WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:18:11" NOTE recognizability:0.835 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.8932674 00:00:02.840 --> 00:00:03.995 He was really the best thing NOTE Confidence: 0.8932674 00:00:03.995 --> 00:00:05.230 that ever happened to me. NOTE Confidence: 0.854025288 00:00:05.560 --> 00:00:07.750 Open questions about our dead. NOTE Confidence: 0.850659133333333 00:00:07.800 --> 00:00:08.589 I was married NOTE Confidence: 0.9490065225 00:00:08.600 --> 00:00:10.060 to him for 35 years. NOTE Confidence: 0.824149145 00:00:11.390 --> 00:00:14.278 To create open wounds for those still living. NOTE Confidence: 0.773640128125 00:00:14.940 --> 00:00:18.452 But I have called multiple times to just NOTE Confidence: 0.773640128125 00:00:18.452 --> 00:00:21.770 discuss these findings and I was shut down. NOTE Confidence: 0.83997501 00:00:22.860 --> 00:00:25.722 Kim Wink is on a path no one would NOTE Confidence: 0.83997501 00:00:25.722 --> 00:00:27.730 choose. Following Death's footsteps NOTE Confidence: 0.891108196 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:31.587 911. What is your emergency? Yeah, NOTE Confidence: 0.891108196 00:00:31.587 --> 00:00:34.086 medical aid off of Gate Canyon Rd. NOTE Confidence: 0.904769931666667 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:38.108 It was August 2020 on the NOTE Confidence: 0.808894704285714 00:00:38.120 --> 00:00:41.025 front lines of the LNU Wildfire complex. NOTE Confidence: 0.430314762 00:00:41.380 --> 00:00:42.990 Yeah, yeah PG. Any troubleman NOTE Confidence: 0.815863245 00:00:43.060 --> 00:00:45.238 the trouble man was Steve Wink, NOTE Confidence: 0.815863245 00:00:45.240 --> 00:00:48.768 a 37 year veteran of PG and E and NOTE Confidence: 0.930867671 00:00:48.780 --> 00:00:51.980 he was down on the front lines of a wildfire. NOTE Confidence: 0.930867671 00:00:51.980 --> 00:00:54.255 The medics called for police to investigate. NOTE Confidence: 0.715553785555555 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:57.310 It sounds like he died and it was a worker. NOTE Confidence: 0.05883348 00:00:58.810 --> 00:01:01.458 OK, I guess deputies will be needed, NOTE Confidence: 0.936530101818182 00:01:02.710 --> 00:01:05.296 but those deputies from the Solano NOTE Confidence: 0.936530101818182 00:01:05.296 --> 00:01:07.420 County Sheriff's Office didn't come. NOTE Confidence: 0.799903715 00:01:07.510 --> 00:01:10.438 Your husband dies at work on the job, NOTE Confidence: 0.799903715 00:01:10.440 --> 00:01:13.134 yes, and the scene where that NOTE Confidence: 0.799903715 00:01:13.134 --> 00:01:15.308 happened was not preserved, correct? NOTE Confidence: 0.799903715 00:01:15.308 --> 00:01:17.093 It was not photographed, correct. NOTE Confidence: 0.799903715 00:01:17.093 --> 00:01:18.458 It was not examined by NOTE Confidence: 0.869774056666667 00:01:18.470 --> 00:01:19.928 any investigator, correct? NOTE Confidence: 0.59383625 00:01:21.500 --> 00:01:23.940 That decision not to investigate NOTE Confidence: 0.909772586666667 00:01:23.940 --> 00:01:27.040 touched off a cascading series of failures. NOTE Confidence: 0.909772586666667 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:28.984 Evidence vanished from the scene NOTE Confidence: 0.909772586666667 00:01:28.984 --> 00:01:30.909 of Steve's death, and, worse, NOTE Confidence: 0.846342798333333 00:01:31.080 --> 00:01:34.320 an Amazon package gets better tracking NOTE Confidence: 0.846342798333333 00:01:34.320 --> 00:01:36.250 than my husband's body did that day. NOTE Confidence: 0.86376392 00:01:39.350 --> 00:01:41.570 Steve's body was taken out of Solano NOTE Confidence: 0.86376392 00:01:41.570 --> 00:01:44.740 County and out of law enforcement custody. NOTE Confidence: 0.91226273125 00:01:45.450 --> 00:01:46.754 And then they tried to cover it up. NOTE Confidence: 0.905482703333333 00:01:47.460 --> 00:01:48.906 Leaving even less evidence NOTE Confidence: 0.905482703333333 00:01:48.906 --> 00:01:50.830 to help determine what really NOTE Confidence: 0.8969916 00:01:50.840 --> 00:01:51.749 caused his death. NOTE Confidence: 0.8915074 00:01:57.750 --> 00:02:01.449 Steve Wink only had eight hours left to live. NOTE Confidence: 0.8915074 00:02:01.450 --> 00:02:03.998 He didn't know that when he shot NOTE Confidence: 0.8915074 00:02:03.998 --> 00:02:06.095 this video, but he did know he was NOTE Confidence: 0.8915074 00:02:06.095 --> 00:02:08.620 going in to a Fire Zone. Right NOTE Confidence: 0.87173748875 00:02:08.630 --> 00:02:12.046 now, a fast moving wildfire in Solano NOTE Confidence: 0.87173748875 00:02:12.046 --> 00:02:13.866 County. It just blew all the way NOTE Confidence: 0.87173748875 00:02:13.866 --> 00:02:15.428 through the hills and just no time. NOTE Confidence: 0.75178206 00:02:16.490 --> 00:02:17.960 The firefighters on the LNU NOTE Confidence: 0.897958662222222 00:02:17.970 --> 00:02:19.170 complex were warned to NOTE Confidence: 0.897958662222222 00:02:19.170 --> 00:02:21.236 be ready for a risky day. NOTE Confidence: 0.897958662222222 00:02:21.236 --> 00:02:23.579 Bad weather burned, power poles NOTE Confidence: 0.830550361666667 00:02:23.590 --> 00:02:25.350 and trees falling down NOTE Confidence: 0.830550361666667 