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Homestead Reptile Farm Site Of SRT Standoff - March 31, 2011 3:30 PM

My advise is let this go for now. I have made some phone calls today, and looked into this. If what I have been told is true, as to why the argument started in the first place, then no one in their right might would post in an open forum as to what started it. I believe in time it will come out, but as of now, I don't think it would be appropriate for someone to post about how it all started. If I were Tom, I would have sought legal council first thing this morning. I really don't think Tom will post about this any time soon. It's a tragic situation to say the least. So, if you don't know what happened, I would hope that you will refrain from all the guessing, and speculation, it really isn't helping anything. I wish everyone involved the best.
 
brd7666 said:
My advise is let this go for now. I have made some phone calls today, and looked into this. If what I have been told is true, as to why the argument started in the first place, then no one in their right might would post in an open forum as to what started it. I believe in time it will come out, but as of now, I don't think it would be appropriate for someone to post about how it all started. If I were Tom, I would have sought legal council first thing this morning. I really don't think Tom will post about this any time soon. It's a tragic situation to say the least. So, if you don't know what happened, I would hope that you will refrain from all the guessing, and speculation, it really isn't helping anything. I wish everyone involved the best.
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This.

Thanks :)
 
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Request for privacy from Crutchfield family
By Cindy Steinle
Fri, April 1 2011 at 14:09

This morning I spoke with a very worn out Michele Crutchfield. While the events are still being straightened out with the occurance at the Farm, Michele asked that we pass along this message to the entire reptile community.

We want to thank everyone for their concern and kind words during this hard time for our family. What we ask now is that everyone takes a step back and allows our family the time to grieve and heal. No matter what occurred yesterday at the farm, Bruce Stephenson was a wonderful family friend and we need time to ourselves to handle this tragedy. We ask that our reptile community gives our family the chance to heal without additional stress. Within a few days we will have more, but right now, please respect our privacy.
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As we said before, our thoughts here at kingsnake are with The Crutchfield and Stephenson Families.
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Request for privacy from Crutchfield family
By Cindy Steinle
Fri, April 1 2011 at 14:09
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Good luck there...every story hunter is already calling trying to be the first to dig up the story. Just like in the media...
 
Homicide investigations are almost ALWAYS opened in the case of a death like this--especially when there is a gun involved. It doesn't matter if it is obviously self inflicted, they have to open the investigation to prove that there wasn't a homicide. I truly hope that this investigation goes well and that there are no more complications for the families involved! This was a terrible thing to happen!

Until it has been proven to be a suicide or otherwise all they can say is that a death occured. Unfortunately the media likes to run with this sort of story, so I hope it doesn't get too popular for everyone's sake.
 
What a shame. I met him in 1978 or 79. He was doing something at gatorland. Tom was real nice.
 
TC

So what is the latest and greatest on this? I see Crutchfield's period of mourning is over as he is posting ads today. It makes one curious as to what will happen to the "farm" since the apparent owner is deceased? Are we bad people if we buy animals during the fire sale before the animals or their value are tied up in probate and litigation for B.S. estate? Is there any recourse on purchasers of that sort of property or does it fall back on the seller? Has anyone heard if the fish and game folks are pulling permits or confiscating animals yet? I'm not trying to be a dick, I'm just curious. This sort of thing makes me wonder just how many ways the law can make a herper's life more difficult during an already difficult time for Crutchfield.
 
tom suckered bruce into leaving everything to him and patti
I would stay away from buying from him just to be safe though
 
arbor1 said:
tom suckered bruce into leaving everything to him and patti
I would stay away from buying from him just to be safe though
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I would say that you have some kind of a problem with Tom. You joined this site right after this thread was started, and you contacted me in a pm, to try and find out what kind of things I heard regarding this whole situation. I have no intention of sharing that information with you, or anyone else on an open forum. I'm sure you know very little to nothing about Tom, and Bruce's business arrangments, and how they came about.

So how about showing us some proof of your comments, especially about how Tom suckered Bruce. If you are so knowledgable about Tom, and Bruce's dealing's, it should be easy for you. What do you say?
 

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If you look at the time and date on that screen shot of the pm, you will see it is before she even had a single post on this site. So the first thing she did was contact me about this whole thing. Why is that?
 
Known him for almost 20 years and it's so hard to believe he's gone. Always was impressed with Bruce. His knowledge, husbandry and quality of animals was top notch. He had some property in a little town in the Tampa Bay area called Safety Harbor and it was so sweet, like a different country, wonder if he managed to sell it since his move to Miami. I'll honestly miss Bruce, so sad.
 
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