The details in this tip are confirmed.

Miami, Florida
December 10, 1996

Dear Detective Armstrong,

This is just to say, that I know all about W.G. I talked to him every night. He was in the bar every night. The bar that I work at which is La Estrella, he drank a lot of gin. Most of the time he was alone but one time he was with an old man in yellow with a cane. They were talking in the corner, at a table. That's why I noticed, because W.G. usually sat at the bar and watched TV.

W.G. told me his name and said he was waiting for someone, that's why he had to keep coming back. I guess he was waiting for the man in yellow because after that he only came back twice, then he was dead. Whenever I saw him he didn't look too good. He drank too much but he didn't smoke. He told me about California and his wife how they weren't getting along to good. He showed me pictures and she was real pretty. He said he was tired of running. He would stay until closing time which is 3 a.m. and then he would get up and leave. He was always real drunk but I never saw him pass out.

I didn't know the man in yellow so the day after he came in I asked Bernie, that's my boss, who was that guy, and she didn't know either. I think he's some kind of weird voodoo priest because one of the guys who delivers kegs has one of those weirdass chicken claw necklaces, and I asked him where he got it, and he said some old guy with a cane was selling them on the beach and Ramondo thought it was pretty funny and bought one, just to freak out his girlfriend. I asked W.G. who the guy in yellow was and he didn't answer, he was just watching TV, staring at it like he was hypnotized or something, and then he asked me "DO YOU BELIEVE IN ANGELS? That was to weird for me so I just left him alone.

I'm pretty sure he must have gotten mixed up in that voodoo s***, then something went wrong and the man in yellow went after him, because then he was dead. I didn't know nothing about it at the time, I just thought he left town or something or maybe went back to California to his wife. I didn't hear about it until a couple days ago when I saw you guys on TV, then I knew I had to write.

Sincerely Yours,

Tony Ward

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