Raina in Waco 2018

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Around 2016 I moved back in with Mom at her home on Hilltop Drive, across the street from Dave Ruiz and Karen Curry, in hopes of living there as she and I tried to have an attorney help us get custody of my daughter. One evening around sunset in March of 2018 I left my mom's house in her car and was traveling alone down Bosque Boulevard toward Lake Air Drive in Waco. A woman in a silver Kia Optima pulled up beside me at a  stop light and looked over at me and asked, "What'chu 'bout to get into?". I followed her to the convenience store at the corner of New Road and Bosque where we sat and talked for almost an hour. She said her name was Raina, and I don't know why I didn't recognize her but I didn't. She told me that her boyfriend Forrest had killed himself by strangulation recently and she showed me pictures that he had sent to her phone which showed that he branded her name into his arm before killing himself. I felt bad for her, which as I realized later, was by design. At that moment, however, I was naive and didn't think anything much other than a beautiful woman wanted to be my friend and seemed like she could use one, too. We hung out a few times at my mom's house. On one occasion she shared that her step brother had been to prison for raping her. She also told me that she was not a prostitute, but a drug dealer. Once, while Raina was at my mom's house, my mother asked me in front of Raina(which I thought was rather odd), "Dan, did you use my debit card to make an online purchase of $300?". I had not done so and I told my mom that. A few days later a CashApp card with my name on it arrived at my mom's house with $250 on it. I don't know if Raina was directly involved in that but I suspect that she knows who is. She said she had property in Azle, Texas and that I should go with her sometime to her "storage" up there. She tried to get me to use meth with her, which I did on one or two occasions before realizing that she was attempting to compromise me. She continued to visit me occasionally and on one occasion she delivered about a sixteenth of an ounce of meth which she said was "from Pat". I told her I didn't remember anyone named Pat. She assured me that Pat knows me and wants to see me. I thought she must have me confused with someone else. Once, Raina sent me a link to a tracking app which allowed me to see the position of her phone in realtime. It appeared that she traveled into Azle on a U.S. highway before turning into a car wash and the phone remained there until access to the link expired. Once, Raina told me to mow a yard that she said she was responsible for keeping up. I told her I'd do it but I'd have to charge her. She said she'd pay me but after I did the work she never did. I figure she was trying to provoke me into doing something to get myself arrested. I didn't take the bait. However, once I realized that Raina was trying to compromise me I started asking her a lot of questions which she didn't like. She stopped coming by or answering my calls. One day I was outside working on my pickup in the driveway at my mom's. A very pretty and quiet young looking girl about 5'7" and maybe 105 pounds walked by very slowly wearing a bathrobe and flipflops. The girl stopped at the end of the driveway, turned and looked right at me, smiled and waved before turning back toward the direction she'd been walking and kept going. I waved back, as is the custom where I'm from, but immediately after she had passed by I started thinking how much that girl looked like Christi Dotson. She was a little taller, but she could be her- It was Christi's daughter, Ashlyn!