Brooks body in Hunting Hills the headlights of his vehicle were on
the engine was running when he looked inside the car he saw one bullet wound and Tim Brooks head because he didn't
see the other bullet officer rakovsky made the assumption that Tim Brook had committed suicide according to
information he wrote in his incident report the officer didn't touch Tim Brooks car
the Lake County forensic laboratory and Lake County coroner's office handled the
removal of both the vehicle and Tim Brooks body the still running car was towed to the forensic laboratory for
examination while Raymond pembroke's body was taken to the morgue it's 1992 it's a 91 Buick so a newer car for that
time period so you're telling me that the police officer he didn't see the second bullet I'm assuming that the gun
was left behind there has never been a murder weapon found in Raymond Tim Brooks case and in fact if that murder
weapon was ever to be located I think that would be a major major break in this case now based off of that report
that we just read you can kind of piece together why this officer may have made the Assumption in his report we want to
be clear about that Tim Brooks case was ultimately ruled a homicide and ruled a homicide very quickly now the officer
responding he thinks it's a suicide for multiple reasons one they don't have homicides in Kirtland Hills they just
don't I mean you can look up their crime statistics for Kirtland Hills Ohio and the
the murder incidents reported I'm showing zero when I look up this is um this data reflects the 2020 calendar
year and was released from the FBI in September of 2021. so for the entire year of 2020
all these years later zero homicides rape reported in this area zero robbery one assault nine
violent crime 10 burglary one theft 24 vehicle theft one property crime 26. so this is an extremely low crime rate area
and the violent crimes are almost non-existent but we also have to take into account that their population is
under 700 people correct but in regard to percentage when you compare that with the national average
violent crime they have 62 percent less violent crime in this area than the national average they have 77 percent
less crime than the national average so percentage-wise it's a huge drop off as well and we have in this report where
the officer says that he he finds Raymond timbrook but does not touch the vehicle
he just makes an observation he calls it in he's calling in the experts to get the body and to get the vehicle he's
making the Assumption of oh I find a man slumped over the steering wheel in his car you know he takes the license plate
he can confirm that this is Raymond timbrook in his car and he says I didn't touch the vehicle I write up my report
I'm making the assumption that we have a suicide there again he's making the assumption that once they removed the
vehicle and and Ray from the scene that they will likely find a gun either in his lap or somewhere in the
vehicle with Rey and unfortunately for our homicide case that's not the case because we know that
this is a homicide we could have had a situation where somebody could have shot Rey and then threw the gun into the car
with him if that would have been then been ruled a suicide I'm sorry if that would have then been ruled a
homicide even with the gun in the vehicle well we would at least have the gun as some kind of evidence to work off
of here in the situation now to complicate matters a little further no gun but the other thing that's going to
confirm that we have a homicide here is Raymond timbrook was shot twice he wasn't just shot once
so we have an officer who's probably experienced in this area the area where he lives and works and because there's
basically little to no violent crime in this area he's very inexperienced when it comes to violent crime and
particularly in homicides what also makes sense for the responding officer he doesn't have the tools he doesn't
have the training he's not a detective even though I don't like the fact that he just assumed that it was suicide it's
smart in the sense of that he's not going to Tamper or contaminate the scene at all which would be unnecessary for
him at that time again let the experts do that stuff you can always change your assumption
it's not his job to rule it a homicide or otherwise so you can work it in that manner and again an experience with
violent crime especially homicide he may not have been overly excited about getting his hands dirty so to speak now
found with the victim inside his vehicle were all of the items that they expected
to find with Bremen timbrook so we have his watch we have his wallet we have his
money and we have some work items that he had with him I believe that there were certain work items that were found
in the trunk of his vehicle and I believe these to be items that he's taking with him to the scene for the
purpose of this air quotes meeting that he had that day so this is not a robbery
this is and would appear to me to be that this man was asked to be at this scene
possibly lured to this area and then shot and killed once he was there why by whom well that's what we're
here to try to figure out well no gun left at the scene so no murder weapon found but we still have bullets so that
gives us some information on on what kind of weapon we're looking for yes and this is based off of information that