00:02:25.350 --> 00:02:27.480 onto narrow, winding roads. NOTE Confidence: 0.9338459875 00:02:31.490 --> 00:02:32.078 I mean look at NOTE Confidence: 0.792134254 00:02:32.090 --> 00:02:33.050 see, look at the wires. NOTE Confidence: 0.792134254 00:02:33.050 --> 00:02:35.120 I mean there's just so intertwining. NOTE Confidence: 0.83279408125 00:02:35.930 --> 00:02:37.310 Like this road that Steve NOTE Confidence: 0.83279408125 00:02:37.310 --> 00:02:40.620 ended up on 3200 Gates Canyon NOTE Confidence: 0.70183128 00:02:41.370 --> 00:02:43.758 alone, PG and E sent him out NOTE Confidence: 0.70183128 00:02:43.758 --> 00:02:45.240 that day with no partner. NOTE Confidence: 0.869896813636364 00:02:45.370 --> 00:02:46.846 So I'm going to park the NOTE Confidence: 0.869896813636364 00:02:46.846 --> 00:02:48.100 same way Steve's truck was. NOTE Confidence: 0.85218155 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:49.820 Found. NOTE Confidence: 0.829122261538461 00:02:51.380 --> 00:02:53.702 A place that took Kim Wink NOTE Confidence: 0.829122261538461 00:02:53.702 --> 00:02:56.518 more than half a year to find. NOTE Confidence: 0.829122261538461 00:02:56.520 --> 00:02:58.529 I still get emotional coming up here. NOTE Confidence: 0.9492298825 00:02:59.460 --> 00:03:00.380 Every time I come. NOTE Confidence: 0.821033901818182 00:03:01.320 --> 00:03:02.559 Searching for answers, NOTE Confidence: 0.821033901818182 00:03:02.559 --> 00:03:06.280 Kim found a sign it says no shooting. NOTE Confidence: 0.821033901818182 00:03:06.280 --> 00:03:08.438 It also says this is the place NOTE Confidence: 0.821033901818182 00:03:08.440 --> 00:03:10.687 that sign shows up here in the NOTE Confidence: 0.821033901818182 00:03:10.687 --> 00:03:12.677 only two snapshots Kim had of NOTE Confidence: 0.821033901818182 00:03:12.677 --> 00:03:14.597 the scene where her husband died. NOTE Confidence: 0.821033901818182 00:03:14.600 --> 00:03:16.890 Posted online by freelance photographer NOTE Confidence: 0.827967957142857 00:03:16.900 --> 00:03:18.428 Paul Corrotta. He didn't NOTE Confidence: 0.827967957142857 00:03:18.428 --> 00:03:20.430 see Steve die, nobody did. NOTE Confidence: 0.884033675 00:03:20.480 --> 00:03:22.482 I was horrified when I got these NOTE Confidence: 0.884033675 00:03:22.482 --> 00:03:24.678 pictures of my husband on the ground NOTE Confidence: 0.884033675 00:03:24.680 --> 00:03:28.200 getting CPR over Facebook, but. NOTE Confidence: 0.888175621666667 00:03:29.110 --> 00:03:31.318 How I feel about them now? NOTE Confidence: 0.888175621666667 00:03:31.320 --> 00:03:33.814 Is it's a blessing? Because if NOTE Confidence: 0.888175621666667 00:03:33.814 --> 00:03:35.120 I didn't have these pictures, NOTE Confidence: 0.888175621666667 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:37.056 I wouldn't be here talking to you today. NOTE Confidence: 0.888147656 00:03:39.660 --> 00:03:41.285 Kim started to question the NOTE Confidence: 0.888147656 00:03:41.285 --> 00:03:42.910 official story of Steve's death NOTE Confidence: 0.911345965 00:03:42.920 --> 00:03:44.840 as soon as she saw the NOTE Confidence: 0.911345965 00:03:44.840 --> 00:03:46.120 damaged poles and wires. NOTE Confidence: 0.911345965 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:48.740 Even before we uncovered the full picture, NOTE Confidence: 0.911345965 00:03:48.740 --> 00:03:51.180 bringing more details into focus. NOTE Confidence: 0.911345965 00:03:51.180 --> 00:03:53.095 So there's damage to the truck. NOTE Confidence: 0.911345965 00:03:53.095 --> 00:03:55.580 There's damage to your husband, correct? NOTE Confidence: 0.837163006666667 00:03:56.390 --> 00:04:00.368 And they all call it natural. NOTE Confidence: 0.837163006666667 00:04:00.370 --> 00:04:02.310 As opposed to an accident, correct? NOTE Confidence: 0.925415199444445 00:04:03.550 --> 00:04:05.014 Natural causes Steve's death NOTE Confidence: 0.925415199444445 00:04:05.014 --> 00:04:07.210 certificate looks the same as it NOTE Confidence: 0.925415199444445 00:04:07.277 --> 00:04:09.253 would if he had died on his couch NOTE Confidence: 0.900945184 00:04:09.330 --> 00:04:12.740 at home. Other contributing factors. None NOTE Confidence: 0.769009653333333 00:04:12.970 --> 00:04:13.759 kind of blaming NOTE Confidence: 0.897313052222222 00:04:13.770 --> 00:04:15.285 him for it. They didn't NOTE Confidence: 0.897313052222222 00:04:15.285 --> 00:04:16.497 even look into anything. NOTE Confidence: 0.915959517142857 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:22.436 Because Steve died alone and at work, NOTE Confidence: 0.915959517142857 00:04:22.440 --> 00:04:24.354 the job of investigating his death NOTE Confidence: 0.915959517142857 00:04:24.354 --> 00:04:26.618 belonged to the Sheriff of Solano County, NOTE Confidence: 0.915959517142857 00:04:26.620 --> 00:04:27.736 who's also the coroner. NOTE Confidence: 0.915959517142857 00:04:27.736 --> 00:04:29.131 Sheriff Tom Ferrara is up NOTE Confidence: 0.915959517142857 00:04:29.131 --> 00:04:30.578 for reelection this year. NOTE Confidence: 0.915959517142857 00:04:30.580 --> 00:04:32.548 He declined to stand by his NOTE Confidence: 0.915959517142857 00:04:32.550 --> 00:04:33.530 department's work on camera, NOTE Confidence: 