Who is Waymond Johnson?

Two days later...Sepia ,Bonnie Shay and I drove over to the Duplex/Office of Alexander and West  Attorneys at Law...The Practice run by our good friends and my former clients...Olivia Bennett -Alexander and Beverly West... I had called Olivia the night before and given her a run down of just what was going on...Her Assistant and my adopted daughter, Josie Boyd answered the door..

"Kevin, Sepia...How are you?  Heyy Bonnie girl!" said Josie...

''Heyy Josie" said Sepia, who hugged her and kissed her...

"Hey Baby!" I said, hugging her and kissing her also...

''Hi Josie..."said Bonnie.

"They're waiting for you in the conference room...We didn't know if you'd had breakfast or not...so we ordered Coffee and Bagels and Pastries for you."said Josie..

"I should stop by here more often.. Ask Livy if she could use a second investigator.." I joked..

"I heard that!" said my friend and fellow Private Investigator, Donnie Ray Alexander....Olivia's husband...

"Donnie Ray, My man...what's happening?" I said.

"You Kevin...You got the hot hand." he said as we embraced and gave each other dap....''Hey girl what have you got yourself into now?" laughed Donnie Ray.. He too had worked with Bonnie Shay...

''It's a long story Donnie Ray." said Bonnie Shay.

"I got time....I'm listening...Heyy Lady, forgive my manners..."said Donnie Ray to my wife, Sepia..

"You alright." laughed Sepia...

Donnie Ray walked us into the Conference Room where Olivia and her niece, Beverly greeted us...

''Well hello Kevin...I was wondering when you were going to visit me again..."laughed Olivia...."Hello Sepia."she said, hugging and kissing my wife..

"Hi Livy.." said Sepia..

I hugged Beverly and spun her around...

"And how are you doing Young Lady? You stayin out of trouble?" I asked.

Beverly giggled -

''Are you kidding? Me? Stay out of trouble?" she laughed.

Olivia looked at Bonnie...

"It's going to be alright girlfriend....Let's have some coffee and some bagels..There are pastries over there..You sit down and chat and chew and we'll see what we can do....You're going to be married to Ronnie and on time..."said Olivia.

II-

The past two days I had done a lot of digging...

I called the Department of Public records in Atlantic City and got them to fax me Waymond Johnson's birth certificate and any medical records they had...which wasn't much!...The person they sent me had been dead for twenty years and that was all they had...I searched Philadelphia ,Camden and New York City's department of public records and found pretty much the same thing...No Waymond Johnson.

I next called the U.S. Customs house and got them to fax me Waymond Johnson Passport information...That gave me an address which I went to, only to find that this was also a man who was deceased and too old to be who I thought he was... and that three different families had lived in this house since this man had...This meant that Waymond Johnson was an alias and that this guy was a grifter or con man.

I contacted the Bunco squad in Philly, Atlantic City and Camden and hit pay dirt..I got a Raymond Lewis Johnson...I showed his photo to Bonnie and sure enough that was him..

I had a  real social security number and with that I got access to bank accounts and home addresses...This led me to several different places...None that he had lived in recently and to about ten different jobs the man had held...the last one being last year...

That was good..I knew that at least he had been alive last year...

I also found out this guy had quite a record...Impersonating an FBI Agent in Baltimore...An arrest but no conviction of Wire Fraud in Washington D.C. an Arrest,but no conviction for Grand Larceny in New York City...and at least seven different marriages in seven different states using the aliases, Waymond Johnson, John Lewis, John South, John North,John East, John West and  Ray Lewis. all seven of those marriages were successfully annulled..An eighth marriage..to one Bernadette Bonnie Williams was still on the books and she was listed as his spouse...

I got lucky...Like everybody else , he had a smartphone... After checking all of the providers...I found his and I found an address where he accepted his mail....It was a post office box...Smart!

He had a Debit card and a bank account....I checked that for movemant and pin pointed an area where he made purchases..

Atlantic City...He had an address in Atlantic City.

"This little bastard has been busy ,sweet talking and living off women..."said Donnie Ray..

"Hasn't he though?" I said.

"Ouuuuu,I hate men like him."said Sepia..

 "Ouuuu Sepia Girl ,so do I?" said Olivia.

 "So Do I."said Beverly...

"They lie through their teeth..."said Josie.

III-

" So,I wrote you up this letter of annulment..You have good grounds..Find him, get him to sign this and take to any judge and you're a free woman."said Olivia...

"Oh Thank you Olivia...Beverly."said Bonnie Shay..

"Judging by how trifling this guy has been over the years....I'm surprised you stayed with him as long as you did." joked Donnie Ray...

 "Donnie Ray!!!"said Beverly ,laughing...

"Pay my silly husband no mind..."laughed Olivia..

"I got one of those too."said Sepia , high fiving Olivia..

"I know right?" laughed Olivia...

Bonnie Shay laughed in spite of herself...

"Don't you worry Bonnie..We are going to find this guy and straighten this out...Meet me and Sepia tomorrow morning..My good friend, Mister Walter Jones will be accompanying us also." I said.

"Oh he will?" asked Bonnie..

"I'm not saying it will, but if this guy is unco-operative...Mr. Jones is very good at making people like him reconsider."I laughed..

''Yes..He does seem to be pursuasive....Are you going too Sepia?" she asked.

"Yeah..I gotta get a baby sitter, Eva Corona went to visit her folks in Puerto Rico.."said Sepia..

"Sepia, you know I can watch Kimmie..Pack her an overnight bag...I'll get her tonight.."said Josie..

"And bring her here tomorrow..I love that little cutie.."said Olivia..

"Me too!"said Beverly...

"Well...That settles that huh?" I said..."First thing in the morning.Liv,Bev,Josie, Donnie Ray....I can't thank you guys enough for your legal help...Now all we gotta do is find this mope." I said.

IV-

That night, Bonnie Shay ate dinner with her fiance, Ronnie Shay..

"Ronnie...I'm sorry about this whole thing, I swear I am.."said Bonnie Shay..

"Bon-Bon...Why do you keep apologizing? You didn't know...The guy was a grifter... He took advantage of you...You were drunk and vulnerable and he took advantage of the situation...I -I mean and don't take this the wrong way...I could see him having sex with you...But for God sakes..Why did he marry you?"asked Ronnie.

"I know ..It doesn't make any sense...That's why I have to see him tomorrow..I have to know.."said Bonnie...

"Wow!  And Kevin found him...in two days...Huh?  He really is a good P.I.  ..If I ever go into Private Practice..That's the investigator I'm going to call.." said Ronnie..

"I just hope he signs the papers and doesn't create any problems." said Bonnie.

V-

Sepia said to me at home..

"Poor Bonnie. She and Ronnie divorce, they're seperated for years and they finally find their way back to each other and then this happens...She finds out she has been secretly married to some goofball for three years...through no fault of her own." said Sepia.

"One thing I want to know when I find this guy is why he did this....Though I can pretty much figure out that he was living off of women in addition to his other scams..."I said...

"What a creep!" said Sepia.

I looked at my wife and smiled and kissed her neck softly..


(DEFINITELY TO BE CONTINUED)