came out just a couple of months after the murder and it says based upon the angle of bullets
are based upon the angle of the bullets from the 38 caliber or 357 caliber handgun so we're going to stop right
here captain police have never officially released exactly what caliber was used they have
made suggestions as to what possible caliber of gun was used in the commission of this homicide but they've
never outwardly stated exactly what kind of caliber and they've often referred to
the gun as a large or larger caliber gun this article specifically States 38 caliber or 357 caliber handgun I've also
heard a nine millimeter gun in other reports so this says handgun which was used to kill Raymond timberk was shot at
almost Point Blank Range on the left side of his nose from a person who was standing at enough of an angle that the
coroner found the bullet lodged in his neck the other shot was fired at nearly Point Blank Range behind his left ear
this all happened sometime between 5 and 6 PM according to the Lake County coroner's office because Raymond
timbrook was found slumped over his steering wheel the assumption is that the assailant was holding a gun to Tim
Brooks face while standing on the driver's side of the 1991 Buick Regal he was driving
so that I'm following you correctly the murderer would be standing outside of his vehicle after the first shot they
believed then he did he did like an execution Kill Shot afterwards correct that's what it looks like to me and
that's what pretty much everybody else is saying so if you take that information and you try to visualize it
in your head here what we have is Raymond timbrook who is looking at the shooter when the first shot is fired
because it hits near his left nostril and what they've been able to somewhat surmise from this or or at least kind of
add to the equation here is the likely that shot or the second shot one or both would
have pushed him into the passenger seat where he would have slumped naturally over into the
passenger seat so at some point the killer then reached into the vehicle and positions Ray upright once again and
leans him forward onto the steering wheel now we don't know if this was meant to pose him to maybe buy some time
if passer buyers came through that they would assume that the guy was sleeping it's even been reported that when the
officer first approached the vehicle and found Raymond timbrook there that he made the Assumption himself that the
person inside was either sleeping or drunk so the question then becomes did this killer pose Tim brook or or is it
somewhat happenstance was there something on the passenger car seat that they had to get to and so they had to
move the body um but like you said it it very it would make a lot of sense to pose him in this
way but why won't you turn off the lights because I feel like the lights in the car and the car running would draw
attention to the crime scene yeah you're exactly right it's just something that doesn't make sense if you went to the
trouble and had the forethought to move this individual to position him or stage
the crime scene as such to buy you some time why not shut off the lights why not
shut off the engine to the vehicle again it's very difficult to say why the killer did
certain things and why they did not do certain things what we do know is that this is not a heavily populated area at
the time again there's there's nobody out there it's under development so who knows it may be as
simple as he fired off two shots very quickly move the moved Ray ten Brook for whatever reason again as you said to
retrieve something from inside the vehicle passenger side or to make it appear that he may be sleeping for
passerbys to stall maybe somebody doesn't call police if they think he's just out there sleeping wants to hustle
and get out of there quickly because of the loud gunshots does not want to be seen at the scene but we do know that
there's a witness so you also have to factor in is there a chance that he was aware that somebody
is coming into the area and wanted to get out of there as quick as possible and from us talking before
everything it seems like they've ever stated is that there's one gun there's one shooter but just because there's two
bullets that are the same doesn't mean that they're essentially coming from the same gun we just don't have any evidence
that's released that would suggest otherwise because that makes me question too if you're going to meet this guy out
in the in the plan all along is for this almost execution type killing some people don't act alone in that
situation well one thing that's always puzzled me about this case and and I thought the same thing that you're kind
of hinting at a little bit here Captain with two shots I wondered potentially do
we have two Shooters two guns well because they're and it doesn't appear that anybody that's close to the case
seems to think that so right we don't have anything to base that off of other than the knowledge and information that
they've put out over the years now one thing that has always been highly speculated on in this case too and and
sometimes outwardly stated that there is some belief that Raymond may have known
the person that shot him because this person was able to get so up close and personal when pulling the trigger
and I can agree with that but also at the same time it's a little difficult because here we