0.915959517142857 00:04:33.530 --> 00:04:35.620 so we came down here to talk to him. NOTE Confidence: 0.915959517142857 00:04:35.620 --> 00:04:37.388 We watched him get into an unmarked car NOTE Confidence: 0.915959517142857 00:04:37.388 --> 00:04:39.013 with other people from the Sheriff's NOTE Confidence: 0.915959517142857 00:04:39.013 --> 00:04:40.714 Office and take the back gate. NOTE Confidence: 0.915959517142857 00:04:40.714 --> 00:04:41.804 They're going the other way. NOTE Confidence: 0.915959517142857 00:04:41.810 --> 00:04:42.410 They're going the other NOTE Confidence: 0.76378799 00:04:42.420 --> 00:04:46.540 way. Shut up. The mountain of missteps NOTE Confidence: 0.76378799 00:04:46.540 --> 00:04:49.430 in this case all started here when this NOTE Confidence: 0.76378799 00:04:49.430 --> 00:04:52.529 agency failed to do what the paramedics NOTE Confidence: 0.923051606666667 00:04:52.580 --> 00:04:54.170 asked show up. NOTE Confidence: 0.813655003333333 00:04:55.720 --> 00:04:57.556 You can get the proper law NOTE Confidence: 0.813655003333333 00:04:57.556 --> 00:04:58.474 enforcement authorities will NOTE Confidence: 0.813655003333333 00:04:58.474 --> 00:05:00.050 be at back at Valley soon. NOTE Confidence: 0.813655003333333 00:05:00.050 --> 00:05:02.850 OK, so is it what's PD for? NOTE Confidence: 0.813655003333333 00:05:02.850 --> 00:05:04.890 What is for the work related? NOTE Confidence: 0.813655003333333 00:05:04.890 --> 00:05:07.256 Is that what work related and it's NOTE Confidence: 0.813655003333333 00:05:07.256 --> 00:05:10.117 a death out in the county that died? NOTE Confidence: 0.813655003333333 00:05:10.120 --> 00:05:12.930 Yeah the Sheriff's Office got the call. NOTE Confidence: 0.813655003333333 00:05:12.930 --> 00:05:14.148 It sounds like he died and NOTE Confidence: 0.813655003333333 00:05:14.148 --> 00:05:15.708 it was a PG and E worker. NOTE Confidence: 0.806263336666667 00:05:18.260 --> 00:05:19.826 I guess deputies will be needed. NOTE Confidence: 0.8254493775 00:05:22.740 --> 00:05:24.588 But deputies never came. NOTE Confidence: 0.6738257 00:05:27.470 --> 00:05:29.570 Failing to do an investigation. NOTE Confidence: 0.6738257 00:05:29.570 --> 00:05:31.170 That's where it starts. NOTE Confidence: 0.887106961 00:05:31.220 --> 00:05:33.396 Lisa Murphy is a friend of Kims who NOTE Confidence: 0.887106961 00:05:33.396 --> 00:05:35.962 happens to have more than two decades NOTE Confidence: 0.887106961 00:05:35.962 --> 00:05:37.917 of experience managing police training. NOTE Confidence: 0.887106961 00:05:37.920 --> 00:05:39.859 She helped him to get records of NOTE Confidence: 0.887106961 00:05:39.859 --> 00:05:41.407 what happened, including the voice NOTE Confidence: 0.887106961 00:05:41.407 --> 00:05:43.710 of the Sergeant in charge of patrol NOTE Confidence: 0.887106961 00:05:43.773 --> 00:05:47.650 deputies in Solano County that day. NOTE Confidence: 0.6464319277 00:05:47.650 --> 00:05:52.250 Right, uh, yeah I can give him a call now. NOTE Confidence: 0.6464319277 00:05:52.250 --> 00:05:53.850 Umm, they're going to go over there anyway, NOTE Confidence: 0.6464319277 00:05:53.850 --> 00:05:57.580 right? It clearly reveals. NOTE Confidence: 0.6464319277 00:05:57.580 --> 00:06:02.302 That there was a desire to have the NOTE Confidence: 0.6464319277 00:06:02.302 --> 00:06:04.912 coroner's office just handle everything NOTE Confidence: 0.6464319277 00:06:04.912 --> 00:06:07.210 so that deputies would not have to NOTE Confidence: 0.6464319277 00:06:07.210 --> 00:06:08.950 be dispatched over to the hospital. NOTE Confidence: 0.884817805 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:10.560 The Solano Sheriff's Office points NOTE Confidence: 0.884817805 00:06:10.560 --> 00:06:12.719 out it was busy at this time. NOTE Confidence: 0.884817805 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:14.259 Handling fire evacuations. NOTE Confidence: 0.884817805 00:06:14.259 --> 00:06:15.798 Whatever the reason, NOTE Confidence: 0.884817805 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:17.665 there's no record of any NOTE Confidence: 0.884817805 00:06:17.665 --> 00:06:19.157 deputy responding to the NOTE Confidence: 0.884817805 00:06:19.157 --> 00:06:20.759 hospital for Steve's death, NOTE Confidence: 0.884817805 00:06:20.760 --> 00:06:22.012 including the coroner's deputy NOTE Confidence: 0.884817805 00:06:22.012 --> 00:06:23.890 who ended up with the case. NOTE Confidence: 0.16618958 00:06:25.650 --> 00:06:29.222 Hey, I was uh handling that NOTE Confidence: 0.16618958 00:06:29.222 --> 00:06:31.194 industrial accident call yeah. NOTE Confidence: 0.791270964545455 00:06:32.600 --> 00:06:37.172 If you will add a note to the file NOTE Confidence: 0.791270964545455 00:06:37.172 --> 00:06:39.880 that it it doesn't appear to actually NOTE Confidence: 0.791270964545455 00:06:39.880 --> 00:06:42.200 be a work related accident, OK, NOTE Confidence: 0.873876264166667 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:44.580 how did coroner's deputy Jessica do NOTE Confidence: 0.873876264166667 00:06:44.580 --> 00:06:46.919 decide that according to her report, NOTE Confidence: 0.873876264166667 00:06:46.920 --> 00:06:48.864 she'd only talked to one person NOTE Confidence: 