Patterson’s got a PI?

Look, I swear I’m not making this up just to sell more books, but according to a trusted source, there is a private investigator based out of San Antonio who is down here trying to talk to people related to the 2017 capital murder/theft trial of Monica Melissa Palacios Patterson.

She is reportedly going around trying her best to locate and talk to key witnesses for the prosecution, and she’s also trying to talk to some of the people who served as jurors during the October/ November 2017 trial.

This, after Patterson, who will turn 55 next year, lost her final appeal earlier this year to get her case tossed out and sent back to the lower county/ state district court for a re-trial. She has no more appeals to file, and with a sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole facing her, what else can she do but hire a private investigator.

Of course, I have no proof she’s the one who hired the PI, but someone did. She is in fact, scoping out the area.

To do what, who knows.

I know one thing, the woman who was the key witness against Patterson wouldn’t want to talk to a private investigator about the matter. Especially, considering who her client is, if in fact, Patterson is her employer. It’s at least someone closely related to her.

Getting through that long murder trial, which is still the longest in the county’s history, was traumatic enough for the woman who testified for the prosecution. You could see it in her face the first day she walked into the courtroom.

For the jurors, six weeks sitting through a murder/theft trial, plus getting through the jury-selection process, was taxing enough. Now there is a PI at their door wanting to ask them questions about what? If any of the jurors did anything wrong?

As if that wouldn’t have come out during the trial itself. There were eyes and ears all around looking for malfeasance on the part of that jury. There were many people on the defense team who would have loved to see Patterson’s trial go down in flames because they could see halfway through it which way the wind was blowing. Especially when it came time for Patterson’s defense team to call witnesses, it called…. wait for it…none. That’s right. For the defense of

That’s right. For the defense of Monica Melissa Palacios Patterson, her band of high-priced attorneys couldn’t find one witness to put on the stand to tell the jury how there was some reasonable doubt as to her guilt. Not one.

In the end, read the book, Murder for the Love of Money, and try and come up with some alternative other than — Melissa Patterson did murder 96-year-old McAllen resident Marty Knell to steal his estate, and she did rob the nonprofit blind where she served as administrator, and she did steal from her murder victim. She was a success all right, but all of it was either illegal, immoral, or both.

Sad still, the murder victim’s family has yet to lay claim to Marty Knell’s estate. It’s still tied up in probate. Despite her conviction, Patterson still won’t release her alleged ownership of it. Now she’s hired a private investigator?

I have her name. Maybe I’ll give her a call and say, “What’s up, yo?”