have a case that's 30 years old and it's not been solved and it's not been solved
for a reason here as we go through it you will see there's a multitude of reasons why this one's not been solved
but in this case I don't know that it necessarily has to mean that he knew the person or was comfortable with the
person so that they could get up close and personal and shoot Raymond Timber now
I say that because anyone could have just walked up and you look at where he where the first bullet hit
that to me is a natural reaction of somebody just sitting in the driver's seat turning and looking toward whoever
approaches their vehicle where that kind of gets flipped on its head and would go
back to the likely suggestion that Raymond knew this person or at least was comfortable enough with them to be in
close contact with them is the witness statement right because we talked about two witnesses or one witness with two
different stories in the trailer but one of those Witnesses or one of those versions of that story is that the
witness saw Raymond Pembroke speaking with a man near the rear of his Buick Regal this also makes sense based off of
the information that we've been told over the years that there were some work related materials in the trunk of
Raymond's car so you can kind of picture this once you factor in the witness statement of ice I briefly saw two into
vigils talking near the back of this car later can identify one of those individuals to be Raymond timbrook after
speaking with investigators after speaking with Kirtland Hills Police Department and then Raymond's now in his
vehicle and then he's shot none of the statements that have ever been released suggest that this witness saw the actual
shooting and again the other version of that story is that a witness saw a man driving out of the area and that's why
they were only able to provide a profile description of this man leaving the area
was this man witnessed at the scene driving from the area the killer of Raymond Timbre
[Music] foreign [Music] effects cheers to you out in western land and cheers to you Colonel cheers to
you Captain cheers to everybody out there now because there is so little information that has been released over
the years in the Raymond Timber case we've asked a couple people close to the investigation to help us fill in some of
the blanks here and help provide some more information in regard to this Cold Case homicide and one of those
individuals is his oldest son Brian who was a senior in high school the year that his father Raymond timbrook was
killed and we asked him to tell us about that fateful night that terrible night when police arrived at his home to let
him know that his father had been killed it was a Friday the 13th I was a senior
in high school so it was a Friday night we was out at a friend's house I've got a little
intoxicated the parents drove my car home with me to get me home safe I passed out the bed with my varsity
jacket on and I was woken up to my mom saying that there were police downstairs that wanted
to speak with me she seemed a little distraught and I said it wasn't me I got a ride home
and um that's when um my whole world shattered basically and uh Chief Smith and I believe it was
Rakowski uh that was accompanying him had to announce them they found my father shot murdered in Kirtland Hills
and I just ran outside and cried and it's just been uh a rough road ever since um it's
it was uh I just remember that day going to my grandma's my mom my dad's mom and
my mom and my brother and just consoling her and um like I said my life was forever changed
that day and um it's been a long time coming that answers and justice for Raymond
Pembroke is uh is well overdue Brian what were you like what was your father like what was your
family like before the murders well we was uh my dad was a hard worker um he owned was part owner of CT
Consultants my mom was a stay-at-home mom um I was in high school I was active in
football um obviously you know a troublemaker the teenage years me and my brother were academically
good with our schooling and had good grades but um it just uh there was no signs of any
turmoil when it was announced that my parents were getting a divorce I blame the divorce on me because of you
know I you know I did get in trouble and I wasn't the the you know the best but you know it's still
it's it irked me because I had no idea signs of it you know normal divorce is you you see turmoil and and there were
it was nothing was ever shown and um it just uh it came to a shock and I mean I I grew
up working with my dad from a little kid I'd always go in on a Saturday with him
to the office and you know sit on the draft board and and try drawing stuff you know from when
I was a kid all the way up to when he passed I worked Summers throughout High School
um on the survey crew for CT so even the year after his murder before I went off to college after I graduated
I worked there too it just my whole plans were to become follow my dad's footsteps and that road that
bridge just collapsed right in front of me and like I said it was there was no signs of
any turmoil in my parents relationship and I just when this came about was just an
upright shock and you can hear obviously the emotion that is still left with this this now grown man Brian
who lost his father 30 years ago you can still hear the emotion and the hurt well