0.873876264166667 00:06:48.864 --> 00:06:51.139 on the phone about Steve's death? NOTE Confidence: 0.873876264166667 00:06:51.140 --> 00:06:53.324 It was a hospital nurse who told her NOTE Confidence: 0.873876264166667 00:06:53.324 --> 00:06:55.350 Steve had a prior heart attack and NOTE Confidence: 0.873876264166667 00:06:55.350 --> 00:06:57.550 stent put in almost two decades ago, NOTE Confidence: 0.873876264166667 00:06:57.550 --> 00:07:00.777 but Kim provided more recent records just NOTE Confidence: 0.873876264166667 00:07:00.777 --> 00:07:02.918 one year before Steve's cardiologist. NOTE Confidence: 0.873876264166667 00:07:02.918 --> 00:07:05.571 That his heart function was rock solid NOTE Confidence: 0.873876264166667 00:07:05.571 --> 00:07:08.206 and there is really no reason for concern NOTE Confidence: 0.92497345 00:07:08.220 --> 00:07:09.850 because he had, you know, NOTE Confidence: 0.823883444 00:07:09.860 --> 00:07:12.404 heart issues in the past the sheriff's NOTE Confidence: 0.823883444 00:07:12.404 --> 00:07:15.270 decided to just call off all investigations NOTE Confidence: 0.823883444 00:07:15.270 --> 00:07:17.448 he wasn't working during the time NOTE Confidence: 0.823883444 00:07:17.450 --> 00:07:19.058 he was working during the time, NOTE Confidence: 0.823883444 00:07:19.060 --> 00:07:21.629 but the injury was not in relation NOTE Confidence: 0.823883444 00:07:21.629 --> 00:07:24.300 to an accident he suffered from work. NOTE Confidence: 0.823883444 00:07:24.300 --> 00:07:26.120 It appears it was his death NOTE Confidence: 0.823883444 00:07:26.120 --> 00:07:27.790 was caused by natural causes. NOTE Confidence: 0.775030286 00:07:29.340 --> 00:07:31.000 News report says she sent NOTE Confidence: 0.904925880625 00:07:31.010 --> 00:07:33.314 a van to the hospital to pick up Steve's NOTE Confidence: 0.904925880625 00:07:33.314 --> 00:07:35.217 body and bring him to the morgue. NOTE Confidence: 0.885028595 00:07:36.780 --> 00:07:38.946 But the report left something out. NOTE Confidence: 0.7618951475 00:07:39.380 --> 00:07:40.908 They let it happen. NOTE Confidence: 0.89776534 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:43.535 Without my knowledge and then NOTE Confidence: 0.89776534 00:07:43.535 --> 00:07:45.170 they tried to cover it up. NOTE Confidence: 0.47340494 00:07:48.550 --> 00:07:51.160 That van came back to the morgue NOTE Confidence: 0.47340494 00:07:51.160 --> 00:07:53.880 the next day, and Amazon package NOTE Confidence: 0.47340494 00:07:53.880 --> 00:07:56.630 gets better tracking than my NOTE Confidence: 0.47340494 00:07:56.630 --> 00:07:59.300 husband's body did that day. Steve's NOTE Confidence: 0.918202827142857 00:07:59.310 --> 00:08:02.299 body went on an undisclosed road trip. NOTE Confidence: 0.882045702222222 00:08:06.510 --> 00:08:08.895 Wow, they brought him all the way down here NOTE Confidence: 0.886222257142857 00:08:08.970 --> 00:08:12.197 and we retraced it almost 90 miles NOTE Confidence: 0.916776129 00:08:13.010 --> 00:08:14.860 being involved in Solano County NOTE Confidence: 0.916776129 00:08:14.860 --> 00:08:16.710 law enforcement for 28 years. NOTE Confidence: 0.916776129 00:08:16.710 --> 00:08:18.537 I had no idea any of this went on NOTE Confidence: 0.910144058888889 00:08:18.830 --> 00:08:20.620 to this little known facility NOTE Confidence: 0.910144058888889 00:08:20.620 --> 00:08:22.052 in Contra Costa County. NOTE Confidence: 0.826333306666667 00:08:22.310 --> 00:08:25.160 They never asked for my consent. NOTE Confidence: 0.826333306666667 00:08:25.160 --> 00:08:28.149 They took him down there that morning NOTE Confidence: 0.826333306666667 00:08:28.150 --> 00:08:32.214 and took every bone out of his body NOTE Confidence: 0.826333306666667 00:08:32.214 --> 00:08:34.555 and the sheriff let that happened NOTE Confidence: 0.826333306666667 00:08:34.555 --> 00:08:36.619 before the op, Topsy was done. NOTE Confidence: 0.92226261125 00:08:39.160 --> 00:08:41.206 And now when I look at NOTE Confidence: 0.92226261125 00:08:41.206 --> 00:08:42.859 his grave. He's not there. NOTE Confidence: 0.741095015 00:08:47.860 --> 00:08:50.175 I only agreed 2 because NOTE Confidence: 0.741095015 00:08:50.175 --> 00:08:52.490 corneas and some skin graphy NOTE Confidence: 0.921818946 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:56.010 on the night he died in 2020. NOTE Confidence: 0.921818946 00:08:56.010 --> 00:08:57.888 Kim Wink was in the shower, NOTE Confidence: 0.886380565555556 00:08:57.980 --> 00:09:00.617 reeling from the news when she got a call. NOTE Confidence: 0.886380565555556 00:09:00.620 --> 00:09:02.708 Steve was a registered donor and they NOTE Confidence: 0.893029806666667 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:03.908 were gonna go to the to NOTE Confidence: 0.906941645 00:09:03.920 --> 00:09:06.140 the coroner's office that night to NOTE Confidence: 0.906941645 00:09:06.140 --> 00:09:08.150 do it because it was time sensitive. NOTE Confidence: 0.862934944285714 00:09:08.340 --> 00:09:10.650 No one came to work on Steve NOTE Confidence: 0.862934944285714 00:09:10.650 --> 00:09:11.838 Wink's body that night, NOTE Confidence: 0.862934944285714 00:09:11.840 --> 00:09:14.108 but the next morning his body took NOTE