Die Autorin möchte sich bei folgenden Personen für ihre unschätzbare Hilfe bedanken: Steven Humphrey; Jim Hetherington, President, und Dorcas Lube, Office Manager, Hetherington, Inc.; Bruce Boiler, First Vice President, Robert W. Baird, Inc.; Joyce Mackewich und Kim Nelson von Montgomery, Fansler & Carlson Insurance; Dennis W Leski; William Pasich; Robert Snowball; Caroline Ware, Santa Barbara Travel; Elisa Moran, Santa Barbara County Registrar of Voters; Kathleen Hotchkiss, Culinary Alliance and Bartenders Local 498; Anne Reid; Frank und Florence Clark; Lynn Herold, Ph. D., Senior Criminalist, Department of Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner, Los Angeles County; George Donner, A-I Tri-Counties Investigations; Detective Robert J. Lowry, Investigative Division, Santa Barbara Police Department, und Deputy Juan Tejeda, Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department.