you're haunted by the fact that he was murdered but on top of that every day that it's not solved there's
no justice so there's no closure and Brian his own words he wanted to grow up to be like his father and one of his
Heroes was taken away from him just like that at the drop of a dime and we need to fill in some blanks though
here Captain because as we said earlier Raymond Pembroke was a in a bit of a transitional period in his life he had
been married to his wife for quite some time he went to Michigan State University he goes on to be an engineer
and then he works for CT consultants for 12 years and he's married during the course of most of this and he has two
sons Brian who at the time of the murder you heard him say he's a senior in high
school he's doing normal teenage stuff maybe a little rough around the edges but uh
anybody that that's been to the garage will tell you so so were the captain in the colonel rougher than most there you
go and he has a younger brother Scott who's very close in age to Brian and so they're both kind of doing their High
School thing Brian's looking forward to college and working with his father at CT Consultants but during the course of
Brian's senior year his parents split up and as you heard Brian say this was kind
kind of a shock to him and his brother they didn't really see any arguing you know all of the telltale signs of a
soon-to-be divorce they don't see any of this this was not a messy divorce as I understand it to be
shortly before Christmas and this would have actually been in the month of November of 1991 is when the parents his
parents split up and the way that he explained this to us was that he and his brother went and stayed with
their grandparents or with a relative it may have been an aunt for a weekend and
it seems like the parents very wisely and very quietly behind closed doors the two of them figured everything out
they were going to figure out should we stay together or should we separate and we're not going to have to do this in
front of the children and so I commend them on that angle because too too often times when parents
are splitting up a lot of the fighting or arguing or what have you happens right in front of the children and
that's not always the healthiest of environments these two individuals decide we're not going to stick together
dad Raymond timbrook moves out and he goes and lives with his parents and eventually gets his own apartment so
in in just the short time period between November of 1991 and March 13th of 1992 when Raymond
timbrook is killed he separates from his wife they get an annulment he leaves the home
he leaves the house with his wife she gets primary custody of the two boys who are almost grown themselves at this
point and they're going to be visiting their father on weekends on I believe it was
every other weekend but in that short time period his life changes dramatically their family life changes
dramatically and then Raymond timbrook their father just 44 years of age is killed let's get into the timeline of of
a little bit after the murders on that Friday March 13th what we have here Captain is
a very strange and unusual situation because at Raymond timbrook's funeral a woman
announces herself as Raymond's fiancee and the reason why this is very unusual is this is not a woman that has a head
you know nobody at this time knows that he has a fiance they knew that he's recently divorced recently separated
from his wife but nobody knew that he was in a relationship and in a relationship
so much so that they are planning to get married the family we have the sons his ex-wife
we have Rey's sister and Ray's mother none of these people know anything about this relationship
and their loved one has been killed and now we have a what's been referred to over the years as a mysterious woman who
claims to be Raymond's fiancee well she's not so mysterious she's a co-worker of of Raymond Tim Brooks and
she was somebody that was somewhat known to the family because you know you have
company outings in times where Brian and other members of the family would tag along to work with Ray so they have some
interactions with his co-workers at CT Consultants her name is Lynn egansperger and she's a
little bit younger than Rey and she has said works at CT Consultants one thing that I really question here
early on when I was looking into this case Captain was we have this woman who claims to be his fiancee all of Ray's
family saying we had no idea that he was in a relationship I wanted to see well is there anybody in Lynn's family or
people at CT Consultants is there anyone else in the world that could back up this relationship and that he that she
in fact was his fiance unfortunately Lynn eagensberger is somebody whose lawyers up very early on
in this story shady and refuses to cooperate with the investigation refuses to speak with the media
but the engagement seems legit to me so much so that I was shown a receipt for the engagement ring and it was purchased
shortly after Raymond and his wife separated so who knows they could have been involved in this relationship and it
looks to me like they probably were involved in this relationship for weeks months who knows how long before Raymond
and his wife decide to separate so we know that this was a legit engagement now where the Trouble Comes
Is we have Lynn who announces herself to the family and to everybody at Ray's funeral