Confidence: 0.862934944285714 00:09:14.108 --> 00:09:17.320 a journey to a place 42 miles away. NOTE Confidence: 0.862934944285714 00:09:17.320 --> 00:09:20.680 There's no sign on the street. NOTE Confidence: 0.862934944285714 00:09:19.100 --> 00:09:20.670 This feels very surreal NOTE Confidence: 0.862934944285714 00:09:20.680 --> 00:09:21.990 but head into this office NOTE Confidence: 0.768081433333333 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:24.880 park and you'll see. Donor network. West, NOTE Confidence: 0.909106835882353 00:09:24.990 --> 00:09:27.174 the nonprofit company that has legal NOTE Confidence: 0.909106835882353 00:09:27.174 --> 00:09:29.495 authority over organ and tissue donation NOTE Confidence: 0.909106835882353 00:09:29.495 --> 00:09:31.500 for most of Northern California NOTE Confidence: 0.888459701666667 00:09:31.650 --> 00:09:33.426 families, do not know that their NOTE Confidence: 0.922423368 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:34.660 loved ones are being brought NOTE Confidence: 0.79415188 00:09:34.670 --> 00:09:36.938 here from Fairfield donor NOTE Confidence: 0.936368406153846 00:09:36.950 --> 00:09:39.152 network. West told us it gets NOTE Confidence: 0.936368406153846 00:09:39.152 --> 00:09:41.006 consent from family members to NOTE Confidence: 0.936368406153846 00:09:41.006 --> 00:09:42.436 move bodies, but it wouldn't NOTE Confidence: 0.936368406153846 00:09:42.436 --> 00:09:44.008 show us those records for Steve, NOTE Confidence: 0.936368406153846 00:09:44.010 --> 00:09:46.020 even with Kim's written permission, NOTE Confidence: 0.883708896363636 00:09:46.350 --> 00:09:48.009 I would have never given my consent NOTE Confidence: 0.883708896363636 00:09:48.009 --> 00:09:49.880 for him to leave. Solano County NOTE Confidence: 0.811678949 00:09:50.410 --> 00:09:52.440 donor network pointed out coroners NOTE Confidence: 0.811678949 00:09:52.440 --> 00:09:54.470 have authority to halt donations. NOTE Confidence: 0.811678949 00:09:54.470 --> 00:09:56.205 And they need to protect NOTE Confidence: 0.811678949 00:09:56.205 --> 00:09:56.899 death investigations. NOTE Confidence: 0.811678949 00:09:56.900 --> 00:09:59.828 A power the Solano County Coroner and sheriff NOTE Confidence: 0.811678949 00:09:59.828 --> 00:10:02.517 didn't use before doing Steve's autopsy. NOTE Confidence: 0.811678949 00:10:02.520 --> 00:10:06.400 That autopsy says Steve Wink had no injuries, NOTE Confidence: 0.811678949 00:10:06.400 --> 00:10:09.280 but that was the day after donor network NOTE Confidence: 0.811678949 00:10:09.280 --> 00:10:12.289 West cut parts from the body and the NOTE Confidence: 0.811678949 00:10:12.289 --> 00:10:15.159 donor network did find multiple injuries. NOTE Confidence: 0.811678949 00:10:15.160 --> 00:10:17.545 They documented an abrasion or NOTE Confidence: 0.811678949 00:10:17.545 --> 00:10:19.604 scraping on Steve's chest and a NOTE Confidence: 0.811678949 00:10:19.604 --> 00:10:21.999 bruise to the back of his right knee. NOTE Confidence: 0.811678949 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:24.919 There's also damage in Steve's right eye. NOTE Confidence: 0.811678949 00:10:24.920 --> 00:10:26.320 It had severe sluffing, NOTE Confidence: 0.811678949 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:28.420 which means some of the outer NOTE Confidence: 0.811678949 00:10:28.495 --> 00:10:30.679 layer of Steve's cornea came off, NOTE Confidence: 0.811678949 00:10:30.680 --> 00:10:32.703 and in this part of his eye NOTE Confidence: 0.811678949 00:10:32.703 --> 00:10:34.559 two pieces of glass debris. NOTE Confidence: 0.811678949 00:10:34.560 --> 00:10:36.420 This evidence all disappeared. NOTE Confidence: 0.811678949 00:10:36.420 --> 00:10:38.745 Donor network West took both NOTE Confidence: 0.811678949 00:10:38.745 --> 00:10:41.237 of Steve's eyes for donation. NOTE Confidence: 0.811678949 00:10:41.240 --> 00:10:43.816 They also removed parts of Steve skin, NOTE Confidence: 0.811678949 00:10:43.820 --> 00:10:44.742 ligaments, tendons, NOTE Confidence: 0.811678949 00:10:44.742 --> 00:10:48.430 both of Steve's upper arm bones and both NOTE Confidence: 0.861724685833333 00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:50.108 whole sets of leg bones from NOTE Confidence: 0.861724685833333 00:10:50.108 --> 00:10:51.969 his hips down to his ankles. NOTE Confidence: 0.8950923 00:10:53.700 --> 00:10:55.870 I don't quite know where to start. NOTE Confidence: 0.883216476153846 00:10:57.670 --> 00:11:00.109 We wanted to hear from an expert with no NOTE Confidence: 0.883216476153846 00:11:00.109 --> 00:11:02.118 connection to Steve's case. OK, my name NOTE Confidence: 0.779723571666667 00:11:02.130 --> 00:11:05.028 is Michael Dobson. I'm a physician, NOTE Confidence: 0.779723571666667 00:11:05.030 --> 00:11:08.860 my specialty is forensic pathology. NOTE Confidence: 0.874324526153846 00:11:09.190 --> 00:11:11.278 Mike lives in Colorado where he NOTE Confidence: 0.874324526153846 00:11:11.278 --> 00:11:13.930 worked 21 years as a county coroner. NOTE Confidence: 0.874324526153846 00:11:13.930 --> 00:11:16.110 He examined the dead in Columbine, NOTE Confidence: 0.865481334285714 00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:17.428 the Aurora theater shooting, NOTE Confidence: 0.865481334285714 00:11:17.428 --> 00:11:18.763 and the 9/11 attacks, NOTE Confidence: 0.865481334285714 00:11:18.763 --> 00:11:20.739 and he reviewed Steve Winks NOTE Confidence: 0.931643145 00:11:20.750 --> 00:11:22.418 death investigation for us. NOTE Confidence: 0.76134988375 00:11:22.630 --> 00:11:24.735 I really thought this was NOTE Confidence: 0.76134988375 00:11:24.735 --> 00:11:25.998 so inadequately handled. NOTE Confidence: 0.828577018470588 00:11:26.060 --> 00:11:27.101 Mike says Steve's. NOTE Confidence: 0.828577018470588 00:11:27.101 --> 00:11:28.836 But he should have been NOTE Confidence: 0.828577018470588 00:11:28.836 --> 00:11:30.687 examined first by the coroner NOTE Confidence: 0.828577018470588 00:11:30.687 --> 00:11:32.147 before the tissue donation, NOTE Confidence: 0.828577018470588 00:11:32.150 --> 00:11:33.685 and he would have taken NOTE Confidence: 0.828577018470588 00:11:33.685 --> 00:11:34.913 pictures of Steve's injuries NOTE Confidence: 0.934182291428571 00:11:34.990 --> 00:11:38.035 because it is a potential workplace accident. NOTE Confidence: 0.767731114 00:11:38.250 --> 00:11:40.455 A staffer from the Solano County NOTE Confidence: 0.767731114 00:11:40.455 --> 00:11:42.304 Sheriff Coroner's office was supposed NOTE Confidence: 0.767731114 00:11:42.304 --> 00:11:44.260 to be present for the recovery NOTE Confidence: 0.927948144 00:11:44.270 --> 00:11:46.730 procedure according to county policy. NOTE Confidence: 0.927948144 00:11:46.730 --> 00:11:49.250 There's no record of any staff member going. NOTE Confidence: 0.927948144 00:11:49.250 --> 00:11:51.790 In fact, the whole day of Steve's NOTE Confidence: 0.927948144 00:11:51.790 --> 00:11:53.740 tissue donation is missing. You NOTE Confidence: 0.904920917777778 00:11:53.750 --> 00:11:56.054 do not see August 20th on here at all, NOTE Confidence: 0.875528915263158 00:11:56.190 --> 00:11:58.596 that also. Violates policy which says NOTE Confidence: 0.875528915263158 00:11:58.596 --> 00:12:01.642 all steps of the tissue donation need NOTE Confidence: 0.875528915263158 00:12:01.642 --> 00:12:04.366 to be thoroughly documented in the NOTE Confidence: 0.875528915263158 00:12:04.370 --> 00:12:07.094 coroner's report to preserve and protect NOTE Confidence: 0.875528915263158 00:12:07.094 --> 00:12:08.910 evidence in death investigations. NOTE Confidence: 0.845340304 00:12:11.260 --> 00:12:12.350 What the hell is going NOTE Confidence: 0.86659848125 00:12:12.360 --> 00:12:15.536 on here? The body isn't the only evidence. NOTE Confidence: 0.86659848125 00:12:15.540 --> 00:12:16.752 The Solano County Sheriff's NOTE Confidence: 0.86659848125 00:12:16.752 --> 00:12:18.267 Office allowed to slip away. NOTE Confidence: 0.840087325714286 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:20.655 There's a saying in forensic NOTE Confidence: 0.840087325714286 00:12:20.655 --> 00:12:22.523 pathology that the autopsy NOTE Confidence: 0.840087325714286 00:12:22.523 --> 00:12:24.580 really starts at the scene. NOTE Confidence: 0.840087325714286 00:12:24.580 --> 00:12:26.890 They're about an hour window NOTE Confidence: 0.914930214 00:12:27.140 --> 00:12:29.780 where he wasn't accounted for. NOTE Confidence: 0.914930214 00:12:29.780 --> 00:12:31.590 The scene where Steve Wink NOTE Confidence: 0.914930214 00:12:31.590 --> 00:12:33.400 died was full of clues. NOTE Confidence: 0.914930214 00:12:33.400 --> 00:12:35.338 No investigator collected. NOTE Confidence: 0.654775091875 00:12:35.400 --> 00:12:37.674 We would've had pictures from every NOTE Confidence: 0.654775091875 00:12:37.674 --> 00:12:39.679 angle we would have interviewed NOTE Confidence: 0.654775091875 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:41.749 the people at the scene. NOTE Confidence: 0.92724967125 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:45.168 Kim only had the two pictures from Facebook. NOTE Confidence: 0.92724967125 00:12:45.170 --> 00:12:46.895 The photographer is a freelancer NOTE Confidence: 0.92724967125 00:12:46.895 --> 00:12:49.170 who sells photos to news outlets. NOTE Confidence: 0.92724967125 00:12:49.170 --> 00:12:51.886 Paul Carota licensed his images to us. NOTE Confidence: 0.92724967125 00:12:51.890 --> 00:12:54.690 I heard the tree cracked behind me. NOTE Confidence: 0.92724967125 00:12:54.690 --> 00:12:56.250 He would later tell deputies NOTE Confidence: 0.92724967125 00:12:56.250 --> 00:12:57.810 when that tree came down. NOTE Confidence: 0.92724967125 00:12:57.810 --> 00:12:59.150 So did the phone lines. NOTE Confidence: 0.92724967125 00:12:59.150 --> 00:13:01.670 I guess all the cable that sent NOTE Confidence: 0.92724967125 00:13:01.670 --> 00:13:04.330 cable come down towards me too. NOTE Confidence: 0.92724967125 00:13:04.330 --> 00:13:06.478 So it just occurred this PG NOTE Confidence: 0.92724967125 00:13:06.478 --> 00:13:09.048 and E crew found Steve lifeless NOTE Confidence: 0.92724967125 00:13:09.048 --> 00:13:11.668 and alone before starting CPR. NOTE Confidence: 0.92724967125 00:13:11.670 --> 00:13:13.350 They didn't know what happened, NOTE Confidence: 0.92724967125 00:13:13.350 --> 00:13:15.140 but they did notice this NOTE Confidence: 0.92724967125 00:13:15.140 --> 00:13:16.572 key piece of evidence. NOTE Confidence: 0.743046677272727 00:13:18.780 --> 00:13:21.692 The latter rack you got entangled and NOTE Confidence: 0.743046677272727 00:13:21.692 --> 00:13:24.860 he didn't know it and it ripped it off. NOTE Confidence: 0.743046677272727 00:13:24.860 --> 00:13:27.596 This ladder rack bent and lying on the NOTE Confidence: 0.743046677272727 00:13:27.596 --> 00:13:30.406 ground came from the top of Steve's truck, NOTE Confidence: 0.743046677272727 00:13:30.410 --> 00:13:33.332 but it looked like it kind of got caught by NOTE Confidence: 0.743046677272727 00:13:33.332 --> 00:13:36.010 that phone line or something right there. NOTE Confidence: 0.743046677272727 00:13:36.010 --> 00:13:37.739 PG and E wouldn't tell us whether NOTE Confidence: 0.743046677272727 00:13:37.739 --> 00:13:39.400 it still has the ladder rack. NOTE Confidence: 0.743046677272727 00:13:39.400 --> 00:13:40.884 Here's one in action. NOTE Confidence: 0.743046677272727 00:13:40.884 --> 00:13:42.739 It's heavy 8 feet long. NOTE Confidence: 0.743046677272727 00:13:42.740 --> 00:13:44.931 A third PG and E employee would NOTE Confidence: 0.743046677272727 00:13:44.931 --> 00:13:46.939 also later tell deputies he knew NOTE Confidence: 0.743046677272727 00:13:46.939 --> 00:13:48.250 that it broke Steve's. NOTE Confidence: 0.743046677272727 00:13:48.250 --> 00:13:50.610 Mechanic, but it was damaged. NOTE Confidence: 0.826331046666667 00:13:50.620 --> 00:13:53.140 Ripped off like someone hit it for the tree. NOTE Confidence: 0.826331046666667 00:13:53.140 --> 00:13:54.222 I mean the bolts pulled through NOTE Confidence: 0.826331046666667 00:13:54.222 --> 00:13:55.377 the holes and everything else. NOTE Confidence: 0.89387228 00:13:55.420 --> 00:13:58.012 You can see those bolts in the pictures NOTE Confidence: 0.89387228 00:13:58.012 --> 00:14:00.626 sticking up from the top of Steve's truck. NOTE Confidence: 0.88592357 00:14:01.870 --> 00:14:03.120 Maybe it did get damaged NOTE Confidence: 0.811895681666667 00:14:03.130 --> 00:14:06.709 up there. It doesn't add up. Yeah it doesn't. NOTE Confidence: 0.768368555833333 00:14:07.440 --> 00:14:09.906 Mike Doberstein says it is possible NOTE Confidence: 0.768368555833333 00:14:09.906 --> 00:14:12.299 Steve's existing heart disease killed him, NOTE Confidence: 0.768368555833333 00:14:12.300 --> 00:14:14.436 but if so, it could have been triggered NOTE Confidence: 0.768368555833333 00:14:14.436 --> 00:14:16.922 by an injury or panic. And if not, NOTE Confidence: 0.768368555833333 00:14:16.922 --> 00:14:18.806 some other trauma could have killed NOTE Confidence: 0.862746486 00:14:18.820 --> 00:14:21.650 Steve, there's a very strong NOTE Confidence: 0.862746486 00:14:21.650 --> 00:14:23.914 possibility that something happened NOTE Confidence: 0.862746486 00:14:23.914 --> 00:14:26.275 other than a natural disease NOTE Confidence: 0.862746486 00:14:26.275 --> 00:14:28.843 process that led to his death. NOTE Confidence: 0.639635842 00:14:28.940 --> 00:14:31.930 Witnesses saw Steve's toolbox open. NOTE Confidence: 0.639635842 00:14:31.930 --> 00:14:33.262 Kim later discovered NOTE Confidence: 0.639635842 00:14:33.262 --> 00:14:35.038 damage to his wristwatch. NOTE Confidence: 0.639635842 00:14:35.040 --> 00:14:36.606 She thinks he was out working NOTE Confidence: 0.639635842 00:14:36.606 --> 00:14:37.983 and the phone lines whipped NOTE Confidence: 0.639635842 00:14:37.983 --> 00:14:39.627 into him when the tree fell, NOTE Confidence: 0.838198346666667 00:14:39.800 --> 00:14:42.005 there was damage to the truck, right? NOTE Confidence: 0.838198346666667 00:14:42.005 --> 00:14:45.660 Why not look at that and then go from there. NOTE Confidence: 0.8178403 00:14:45.800 --> 00:14:47.912 PG and E knew about the damage NOTE Confidence: 0.8178403 00:14:47.912 --> 00:14:49.850 Kim expected them to tell the NOTE Confidence: 0.862817242857143 00:14:49.860 --> 00:14:52.597 authorities, but there's no sign they did. NOTE Confidence: 0.862817242857143 00:14:52.600 --> 00:14:55.248 Cal OSHA found no violations in a report NOTE Confidence: 0.862817242857143 00:14:55.248 --> 00:14:57.469 that doesn't mention any damage to NOTE Confidence: 0.862817242857143 00:14:57.469 --> 00:14:59.713 Steve's truck and the Solano Sheriff's NOTE Confidence: 0.862817242857143 00:14:59.784 --> 00:15:01.716 Office never went to the scene. NOTE Confidence: 0.801444092142857 00:15:02.490 --> 00:15:05.969 I called multiple times to just discuss NOTE Confidence: 0.801444092142857 00:15:05.969 --> 00:15:08.920 these findings and I was shut down. NOTE Confidence: 0.901076911666667 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:11.835 They didn't start asking questions NOTE Confidence: 0.901076911666667 00:15:11.835 --> 00:15:14.098 until Kim Wink finally got this NOTE Confidence: 0.901076911666667 00:15:14.098 --> 00:15:17.358 meeting seven months after Steve died. NOTE Confidence: 0.82493374 00:15:17.370 --> 00:15:19.500 There's no do overs in this. NOTE Confidence: 0.82493374 00:15:19.500 --> 00:15:21.048 I mean, the scene is gone. NOTE Confidence: 0.889388455 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:25.096 His deputies owned up to a mishandled case. NOTE Confidence: 0.82766356 