and says hey I'm his fiancee well Brian says I invited her to the there was a small gathering afterward
yeah awake there you go and he says I invited her to the wake because I had questions like where's your head I have
questions and I think it was also to be polite right his family's in mourning lens and mourning as well she's in love
with this man and now he's dead well yeah and hold on for a second this is a strange
murder situation yes found in his car in a development that's not even developed yet lights on car running and
then at his funeral this is a strange funeral this is something that you would see in the
movies a lady comes forward that nobody can recognize right away and says wait hold on a second all right
I had a relationship with this man well it's going to get even stranger because Lynn does
all right stranger at the wake after the services okay and when she arrives there she is turned
away by Rey's brother-in-law so Rey's brother-in-law basically kind of gives her the the the short of it
would be you're not welcome here we don't really care much about your relationship
um it would probably be best if you weren't present if you weren't in attendance
here now looking back nobody was to know then that his case would go unsolved for now
30 years it would have been really interesting to see what the family and Rey's closest
friends could have learned from this woman had she been allowed to stay and speak with the family and bring them up
to speed on her and Rey's relationship but that didn't happen right and it's kind of a
natural thing you can understand it we have relatives here who are very much at a loss very much in mourning they're
probably angry as well this is not just a death in the family this is a murder and you have all of these emotions this
roller coaster of emotions and all of a sudden you're finding out during the services well he was involved in a
relationship he was involved in a relationship so much so that they were engaged and he's recently divorced now
I'm angry about this thing too did you did you split up their marriage and so you can see why Lynn would have
been turned away back in 1992 that all these emotions are very fresh in this story in this situation at that
time hindsight's 2020 you really wish that she would have been allowed to stay and
maybe bring them up to speed as to what was going on and Rey's personal life and in his business life too because she
works with him yeah and we still don't know why in fact Rey was killed to make it even stranger I'm in a glass
case of emotions it's been reported and I've been told by multiple people that Lynn placed an envelope
and it's been reported in the papers that there was a letter in the envelope although that's never been officially
confirmed by police that she placed an envelope in Rey's casket before he was buried so many strange
little details it's very common for people to place things in the casket with their loved one and again it's
reported that she placed an envelope in there it's been said that there was a letter inside again that's never been
confirmed the other tricky thing too is I spoke with Brian we spoke with Brian and we spoke with Phil Trexler
Phil was present at the funeral as well and neither of them could confirm seeing
Lynn actually place this envelope in his casket but we do know that an envelope existed and it was found in his casket
and we know this because on April 14 1992 one month and one day after Raymond timbrook was killed his body was exhumed
from the Riverside Cemetery in Painesville Ohio this for law enforcement to retrieve from the coffin
a letter written by his quote fiancee and hopes it would reveal a clue in the homicide case again
Kirtland Hills PD all they've ever said and the Lake County prosecutor all they've ever said in this regard
is that yes an envelope was retrieved they've not confirmed that it was a letter inside other than to say that it
was a piece of information a piece of possible evidence in Raymond timbrook's case well nobody that we
spoke to was able to see whoa the contents of that letter was the contents of the envelope yes again like
we can say letter all we want but only the people that opened up the envelope know if there was in fact a letter in
there right I mean somebody could have placed a Trinket in there or a memorial card or you know any number of things
could be inside that envelope so I think we I where it's always been referred to in
the papers as a letter that's fine and it very likely is a letter in there without having viewed that or knowing
someone that has viewed that I don't know that we want to call it call it a letter well let's continue to dive into
the details of the timeline one thing that's a little funny in this Raymond Timber case here to me Captain
is this murder this case did generate a lot of newspaper articles and generate a
lot of news in 1992-93 and a little bit in 94 but when you go back and you look at those articles and that those reports
and a lot of them Raven timbrook his title almost seems to be made up by you know the news the news people or
they're at least not exactly certain what his title was at CT Consultants he's been named in these articles as
everything from a a partner an executive a vice president an engineer a surveyor
to me what I was able to confirm with a lot of these people is that that most of