00:15:25.340 --> 00:15:27.983 I'll do my best to make at least NOTE Confidence: 0.82766356 00:15:27.983 --> 00:15:30.210 what I can do it right for you, NOTE Confidence: 0.800547168 00:15:30.400 --> 00:15:32.470 but the sheriff himself, Tom NOTE Confidence: 0.820924185 00:15:32.480 --> 00:15:33.929 Ferrara, refused multiple NOTE Confidence: 0.820924185 00:15:33.929 --> 00:15:36.344 requests to answer our questions. NOTE Confidence: 0.619726674 00:15:36.730 --> 00:15:39.130 It's absolutely an industrial accident, NOTE Confidence: 0.619726674 00:15:39.130 --> 00:15:41.104 OK, and it should have been documented. NOTE Confidence: 0.861507895416667 00:15:41.580 --> 00:15:44.142 So why didn't the Sheriff's Office NOTE Confidence: 0.861507895416667 00:15:44.142 --> 00:15:46.234 change Steve's death certificate to NOTE Confidence: 0.861507895416667 00:15:46.234 --> 00:15:48.106 accidental causes or even add the NOTE Confidence: 0.861507895416667 00:15:48.106 --> 00:15:50.519 fact he died working on a wildfire? NOTE Confidence: 0.861507895416667 00:15:50.520 --> 00:15:52.410 It's one of 17 questions. NOTE Confidence: 0.861507895416667 00:15:52.410 --> 00:15:54.110 The Solano Sheriff's Office wouldn't NOTE Confidence: 0.861507895416667 00:15:54.110 --> 00:15:56.163 answer when we emailed to ask NOTE Confidence: 0.861507895416667 00:15:56.163 --> 00:15:57.945 about our findings for this story. NOTE Confidence: 0.861507895416667 00:15:57.950 --> 00:15:59.380 As for PG and E, NOTE Confidence: 0.839081293333333 00:15:59.450 --> 00:16:02.990 they have been ruthless to me. NOTE Confidence: 0.839081293333333 00:16:02.990 --> 00:16:05.870 I've lost. My husband. NOTE Confidence: 0.839081293333333 00:16:05.870 --> 00:16:08.750 Hope lost his income. NOTE Confidence: 0.839081293333333 00:16:08.750 --> 00:16:11.014 I lost his pension. NOTE Confidence: 0.839081293333333 00:16:11.014 --> 00:16:14.410 I lost my medical dental vision. NOTE Confidence: 0.891464068571429 00:16:15.430 --> 00:16:18.265 PG and E corporate refused to cooperate NOTE Confidence: 0.911570668571429 00:16:18.280 --> 00:16:20.618 with the deputies looking into Steve's death. NOTE Confidence: 0.891780606666667 00:16:21.690 --> 00:16:23.855 They wouldn't talk without a NOTE Confidence: 0.891780606666667 00:16:23.855 --> 00:16:25.587 subpoena or search warrant. NOTE Confidence: 0.891780606666667 00:16:25.590 --> 00:16:29.398 PG and E is familiar with search warrants. NOTE Confidence: 0.891780606666667 00:16:29.400 --> 00:16:32.170 The PG and E Corporation has a NOTE Confidence: 0.891780606666667 00:16:32.170 --> 00:16:34.660 criminal rap sheet guilty of 91 NOTE Confidence: 0.891780606666667 00:16:34.660 --> 00:16:36.892 felonies in San Bruno and Paradise, NOTE Confidence: 0.891780606666667 00:16:36.892 --> 00:16:39.268 PG and E also faces four NOTE Confidence: 0.9142552225 00:16:39.280 --> 00:16:41.320 new felony manslaughter charges NOTE Confidence: 0.9142552225 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:43.288 for sparking the ZOG fire the NOTE Confidence: 0.775334426 00:16:43.300 --> 00:16:45.753 month after Steve Wink died. This. NOTE Confidence: 0.775334426 00:16:45.753 --> 00:16:48.868 Was a tragedy. CEO Patty Poppy NOTE Confidence: 0.775334426 00:16:48.868 --> 00:16:51.520 did more than deny those charges. NOTE Confidence: 0.775334426 00:16:51.520 --> 00:16:53.767 She portrayed them as an attack not NOTE Confidence: 0.775334426 00:16:53.767 --> 00:16:56.289 on PG and E management, but on its NOTE Confidence: 0.822893183333333 00:16:56.660 --> 00:16:57.800 40,000 workers. NOTE Confidence: 0.822893183333333 00:16:57.800 --> 00:17:01.610 My coworkers are not criminals. NOTE Confidence: 0.85470691 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:04.508 Workers like Steve NOTE Confidence: 0.886681781111111 00:17:04.520 --> 00:17:06.575 Wink, his family is now NOTE Confidence: 0.886681781111111 00:17:06.575 --> 00:17:08.219 asking the same question. NOTE Confidence: 0.886681781111111 00:17:08.220 --> 00:17:10.530 Thousands of PG and E crime victims NOTE Confidence: 0.871909485 00:17:10.540 --> 00:17:12.408 have who is policing NOTE Confidence: 0.860843033333333 00:17:12.420 --> 00:17:13.368 PG and E. NOTE Confidence: 0.856867845 00:17:13.800 --> 00:17:17.688 The answer remains elusive. So does this one. NOTE Confidence: 0.827643234 00:17:17.780 --> 00:17:20.833 How did your husband die? I don't know. NOTE Confidence: 0.827643234 00:17:20.833 --> 00:17:22.877 Unfortunately, I don't think NOTE Confidence: 0.916359614 00:17:22.890 --> 00:17:24.250 we'll ever know the answer NOTE Confidence: 0.794053368461539 00:17:24.640 --> 00:17:27.118 and he worked 37 years for this NOTE Confidence: 0.794053368461539 00:17:27.118 --> 00:17:29.068 company and died on the job. NOTE Confidence: 0.794053368461539 00:17:29.070 --> 00:17:30.156 I don't think he would treat NOTE Confidence: 0.794053368461539 00:17:30.156 --> 00:17:31.339 one of your own like that. NOTE Confidence: 0.794833702857143 00:17:31.750 --> 00:17:33.580 Kim Wink, put blind faith in NOTE Confidence: 0.794833702857143 00:17:33.580 --> 00:17:36.328 PG and E to do the right thing. NOTE Confidence: 0.794833702857143 00:17:36.330 --> 00:17:39.418 She wishes her sheriff hadn't done the same.