those titles would in fact be true so we don't know exactly what the title was that he held in 1992 at CT Consultants
but you can apply all of those to his job description and what CT Consultants thought of Raymond timbrook so basically
what you're getting is whatever's going on at CT Consultants while he was working there he would
either have known about it or been involved in it when you have that many titles that that come with your name or
your job duties for your business he was a significant figure at CT exactly and I
think the one that you can underline that is echoed most throughout those different news articles is executive so
he's high up at the company he's been there for a long time now there was one Associated Press article in particular
from June 6 1992 so now we are three months roughly after his murder and this is an article where they are
talking to CT Consultants and asking them about Raymond Tim Brooks murder and the short of it Captain is
that Frank Federico is the president of CT consultants in 1992. and he says in this article that he urged his 200
employees to cooperate in any way with the ongoing investigation but then goes on to say that two CT
consultant employees are reluctant to cooperate with police Frank Federico says in the article that he cannot
explain the reluctancy he says he issued a corporate memo in March of 92 the same month as The
Killing to his employees to help in the case but the two employees lawyered up right away
and they weren't cooperating they weren't speaking to police of course their lawyers would speak with
police and these two were not speaking with the media either now I want to fast forward all these years later and one
thing that we would learn throughout the years and one thing that I am now calling into question
is the authenticity of Frank Federico's statements to the media at that time in the summer of 1992. we do know for a
fact that two of the CT Consultants employees did in fact lawyer up and did not cooperate with the investigation
those two employees were Lynn egansberger who was the fiancee of Raymond Pembroke and the other employee
was George smaragin who was the individual that was listed as being the person that Raymond timbrook was to meet
out at Hunting Hills on that Friday when he was killed so those two lawyer up and
they're not cooperating with the investigation however I've seen it I've seen evidence of such
that while Frank Federico might be telling the media I've issued a memo to all of
my employees to cooperate and to assist in this investigation one thing I know to be fact is that that
might be what he's telling the public but what was going on behind closed doors is that he told the employees not
to speak to the media in defense of Frank I can understand not wanting my employees to speak to the media in
regard to an ongoing murder investigation I can understand if in fact he did say don't speak the media
but do speak to the police right I'm just presenting and putting forward the fact that he's saying one thing in the
papers in a slightly different thing behind closed doors which is a little concerning to me when we have a case
that is still unsolved all of these years later well like we said from the get-go
the first thing you want to do is who was Tim Brooks talking to that night what was the meeting about
what was the context of that meeting will that person in or out as far as suspect list
but then from that next divide I would say as an investigator you're going to go to the
Your Inner Circle to your Outer Circle these two people that lawyered up and then are not talking are the the two
people that you probably want to question first all night so much more to get to joining us back
here in the garage tomorrow until then be good be kind and don't live [Music] foreign

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This week in the Garage we take a deep dive into one of Northeast Ohio’s most frustrating and coldest cases. Successful business man Raymond Timbrook was shot and killed in his car following a scheduled meeting at an isolated location that his company CT Consults was in contract to develop. Many have been linked to this case public or otherwise. This week unfortunately was the 30 year anniversary of this still unsolved case. We are hoping to bring renewed public awareness and interest for Ray’s cold case homicide.

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Brief Summary

Raymond Timbrook was murdered in 1992; his case remains unsolved, with key witnesses refusing to cooperate.

Key points

The Murder of Raymond Timbrook. A well-liked father and businessman was murdered in Kirtland Hills, Ohio, 30 years ago. The case remains unsolved, with many questions still lingering.
A Startling Revelation. At Raymond's funeral, a mysterious woman makes a startling revelation but later hires a lawyer and refuses to talk with police.
The Initial Investigation. The responding officer initially assumed Raymond's death was a suicide, leading to complications in the investigation.
Brian's Heartbreaking Revelation. Brian shares the moment he learned of his father's murder, describing it as life-shattering.
The Search for Justice. Brian expresses the ongoing need for answers and justice for his father, Raymond.
A Mysterious Fiancée. At Raymond's funeral, a woman claims to be his fiancée, shocking the family.

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